Wages for Digital Labour Day

A day of workshops, discussions and performances which explore the proposition: Wages for Digital Labour?

How do we, as everyday users of digital technologies, help to create wealth for large multinational companies?

Should we be paid for our time and labour generating data?

Should we be demanding Wages for Digital Labour?

How are ideas of of privacy, public space and openness changing within the 21^st century's data/ information economy?

What is the relationship between the consumption of gadgets and the labour conditions in which they are produced?

Do digital technologies 'compress' or expand our realities?

11.00 - 12.00  Hannah Schling – Electronic Labour in the Czech Republic and China

12.00 - 13.00  Freyja van den Boom – Drone Catchers

13.30 - 15.00  Lídia Pereira / Immaterial Labour Union – Care packages for workers in social media networks

15.30 - 17.00  Dušan Mihajlović (A.K.A. “Dr. Spira”)

‘On the path from NOISE to MUSIC - Lossy Compression – the Evil Core of the Holy Church of Everything Digital’

Part of  Emergenc(i)es  Exhibition, 6th - 17th June: Control and Calculation : Inheriting Liberation : Improvised Publics

Paradise City

Over ten days IGNiTE summer residents Back in 5 Minutes Squad and Art in Motion will be creating an evolving installation up in our Fyfle Hall.

This is super exciting as Spike Island Residents  - Back in 5 Minutes Squad and emerging not-for-profit participatory arts organisation Art in Motion (AIM) will be collaborating for the first time for this project.

Evolving over the ten days of the residency these two diverse groups will collaborate to portray their vision of an ideal, egalitarian future in which humans of all types and abilities coexist peacefully and purposefully together - the fabric of this future city will reflect the diverse and idiosyncratic interests of all the artists involved.

From Monday 19 the artists invite you to visit during this exciting process and Paradise City will be open to everyone for a celebration event from 5-7pm in the Graffiti Room at Trinity on Thursday 29 June.

Paradise City is supported by Arts Council England via Grants for the Arts and by Trinity Community Arts.

A continuation of recent paintings by Sam Neek Barrett

Opening Tuesday 6 November, 7-10pm with dj's & drinks

Up until Thursday 20 November

An intimate documentary reflecting on the killing of Mark Duggan, a young, black British man, at the hands of London’s Metropolitan Police in 2011.

It reveals the real story, away from media coverage, of Mark Duggan’s friends and family following his death. He was shot and killed in a ‘Hard Stop’ police procedure, sparking the most violent riots in British history. For 28 months, director George Amponsah (The Fighting Spirit) filmed around Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, where Duggan grew up, capturing his family’s distress and focusing on two of his best friends, Marcus and Kurtis. We follow the men as they attempt to get on with their lives, look for a job, talk about the daily discrimination they still experience and the impact Duggan’s death has had on the community.

Duggan is present throughout, in peoples’ heartfelt testimonies and news broadcasts. What emerges is a profoundly humane, thought-provoking and topical testament, which gives a voice to people who are rarely heard.

This panel discussion is part of a partnership between the BSA and the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum (SRES) project based at Newman University in Birmingham.

The project seeks to build an understanding of the social and cultural contexts of public perceptions of the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ across all faiths and none. Surprisingly, although the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ is often talked about in the media, by public intellectuals, and in public space, very little research has been done that explores what people actually think about their own or others’ views on the relationship between science and religion, or by extension rationality, reason, and faith.

What will happen on the night?

6.30 – Doors open.
7.00 – Mingle/information session in which you will be able to talk with the panellists and write down questions for the discussion.
7.30 – Panel discussion.
9.00 – Close.

The Panel

Dr Emma Preece is a Cognitive Psychologist with extensive experience of interdisciplinary research and teaching in Higher Education. Emma is currently a Research Fellow at Newman University (Birmingham), where she is responsible for the polling and surveying work on the ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum’ project.

Dr Amy Unsworth is a Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion where she studies attitudes to science and religion amongst Christians, Muslims and non-religious people, with a particular focus on creation and evolution. She previously worked in a lab as a molecular biologist and in the field of science communication.

Dr Alexander Hall is Associate Director of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society at Newman University (Birmingham). A historian of science by training Alex’s research is concerned with how historically scientists have communicated their research to the public. Currently Alex is researching how evolution and religion have been represented by the media during the second half of the twentieth-century.

Reverend Stig Graham is a scientist by training and currently chaplain at the Myton Hospice in Warwick.

Dr Eric Albone taught chemistry at Clifton College for 17 years before setting up Clifton Scientific Trust, which he founded to promote science through innovative educational projects. In 2013 he was awarded the MBE for services to education.

This event is free, but you will need to register. Eventbrite link coming soon!

Are you ready to experience a weekend like no other? Immerse yourself in the vibrancy and depth of West African and African Diaspora cultures over a jam-packed weekend of:

• 25+ artists from Senegal / Guinea / Burkina Faso / Nigeria / Brazil and More
• Dance, Percussion & Singing Workshops
• Live Music Concerts
• Saturday “Come Together As One” Performance Evening & Party
• Sunday  "Teranga" Closing Event Celebration with all our artists
• African Food & Stalls
• Visual Art Installation

What's On?

Main Hall:
Folk/rock bands from:
-Bristol
-Slough
-Nottingham
-Mainsfield
Hot food and drinks

Fyfe Hall:
-exhibitions
-poetry
-meeting with war veterans
-activities for children
-raffles, contests and quizzes

Graffiti Room:
-information stands
-commercial stands
-drinks and snacks

Madhu Krishnan – Frantz Fanon & Political Activism

This workshop is based on the foundational writings of Martinician psychiatrist and anti-colonial activist Frantz Fanon. Drawing links between Fanon’s socio-psychological taxonomies of the pathologization of the black body in his early work and his anti-colonial political theorization in his later writing, the workshop examines how a radical politics might intersect with notions of resilience in the context of oppression under late capitalism in the twenty-first century. The workshop will take a mixed format, using extracts from Fanon’s writing as the basis of a series of guided discussions, and then moving into a strategy-based session which will use Fanon’s work as inspiration for developing a set of alternative models for institutions and structures which might promote a truly radical and free oppositional politics in the context of everyday life.

Bio: Madhu Krishnan is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Postcolonial Writing in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on contemporary African and African diaspora literature and culture, with a specific interest in the socio-political interventions that the circulation of ‘African literature’, as a category, participates within.

Part of  Emergenc(i)es  Exhibition, 6th - 17th June: Control and Calculation : Inheriting Liberation : Improvised Publics

An ongoing portrait photography series that has been created by Rider Shafique and Khali Ackford.

Rider Shafique - I want to pay homage to many of the faces I have seen growing up, the faces that in time will change and leave this earth but faces that will be documented and remembered through this project and recorded for generations to come as valued members of our communities.

Come join us for an exciting evening of culture, art and music. The evening starts with Rider Shafique's I-Dentity which is a spoken word art piece.

The LOC's photographic series photographed by Khali Ackford in Studio 6 will be on shown through out the evening and we welcome you to venture through part 1 of our project.

Drop in and chat to the following partners any time between 11am and 2pm.

Locality

WECIL (The Centre of West England for Inclusive Living)

Voscur (Supporting Voluntary Action)

Citizens Advice Bristol

Groundwork

North Somerset Training

Please book your place so that they know you are coming.

If you are another organisation also interested in having a free space to talk to local people at this event, please contact hello@goodthingsfoundation.org.

Jimmy Cauty’s (The ADP Riot Tour 2016)

The fine city of Bristol has never witnessed such devastating scenes of destruction and chaos. So it will come as great comfort to citizens to learn that it is on an incredibly small scale---1:87 to be precise---and safely contained within a 40ft shipping container, as part of a surreal model village experience visiting the city.

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) is a post-riot landscape created in miniature by acclaimed artist Jimmy Cauty -- co-creator of chart-topping band The KLF and its subsequent, million pound-burning arts incarnation The K Foundation.

Following The ADP's critically-acclaimed appearance at Banksy's Dismaland last summer, the installation has taken to the road, re-housed in a specially converted shipping container, which will open its doors to visitors across the country, at the sites of historic riots.

The ADP Riot Tour's visit to Bristol on 29th April will see it take up residence at The Trinity Centre, opposite the Trinity Road Police Station, instrumental in The St Pauls Riot of 1980, which saw black and white youth stand up to police harassment.

Far from inciting another riot, the event's organisers hope the experience will be a peaceful and thought-provoking one, with the only real disturbance being the constant chatter of miniature police radios, dotted all over the exhibit.

The exhibit launches Friday 29th April when Jimmy Cauty will be on hand to discuss the work alongside local historians, 6pm - 10pm.

The ADP will then be open daily 10am - 7pm, until Saturday 7th May, and 12noon - 9pm during Trinity Garden Party, Sunday 8th May.

In Our Different Rhythms Together – Maggie Nicols

Performed as Part of Emergenc(i)es

Using creative exercises which facilitate a safe and inspiring group dynamic, we will explore the challenges that differences can bring.

Exercises which reassure the nervous and challenge complacency.

Practices of freedom which enable us to tap into our creative potential and express ourselves more fully, individually and collectively.

There will be opportunities for discussion and reflections on the social implications of improvised music as a way of communicating more freely and nurturing authentic ways of being.

In our different rhythms together, we co create social virtuosity.