Queering remembrance: Art, performance and the memorialisation of queer history

In this first session of The Convivial’s summer series, queer artist & performer Leo Oliver Kirk discusses the importance of ‘queering’ as a concept; what it means to integrate queer theory into everyday life, and the influence this has on our practices. With specific reference to the AIDS crisis and the art activism surrounding it, Leo questions the cyclical nature of our histories, and the unique ways through which art can memorialise and remember.

Conviviality and ecology: the hospitable poetics of oikos

What does it mean to live generously and with hospitality at the heart of everything? To be convivial with the world around us?

In this hopeful talk for The Convivial, host Sophie Craven will build on Ivan Illich’s notion of ‘tools for conviviality’ by exploring the hospitality, abundance and generosity of human and other-than-human souls. She will play with and intermingle the words and worlds of conviviality and ecology to explore what it means to live generously with the world… 

Storying from the Imaginal

Have you ever read a great novel and felt that it was alive? Have you ever wanted to write a story or book that was alive in just that way?

In this generative and exploratory workshop for fiction writers and aspiring fiction writers, writer, fiction editor, and book coach Eleanor Robins will present a fresh-but-ancient approach to the fiction writing process…