[Commlist] CFC: Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism

*Call For Contributions*

*Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism *

*BFI - British Film Institute, London Southbank *

*17 – 18 June 2019*

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
*Gurminder Bhambra*
*Karen Salt *
*Lyndsey Stonebridge*


/Submission deadline: 11 January 2019/

Registration is now open: https://creativeinterruptions.com/festival/

/Creative Interruptions: A Festival of Arts and Activism/ will explore 
how marginalised communities use the arts, media and creativity to 
challenge exclusion. The festival hopes to shed light on the local and 
global dynamics that rupture, alienate, and marginalise communities and 
the creative tools used to address and tackle 
disenfranchisement. Bringing together activists, artists, academics and 
policy-makers, the festival aims to create new networks and facilitate 
local, national, and global debates surrounding the arts, media, 
diversity and inequality.

The current uncertainties around immigration, cultural difference, 
rights and responsibilities have resurfaced global debates on 
colonialism, borders, race, and resistance and brought to light the 
creativity that these circumstances produce. With this in mind, the aim 
of this interdisciplinary festival is to explore why and how particular 
kinds of creative forms, textures and (alternative) aesthetics are used 
in arts and activism. What is it about theatre, film, or the digital 
medium that makes each of them the most appropriate or enabling forms 
and spaces to communicate, share and enable activist messages, for 
example around race and class politics? In what circumstances does 
everyday creativity constitute a creative intervention?

The festival will combine talks with creative presentations and 
outputs (including VR, films and exhibited material), as well as panel 
discussions with an opportunity for participants to discuss 
the relationship between arts, media and inequality. We welcome and 
encourage contributions across a wide range of related subject areas 
including the following:

-      Grassroots creativity, state structures and disconnection

-      Creative legacies of partition and civil rights

-      Co-creative, decolonial, and participatory methodologies

-      Historical understanding of creative practices by disenfranchised 
communities

-      How creativity intersects with ideologies and histories of 
colonialisms and racialisms

-      Class/Race and radical creativity

-      Heritage, autonomy, and cultural memory

-      Collaborative and participatory practices of lived experience

-      Media forms, cultural forms, and spaces (film, audio, theatre, 
literature or vernacular creativity) used to challenge disenfranchisement

-      Issues of inclusion/exclusion and creative expression

-      Digital, Artificial and Virtual environments for social change

-      The instrumentalisation and neo-liberalisation of the cultural 
and creative industries


We invite artists, scholars, and creative industries professionals to 
submit proposals for papers, workshops, and art installations.

*Instructions for Proposals*
Abstracts for proposed contributions should address one of the 
conference themes in 250 words and be submitted as a MS Word file along 
with a short biography (100 words). All submitted material should list 
your name, institution and/or organisational affiliation (if any).

*Instructions for Workshops, Screenings, Exhibitions*
We encourage ideas for a variety of contributions, including but not 
limited to presentations adopting creative methodologies and approaches, 
such as participatory workshops seminars, exhibitions, films, spoken 
word or similar. Proposals should address one of the conference themes 
in 250-500 words and be submitted as a MS Word file.

Please send abstracts and proposals to (photini.vrikki /at/ brunel.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(photini.vrikki /at/ brunel.ac.uk)> by Friday 11th January 2019.

We also offer limited travel bursaries to graduate students, early 
career researchers, independent scholars, or emerging artists. Apply 
here: https://goo.gl/forms/XcOyhWDyeAWUDIv42

Register here: https://creativeinterruptions.com/festival/

Contributors will not be charged a registration fee.




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