Latest Events in Rosamond(June Updated)

This is an immersive screening of Jean Vigo's La Natation par Jean Taris, champion de France (1931). It is an imaginative journey, a glimpse into my brain. It is an office in the corner of Geoffrey Manton building. This piece questions what it means to be in the same space, to have the same experience... Mentally...physically... imaginatively. This encounter/screening takes place in office 113 of the Geoffrey Manton Building, at Manchester Metropolitan University Information Source: Allan Purves | eventbrite

Join us for Reconciliation Through Art, a special event on September 30th to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Hosted at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte, this free, all-day event will feature Indigenous artists, performers, and knowledge keepers from across Ontario. Enjoy a vibrant showcase of art, music, drumming, dancing, and storytelling. Participate in educational workshops and teachings led by Indigenous educators, and savour traditional foods. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and reflect in a meaningful way. www.reconciliationthroughart.ca Information Source: Reconciliation Through Art | eventbrite

Play, Politics, and Participation: Exploring Ambiguous Fannish Practices in Online Networks Fan practices have moved beyond fan communities, shaping political, economic, and cultural life. Social media has blurred the lines between popular and political communication, allowing both progressive and reactionary fandoms to influence the public sphere. The Manchester Game Centre and the Pop Screen Cultures Centreare hosting a symposium to explore these dynamics. This event is free and is open to everyone, but places are limited. Schedule 0930 – 1000 Coffees and welcome 1000 – 1015 Introductions, Ben Litherland, Bethan Jones and Simone Driessen 1015 – 1100 Panel 1 - Platforms and Politics Briony Hannell, ‘The SJW and/as the killjoy: White il/liberal dis/identifications with the social justice warrior within Tumblr fan cultures’ Ben Litherland & Rachel Wood, ‘Platform participatory cultures in climate crisis: Reddit reception of NYC wildfire smoke’ 1100 - 1110 Comfort break and handover 1110 - 1215 Panel 2 - Reactions, positions and polarizations Anthony Kelly, ‘“Received this from a follower”: Ambivalent Fannish Positionalities and Reactionary Influencer Online Content’ Mark Johnson, ‘Ideological Tensions between Twitch and Kick: Political Polarisation in Live Streaming?’ Qian Huang, Fandom Nationalism: ‘Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotis’ 1215 – 1300 Lunch 1300 – 1400 Adrienne Massanari, ‘The Shadow Side of Play and Fandom’ 1400 - 1415 Coffee break 1415 - 1530 Breakout, discussion, further research etc. Information Source: Faculty of Arts & Humanities | eventbrite

Masterclass with Guillermo G. Peydró: Film on Art Join us for an exciting event with renowned filmmaker Guillermo G. Peydró where he will share his insights on the intersection of film and art. Get ready to be inspired and learn! Date: Thursday 5th December 2024 Time: 13:00-14:00 Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University About this masterclass Since the 1940s, a whole series of filmmakers have consciously explored the possibilities of filming the arts, using diverse and often conflicting strategies. In my book Film on Art. From the Dramatisation of Painting to the Essay Film (“El cine sobre arte. De la dramatization de la pintura al cine-ensayo”, Shangrila, 2019), I propose seven options, each with pioneering experiments, theoretical debates, and subsequent detours. The seventh of these, the last in chronological order, is an essay film on art and brings together all the other experiments in a meta-reflexive form that uses the expressive tools of the literary essay. My work as a filmmaker falls within the last option, particularly my trilogy of political reactivation of Spanish works of art, which includes a film about painting (The Guernica Variations, 2012), another about architecture (City of Work, 2015) and a third piece on literature (The Tableau of Wonders, 2021). In this masterclass, I will briefly examine the characteristics of each of the trends. I will offer a brief description of the devices I use in my films, focusing on my essay-film on Cervantes in times of pandemics and fake news (The Tableau of Wonders, 2021). This event is linked to the screening that will take place on the same day at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester:Vessels of Communication with Guillermo G Peydró. Free event but registration is required. About the director: Guillermo G. Peydró is a filmmaker and art historian. He has been a programmer at the Greenpoint Film Festival (Brooklyn, New York). He completed his PhD at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía on ‘film-essay on art’, in which he studied the forms of critical dialogue between film and the visual arts since the beginning of the 20th century, as well as their aesthetic, academic and political applications. His films have been screened in cinemas, museums, universities and cultural centres in Europe, North America and Latin America. Peydró is a lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) https://www.ucm.es/cap/prof-guillermo-g-peydro. More information about his work is available here: http://www.guillermopeydro.com/ This event is organized by Dr Carmen Herrero (Reader in Hispanic Studies) at Manchester Metropolitan University. This masterclass is part of the Vessels of Communication Project, in collaboration with the Screen Culture Network at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Instituto Cervantes (Manchester). Information Source: Carmen Herrero | eventbrite

Jason will be reading from and talking about his first non-fiction book, The Possibility of Tenderness, a personal history and migration tale narrated through the lens of plants and dreams. It’s also a people’s history of the land, a family saga, and an archival detective story through time. Marrying the local and the familial with global history and unfolding as a timely and immersive tale of land, environment, and the world of plants, The Possibility of Tenderness reveals how the history of a tiny rural village in a mountainous region of Jamaica is interlinked with that of modern Britain – and what that rural village can teach us about leisure, land ownership and reclamation today. The event will open with a drinks reception and Jason and Monique will be happy to sign copies of their books, which will be available for purchase on the night – including advance copies of The Possibility of Tenderness, which is published later in March 2025. Wednesday 5 March, 6-8pm (refreshments from 6, event starts at 6.30) Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building Rosmond Street West, Off Oxford Road (opposite the Aquatics Centre) Directions and campus map: How to Find Us Jason Allen-Paisant is a scholar, poet, and thinker shaping Afro-Diasporic futures through words and wisdom. He won the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for his collection Thinking with Tress and the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize for Self-Portrait As Othello. His first non-fiction work is a fierce reclamation of a link with the land, roaming from Jamaican hills to the woodlands of Leeds. The Possibility of Tenderness is a book for readers of memoirs such as How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane’s nature writing. Jason is Professor in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. Monique Roffey has life-long links to Trinidad and the Caribbean with five novels set in the region, drawing on family biography, history, witness testimony and contemporary life, with elements of “the marvellous real”. Her acclaimed novel The Mermaid of Black Conch won the 2020 Costa Book of the Year award and was translated into fourteen languages. She is an environmental activist and co-founded Writers Rebel inside Extinction Rebellion. Passiontide, in which four women spark revolution on a Caribbean island, was published in June 2024. Monique is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University. The event is presented in partnership between the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Poetry Library, Poetry Research Group and Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS) research centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, with Cornerstone Imprints at Penguin Random House and Blackwell’s University Bookshop. Information Source: The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met | eventbrite