RESOURCES
We hope that CONTRACurricular can become a repository of information, documentation, and other resources to support the development of the alternative arts education ecosystem.
We welcome submissions of any kind for inclusion here and in future publications. Please get in touch if you would like to share writing, images, audio, or anything else. We would be delighted to work with you to present your contributions in a suitable way.
New commissions
These texts were commissioned for the CONTRACurricular national summit, and were included in the print programme.
- ask for / everything by Lotte L.S. explores autonomous spaces and grassroots organising in the contexts of Great Yarmouth and cities across Argentina.
- Art School as Liberation Rehearsal by Amahra Spence introduces MAIA, an alternative arts establishment in Birmingham, and its place in the lineage of Black liberation movements.
- If the World Was a Song by Rose Higham-Stainton records a night of karaoke in the pubs of Yarmouth, and considers the ways in which this hyper-local obsession follows the tenets of decentralisation.
Documentation
This section includes documentation from the national summit and the preparatory Razing The Agenda event, alongside supporting texts.
- The programme for the CONTRACurricular summit [pdf, 7MB] including contributions by Robin Deacon, Mark Edwards, and Paul Kuzemczak, plus material from the Great Yarmouth College of Art archives.
- Reflections on the Razing The Agenda summit [pdf, 9MB], sketched by Emma Edmondson of Open School East
- More to follow!
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