BIVOUAC#2

Eden Arts

The first thing to note is that this is not actually a camping event, it will not involve scouting or guiding in any way.  And please note that there is a £25 contribution even though the ticket is listed as free.
 
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When we created Bivouac #1 last year we wanted to create the best bits of a conference i.e. lunch and drinks at the bar afterwards throughout the whole thing.  “It was a talking, sharing, confiding, considering, thinking, walking, drinking, EATING, pasta-making, death-discussing, faerie-making, magical (literally), gathering. Meeting. Engaging. It was about conversations, nothing led or panel-debated, nothing decided beforehand to any huge level, just a bring them together and see what happens thing. It was bloody brilliant.” Stella Duffy, Writer, Theatre Maker, Fun Palace Creator 
Bivouac #2 is the next instalment, bringing exceptional people together for a couple of days to get out of the office/studio/computer and give your brain and body a kind of arts and minds spa.
It’s chance to recoup with other minds, to eat lovely food, talk about subjects as diverse as things like shipping, nuclear power, art vandalism, land use, victorian mind reading, refugees, ecology, keeping chickens, with other very interesting and talented people.
Last year we welcomed these extraordinary conversation fire-starters: Prof Charles Quick – In Certain Places Stuart Nolan, Robyn Woolston - Artist, Alan Lane – Slung Low, Richard Smith – Curator Lancaster Arts, Stella Duffy – Fun Palaces, Matt McDonald – then Shared Future, Manchester Met Business School and, somewhat like an Osborne job collector, he is also now at Grizedale Arts, Rob and Harriet Fraser - Somewhere Nowhere 
This year we have invited new contributors, including <A HREF="http://rebeccachesney.com/index.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rebecca Chesney</A>, artist; Liz Hill, Editor <A HREF="http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Arts Professional</A>; <A HREF="http://www.weareresonate.com/2017/04/video-feature-hapa-experience-pt-1-actor-daniel-york/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Daniel York</A>, Actor; Dr John Sidney, Head of Category Managment, Sellafield; London-born Chinese British poet, writer and broadcaster <A HREF="http://madammiaow.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Anna Chen</A>; <A HREF="https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2016/02/toolkit-creative-gatherings%20" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jocelyn Cunningham</A>, Director Lancaster Arts at Lancaster Uni; <A HREF="http://stuartnolan.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stuart Nolan</A>; the marvellous <A HREF="http://www.vistaveg.co.uk" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vista Veg</A> and more...
Day 1: Conversations #1 at Penrith Old Fire Station; food eating.
Day 2: Conversations #2 out and about, trips to special places with special people. This year inside Sellafield Nuclear Power Station for some, Walney Island with Artgene for others.
We don’t really know what you will end up talking about when you get here but we can guarantee that you will be an active contributor to the days, you will probably make something and you will definitely make new connections, learn stuff and go home happy. 
It's not exactly random, we craft what goes on and you are sent on a voyage, we are there with life-belts, but no-one used them last year.  Some of it is mysterious.  You will receive messages in the run up. Things like that.
Stella, writer, theatre maker and Fun Palace creator went home happy. <A HREF="https://stelladuffy.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/everyone-an-artist-not-great-for/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Read her blog about Bivouac #1</A> Click here to read Eden Arts Director Adrian’s <A HREF="http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/article/unconference-all" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">blog on Arts Professional</A> about why Eden Arts created Bivouac.
 
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The whole thing is a partnership project with <A HREF="http://www.cvan.org.uk" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CVAN (Contemporary Visual Arts Network)</A>, which brings to gether arts professionals to help further the arts ecology.  CVAN is funded by the Arts Council England and BIVOUAC#2 is receiving some funding through ACE.
 
 
Requirements: Everyone attending must stay for the full two days. Everyone attending must sign up to our closed Facebook page in advance. Everyone must bring a book or publication – ideally from a project of their own, if not something else. These are non-returnable.
 
There is a £25 contribution to the food and transport for the event. Bring this with you please.
 
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Eden Arts, Penrith Old Fire Station

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