Religious Communities in the Virtual Age: Practices, Values, Technologies, Boundaries
Manchester Metropolitan University Cavendish Street, Manchester, Lancashire, United KingdomSince the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online worship and gathering as a tool for widening or enriching a sense of community. Others have used social media to re-think the boundaries of […]
Bunker Talk #143: Lume x Reckless Sleepers
The Salutation Higher Chatham Street, Manchester, Lancashire, United KingdomMembers of the established theatre groups, Reckless Sleepers (UK/Belgium) and LUME (Brazil) will, for the first time, engage in a public dialogue about their distinct practices, specifically with a focus on performer training. LUME was founded at UNICAMP, in 1985, as a research centre in action, conceived by Luís Otávio Burnier. In 1993 it became […]
Granny Jackson’s Dead: Our Digital Afterlives
Home, Manchester 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, Lancashire, United KingdomGranny Jackson’s Dead is an immersive performance and research project about technology, memory and mourning, which asks what’s good and what’s not-so-good about the ways that technology is changing our ritual lives. This project has involved collaboration with researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University who are working with Big Telly Theatre Company to understand more about what […]