<b>Holding Space</b> (part of doing together 24)

<p dir="ltr"><b>Holding Space</b></p><p dir="ltr">Workshop with Stacey Pottinger as part of doing together 24</p><p dir="ltr">Friday 5 April 2024</p><p dir="ltr">During this session, we held space for each other, offering each other a listening ear and facilitated conversation within a supportive environment. The session was designed to offer participants an opportunity to make together, whilst discussing and presenting their practice, thoughts and projects to other artists, researchers and creative practitioners.  </p><p dir="ltr">During the session we undertook grounding exercises, learnt about creative co-mentoring, made together and reflected on our individual experience.  </p><table><tr><td><p dir="ltr"><b>doing together 24</b><br><i>doing tog</i><i>ether</i> is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/student-life/campuses/locksbrook-campus/" target="_blank">Locksbrook Campus</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/centre-for-cultural-and-creative-industries/" target="_blank">Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/bath-school-of-art-film-and-media/" target="_blank">Bath School of Art, Film and Media</a> and <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/bath-school-of-music-and-performing-arts/" target="_blank">Bath School of Music and Performing Arts</a>.</p></td></tr></table><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. <i>doing together</i><i> </i>is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.</p><p dir="ltr">Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.</p>