Access Space Collaborative Cultures Seies

Welcome to
Collaborative Cultures Series
@ Access Space

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This exhibitions features photographs and a film installation by Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter about Abundance - a Sheffield based community fruit harvesting project. Abundance is about claiming, creating and celebrating a shared inheritance that many of us never knew we had and finding ways to play our part in its proliferation. Abundance inspires us to look up and around and to see the city as an orchard.
As part of the Collaborative Cultures Series facilitated by Access Space - this exhibition looks at Abundance through the lens of the - sharing and asserting our rights to responsible use of resources in public spaces and the creating of a sustainable and active culture of community and co-operation. When 95% of UK fruit are imported including 71% of apples, Abundance is a small step in acting to reclaim, share, re-value and re-distribute wasted goods at a local scale.
*The exhibition opening is on 5 September from 5.30-8.00pm and runs from 6 September to 9 October 2008, open Tuesday to Saturday 11am-7pm.*
Free local fruit will be available whenever possible and throughout the time of the exhibition there will be opportunities to go out harvesting in Sheffield with Abundance, to help with juicing, processing and distribution the fruit and to take part in the Abun-dance a collaboratively piece of dance/music. Please contact abundance@growsheffield.com

ACTION MAPPING WORKSHOP
with SIMON YUILL & STEPHEN WATTS
2pm to 7pm on Saturday 6th September, 2008
As part of the exhibition there will be an action mapping workshop with visiting artist Simon Yuill (www.freesocialfoundations.org, www.giventothepeople.org) and local food forager and organic grower Stephen Watts. The workshop will involve an active exploration of the streets radiating from Access space with Stephen Watts mapping the existing wild food/food growing opportunities and the potential for food growing looking in domestic spaces, gap sites, planters, kerbside etc. This information will then be used to create a map by Simon using open source software and showing the possibilities for urban food growing.
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BACKGROUND
Anne-Marie Culhane is the founder of Grow Sheffield and an artist and performer and community activist with extensive experience of working with different communities to make collaborative artworks and projects. She has exhibited, performed and had residencies across the UK and overseas. Jo Salter is a designer and visual artist who has worked extensively with Anne-Marie on Grow Sheffield design and documentation and recently exhibited at the Bluecoats Art Centre in Liverpool and the Millais Gallery, Southampton with Alec Finlay.
Abundance is part of Grow Sheffield a voluntary active network of individuals and organisations promoting urban food growing and food growing culture.
www.growsheffield.com
www.amculhane.co.uk
www.josalter.org.uk
www.growsheffield.com
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Collaborative Cultures // COMMONSense

A call for submissions

Access Space in Sheffield is seeking contributions for a magazine to be published this autumn. The issue will reflect a theme which connects the activities of Access Space to the wider world.

The theme of the issue is COMMONSense. Not so long ago, the only people who talked about "the commons" were historians; today, the language of the commons is central to debates around intellectual property, environmental protection, and resistance to globalisation. These international debates find their echoes here in South Yorkshire - in the activities of Access Space, recycling waste technology and promoting Open Source software, or in Grow Sheffield's efforts to build local food networks and seed city centre wasteland. Can talk of "the commons" help us find common ground between these kinds of projects? Does using the same words mean we've found a common language - or can it disguise different meanings and intentions?

We're looking for pieces of COMMONSense: prose (stories, thoughts, book reviews, bibliographies...), poetry, songs, pieces of code, photographs, cartoons, drawings, graphics or anything else you can think of. These might approach the theme in relation to green issues, land ownership, social relations, the internet, the music industry, copyright, software, or anything else that makes sense to you.

The format of the magazine means that each contribution will take up a single A5 page. With that in mind, we're looking for the following:

* written texts of up to 200 words
* or poems of up to 20 lines
* or black and white drawings, cartoons, photos or other graphics

Images should be at least 300 dpi and in JPEG, PNG or TIFF format.
Texts should be in TXT, ODT or DOC format.
We ask that your contributions be made available to us under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/ ) The magazine will be freely accessable from the web.
Although we cannot pay for contributions, there will be a limited print edition and each contributor will receive a free copy.

The deadline for submissions is 26 September 2008
Please send your contribution by email to collaborativecultures@googlemail.com
Attachments should be no more than 6 Mb.

The magazine will be edited by Dougald Hine and the creative direction will be by artist Anne-Marie Culhane.

It will be launched at Access Space during the Off The Shelf literary festival on 24 October 2008

www.access-space.org/ccs

Commonsense

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