Open Session - From page to post: Archiving Creative Voices
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 6.30 - 9 PM
Phoenix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Pl, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 9NB
Open Session - From page to post: Archiving Creative Voices
Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024
Time: 6.30 - 9 PM
Location: Phoenix Art Space, 10 – 14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB (map)
Tickets: Free, Booking Required
Join us for a panel discussion where we’ll explore and examine how creatives archive their stories—from zines and books to social media. Led by experts including Zoe Thompson (founder of Sweet Thang Zine) and archival artist, community and organisational poet Pauline Rutter, we'll cover:
What it means to leave a creative legacy
How to archive your work intentionally
Who gets to be remembered—and who decides?
The importance of grassroots movements in documenting underground and underrepresented cultures
Thinking about social media as a lasting digital archive
As part of Youth Takeover at Phoenix Art Space, this event, in collaboration with Lighthouse, is hosted and curated by Fez Sibanda and Elsa Monteith, members of Lighthouse’s Future Creative Leaders cohort 2024.
Lighthouse Young Creatives alumni Maia will be playing a DJ set to soundtrack the evening.
Curated by Lighthouse Future Creative Leaders.
Please note: the Youth Takeover programme is specifically for young people aged 13-25yrs, but people outside this age group are welcome in the gallery. Children under 13yrs old must be accompanied by a parent/carer. Children aged 13-18yrs will be asked to provide an emergency contact number on arrival.
Image courtesy of Michael Driver from Lucky Frog Studio. Thank you to the Chalk Cliff Trust for supporting this programme.
About the Speakers, Performers and Panel Host
Speakers:
Zoe Thompson (she/her) is a zine-maker, editor and workshop facilitator based in London. She is the founder of sweet-thang zine, a community and indie press publishing work by Black creatives worldwide. She is passionate about bringing projects to life in print and championing underrepresented voices through storytelling and curation. Her workshops are centred around manifesto building and play, using both of these to create memorable experiences that inspire you to find your voice and connect with others.
Photo credit: Myah Jeffers
Pauline Rutter (she/her) is an archival artist, and community & organisational poet. Her background in fine art, sustainability, research, education, and community activism show up in her cultural work and academic and creative writing. Work has been published online by The Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Democratic Society, The Culture Capital Exchange, ‘We Hear You Now,’ The National Centre for Academic and Culture Exchange and Writing Our Legacy magazine. Pauline’s practice continues to evolve through speculative archival poetics and restorative Black feminist historiography.
Panel Hosts:
Elsa Monteith (she/her) is a writer and broadcaster working in music, the arts, and with impact-driven organisations. She has a newsletter called Discontented which explores "content" as both a feeling, and a symptom of the algorithm, and has an archive of published writing and radio spanning music, arts, and culture journalism. Elsa is also a Lighthouse Future Creative Leader and participated in Lighthouse Young Creatives as a mentee in 2019.
Photo credit: Seb JJ Peters
Fez Sibanda (she/her) is a Doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex with a passion for exploring how marginalised groups experience education. Her research dives into topics like race, coloniality, and higher education. When she’s not researching, she’s busy being a Lighthouse Future Creative Leader, where she’s hosted events and led panel discussions that spark important conversations. Fez is all about challenging systems, amplifying underrepresented voices, and creating spaces for powerful dialogue.
Photo credit: Sarah Brownlow
Performers:
Maia McKinley (she/her) is a multi-instrumentalist and musician. When DJing, MaiMaiMaia mixes a chaotic blend of techno, acid house, jungle, small doses of dnb, breakcore, lofi house and many more. A selection of her original tracks also tend to be played 🥰
Her variety of musical sources create diverse and interesting performances while still achieving coherence. Maia was part of the Lighthouse Young Creatives Cohort 2023-24.
Photo credit: Phoebe Wingrove
ACCESSIBILITY
The ground floor at Phoenix is wheelchair accessible, with entry via a ramp to the left of the main entrance. The entire ground floor is level apart from a slight ramp leading into the Main Gallery. There are steps at the café entrance, but visitors may prefer to use the ramp and enter via the main entrance.
The galleries, workshop rooms, café and toilets are situated on the ground floor with wheelchair access. Baby change facilities are available. They welcome guide and hearing dogs.
Phoenix are happy to discuss any particular requirements for your visit, such as large print texts, audio guides, magnifiers, and sensory ear defenders.
Telephone +44 (0)1273 603700
Email: info@phoenixbrighton.org
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO DURING EVENT
Please note, that this event will be photographed/filmed. If you prefer not to be photographed please speak to a member of the Phoenix Art Space team. The photographs and film we capture at our events are used for marketing and promotional purposes for our programme only and are stored securely.
ABOUT OUR FUTURE CREATIVE LEADERS & OUR FUNDERS
Future Creative Leaders (FCL) is a 12-month paid programme offering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to work closely with Lighthouse's leadership team to explore various aspects of creative leadership. Funded and supported by Art Fund’s ‘Reimagine Grants’ and Chalk Cliff Trust, over the year, participants will co-curate programmes, select participants for mini-residencies, and recruit their successors, all while exploring alternative governance structures, accountability, and power-sharing.
