Procreate Project is Hiring
PROCREATE PROJECT IS HIRING Part-time Early Years Educator for the Mother House studio space
About the Mother House
The Mother House is the UK’s first flexible Artist Studio with integrated childcare, where children are invited into the workspace. The model aims to help mothers who are artists, creatives, freelancers and entrepreneurs, providing an inspiring space to allow them to continue working whilst nurturing engaged parenting.
The Mother House creates two interconnected spaces:
– Studio space for professional arts practice in the form of an open art studio. The space is organised in assigned sections that fit the needs of artists working in different mediums and forms.
– In-houses activities organised specifically for children, guided and supervised by a dedicated team.
Open Call Live Art and performances - Oxytocin
OPEN CALL FOR LIVE ART AND PERFORMANCES
EVENT INFORMATION
Procreate Projects presents: OXYTOCIN – Birthing the world
Royal College of Art, London – 3rd June 2017
Oxytocin is a one-day symposium and programme of performances about mothers, mother art, maternal health & wellbeing.
Supported by LADA and under the umbrella of the Procreate Project, the event is curated together with Dyana Gravina form the Procreate Project, Martha Joy Rose from the Museum of Motherhood (USA), Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, artist, midwife and founder of Home Live Art, Sara Paiola, researcher in Law and Human Rights from the School of Law, Birkbeck University and Sarah Dufayard, artist and producer.
Oxytocin is an international research and community event focused on mothers and carers. The panels will analyse current critical practices pushing for new strategies aimed at increasing the visibility and representation of women and mothers in society.
The symposium will highlight new ideas whereby infrastructures and creative programs can support and facilitate healthy families thus challenging attitudes towards motherhood, female sexuality, birth, depression and human rights.
Oxytocin will encourage conversation and exchange between medical, academic and art sectors with the aim to facilitate collaborations between them and increase awareness on women’s rights, mental, emotional and physical needs during pregnancy, labour and postnatal adaptation.
The event opens a community discussion aimed at spotlighting the connection between much-needed support for mothers and new approaches that are designed to encourage mothers’ and childrens’ optimum health, professional and artistic development, ongoing education, and continuing connection.
The event will consist of panel discussions lead by three sectors (Artists & Academy, Midwifery, Mental Health and human rights) fused with a day programme of performances, installations and live art.
OPEN CALL:
We are now accepting proposals from both male and female artists/group of artists, who’s works will respond to these subjects. Oxytocin will showcase live art, installations, multi-media and multi-disciplinary performances.
* Childcare will be offered to the artists and their children for the day during rehearsal and showtimes.
How to apply:
Please send your proposal with images and links to info@procreateproject.com
Deadline for submission:
Wednesday 10th May 5pm
Contact:
Email info@procreateproject.com
Website www.procreateproject.com
more info
Martha Joy Rose: Founder, The Museum of Motherhood (USA) and Journal of Mother Studies
Laura Godfrey Issacs: Artist and Midwife, founder of Home Live Art (UK)
Ana Alvarez-Arrecalde: Awarded international Visual Artist (Spain)
Dr Sally Marlow – PhD National Addiction Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London (UK)
M.A.M.A. Issue n.23: Jane Glennie and Sarah Goshal
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 23rd edition of this scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the academic, the para-academic, the digital, and the real, as well as the everyday: wherever you live, work, and play, the Art of Motherhood is made manifest. #JoinMAMA
April, 2017 Jane Glennie
Art by Jane Glennie
Container//contained 2012-2014
In psychoanalysis the container-contained notion, as introduced by Wilfred Bion, holds a neutral position, without judgement, that can be used as an approach to the analysis process. Reading texts through this position, from within the paradigm of motherhood, seems to be illuminating. It provides numerous ways of probing the question: ‘who is the container and who is the contained?’. How does the relationship between mother and child, mother and son, mother and daughter stand at any one discrete moment? What is the basis of the container at that moment? What is the emotion of the contained? The container can be actual, practical, or explicit. It can be metaphoric, emotional or implicit.
The complexity and variability of container-contained could, potentially, provide a framework to better understand and accommodate the complex and variable ‘emotional storm’ of minds (mother and child) that both ‘crave and resist’ each other.
more about the artist:
Jane Glennie was born in Rustington and grew up roaming a horticultural nursery; planting fuchsias on piecework and selling cups of tea to raise some cash. A winding path traversed fashion & textiles, economics and archaeology before a BA in Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading University, freelance graphic design, and then MA Art & Space at Kingston University. Jane exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and has managed and curated projects with other artists.
Words by Sarah Goshal
Blur
They say you
block it all out:
no sleep, sore
hips, racecar
blowtorch wake
up heartburn,
tests, tests, tests,
feet hurt, slow
walk waddle,
timing, waiting,
talking to you
for hours and the
pain …
I haven’t forgotten.
You were a pot of acid
in my side, trying to escape
with tremendous effort,
announcing the future
in seconds.
Originally published in Mom Egg Review Vol. 15
Sarah Ghoshal is a poet, a mom, a professor and a runner. She has published two poetry chapbooks and her work can be found in such publications as Red Savina Review, Cream City Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review and Whale Road Review, among others. She lives in New Jersey with her happy little family and her faithful dog Comet, who flies through the air with the greatest of ease. You can learn more about her at www.sarahghoshal.com or find her on Twitter, @sarahghoshal.