Digital Diaspora: The Midlands Covid-19 project
About the workshops
There is much-documented local racial disparity in terms of wealth, opportunity, social isolation and mental health, yet local BAME communities are neglected. This project is an attempt to redress these issues.
King, Montego Bay, Jamaica
From the series, From A Small Island
© Andrew Jackson
Information about the workshops
We are running a series of 9 workshops to help Midlands-based BAME participants produce a body of work (between 2-5 images) which will be published in a printed publication later in the year. Our intention is to help you think about out how you PLAN, MAKE and SHARE your work with others through one-to-one tutorials and peer reviews.
Whilst the focus of the workshops is on photography, we encourage and support other visual arts approaches for these workshops.
This is what we’re offering:
A free, weekly peer online group for BAME people interested in visual arts who wish to discuss and further their photographic practice.
One-to-one tuition with industry professionals.
An opportunity to learn more about planning, making and sharing your work.
The opportunity to have work published and exhibited.
The focus of these workshops are to help you creatively respond to COVID 19 and its implications on BAME communities in the Midlands.
How you respond and the work you make will be defined by you and the wider group. We will encourage the group to take and make decisions relevant to their lived experiences - our aim is to support you in those choices.
Over the 9 weekly workshops we will enable you to:
1. Plan, make and share your work with others.
2. Use your cameraphone competently and creatively in the making of photographic images.
3. Begin to think critically about photographic images and reflect on the ethics of making them, as well as how to work safely within the current pandemic.
4. Work individually and within a team to make collective decisions - both on your own work but also on the work of others.
5. Discuss, as a collective, how the work will be exhibited.
6. Exhibit your work.
Prerequisites:
All workshop participants must be over 18, have access to a cameraphone and have internet access.
To join:
Please email us with the following information
1. Tell us a little about yourself and why you want to do these workshops (maximum 250 words).
2. Any other information you think is relevant to your application (maximum 150 words)
4. Contact details/your age/gender identification
Email : info@reframed.uk
Key dates
Application open - 22 June 2020, 10am
Application closes - 12 July 2020, 9pm
Workshop dates : Weekly meetings 20 July - 21 September 2020
The project is produced with Black Country Visual Arts and funded by Arts Council England