After Growth is a symposium, a gathering of bodies and minds, but it is also an invitation to construct another future. At its core is the belief that prosperity does not depend on economic growth, and that – in the face of ongoing climate catastrophe – there is an urgent need to find new ways of living within planetary boundaries. Programmed by Theo Reeves-Evison and Canan Batur.
Katy and Rebecca Beinart present a new body of research and artwork in-the-making, developed through a process of correspondence over the past six months. This online exhibition features new sculptures, installation, performance and digital works that emerge from their long-term collaboration Origination. Over a ten-day period, they will release elements of the project on the website.
This month I’m beginning a project that will run throughout 2020, as artist in residence at Crow Park in Keswick. I’ll be working with the North Lakes National Trust to run a socially engaged art project as part of Trust New Art. Through the project I’ll work with communities around Crow Park to respond to the site’s history as a picturesque ‘viewing station’, it’s role in struggles for land access and ownership, and to collectively build stories for the future.
Join Katy and Rebecca Beinart and guest speakers for in an informal discussion of the Correspondences exhibition.
The Desire Lines film launches at Keswick Museum this week, alongside an exhibition of costumes and props from the project - the culmination of a yearlong programme of activity in partnership with National Trust at Crow Park.
Join us at the Keswick Alhambra for the World Premiere of ‘Desire Lines’ - a short film made on Crow Park in Keswick. The film is the result of an art project engaging with local communities and exploring connections humans have with the natural world, hosted by the National Trust.
An exhibition of artwork and research by Katy and Rebecca Beinart, developed through a process of correspondence during the pandemic. Featuring paper sculptures, prints and videos that emerge from their long-term collaboration exploring family history and migration.
Join Rebecca Beinart and Wallace Heim for a series of creative writing workshops to explore Crow Park from multiple points of view. This workshop will take you from writing about characteristics of the landscape, relations with other entities (such as weather or other living beings) through to connections with the future; and distil those ideas into a ‘Crow’. The Crow is an invented form of writing that references conjuring and spells as a way of paying attention.
Join Rebecca Beinart and Wallace Heim for a series of creative writing workshops to explore Crow Park from multiple points of view. In this session, we’ll explore the idea of ‘portals’ into other ways of seeing. We’ll play with creating recipes for Crow Park, and the idea of ingesting elements of the landscape to alter your perspective.
Join Rebecca Beinart and Wallace Heim for a series of creative writing workshops to explore Crow Park from multiple points of view. In this session we’ll use real and imagined objects as a starting point for our writing, and create an ‘archaeology of the future’ to think through different time frames.
Does viewing the natural world through human eyes limit our understanding? How can we imagine beyond linear time, and human viewpoints? And what could we learn from these different perspectives? Join Rebecca Beinart for a conversation with Maya Chowdhry and Wallace Heim to hear about their work and their responses to these questions.
Join Rebecca Beinart and Wallace Heim for a creative writing workshop at Keswick Museum exploring Crow Park in Keswick. Through a series of creative exercises we will explore writing from different perspectives, and play with the relationship between different objects, stories and inhabitants. Free, booking essential.
Self-led activities that invite you to slow your pace, take your time, and get to know Crow Park in ways that might surprise you.
A workshop with Rebecca Beinart and Simone Kenyon, to learn more about Crow Park through sensory experience and movement. We will meet for an introductory workshop via Zoom, where we will talk through the project and share a 'menu' of actions to be carried out on site – from very subtle invitations to notice your environment, to more visible actions. Participants will be invited to carry out their chosen action on Crow Park, with the option to come back together to reflect on the experience afterwards.
This free event will take place remotely via Zoom. Limited numbers, booking essential.
A creative writing workshop with Rebecca Beinart and Wallace Heim exploring Crow Park. We will begin the workshop with a series of objects selected by participants. Through a series of writing exercises we will explore the site from different perspectives, and play with the relationship between different objects, stories and inhabitants.
This free event will take place remotely via Zoom. Limited numbers, booking Essential.
This event forms part of Arts Catalyt’s Recentring Attention programme.
What do we mean by reproductive rights and reproductive (in)justice? Why and how has knowledge around reproductive health changed through different points in history and across different geographies? Join this workshop to collectively explore issues around reproduction from social, ecological and historical perspectives.
Join us for a hands-on workshop to uncover this story and its connection to indigenous knowledge, colonial plant-hunting, pharmaceutical drugs, and conservation, and explore recipes and records from the archive.
Join artist Rebecca Beinart and herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad to make a collaborative collage of plants historically used for birth control and hormonal health. As we create this visual map we'll discuss how this knowledge travelled across different geographies and why it was shared or suppressed at different points in history.
In the 1950s, the Wellcome Foundation was still cultivating Ergot – a parasitic fungus – for use in making pharmaceutical drugs. The story of this fungus connects fascinating themes including the edge between poison and medicine; witchcraft; midwifery, gendered knowledge and reproductive rights. During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to work with visual material from the archive, and create models based on the parasitic fungus. Whilst making together we will explore the themes brought up by the story of ergot.
A performative evening of discussion with: Luiza Prado, Edna Bonhomme, Rebecca Beinart, Tereza Silon and others, accompanied by shared food made with medicinal plants.
Join Rebecca Beinart for a drop-in workshop to sift through images and get intimate with the Elephant's Foot Yam. We will make drawings of the plant from dried samples, herbarium copies and a rich array of archival material. Whilst we draw we will piece together the story of the wild yam, indigenous uses and knowledge, colonial plant-hunting and taxonomy, its use in pharmaceutical drug manufacture, and issues around contemporary conservation.
This workshop will delve into the development of Cortisone in the 1950s, when Boots established a purpose-built factory in Beeston to produce the drug from Elephants Foot, a South African yam. During these early years of steroid drug development, Cortisone was hailed as a miracle cure. During the workshop we’ll cook and eat yam together and trace the story of Boots bioprospecting for steroid-rich plants in South Africa, and the impact of Cortisone on the development of medicine.
A workshop to make your own tonic water using Cinchona bark, the quinine-rich plant that gives tonic its bitter flavour. We’ll try out recipes together, share a gin and tonic, and trace the story of quinine. Originally utilised by the indigenous Quechua people of South America, the bark of the Cinchona tree connects the invasion of these lands to expanding European colonialism, disease, biopiracy and pharmaceuticals.
