U(Dys)topia(s)

Envisioning the futures

Event agenda

The London public programme will happen online and offline at YBI's pop up space at 48 Aberfeldy Street, London, E14 0NU. All time is shown in GMT+1. For online events, access details will be shown on individual event pages.


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2-25 Sept (Wed - Sun)
On site
Gallery opening times:

Week starting 6 Sept:
Thursday 9 Sept 6-8pm
Friday 10 Sept 6-9pm
Saturday 11 Sept 2-6pm
Sunday 12 Sept 2-8pm

Week starting 13 Sept:
Wednesday 15 Sept 2-8pm
Thursday 16 Sept 2-8pm
Friday 17 Sept2-8pm

Week starting 20 Sept:
Thursday 23 Sept 2-8pm
Friday 24 Sept 2-8pm
Saturday 25 Sept 2-8pm



2 Sept (Thu) | 17:30
On site
Opening Live Art Event

On this special occasion, we invite you to come and experience the visual works of Peter Barnard, Gareth Hopkins, Bettina Fung, Colleen Bartley with two performances by Ghost and John, Mirei Yazawa, Sarah Woolfenden and Daniel Kordik.

Look at the event here



5 Sept (Sun) | 14:00
Online

Workshop: Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Mara Vivas

How can we collectively imagine and share the world? What does it mean to think imaginatively? This workshop offers a space for us to create a world through shared experience of dance, the spaces we inhabit, and drawing. We will make a map together. This collective mapping activity shines a light on subjective experience, connections across forms, and crossways of thinking, feeling and sharing.

Meeting virtually on Zoom, Mara, Bettina and Mary will encourage participants to explore and develop their imaginative thinking and consider the composition of their own “seeing”. We will watch-see a dance solo and a drawing of the journey of the dance. The latter will serve as a blueprint map on which the collective charting will take place. The individual responses will manifest themselves in the form of intangible/tangible imagery, writing and drawing. This map making experience is a conversational process in which people are world building together. The process itself is utopic.

Find out more here



11 Sept (Sat) | 15:00
On site

Workshop: Noticing and Moving Place
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Colleen Bartley

In this workshop facilitated by artists Colleen Bartley and Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 , we will be working with perceptual awareness, stillness, tuning in to self and practising some gentle movement awareness exercises in preparation for a silent walk in the local area. We will then work in pairs or trios for this silent walk, during which we will be observing and witnessing places, movement, bodies and sensations. There will be opportunities to respond in movement to the place/s found on the walk. After the walk, we will gather to share our findings verbally as well as with movement, drawing and writing.

More information here.



14 Sept (Tue) | 19:00
Online

Workshop: Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Mara Vivas

How can we collectively imagine and share the world? What does it mean to think imaginatively? This workshop offers a space for us to create a world through shared experience of dance, the spaces we inhabit, and drawing. We will make a map together. This collective mapping activity shines a light on subjective experience, connections across forms, and crossways of thinking, feeling and sharing.

Meeting virtually on Zoom, Mara, Bettina and Mary will encourage participants to explore and develop their imaginative thinking and consider the composition of their own “seeing”. We will watch-see a dance solo and a drawing of the journey of the dance. The latter will serve as a blueprint map on which the collective charting will take place. The individual responses will manifest themselves in the form of intangible/tangible imagery, writing and drawing. This map making experience is a conversational process in which people are world building together. The process itself is utopic.

Find out more here



20 Sept (Mon) | 19:00
Online

Workshop - Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination
Facilitated by Mary Mannion and Mara Vivas

How can we collectively imagine and share the world? What does it mean to think imaginatively? This workshop offers a space for us to create a world through shared experience of dance, the spaces we inhabit, and drawing. We will make a map together. This collective mapping activity shines a light on subjective experience, connections across forms, and crossways of thinking, feeling and sharing.

Meeting virtually on Zoom, Mara, Bettina and Mary will encourage participants to explore and develop their imaginative thinking and consider the composition of their own “seeing”. We will watch-see a dance solo and a drawing of the journey of the dance. The latter will serve as a blueprint map on which the collective charting will take place. The individual responses will manifest themselves in the form of intangible/tangible imagery, writing and drawing. This map making experience is a conversational process in which people are world building together. The process itself is utopic.

Find out more here



25 Sept (Sat) | 11:30
On site

Workshop: Noticing and Moving Place
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Colleen Bartley

In this workshop facilitated by artists Colleen Bartley and Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 , we will be working with perceptual awareness, stillness, tuning in to self and practising some gentle movement awareness exercises in preparation for a silent walk in the local area. We will then work in pairs or trios for this silent walk, during which we will be observing and witnessing places, movement, bodies and sensations. There will be opportunities to respond in movement to the place/s found on the walk. After the walk, we will gather to share our findings verbally as well as with movement, drawing and writing.

More information here.















4 Sept (Sat) | 15:00
On site

Workshop: Noticing and Moving Place
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Colleen Bartley

In this workshop facilitated by artists Colleen Bartley and Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 , we will be working with perceptual awareness, stillness, tuning in to self and practising some gentle movement awareness exercises in preparation for a silent walk in the local area. We will then work in pairs or trios for this silent walk, during which we will be observing and witnessing places, movement, bodies and sensations. There will be opportunities to respond in movement to the place/s found on the walk. After the walk, we will gather to share our findings verbally as well as with movement, drawing and writing.

More information here.



9 Sept (Thu) | 19:00
Online

Workshop: Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Mara Vivas

How can we collectively imagine and share the world? What does it mean to think imaginatively? This workshop offers a space for us to create a world through shared experience of dance, the spaces we inhabit, and drawing. We will make a map together. This collective mapping activity shines a light on subjective experience, connections across forms, and crossways of thinking, feeling and sharing.

Meeting virtually on Zoom, Mara, Bettina and Mary will encourage participants to explore and develop their imaginative thinking and consider the composition of their own “seeing”. We will watch-see a dance solo and a drawing of the journey of the dance. The latter will serve as a blueprint map on which the collective charting will take place. The individual responses will manifest themselves in the form of intangible/tangible imagery, writing and drawing. This map making experience is a conversational process in which people are world building together. The process itself is utopic.

Find out more here



13 Sept (Mon) | 19:00
Online

Workshop: Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination
Facilitated by Mary Mannion and Mara Vivas

How can we collectively imagine and share the world? What does it mean to think imaginatively? This workshop offers a space for us to create a world through shared experience of dance, the spaces we inhabit, and drawing. We will make a map together. This collective mapping activity shines a light on subjective experience, connections across forms, and crossways of thinking, feeling and sharing.

Meeting virtually on Zoom, Mara, Bettina and Mary will encourage participants to explore and develop their imaginative thinking and consider the composition of their own “seeing”. We will watch-see a dance solo and a drawing of the journey of the dance. The latter will serve as a blueprint map on which the collective charting will take place. The individual responses will manifest themselves in the form of intangible/tangible imagery, writing and drawing. This map making experience is a conversational process in which people are world building together. The process itself is utopic.

Find out more here


18 Sept (Sat) | 15:00
On site

Workshop: Noticing and Moving Place
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Colleen Bartley

In this workshop facilitated by artists Colleen Bartley and Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 , we will be working with perceptual awareness, stillness, tuning in to self and practising some gentle movement awareness exercises in preparation for a silent walk in the local area. We will then work in pairs or trios for this silent walk, during which we will be observing and witnessing places, movement, bodies and sensations. There will be opportunities to respond in movement to the place/s found on the walk. After the walk, we will gather to share our findings verbally as well as with movement, drawing and writing.

More information here.



21 Sept (Tue) | 19:00
Online

Workshop - Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination
Facilitated by Bettina Fung and Mara Vivas

How can we collectively imagine and share the world? What does it mean to think imaginatively? This workshop offers a space for us to create a world through shared experience of dance, the spaces we inhabit, and drawing. We will make a map together. This collective mapping activity shines a light on subjective experience, connections across forms, and crossways of thinking, feeling and sharing.

Meeting virtually on Zoom, Mara, Bettina and Mary will encourage participants to explore and develop their imaginative thinking and consider the composition of their own “seeing”. We will watch-see a dance solo and a drawing of the journey of the dance. The latter will serve as a blueprint map on which the collective charting will take place. The individual responses will manifest themselves in the form of intangible/tangible imagery, writing and drawing. This map making experience is a conversational process in which people are world building together. The process itself is utopic.

Find out more here



25 Sept (Sat) | 14:00
Online

Talk: Mapping, Trees Talk and Utopia
Presented by Mara Vivas and Catherine Harrington, facilitated by Candy Choi

In this talk event facilitated by Candy Choi, Choreographer Mara Vivas will present the outcome of the workshop series “Mapping: depiction, perception and imagination” alongside architect Catherine Harrington who will talk about her recent project “Trees Talk”.

More info here




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