CURIOUS CAFE
The Arches & Wellcome Collection present
Curious Cafe
part of Sexology Season
Sat 16 - Sun 17 May 2015 | Sat 16th: 12 - 7pm | Sun 17th: 10am - 6pm | Unticketed, Sign up on the day | 16+
During The Arches Sexology Season, supported by the Wellcome Collection, being curious is celebrated and asking questions is necessary. This is a space created to chat and challenge.
Every 60 minutes we will start to explore a question. A question that comes from the thoughts and feelings of those present; whether you are curious about ‘bugs & babies’, the rise of ‘gamer-gate’ or sexual health and Tinder. Does it feel important to ask: what is wellbeing? What relationships can we have? Does intimacy have to be sexual? or how do we find a community which accepts us for our differences?
Over the past month we have been collecting questions and you can submit a question on the day; or you can join the discussion and help answer someone else’s! As a group you will have time to make sense of, interrogate and pose answers to your question. Whoever sit down are the right people and through intrigue, provocation and curiosity the conversation will move forward, all is allowed.
Celebrate your curiosities.
If you are interested in submitting a question and hosting a curious cafe discussion around it, please email Jodie@thearches.co.uk with I AM CURIOUS in the subject heading and we can start talking about your ideas.
Download the Curious Cafe programmes here!
Stephanie Katie Hunter: Knowing M(y Boundaries)e // Knowing You(rs)
Leah Byrne: Unconventional Relationships
Hamish Orr: Grindr Politics
Elizabeth Lynch: #NotGuilty – Rejecting Victim Blaming For Sexual Assault
Cara Berger: Female Hysteria – Pathology, Resistance and Rebellion
Barbara Drummond: Who Do You Think You Are?
Image: Fall II, 1992-1995. John Stezaker. Courtesy of The Approach, London UK
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Saturday 16th
1000 – 1030: Launch and Intro
1000 – 2200: (Ongoing) Nicola Canavan with Dawn Felicia Knox Raising the Skirt
1000 – 2200: (Ongoing) Lucy Asten Holmes-Elliot Skoliosexual
1100 – 1430: (Ongoing) BFI‘s The Birds and the Bees
1100 – 1800: (Slots) Pillow Talk
1100 – 1800: (Slots) Rosana Cade Walking:Holding
1200 – 1400: (Ongoing) Human Library
1200 – 1900: (Ongoing) Curious Cafe [sign up on the day!]
1300 – 1500: (Slots) Lois Weaver‘s Intergenerational Long Table on the Weird and Wonderful World of Sex*
1400 – 1600: (Slots) Nicola Canavan with Dawn Felicia Knox Raise Your Skirt at The Arches [sign up on the day!]
1500 – 1700: Turn Me On, Dammit! with Post-Film Workshop*
1700 – 1900: (Ongoing) Human Library
1900 – 1930: Arches Community Choir I Touch Myself
1930 – 2045: Lois Weaver What Tammy Needs To Know About Getting Older And Having Sex*
Sunday 17th May
1000 – 1800: (Slots) Curious Cafe [sign up on the day!]
1000 – 2200: (Ongoing) Lucy Asten Holmes-Elliot Skoliosexual
1000 – 1800: (Slots) Nicola Canavan with Dawn Felicia Knox Raising the Skirt [sign up on the day!]
1100 – 1230: The Arches Commons Sexology Salon*
1100 – 1800: (Slots) Pillow Talk [sign up on the day!]
1200 – 1400: (Ongoing) Human Library
1300 – 1400: Rosana Cade Sitting:Thinking [sign up on the day!]
1400 – 1600: (Slots) Nicola Canavan with Dawn Felicia Knox Raise Your Skirt at The Arches [sign up on the day!]
1500 – 1700: Lois Weaver‘s Intergenerational Long Table on the Weird and Wonderful World of Sex*
1500 – 1800: BFI‘s The Birds and The Bees
1700 – 1900: (Ongoing) Human Library
1900 – 2200: End of Festival Gathering
*Shows marked with an asterisk are free, but ticketed. If you’re booking online, please drop us a line at boxoffice@thearches.co.uk so we can reserve your place for these shows.
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“Where can you see tomorrow’s work today? The answer is The Arches.”
The Guardian
Through theatre, performance, visual art, dance and creative learning the Arches’ artistic programme celebrates the brave and the new.
Producing and presenting risk-taking work from local and international artists and companies, the building has boasted performances over the past two years from Derevo, The TEAM and Taylor Mac, hosted the National Review of Live Art and New Territories festivals and seen blistering performances from boundary-pushing artists and companies such as John Moran, Adrian Howells, Ontroerend Goed and Quarantine as part of 2010’s BEHAVIOUR festival, our annual celebration of the live experience.
The Arches is also Scotland’s leading provider of support for emergent artists and performance practitioners, providing a year-long programme of opportunities including Artist in Residence programmes and our two annual awards, Platform 18: New Directions and the Brick Award, as well as showcasing raw work from homegrown talent such as Nic Green and Rob Drummond in Arches LIVE, our annual festival of brave new work.
Our dedicated Creative Learning programme offers even further-reaching opportunities for development across a broad range of social groups, with events ranging from urban music production course Tigerstyle and the newly launched Arches Community Choir, to mentoring schemes, professional development projects and off-site performance work with diverse social groups.
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Words from Jackie Wylie, The Arches’ Artistic Director, following the tragic death of Adrian Howells:
“All at The Arches are devastated by the loss of Adrian Howells this week. He was our Artist in Residence and The Arches was his creative home. But more than that, he was a dear friend and companion in life to many of us here.
So many would say that there truly was no one like him, who personified love, generosity and the deepest type of empathy and desire to understand those lucky enough to have met him. With great humour he was able to create an instant connection with anyone he encountered. He was able to translate this desire to nurture and connect into his performance practice and in doing so leaves behind not only an incredible and influential body of work but a multitude of audience members across the world who have in some way been transformed by these encounters.
He supported, encouraged and was at the heart of an entire community of artists in Glasgow who will miss him terribly.”