This hybrid artists talk / workshop will respond to your questions – please share your ideas and ambitions or even worries about using technology and Thomas will share their advice and expertise arming you with information on:

• Free software to get started
• Resources
• Techniques and ways to use ‘plug and play’ tech
• Costs behind projects and how to create work

‘An alumni fellow of The Royal Shakespeare Company and currently associate artist at Portsmouth Guildhall, Thomas makes work exploring the potential of XR and emergent technologies in drawing out our humanity. Alongside leading projects that combine sensory practice and new media, Thomas works with marginalized groups, putting their stories at the forefront of this new artform’

Free event – book your free place here

Bringing in some true creatives and community members to help, eott will be first providing the space to come and communicate, to conversate, and share ideas, whilst secondly hosting an open talk which invites those in attendance to again share ideas, but also to hear others stories, respect others rhythms, and come together to find some peace and normality in talking about our minds.

Much like in the tone of its online work, eott will be delivering (and encouraging people to partake) the session in an informal manner.

The afternoon will also feature screenings by Lighthouse Young Creatives (LYC) – a professional and personal development scheme empowering young people who aspire to work in the creative industries but face a variety of barriers to doing so. LYC also sets out to address the chronic lack of diversity within the creative and digital industries, which stems from ongoing social inequalities and a historical lack of access and inclusion.

The event is free to attend and you can just turn up.

Speakers

• Jane Green- Founder and Chair of SEDSConnective
• Lennie Varvarides – Founder of MSFT Management & DYSPLA
• Simon Wilkinson – Co-director of BRiGHTBLACK

Moderated by Sarah Ticho

This will be a free event.

This interactive panel discussion will draw on themes within the Embodied Realities exhibition.

Speakers bios

Jane Green MBE
Jane trained as a secondary school and special needs teacher. She is Founder and Chair of SEDSConnective a charity supporting neurodivergent and symptomatic hypermobile people.

She appears regularly on radio and TV including Inside Health Radio 4, and regularly presents on education, safeguarding and Special educational needs and disabilities ( SEND ) education at Westminster and national conferences.. She is disabled, multiply neurodivergent and parent carer for her eldest neurodivergent adult child.

She received an MBE this year for services to neurodivergent people and those with related joint hypermobility conditions including Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.

Lennie Varvarides
Lennie Varvarides is a first generation Cypriot, born in London to immigrant parents and brought up in the rag trade. Lennie studied Visual Arts at UAL and has an MA in Writing for Performance from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

MSFT LTD was incorporated in 2011 and represents professional actors for the entertainment industry. and DYSPLA was incorporated in 2013 to produce and develop the work of Neurodivergent storymakers with continued project funding from the Arts Council England.

DYSPLA produces film, theatre and installation and is an advocacy for the Neurodivergent creative advantage. As Creative Director, Lennie runs DYSPLA_Chat, a peer-to-peer monthly gathering of like-minded Neurodivergent creatives, to discuss Neurodivergent creativity, methodology, and strategy.

Simon Wilkinson
Simon Wilkinson makes playable, immersive artworks which have featured at Tate Modern and toured to 36 nations in the past decade. He is co-director of BRiGHTBLACK, a POC / neurodiverse led arts company based in London / Brighton.