Roots & Rurality

On Zoom
5-7pm UK time
February 18th

ROOVA, in collaboration with Lydia Catterall (Connecting Conversations) and Char Heather (the remote body), bring you this workshop that asks what we can learn from rurality as an art making mode, in tandem with ecology, roots and community systems. By rurality we mean 'relating to the countryside rather than the town', and how that might manifest in the ways we work. You do not have to live in the countryside to engage with this workshop, instead you may connect with this idea of rurality through access barriers to 'town' spaces or other personal connections to this idea or rurality. In the workshop we will chat, we will write and/or draw, and we will think about how to nurture our own ecosystems of making and connecting, informed by the rich soils of our own particular ruralities.

Email us if you would like a free spot!

Lydia listens, writes, maps and co-creates in all sorts of settings. The shape of her works changes, but always deals with places, systems and how they might work with and for people, in all our soft, fleshiness. She is driven by big questions, particularly what climate crisis, and the social injustices bound up in it, ask of us as artists and human beings.

Char is a researcher, writer and facilitator interested in how methodology, form and embodied experience meet. They founded the remote body in 2020, a DIY organisation that hosts workshops centring crip, sick and disabled experience. Char's writing on form can be found in The Polyphony, Lassitude, Futch and on the remote body substack.

You can find more events from ROOVA here: https://www.joannecoates.co.uk/roova