CURRENT PROJECTS
Encounters Shop
16 Wostenholm Rd, Sheffield S7
We are planning to work with different artists, organisations and individuals who are passionate about dialogue and participation, to deliver a series of Invitations to Join In that will take place in the Encounters shop over the next year.
Invitations to Join in 1 : Encounter Abundance
11th Oct to 15th Nov 2008
Abundance is a project to harvest the seasonal glut of local fruit such as apples, pears, plums and more, collected from all corners of Sheffield. These will be offered in the shop free in exchange for stories or a favourite recipe. Visitors can swap their own fruit related items for a jar of Abundance chutney or jam. There will be seed swapping, information about growing your own and a chance for people to, make their mark on the new Sheffield Green Food Map.
Shop Open:
Saturdays 11am – 4pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays 12 noon - 6pm
All welcome to join us for a crunching, munching OPENING CEREMONY at the shop at 2pm on Saturday 11th October 2008.
FREE HALF-TERM HARVEST ACTIVITIES for all ages
Weds 29th, Thurs 30th, Fri 31st Oct: 12 noon – 6pm
Sat 1 Oct 11am – 4pm
Juice your own fruit, mix a smoothie, show off your Halloween pumpkin. Just drop in.
View our flyer (PDF)
The shop is open and free for all
www.growsheffield.com
Encounters @ Cornershop: 27 St Thomas Street, Winchester
3rd – 18th October 2008
We have been setting up shop at Cornershop, a new artpsace in Winchester. The shop opened on 3rd October and is being transformed over time as visitors add to evolving interactive artworks that will map and reveal traces of everyday life. Daily questions, evolving collections of lost objects, playful interventions and performative engagements out of the shop, will all add to this process of forensic art that will be investigating and peeling back the layers of Winchester, taking a snapshot in time. We are working with performing arts students from University of Winchester to deliver the project that will animate both the shop and town centre locations.
Opening times: 11am - 5pm on 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th October 2008
Final weekend with special events: 17th & 18th Oct 2008 11-5pm
The shop is open and free for all
www.cornershopwinchester.co.uk
Batley Family Encounters Exhibition
Kirklees Media Centre, Huddersfield
9th October – 13th November 2008
If you didn’t get to see the Batley Family Encounters exhibition earlier in the year, you have another chance to go along and see it at The Media Centre in Huddersfield. The project involved Encounters working on the streets of Batley earlier this year, collecting memories and stories about growing up, stories about family inheritance and family journeys. We were commissioned by Loca on behalf of Batley Locality Children’s Centre to work in Batley and the project made links with hundreds of people in the area. The result was a beautiful co authored book designed by Ded and an exhibition of the collections.
The Media Centre will be hosting the exhibition. Why not go along and share this unique snapshot of everyday life in Batley and add your own stories to this collection?
The exhibition runs from 9 October – 13 November 2008
10am – 5pm Monday to Friday
The exhibition is open and free for all
The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland St, Huddersfield, HD1 1RL
www.the-media-centre.co.uk
Read more about Batley Family Encounters
What’s Your Wybourn Way?
Encounters have been working with residents and other partners on the Wybourn estate in Sheffield, to deliver a creative project that unearths and reveals personal legacies and histories of the area and involves people in mapping and sharing their everyday lives and experiences. The project also kick starts a process of creative community involvement in the developments and improvements planned for the estate over the next ten years.
During the summer, residents of all ages were invited to take Encounters artists on a 1:1 walk down memory lane pointing out personal landmarks around Wybourn. We walked with 43 residents ranging in ages from 8 – 76. We are now back in Wybourn to feedback these stories, maps and images to the wider community in a temporary installation/event that will see us moving into and transforming a house on the estate. A group of architecture students from the University of Sheffield Architecture department have joined the project team and will be delivering a series of interventions and creative consultation activities linked to planned improvements. The cross over between art and architecture practice will be explored in this collaboration between Encounters and the team of Architects.
Artist Sorrel Muggridge has joined the Encounters team for the project.
The project is commissioned by Parkways, Great Places Housing Group who are the new social landlord for Wybourn, Richmond Park and Park Hill in Sheffield (www.greatplaces.org.uk).
