BSL INTERPRETED VIDEO HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=668m7F2kveY

Between Strangers is a one day symposium as part of Take Me Somewhere, a new festival of contemporary performance for Glasgow now in its second year. It responds to ongoing debates about access and accessibility in contemporary arts culture and performance by focusing on questions of hospitality and strange(r)ness.

‘What do we share and what do we owe each other? How are “we” counted and who is included?’ - Lois Weaver

Questions to be explored include:

How do we ensure that performance is hospitable, inclusive or accessible? What is involved in hosting or making a home for such work?

What assumptions about familiarity shape our understanding of hospitality?

How do we make space for encounters with strangers and strangeness without fetishizing lives and experiences that may be different from our own?


Further Information:
> The symposium is on 27 May, from 10.30am - 7pm. Participants must be able to attend the whole day.

> Contributors include Lois Weaver, Stephen Greer and Amy Rosa – further contributors to be announced nearer the time.

> The symposium is free.

>Between Strangers aims to be intimate, with a maximum of 50 places available. To register your interest in attending please complete the form below.

>Final selection of attendees will be made by the symposium organisers (Laura Bissell Laura Gonzalez, Stephen Greer, Karl Taylor and Louisa-Jane Findlay-Walsh).

>The organisers are aiming to bring together for the day a rich mix of performance practitioners, researchers and students.

> EXTENDED Deadline for application is noon on Friday 16th March.

>Decisions on applications will be communicated by the start of April

ACCESS: We will have BSL Interpretation and a Hearing Loop available at the event. All spaces are wheelchair accessible.