COMPANION SERIES
One of the things we love about The Work Room is that we are a community, with ongoing opportunities to connect, exchange, share and support one another.
Following on from our AGM gatherings, and other conversations we’ve been having with members over the past year, we wanted to pick up on some recurring themes and requests with a ‘Companion Series.’
Companion Series will be a raft of coffee mornings and meet-ups, focused conversations, discussions and practical support sessions taking place both online and in-person. Designed with the intention of being complimentary to members practice, the series creates more moments to come together around shared - and different - interests, needs, and lived experience.
All of the sessions can be booked by emailing hello@theworkroom.org.uk
Sessions are open to members of The Work Room, see here for details on how to join.
The first few events are:
SUMMER
Wednesday 5 July | 10am-11.30am | Online
New members coffee morning on zoom
A chance to say hello to other new members and the team, hear about opportunities and events coming up in the programme.
Wednesday 19 July | 12.30pm-2pm | Hidden Gardens
New members welcome - garden walk and talk
Bring your lunch to the Hidden Gardens at Tramway - hang out, walk and talk with other members and the team about your practice desires and dreams.
Thursday 27 July | 11am-12.30pm | Online and In Person
Creative Scotland Open Funding – Applications and Onwards
Introductory session and follow ups with Lulu and Luke
A walk-through Creative Scotland’s Open Fund programme and other opportunities with Creative Scotland Dance Officer Lulu Johnston. In this online session Lulu will map out the Open Fund programme, CS funding priorities, what to consider and how to approach making an Open Fund application.
This introductory session will be followed by a series of bookable follow up sessions, either online or in person at Tramway, with Lulu and Luke on Thursday 27 July between 1.30pm and 2.30pm and Friday 4 August 11am-4pm.
Tuesday 29 August | 11am-1pm - at Tramway
Crip* coffee morning – for members who identify as D/deaf disabled, neurodivergent and/or are living with chronic and long-term health conditions
The first of a number of small gatherings with members who self -identify as disabled, neurodivergent and/or experience chronic or long-term health conditions to spend some ‘slow time’ alongside one another in crip* solidarity; sharing experience, challenges; spoons and joy! With each session different members may propose a starting point for a conversation. The session on Tuesday 29 August will support both online and in-person attendance at Tramway, Glasgow.
*Many self-identifying disabled people, particularly in arts and activism, have reclaimed ‘Crip’ as a term of solidarity, community, and resistance to able-ism; conveying shared understanding, celebration and appreciation of what it is to live in the world as a disabled person. This is the intention with which we use it here.
ACCESS
If you’d like more details about this access information for the online or in person events or, if there’s anything else you’d like to talk about that would make attending easier and more enjoyable for you, please email hello@theworkroom.org.uk. We will endeavour to support you to fully participate or provide you with further information to help you decide if this event is suitable for you.