Doors open at 6pm, workshop 6.30-8pm

A workshop from Feminist Culture House, supported by Edinburgh Art Festival

Let’s pollinate the cultural field with intersectional feminist working practices! This 1.5hr workshop uses verbal, edible, and textual prompts to guide a conversation about identifying and distributing different skills and currencies within collaborative creative practices. 

During the workshop, Katie will share excerpts from Feminist Culture House’s new online publication Windows of Tolerance: Tools for Ideal Collaborations in an Unideal (Art) World, as well as a foraged pine pollen and valerian root infusion from Finland—this might prompt lucid dreaming later that night. 

Welcome if you’re interested in chatting about the practicalities of curatorial and collective practices, hanging out, and dreaming of how to create kind working conditions that feel nourishing for everyone involved

What to expect

• an informal group gathering of maximum 15 people 
• an introduction round
• friendly facilitation grounded in Safer Space principles and these ethical guidelines
• to hear someone with an Australian accent read short textual excerpts 
• moments to reflect upon and share about your own experiences with collaborative practices, and how they were compensated, if you wish 
• a take-home pamphlet with space for notetaking, and a link to the Windows of Tolerance publication 
• time to reflect and write
• a break for a drink and snack: alcoholic and non-alcoholic options available
• time for informal socialising

About the Facilitator
Katie Lenanton (she/her) is a queer intersectional feminist curator, artistic researcher, writer, and editor who works collectively through mediums like exhibition-making, social practice, wildcrafting, conceptual cocktails, publishing, scent, and sustenance, amongst others. An important question in her work is “who is in the room, and under what conditions?”

In 2019, she co-founded Feminist Culture House, a Helsinki-based curatorial and editorial platform that produces exhibitions, publications, and tools for more equitable collaborations within the art field.

Booking
We only have capacity for a limited number of people in the archive, so please book in advance. If you are unable to attend, please let us know so we can offer your place to someone else.

Venue & Accessibility
The event is located at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive in Edinburgh Palette. There is information on how to get to us on public transport and by car, along with access information, on our location and accessibility page.

Any other questions
Please email us: themenaces@lavendermenace.org.uk