Instead of seminar may I suggest a "slaminar" ... or perhaps a "shazaaminar" ... hmmmmm ....

My favourite though, in honour of Friction Arts being the inspiration for such gatherings, is to call them "Fricti" :-)

You are invited to a fricti ...

All the very best to everyone involved with the show.

I've enjoyed your blogging. More please!

Rachel

Yes please! More 'Slaminars'! On a personal note they have definately added value to my Test Bed experience. Having an opportunity to discuss my work and engage in soem interesting debate about content and process as been really good for me. I gained so much from delivering my seminar last week and I'm grateful to those who made comments and asked questions that gave me food for thought.

There were alot of things that resonated with me from Sandra and Mark's gig, and some of the more detailed conversations with Mark have been inspiring to say the least, particularly around issues of process and methodology, dealing with sensetive issues in your work, engaging people in your work and dealing with annonimity. I'm often having to find ways to enable groups of individuals that I work with to be themselves without revealing themselves. When they want to express their realities through a creative process there's still the chance that people don't want to disclose their identity.

This is definately something I will be revisiting with my Test Bed project if people are going to share their 'Stories Behind The Scars' The use of objects always works well for me in so many ways and even today, during a 'taster' workshop I was facilitating with a group of women, some amazing and powerful stories/life scripts started to emerge.

I would love to see the 'Slaminars' continue in some form beyond Test Bed because I think people would get so much from the exchange that could feed into their creative practice.