Bristol 2O24

Actions for Agency: Generative Practice During Paradigm Shifts

1O & 11 October  /  St Anne’s House

Full Schedule for SM 2O24

Where

Situating ourselves at St Anne’s House, we will be hosted and supported by Bricks, Bristol, a community led organisation currently running a community space with its residents; following and celebrating Take A Part’s own action group model of working.

The building is home to 100+ tenants from the creative, artistic, community and volunteer sector. Including Bristol Cooperative Gym, Theatre Rehearsal Space by MAYK, artist project space, studios, coworking, office space, play therapy, social prescribing, mental health nurses, an alternative art school, a sauna and a mushroom farm.

Curatorial Framing

Take A Part is delighted to present the fifth biennial symposium Social Making: Actions for Agency – Generative Practice During Paradigm Shifts, taking place on the 10th and 11th of October 2024 at St Anne’s House; Bricks, Bristol.

Social Making aims to bring together artists, curators, community members, commissioners, policy makers, audiences, researchers and anyone with an interest in social practice in the arts. For Take A Part, social practice is collaborative and puts people at the heart of the artwork, and it is this spirit that we bring to our symposium. Each iteration of the symposium has been different but we always strive to move to a more active engagement with our delegates rather than the traditional conference experience. For 2024, we plan to acknowledge the paradigm shifts currently taking place globally in our post-pandemic world and want to lead on supporting communities to shift practice —a call for new forms of working.

With a global erosion of older and inherited forms of democracy, antiquated and colonial models of funding and economics and urgent forms of climate justice emerging we need more accountability ourselves and action what we need. To do this, people need tools to support shifts in practice. What are the forms of making, performing, sharing, supporting and delivering that we can share and develop within our field of work?

Over the 10th and 11th of October 2024, we will welcome 125 delegates from regional, national and international areas of practice together to discuss the global paradigm shift and share approaches for togetherness and grassroots actions within this focussed on democratic forms of decision making/delivery that build capacity paired with environmental activism models.

St Anne’s House
Brislington
Bristol
BS4 4AB

How to find and travel to St Anne’s House

Accesibility at St Annes House

Access on arrival to St Anne’s House

Food

Cibomatto is a sustainable cuisines project that aims at recreating an authentic Italian flavour, exploring the surrounds of Bristol, searching for local producers and suppliers, and inspired by the multicultural character of the city. Our menu is created according to seasonal availability, and we are inspired by local herbs and greens. We strongly believe in sustainability and the connection between different cultures, combining high-quality, locally sourced ingredients with the expertise inherited from our families.

Find out more about Cibomatto

Contributors

Talks & Workshops

Jugaad –
The global practice of subversion as a form of radical practice

How creative enterprise models bring communities greater fiscal equity

Reclaiming land from white colonial power structures

How wheeled users can play freely in the city

Centering citizens in your cultural work

Considering Intersectionality in your work

Asset Based Community Development and the Take A Part approach

Blue Sky Thinking

Bristol 2O24

Listed here is a comprehensive list of all the contributors to the Social Making 2O24 Programme, they are listed in alphabetical order (by surname).

Actions for Agency: Generative Practice During Paradigm Shifts

1O & 11 October
St Anne’s House

Full Schedule for SM 2O24

Curatorial Faming

Take A Part is delighted to present the fifth biennial symposium Social Making: Actions for Agency – Generative Practice During Paradigm Shifts, taking place on the 10th and 11th of October 2024 at St Anne’s House; Bricks, Bristol.

Social Making aims to bring together artists, curators, community members, commissioners, policy makers, audiences, researchers and anyone with an interest in social practice in the arts. For Take A Part, social practice is collaborative and puts people at the heart of the artwork, and it is this spirit that we bring to our symposium. Each iteration of the symposium has been different but we always strive to move to a more active engagement with our delegates rather than the traditional conference experience. For 2024, we plan to acknowledge the paradigm shifts currently taking place globally in our post-pandemic world and want to lead on supporting communities to shift practice —a call for new forms of working.

With a global erosion of older and inherited forms of democracy, antiquated and colonial models of funding and economics and urgent forms of climate justice emerging we need more accountability ourselves and action what we need. To do this, people need tools to support shifts in practice. What are the forms of making, performing, sharing, supporting and delivering that we can share and develop within our field of work?

Over the 10th and 11th of October 2024, we will welcome 125 delegates from regional, national and international areas of practice together to discuss the global paradigm shift and share approaches for togetherness and grassroots actions within this focussed on democratic forms of decision making/delivery that build capacity paired with environmental activism models.

Where

Situating ourselves at St Anne’s House, we will be hosted and supported by Bricks, Bristol, a community led organisation currently running a community space with its residents; following and celebrating Take A Part’s own action group model of working.

The building is home to 100+ tenants from the creative, artistic, community and volunteer sector. Including Bristol Cooperative Gym, Theatre Rehearsal Space by MAYK, artist project space, studios, coworking, office space, play therapy, social prescribing, mental health nurses, an alternative art school, a sauna and a mushroom farm.

St Anne’s House, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 4AB

How to find and travel to St Anne’s House

Accesibility at St Annes House

Access on arrival to St Anne’s House

Talks & Workshops

Jugaad –
The global practice of subversion as a form of radical practice

How creative enterprise models bring communities greater fiscal equity

Reclaiming land from white colonial power structures

How wheeled users can play freely in the city

Centering citizens in your cultural work

Considering Intersectionality in your work

Asset Based Community Development and the Take A Part approach

Blue Sky Thinking

Food

Cibomatto is a sustainable cuisines project that aims at recreating an authentic Italian flavour, exploring the surrounds of Bristol, searching for local producers and suppliers, and inspired by the multicultural character of the city. Our menu is created according to seasonal availability, and we are inspired by local herbs and greens. We strongly believe in sustainability and the connection between different cultures, combining high-quality, locally sourced ingredients with the expertise inherited from our families.

Find out more about Cibomatto

Developed and delivered by Take A Part CIO, hosted by Bricks, Bristol.
Generously supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Bristol 2O24

Social Making is the UK’s only biennial symposium dedicated to socially engaged art practice, co-creation and place making.

Developed and delivered by Take A Part CIO, hosted by Bricks, Bristol.
Generously supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.