Hannah Wallis in Conversation with Cathy Wade, moderated by Colette Griffin.
Wednesday 22 October, 1 – 2.30PM
Online, booking required
How can we make work together that is honest and rooted in the long term?
What happens when we ask for what we need, and how do these conversations start?
For October’s extended Better Together session, we will explore how visual arts focused project spaces, organisations and institutions can position themselves to facilitate open exchange with those they work with and are connected to. Interconnectedness will be explored, as will reciprocity with Hannah and Cathy discussing the shifting roles that happen within artists’ and arts workers lives.
In working differently, we explore what support means and how it can be responsive to the situations and contexts of the present.
Bi-monthly Better Together sessions delivered by CVAN EM & CVAN WM are framed by a different urgent topic that is relevant to the East and West Midlands and wider arts and culture sector.
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Event Breakdown:
- 1 – 1.05PM: Housekeeping, welcome and event introduction from Colette Griffin, Director CVAN EM & CVAN WM
- 1.05 – 1.45PM: In-conversation between Cathy Wade and Hannah Wallis
- 1.45 – 1.55PM: BREAK
- 1.55 – 2.25PM: Audience Q&A moderated by Colette Griffin
- 2.25 – 2.30PM: Closing comments
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Access Information:
- This session will take place online, via Zoom.
- Closed captions and a session transcript will be available during the session.
- The session will be recorded and shared with participants after the event.
Please contact colette@cvaneastmidlands.co.uk with any queries or access requirements.
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Bio Hannah Wallis:
Hannah is an artist and curator currently working as co-programme director at Grand Union, Birmingham. Based on open dialogue and listening Hannah works with the materiality of curatorial practice, performance, film, writing and convening to collectively imagine a path towards the spaces we want to experience. Committed to long-term interdisciplinary practice, Hannah has worked with a-n, Aural Diversity, Deafroots, Collective Text, Women’s Art Library Goldsmiths, British Art Network, V&A London, National Gallery London, Eye Film Amsterdam and Eva International Ireland; and has guest lectured at Chelsea College of Art, London College of Communication and Norwich University of the Arts among others. Hannah currently serves as Trustee for a-n Artists Information Company and Collective Text as well as sitting on the advisory panel for Two Queens Gallery, Leicester.
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Bio Cathy Wade:
Cathy Wade is an artist and writer who engages with practices that are created and distributed within collaborative partnerships, through experimental pedagogies and commons. They are a 0.5 senior lecturer at Birmingham City University and the course leader for MA Arts Education Practices. A course which aims to engage students with education as a practice of freedom (hooks, bell. 1994). Cathy is also an Artist facilitator at Vivid Projects, working as part of a diverse and intersectional creative team invested in long-term support for underrepresented artists, contemporary practices and cultures.