Fwd: [CLHLWR] For LBTQ women at Sussex University: Invitation to Participate: VDay Body Mapping and Digital Storytelling Workshops

[Chris]

forwarding for wider info - please reply to the organisers directly 
(see details below), and not the whole list, or to me
with best wishes
- Chris

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>INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE:
>VDAY BODY MAPPING AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS
>
>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.
>
>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 29th February, 
>2-5pm, Friday 2nd March, 2-5pm and Friday 27th April, 2-5pm.
>
>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.
>
>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 
>(<mailto:a.fotopoulou at sussex.ac.uk>a.fotopoulou at sussex.ac.uk) and 
>Elizabeth Mills (<mailto:e.mills at ids.ac.uk>e.mills at ids.ac.uk) 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.
>
>VDAY Sussex 2012
>
>During the VDay Sussex 2012 season, which runs from February 1st 
>through April 30th , 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.
>
>This year, dozens of motivated students, faculty members and staff 
>on the Sussex campus are working to produce a benefit production of 
>The Vagina Monologues. But performance is only the beginning, we are 
>also designing complementary artistic, participatory and 
>experiential workshops.
>
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