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The University of Southampton
Transforming Creativity Research Group

Enhancing Creativity and Transforming Places through Festivals Event

Time:
16:00 - 18:00
Date:
14 March 2019
Venue:
Winchester School of Art, West Side Buiilding, Lecture Theatre A

For more information regarding this event, please email Dr Estrella Sendra at e.sendra-fernandez@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

This seminar seeks to foster exchange between festival researchers and practitioners based in Winchester and Southampton in order to reflect about the different ways in which media scholars and cultural theorists can engage in festival research. Through a series of presentations of festival examples from Asia, Africa, and Europe, the different scholars will discuss festivals as multifaceted events and “crossroads of capital” (Adesokan, 2011), looking at the social and economic impact of this mediated form of culture. In so doing, scholars will reflect on the transformative aspect of festivals, often involving the re-invention and re-marketing of places into tourist destinations (Gibson & Connell, 2011; Kirshenblatt Gimblett 1998) and re-signifying places for local audiences. Practitioners will address these questions from their situated case studies, focusing on the curation of film for audiences in Winchester and Southampton.

Transforming Creativity poster

Speakers: Prof Jussi Parikka, Transmediale Festival in Berlin (Germany); Prof Ed D’Souza, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi (India); Dr Estrella Sendra, International Festival of Folklore and Percussion in Louga (Senegal); Prof Lucy Mazdon & John Haynes, Winchester Film Festival (United Kingdom), Dr August Jordan Davis, Winchester Biennial Arts Festival, 10 days (United Kingdom).

Chaired by Dr Mihaela Brebenel.

 

 

Format: 10-minute presentation each, followed by discussion in a round-table with the audience.

Organisers: Dr Estrella Sendra, as part of the ‘Transforming Creativity’ Research Group 

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