Summer Social Change Festival
| Place: | Grove House, Iffley Turn, Oxford OX4 4DU |
| Start date: | Saturday 30, July 2011 |
| End date: | Sunday 31, July 2011 |
| Times: | 9.30 am - 10.00 pm |
| Price: | £150 for 2 days or £100 per day (does not include accommodation) |
As part of the Summer Social Change Festival, Deborah Ravetz will be presenting, on both days, 'THE SEARCH FOR THE DEEP SELF AND THE DIRECTORY OF GRATITUDE - SOCIAL SCULPTURE WITH DEBORAH RAVETZ'.
In this Deborah invites you to an experience of exploration and conversation. Her social sculpture project, The Search For The Deep Self and the accompanying presentation, The Directory of Gratitude creates a container in which to explore what it means to be a free human being.This is a practical experience of helping to create a social sculpture.
Deborah Ravetz is a practising artist living in Stourbridge. Besides painting she works with the ideas of Joseph Beuys, who coined the term 'Social Sculpture'. This term was an attempt to widen the remit of art to include the human biography and its place within a community as art. Her work, 'The Search for the Deep Self,' is a project that uses photographs and narrative to uncover the moments in many individuals' lives when they were able to connect with their most profound aspirations. This body of work grew out of the community of Stourbridge in which she was working both as an artist and a collaborator with other artists, making work in the community for the community.
In this exciting new social change festival, Reos Partners and friends will offer and incorporate art, dialogue, ideas, technology, innovation, live music, poetry, social sculpture, systems thinking, and social and personal learning and much more to explore the question: "What is the role of creativity in a complex world?" The 2-day innovative event takes place in the grounds of Grove House, a grade II listed regency house in Iffley. Grove House is a green Oasis not far from the centre of Oxford. It offers both relaxing gardens and a practice of cutting edge theatre and performance. On the outskirts of historic Iffley Village, built in the late 1700s, the house has hosted a number of literary greats, including Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll and Graham Green. Current owner Polly, bought the house and renovated it according to sustainable principles. Reos Partners in the UK is based at Grove House and Reos runs workshops and events at the Rotunda here.
Learning and Social Change Festivals bring Reos partners and associates from around the world together with colleagues, practitioners, clients, and others from the corporate, government, and community sectors. They are creative, open learning events that provide rich opportunities for meaningful dialogue and collaboration between like-minded people seeking pathways through some of the most complex and systemic problems we confront in the world today. To date Reos has run Learning and Social Change Festivals in Sao Paulo, San Francisco, The Hague, Melbourne and Cape Town.
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