About this Event
Project Somnolence: light lapse - a workshop
Join us for an immersive workshop experience at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall!
Join Maria Sledmere and Kevin Leomo for an evening at Out of the Blue, where they'll present creative output from their recent Project Somnolence residency. Combining short poetry and sound performances with an artist-led talk and workshop, this event is open to anyone with an interest in creative approaches to sleep and dreaming.
Please bring along your favourite writing materials and a curious spirit!
Please note: this event takes place in the Cutting Room.
- 7.00pm — Welcome and artist talk
- 7:20pm — Listening activity
- 7:30pm — Workshop
- 8.00pm — Break
- 8.10pm — Workshop
- 8:40pm — Discussion
- 9:00pm — Event finishes
Project Somnolence is a portable lab for encouraging curiosity, reflection and speculative approaches to sleep in the past, present and future. Everyone sleeps and is affected by sleep, but we don’t all sleep the same. Sleep inequalities are associated with differences in class, gender and environmental factors. Project Somnolence utilises methodologies from English, Creative Writing, Music and Psychology to bring fresh perspectives in addressing the urgent and global crisis of sleep.
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Dr Maria Sledmere is a Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and Managing Editor of SPAM Press. Her latest poetry collection Cinders (Krupskaya 2024) concerns the relationship between petromelancholia, femininity, fire, labour and space. A monograph on anthropocene poethics, impossibility and dreaming, Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) is forthcoming from NoUP Press in late 2024. With Rhian Williams, she co-edited the anthology the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020).
Dr Kevin Leomo is a practitioner of experimental music, the Community and Engagement for the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow, and Chair of Sound Thought. Kevin manages The Dear Green Bothy and Thinking Culture programmes and is a co-lead for the Laboratory for Civic Arts Research. His practice involves collaboration, improvisation, critical listening practices, non-standard notation, and working cross-culturally.
Presented by the Research and Knowledge Exchange Fund within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Strrathclyde, and , College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow.
Accessibility
The Drill Hall provides full access to the Cutting Room. For more info on accessibility and getting to the venue, click below:
How to get here - Out of the Blue – Arts & Education Trust based in Edinburgh
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00