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<font size=4 color="#0000FF">forwarding for wider info - please reply to
the organisers directly (see details below), and not the whole list, or
to me<br>
with best wishes <br>
- Chris<br><br>
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<div align="center">INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE:<br>
<b>VDAY BODY MAPPING AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS<br>
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As part of VDay Sussex 2012, and in conjunction with the LGBT History
Month, Elizabeth Mills and Aristea Fotopoulou will be running a series of
body mapping and digital storytelling workshops, using various media
ranging from paints and pens to digital art, film and music. <br>
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We invite ten LBTQ women based at Sussex University to participate in the
three workshops and create these body maps and digital stories. The
workshops will take place on Wednesday 29<sup>th</sup> February, 2-5pm,
Friday 2<sup>nd</sup> March, 2-5pm and Friday 27<sup>th</sup> April,
2-5pm.<br>
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Body mapping can be understood as a form of visual storytelling; a
narrative of one’s life. Through the VDay Sussex workshops, body mapping
will be used to narrate experiences linked to living in gendered bodies.
In practice, body mapping entails tracing the outline of the body, and
then using pens and paints to reflect on and narrate salient aspects of
our lives. Taking this practice a step further, in the digital
storytelling session we will be working with digital media to create
‘digital body maps’. Through these workshops we will explore ways of
storytelling using both visual and non-visual media, ways of mapping our
embodied journeys across spaces and places, as well as issues of online
moderation, visibility and access. After the first two workshops
participants will create and update their digital body maps on the
online for approximately one month and then come together again for
a final reflection session. <br>
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Participants will need to commit to attending all three workshops and
participating in a group and online arena. If you are interested in
participating, please send a short motivation (no longer than 300 words)
to Aristea Fotopoulou
(<a href="mailto:a.fotopoulou@sussex.ac.uk">a.fotopoulou@sussex.ac.uk</a>
) and Elizabeth Mills
(<a href="mailto:e.mills@ids.ac.uk">e.mills@ids.ac.uk</a>) by 13 February
2011. In the motivation please tell us a bit about yourself and why you
would like to participate in the workshops. We aim for these workshops to
offer spaces for exploring issues around the personal and the political
dimensions of our lives as LBTQ women; the workshops are not intended to
provide research methods training. <br>
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<b>VDAY Sussex 2012<br>
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During the VDay Sussex 2012 season, which runs from February 1st through
April 30<sup>th</sup> , we are not only concerned with raising awareness
about the negative reality of violence against women and girls, but also
with enabling and inspiring positive social scripts on campus in order to
challenge those realities. V-Day is a global activist movement to end
violence against women and girls. It is a catalyst that promotes creative
events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of
existing anti-violence organizations.<br>
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This year, dozens of motivated students, faculty members and staff on the
Sussex campus are working to produce a benefit production of <i>The
Vagina Monologues</i>. But performance is only the beginning, we are also
designing complementary artistic, participatory and experiential
workshops. <br>
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