Tactics and Praxis

Seminar series on creative approaches to academic work. Tactics for reading, writing, creative practice and practice-based research. Open to all!

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rediscover, rising from a surrounding medium, issuing forth, evolving, rising to notice, newly independent

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Tactics friends! We will gather via Zoom for an online session celebrating emergence, this Thursday 13 July 2023, 14:00-15:30 (UK time). Our own Louise Haywood will lead this session, which will be interactive. If you’re not on our email list, send us a DM for details!

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Emergence: beginning, birth, rise, inception, initiate, start, germinate, sprout, come into existence, see the light of day, resume, begin again, make a fresh start, found, launch, originate, incite,

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I will talk about what I have found out to date, including how the Welsh heritage of the chair is intertwined with my Palestinian one, inviting an (as yet undetermined) aesthetic response that honours crafting traditions from both places."

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We meet tomorrow, 5th May at St John's (NB this is a change of venue!), from 12.30-2.30 in the Boys Smith Room in the Fisher Building. We'll be hearing from Sura Qadiri, on 'A Tale of Two Seat Pads: Upcycling a Chair with a Story'. Please come! Bring your lunch!

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Awarded as a prize for a poetry competition at a Welsh Eisteddfod almost 100 years ago, the chair has put me on a trail of discovery as I seek to piece together the story of its origins.

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VENUE NOW CHANGED — Sura Qadiri’s session will now be at St John’s College, in the Boys Smith Room in the Fisher Building, which is on the Backs side of the river.

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“I will talk about what I have found out to date, including how the Welsh heritage of the chair is intertwined with my Palestinian one, inviting an (as yet undetermined) aesthetic response that honours crafting traditions from both places.”

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Do come! (And NB since previous tweet we have swapped the venue to St John’s. The room info is on our web page and we’ll send an email too —
DM if we can help!)

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Spending my Sunday rescuing the dolls from semi-retirement & dusting them off ready for my first post-covid upcycling workshop at Durham. Thanks to Marie-Claire Barnet for the invitation, inspired by my 2019 session @TacticsPraxis in Cambridge. Excited to see how this plays out!

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Wonderful conversation with Vanessa Marr of #domesticduster fame last night…join us today for an #emergingfromthepandemic workshop #craftivist free Trinity Hall Cambridge CB2 1TJ @MMLL_Cambridge @TacticsPraxis places left 10-1230 @TrinityHallCamb @MMLL_Cambridge @Cambridge_Uni

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Plenty places left…come talk domesticity and auto ethnography, creative-practice-led research and community projects tonight @TrinityHallCamb #THArtsFestivsl #tacticsandpraxis @CamArtsHums @MMLL_Cambridge with Vanessa Marr and Louise Haywood

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There is space at this event later, which should be a fantastic conversation about life, stitching, research and community — Louise Haywood is hosting Vanessa Marr. Ignore the booking deadline! You can still come — just turn up or DM if you have any questions.

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Join Dr Vanessa Marr of #domesticdusters #swearydusters #domesticacademics and I for a conversation about creativity, research and community in person 1730 Trinity Hall Cambridge link in comments.

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Tactics organiser Louise Haywood @TheMakarsGuild in conversation with wonderful Vanessa Marr (who some of you may have seen presenting at our online conference), tomorrow (Fri) at 17.30 at Trinity Hall!

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Join Dr Vanessa Marr of #domesticdusters #swearydusters #domesticacademics and I for a conversation about creativity, research and community in person 1730 Trinity Hall Cambridge link in comments.

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Today! We would love to see you there. We are bringing stuff for badge making but if there’s anything you’d particularly like to use do bring it along. (Nothing too chunky or it won’t fold up at the back.)

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We three Tactics organisers will be offering a small teach out/social gathering tomorrow, in solidarity with the UCU strike action. We will have materials to make pin badges together using this awesome gadget, and paper/collage/stitching. (1/2)

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Forgot to say, the theme is “care as resistance”.

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We three Tactics organisers will be offering a small teach out/social gathering tomorrow, in solidarity with the UCU strike action. We will have materials to make pin badges together using this awesome gadget, and paper/collage/stitching. (1/2)

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Drop in any time 12.30-2.30, in the Terrace Room at Trinity Hall. Feel free to bring your lunch (we are not using any institutional funding and don’t have catering). Optional readings on our Moodle page, DM if you want to be added. New friends and old, please come! (2/2)