people united autumn events 2013
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A list of events by People United taking place in Autumn 2013 - from the Artists' Commissions and Living Room programmes.TRANSCRIPT
Sat 14 Sept 6.30pm Tickets £501227 787787 marlowetheatre.comThe Marlowe Studio, The Friars, Canterbury, CT1 2AS
Thur 17 Oct 7.30pmTickets £5020 7650 2350artsadmin.co.ukArtsadmin, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6AB
AUTUMN EVENTS 2013
We’ve recently discovered that we’re hard-wired for empathy – but what actually IS empathy? How do we know we’re feeling it, and what good does it do?
From interviewing a neuroscientist in Amsterdam to getting her hair cut by an empathic hairdresser, Sarah Woods, playwright and campaigner, has spent the last 5 months trying to find the answers. With beautiful, funny and moving stories gathered from people in Kent, this interactive, multi-media, one-woman show, is Sarah’s response to her research.
As part of the Wise Words Festival
The Empathy Roadshow
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a moment of your timePeople United, in partnership with Turner Contemporary, has commissioned artist Maria Amidu to respond to objects in the gallery’s exhibition Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing. Maria is exploring how art enables us to question our own values, morality and the way that we live our lives. The exhibition runs until 15 September (closed Mondays).
Free entryTo find out the times when Maria will be at the gallery visit peopleunited.org.uk Turner Contemporary, Margate CT9 1HG
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PEOPLE UNITED AUTUMN EVENTS 2013
Sarah Woods is a playwright and campaigner who writes for theatre, radio and television. She works with empathy exploring its role in helping us build stronger relationships and better communities. As well as The Empathy Roadshow (see above), her radio play about empathy Watch Me, was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is also working with Swansea College of Medicine, exploring the role of empathy in healthcare and healthcare education.
Professor Christian Keysers is a neuroscientist and author of The Empathic Brain. His work on mirror neurons has been seminal for the scientific study of empathy. He currently leads The Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Through the investigation of shared circuits, the lab attempts to understand the neural basis of empathy and its dysfunctions. It is generously financed by the European Research Council (ERC).
With the audience Sarah and Christian will explore their shared curiosity in empathy, and its role in life’s smallest moments and greatest challenges.
Fri 27 Sept, 4pm – 6.30pmTickets £6 Concs £4
(includes light supper)Limited to 30 places
Tel. 01227 811800 [email protected]
Canterbury Innovation Centre, University Road,
Canterbury CT2 7FG
Are you interested in arts, kindness and social change?
We are bringing together leading artists, academics and thinkers who, through their work, are exploring the factors that might grow kinder more cohesive societies, and the role that the arts might play in inspiring people to think and act in the interest of others. We want them and you to explore the art of living together in a relaxed, informal and inquiring atmosphere. Expect a warm welcome and a light supper. Places are limited.
Empathy: the monkey and the peanut
People United: Living Rooms
Tom Crompton is Change Strategist at WWF-UK. His interest and curiosity in how social change is brought about led him to draw on the work of social psychologists and political scientists to write Common Cause: the case for working with our cultural values. This seminal publication has triggered a major shift in understanding the importance of values and how they shape our attitudes and behaviours, and are shaped in turn by social and institutional norms.
Artist Dorothy Cross lives in Connemara, on Ireland’s wild, west coast. Her sculpture, film and photography play with the relationship of the human and the natural world, seeing both as sites of difficulty and desire. Turner Contemporary is showcasing her work this autumn and is partnering with People United to host this Living Room.
Together we will explore how art might inspire us to question and challenge societal norms, helping to foster values that are more likely to lead to prosocial attitudes and behaviours.
Wed 20 Nov, 4pm – 6.30pmTickets £6 Concs £4
(includes light supper) Limited to 40 places
Tel. 01843 233000turnercontemporary.org/
whats-on Turner Contemporary,
Margate CT9 1HG
Beyond ourselves: can art shape our values?
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Christian K
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01227 811800 www.peopleunited.org.uk [email protected]
Registered Charity No. 1126729
People United is a creative laboratory and pioneering charity. We are interested in the role the arts can play in growing a more kind and caring society. We develop innovative projects, undertake research and support new creative work. In short: we’re a catalyst for kindness.
AUTUMN EVENTS 2013