Rights in Focus

A 2-day exchange exploring the politics of engagement

18th & 19th April 2018 AUTOGRAPH ABP

Day 1

POWERAND

CHANGE

The focus of the day is to explore ‘power and change’ related to structural issues such as governmental, legal, institutional/organizational, social and sector wide power structures.

Don Flynn (Ex-Director) Migrants Rights Network

Dr Gavin Grindon University of Essex

Matt & Jess Turtle Museum of Homelessness

Teresa Cisneros Producer

Jade French Curator & Researcher

Tony Cealy Drama & Theatre Practitioner

Sylvan Baker Applied Arts Practioner & Director

Peter Noorlander Bertha Foundation

Sparkle Marple Bertha Foundation

Andrea Messmer Bertha Foundation

Speakers:

Framing Rights TALK

Don Flynn

Art & Social Change TALK

Dr Gavin Grindon

Sharing Food Mazi Mas

Instituting Change PANEL

Teresa Cisneros, Jade French, Matt & Jess Turtle

Power, Oppression, Change WORKSHOP

Tony Cealy

Staging Human Rights TALK

Sylvan Baker

The Role of Advocacy in Initiating Change TALK

Bertha Foundation

Day 2

REPRESENTATION

AND

ENGAGEMENT

The focus of this day is on how and why relationships with participants are conducted and how this is modelled through the prism of ‘rights’.

Dr Omar Khan Runnymede Trust

Kate Adams Project Art Works

Tim Corrigan Project Art Works

Arteh Odjidja Photographer

Speakers:

Tom Green Counterpoints Arts

Ingrid Guyon Photographer / Photosynthesis

Rachel Anderson Idlewomen

Framing Marginalisation and its Conditions

Dr Omar Khan

TALK

The Politics of Engagement TALK & SCREENNING

Kate Adams

Sharing Food Mazi Mas

Agency, Capacity Building & Self-Representation

Arteh Odjidja & Tom Green

TALK

Ethics and Consent

Tim Corrigan

WORKSHOP

Collaboration, Context and Communities

Rachel Anderson

TALK

Participatory Photography

Ingrid Guyon

WORKSHOP

Event curated by Autograph ABP Lucy Keany Public Programme Manager (Events & Projects)

Ali Eisa Public Programme Manager (Education)

With thanks to:

Alison Lam

Jenny Drum

Wendy Charlton

Angela Rossi

Jazmine Flynn

Riz Ahmed

Alberto Duman (Lecturer)

Lorraine Leeson (Course Leader)

Chloe Osborne

Will Essilie

Photographs courtesy Jalaikon 2018

Drawing courtesy Miriam Ivanoff 2018

Art & Social Practice MA, Middlesex University London