This long table event was introduced and chaired by Pamela Jikiemi with contributions from selected speakers. These speakers each posed a question based around an aspect of Higher Education, decolonisation, and the future of the creative and cultural industries. Attendees were then invited to ‘come to the table’ by putting on their camera and microphone […]

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In this two part session we explored new trends in digital poetry, more specifically, AI-generated poetry and how the blockchain is being used to circulate and sell poetry. We considered two questions;What way might NFTs and the block chain impact poets?Can AI help generate poetry in the blockchain?

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In this lunchtime social session we explored the world of NFTs, with a beginners guide to Non-Fungible Tokens. Our experts lead us through a ‘dummies guide’ to NFTs explaining what they are, and how and why academics and practitioners should engage with them, followed by audience questions and answers where we’ll be answering your questions on […]

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This conversation between poet Dr Linda France, Climate Writer for New Writing North and Newcastle University, and writer Dr Samantha Walton, Bath Spa University, set out to explore the relationship between writing and walking, starting with a reflection on their own respective practices (as writers, poets, teachers, mentors, editors, facilitators, collaborators). As well as readings from […]

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In this talk, researcher-artists Dee Heddon, Clare Qualmann and Morag Rose shared findings from their AHRC funded project, “Walking Publics/Walking Arts”, a project which explores peoples experiences of walking during Covid19. Recent surveys have found that people across the UK walked more during COVID-19 and aspire to walk more after the pandemic and this research […]

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Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was a network of protest camps set up on the periphery of the United States Air Force (USAF) base at Greenham Common, Berkshire, protesting NATO’s 1979 decision to keep Cruise nuclear missiles on previously common land. Beginning in 1981 with a march from Cardiff to Greenham by women, men and […]

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Using a variety of methods, this series of mini-workshops encouraged participants to take part and contribute to ongoing research projects around the issue of women walking. The topic was explored from a range of sensory perspectives including: an audio workshop on women walking and liminality; a creative movement workshop exploring women walking, communication and diversity, […]

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Dr Kerri Andrews is a Reader in Women’s Literature and Textual Editing at Edge Hill University and her book, ‘Wanderers: A History of Women Walking’ traces the footsteps of ten women walker-writers. Considering women from eighteenth-century parson’s daughter Elizabeth Carter – who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds […]

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This knowledge sharing session brought together researchers, arts practitioners and those in the broader sector to attempt to make joint sense of the pandemic and particularly the influence it has had on the performing arts. Specifically, we looked forward and considered how the sector could take the lessons learned and respond in and via future […]

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This event was co-devised and hosted by TCCE and the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre at City, University of London. This Arts and Digital Creativity forum event focused on AI as both a subject of and tool for art and activism. We considered issues of AI bias, exploitation, and exclusion, and how AI artivism may address […]

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