Thanks for mailing for more information about the Sci:dentity Project
Thanks for mailing for more information about the Sci:dentity Project...
Let us tell you a bit more...
Before we start, if you like the any of the ideas you read about here,
want more information, or a personal response, please don't hit the
reply button, but email scidentity@cssd.ac.uk . This is a different
address than the info address you just emailed and we can reply to you
directly from there.
So, the Sci:dentity Project. What's it all about? It will involve
Workshops: 10 days of FREE practical, arts-based sessions on sex &
gender
An Exhibition: of photography, film, writing, performance - whatever you
create
Film-making: contribute to the production of a short film on trans
identities
Workshops:
The workshops will involve a group of around 20 young trans people (you
have to be under 22yrs old) and will explore understandings of the
relationship between the science of sex, sexed identities and gender.
You'd get to use the resources at Central School of Speech of Drama, and
other venues including digital media, practical rehearsal spaces, visual
and audio recording equipment, post-production editing equipment, art
materials etc.
The workshops can potentially involve...anything! We have plenty of
ideas but are ready and waiting to take yours on board and go in all
sorts of creative directions too. The workshops will produce a
multimedia and performance art exhibition of young trans people's art
work at the end of the project on June 10th. Tell us what you want and
we'll make it happen!! Come along to the first weekend in April & see
what it's all about.
Check you diary - the sessions will run from 9.30-5pm on:
Saturday & Sunday 22nd & 23rd April
Saturday & Sunday 6th & 7th May
Saturday & Sunday 20th & 21st May
Saturday & Sunday 3rd & 4th June
Exhibition: will be put together on Saturday 10th June and open to an
invited audience at Central School of Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue,
Swiss Cottage, London NW3 3HY.
To participate in the project, you don't have to attend every session.
Each weekend will be a kind of mini-project in its own right, and all
four weekends will connect, and lead on from one another. You might just
want to come to the exhibition. You don't have to live in London.
Wherever you live, travel and accommodation expenses will be paid, so if
you have a distance to travel, you can stay overnight. There may well be
trips to other arts exhibitions, events, performances and venues - all
paid for by the project.
You don't have to be "out" as trans. Confidentiality will be respected.
Having said that, if you wanted to invite loads of people to the
exhibition to see your work in June, you'd be very welcome to do so!
What next? Email scidentity@cssd.ac.uk for even more info on the
project, the various workshops, the dates etc., or to let us know you
want to be involved. Alternatively, if you want to speak to someone now,
call Catherine McNamara (Project Co-ordinator) on 0207 559 3943
Project Aims:
1) To increase public engagement with medical and biochemical knowledge
of what male/female "sex" is and how sex is assigned i.e. chromosomally,
hormonally etc.
2) To develop and extend creativity and expression through an
inter-disciplinary arts project with young people in order to engage
with complex ideas of sexed and gendered identities.
3) To establish a forum for discussion around bioethical concerns
related to issues of sex determinism
Project Objectives:
1) To develop young people's awareness and understandings of biomedical
knowledge of and issues around sexed identities and the ways in which
they affect trans youth.
2) To engage a group of around 20 young trans people in a science
project that focuses on sex and transsexuality to produce an
inter-disciplinary arts exhibition
3) To produce an educational film which packages the arts project and
exhibition for a wider audience and host screenings of the film
regionally and nationally, for specific community groups
4) To facilitate dialogue and debate with a range of audiences
The work of this project is engaged with bioscientific understandings of
sex and transsexuality and an exploration of how sex is defined. We will
consider emerging understandings of sex differences in the brain,
hormones and their effect on behaviour, chromosomes and their function,
hormonal and surgical sex reassignment and the consequential range of
moral & ethical issues that are raised. How do people understand
biochemistry when the context is their own and others' bodies? What
role do hormones really play in terms of behaviour? In an age of
re-defined roles can we re-define sex? What is the science of sex and
gender?
GET IN TOUCH WITH THE SCI:DENTITY TEAM. GET INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT!
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