Conservatory Takeover
Enjoy a free programme of events in our Conservatory
As part of our conservatory takeover, explore the space, slow down, and attune to your body with a sound backdrop from Sippin' T. Or join us for an interactive, ambient noise set by Augustine Leudar from the Museum of Consciousness.
Plus, gather for a performance that celebrates the spontaneous roots of collective song, listen to readings by co-curators Susanna Davies-Crook and Nick Hadfield sharing inspirations behind the day, and join in a listening game, c0ncert0 f0r uncens0red v0ices, led by Scratchproof Orchestra.
Entry to the conservatory is free, but ticketed. Reserve your entry ahead of your visit.
Talk: Keynote
Imagine a better future at this panel discussion
In a climate of fear and division, how do we forge communities of hope to enable experimentation and imagine better futures? Discover more at this keynote talk chaired by co-curator Nicholas Hadfield, alongside artists and thinkers Aditi Jaganathan, Amahra Spence (Hood Futures), Anoushka Grose and Charlie Waterhouse (Hard Art).
Tickets £6-£12. A ticket to this event includes free entry to the conservatory programme.
Talk: More Than Human Togetherness
A discussion about collectivity and technology
Researchers and writers Gunseli Yalcinkaya, Wassim Alsindi, Jocelyn Longdon, Carl H Smith and co-curator Susanna Davies-Crook discuss how contemporary technology can be used to catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality.
As well as speculating on relationality in the age of AI, they will provide concrete examples of how technologies could help rather than hinder. Thinking beyond the dystopian loop imaginary of the doom scroll, tech bros and digi-hypercapital and epidemic of loneliness, the panel consider allow AI, intentional and soft tech in an age of neural media, and what it means to interact with these technologies to envisage and enact a human and more than human a future.
Tickets £6-£12. A ticket to this event includes free entry to the conservatory programme.
Installation: Perceptual Drift
Step inside a bubble on our sculpture court
Step inside a calming, sensory pop-up bubble on our sculpture court, an installation providing space to regulate your nervous system and promoting alternative states of togetherness.
Presented by design collective More Human Systems, this special workshop located in the bubble is an experiment in collective attunement, through somatic exploration, spacial sensing and subtle transformation.
Tickets £6-£12. A ticket to this event includes free entry to the conservatory programme.
Workshop: Embodied Care
Consider a practice for connection and reciprocity
Join Yello Yaad for this immersive workshop on embodied care and the practice of connection and reciprocity, led by Josh Woolford & Sippin' T.
By deepening our connection to our bodies, we prepare to show up more fully for ourselves, our environment, and our communities, fostering meaningful relationships and sustainable reciprocity. Through grounding embodiment practices —including movement, journaling and play — participants explore four dimensions of being: length (dignity), width (relational space), depth (internal landscape), and declaration (purpose).
Tickets £6-£12. A ticket to this event includes free entry to the conservatory programme.
Workshop: Solfi Sound – Noise from Nowhere
Create a collective song about utopia
How can utopian ideas reinforce or break down political systems? Consider the power and limits of sound and writing in envisioning paradise with Solfi's Arman Nouri. Guided by an ensemble of creative practices, including free writing, collage, singing and percussion, participants will learn about Solfi's approach to sound and music-based learning.
Tickets £6-£12. A ticket to this event includes free entry to the conservatory programme.
Workshop: The Singing Village – CircleSong Workshop
A timeless space where people come together to make and receive sound
The Singing Village is an invitation to reclaim the transcultural roots of folklore through vocal improvisation. Making fresh, collaborative, spontaneous music, here and now.
In this workshop, participants will be invited to create a timeless space where people come together to make sound and receive it, to participate in the flow of life and share their experience of being alive. Be part of a gathering of humans singing, dancing and celebrating the cycles of life, reigniting in our bodies memories of a distant past and what might have helped us to thrive as species.
Tickets £6-£12. A ticket to this event includes free entry to the conservatory programme.
