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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – UNFOLD (Wondering Minds)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a session of screenings and discussions with Wondering Minds filmmakers\, exploring lived experiences of mental health\n\n\nAbout the event \nFilmmaking Project Showcases Stories of Mental Health Through Lived ExperienceWondering CIC & WCL Mind present a series of powerful community screenings across London \nWondering CIC\, in partnership with WCL Mind\, is proud to announce the first public screenings of UNFOLD\, a groundbreaking collaborative filmmaking project exploring mental health through lived experience storytelling and biographical film as a tool for therapy. \nRunning over 14 weeks between March and June 2025\, UNFOLD culminated in 11 filmmakers each creating a deeply personal autobiographical short film. Across 18 sessions\, participants developed filmmaking skills while using creativity as a therapeutic outlet. The films reflect resilience and identity offering fresh perspectives on mental health. \nThe project is part of Wondering CIC’s regenerative model\, where participants are supported to return the following year to mentor others and access freelance opportunities — creating sustainable pathways into the creative industries. \n \nThis event will take place in the Kodak Theatre\, University of Westminster Harrow Campus \n \nIMAGES \n1 – 3 – Images from Wondering Minds filmmaking workshops4 – 6 – Images from UNFOLD films \n \nAbout Wondering Minds \nWondering CIC is a community interest company using storytelling\, filmmaking\, and art as interventions for health\, wellbeing\, and social change. By putting cameras into the hands of people with lived experience\, Wondering CIC empowers individuals to own their stories\, build skills\, and create authentic films that shift perspectives on mental health. \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-unfold-wondering-minds-2/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – UNFOLD (Wondering Minds)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a session of screenings and discussions with Wondering Minds filmmakers\, exploring lived experiences of mental health\n\n\nAbout the event \nFilmmaking Project Showcases Stories of Mental Health Through Lived ExperienceWondering CIC & WCL Mind present a series of powerful community screenings across London \nWondering CIC\, in partnership with WCL Mind\, is proud to announce the first public screenings of UNFOLD\, a groundbreaking collaborative filmmaking project exploring mental health through lived experience storytelling and biographical film as a tool for therapy. \nRunning over 14 weeks between March and June 2025\, UNFOLD culminated in 11 filmmakers each creating a deeply personal autobiographical short film. Across 18 sessions\, participants developed filmmaking skills while using creativity as a therapeutic outlet. The films reflect resilience and identity offering fresh perspectives on mental health. \nThe project is part of Wondering CIC’s regenerative model\, where participants are supported to return the following year to mentor others and access freelance opportunities — creating sustainable pathways into the creative industries. \n \nThis event will take place in the Kodak Theatre\, University of Westminster Harrow Campus \n \nIMAGES \n1 – 3 – Images from Wondering Minds filmmaking workshops4 – 6 – Images from UNFOLD films \n \nAbout Wondering Minds \nWondering CIC is a community interest company using storytelling\, filmmaking\, and art as interventions for health\, wellbeing\, and social change. By putting cameras into the hands of people with lived experience\, Wondering CIC empowers individuals to own their stories\, build skills\, and create authentic films that shift perspectives on mental health. \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-unfold-wondering-minds/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:One ticket to see all the AIR Ritual artworks at University of Westminster and Northwick Park Hospital
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-exhibitions-2/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual - Cameraless Animation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join experimental filmmaker Jacob Watkinson to create animations on 16mm film without using a camera\n\n\nAbout the event \nIn this hands-on\, cameraless animation workshop\, participants will be introduced to key Structuralist films before exploring the creative possibilities of 16mm film. You’ll have the opportunity to paint\, scratch\, and draw directly onto celluloid\, working with both archival home movies as well as clear film leader for direct animation. The session will culminate in a live projection\, showcasing the unique short works created during the workshop. \nNo prior experience with 16mm film is required—this workshop is designed to provide an accessible foundation for anyone interested in experimenting with film as a creative medium. \nMaximum number of participants: 18 \nThe event will take place in Blue Shed\, Harrow Campus\, University Of Westminster\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow HA1 3TP. Room announcement will be given nearer the time. \n \nAbout the artist \nJacob Watkinson is an experimental filmmaker and Arts Facilitator whose work explores the fragile materiality of celluloid\, pushing the medium to its limits and examining the creative possibilities of image manipulation. Inspired by the Structuralist movement\, his various films have screened at festivals and exhibitions worldwide. \nIn addition to his artistic practice\, Jacob works as Creative Director for an archival organisation dedicated to preserving and sharing personal and family histories\, helping individuals protect their memories while connecting them to a wider cultural narrative. \nHe also leads arts workshops focused on hands-on experimentation with celluloid as a creative medium. \n \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-cameraless-animation-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – Hack the World Around You
DESCRIPTION:Explore the world of physical computing in this hands-on workshop and turn everyday objects into interactive controllers\n\n\nAbout the event \nExplore the world of physical computing in this hands-on workshop delivered by students and staff from the BA Creative Media Arts at the University of Westminster. In this workshop you will learn how to turn everyday objects and materials — like fruit\, foil\, or even paint — into interactive controllers for triggering sounds\, games\, or animations. No prior coding or electronics experience is needed—just creativity and a willingness to experiment. \nThe workshop introduces key concepts of interactivity\, giving you practical insight into how technology can be embedded in the physical world. You’ll have the chance to design and build your own interactive project\, combining problem-solving\, creativity\, and technical skills. \nThe session is suitable for ages 16 and above.Maximum number of participants: 18 \nThe event will take place in Blue Shed\, Harrow Campus\, University Of Westminster\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow HA1 3TP. Room announcement will be given nearer the time. \nAbout the facilitators \nThe BA (Hons) Creative Media Arts is an exciting hands-on course that will see you produce art and make content including films\, photographs\, interactive installations\, immersive and digital media using creative technologies such as augmented reality (AR)\, virtual reality (VR)\, projection mapping\, 3D modelling and game engines. \nWith an ethos of ‘learning through making’\, you will be encouraged to experiment\, innovate and pursue your own creative interests. The course places you at the forefront of technological developments in the arts and creative sectors. \nThe course produces multi-skilled graduates capable of thriving in fast-moving creative industries. \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-hack-the-world-around-you/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – Asia Forum: Exploring diaspora narratives
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Asia Forum panel with Biennial artists Nikki Lam\, Quek Jia Qi\, Aaron Lam and Adeline Kueh\n\n\nAsia Forum: Exploring diaspora narratives and intersections of knowledge – panel with Biennial artists Nikki Lam\, Quek Jia Qi\, Aaron Lim and Adeline Kueh \nLaunched in 2021\, the Asia Forum for the Contemporary Art of Global Asia/s is a platform envisioned for discourse surrounding experimental art practices and research brings awareness to and contextualises the fast-developing artistic practices and contemporary geo-politics of Asia/s. \nAsia Forum council members John Tain and Annie Jael Kwan will be joined by researchers Dr Eva Li and Professor May Adadol Ingawanij\, in conversation with Biennial artists Nikki Lam\, Adeline Kueh\, Quek Jia Qi and Aaron Lim. Together\, they will first reflect on Lam’s exploration of the context of Hong Kong in relation to aesthetic and diaspora identity\, futuring nostalgia and geopolitical narratives. The second session invites the audience to engage with Kueh\, Quek and Lim’s invitational methodologies that centre knowledge exchange systems and relational intimacies. \nThis event will take place in the Auditorium\, University of Westminster Harrow Campus. \nArtworks by these artists are on exhibition in various spaces at the University of Westminster Harrow Campus between 17 – 24 October as part of Brent Biennial 2025’s AIR Ritual. More information at metrolandcultures.com! \nAll of the artists are running workshops during AIR Ritual – please book tickets here! \nIMAGES1/ Still from _2101\, 4K digital with sound\, 2021\, from Nikki Lam\, The Unshakable Destiny (2021-2025)2/ Quek Jia Qi and Aaron Lim\, A Mobile Library for Collective Knowledge (2025)3/ Still from Adeline Kueh\, One (and the same) \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \nAbout the panellists \nAaron Lim is a spatial designer whose practice embraces cross-disciplinary and collaborative modes of making. He is interested in developing participatory methodologies that foster spatial agency and support the collective shaping of spaces and ideas. Centered around playfulness\, his approach invites participants to engage with his work through childlike wonder and curiosity\, encouraging reflection on their routines through the subversion of everyday objects and rituals. His works have been featured across a wide range of public spaces and festivals\, including Noise Singapore\, Singapore Art Week\, Singapore Night Festival\, Singapore Heritage Festival\, Park(ing) Day and the London Festival of Architecture. He has also designed sets and exhibition spaces for the National Gallery Singapore\, National Library Singapore\, Singapore Coffee Festival and Singapore Design Week. \nAdeline Kueh is a visual artist who makes installations and socially-embodied works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Using drawing as a conceptual tool\, she looks to cartographies\, craft and oral tradition to map out the historical trajectories across time and space through her use of found objects and new productions. As a co-founder of the Critical Craft Collective (Singapore) and the pan-Borneo/UK Serumpun Collective\, the centrality of craft in contemporary practice as well as the politics of care are the core foci in her research practice. In light of the ecological turn\, Adeline’s immediate concerns have shifted towards ideas around intimate labour\, and the politics and poetics of care. Presently a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts\, Adeline has exhibited internationally. She is currently a 2024-2026 Ewha Global Fellow (EGF) with Ewha Womans University\, South Korea. \nAnnie Jael Kwan is an independent curator and researcher based in London. Her work sits at the intersections of contemporary art\, archives\, and cultural activism\, with a focus on feminist/queer and alternative knowledges\, collective relations\, solidarity\, and spiritual justice. She is Director of Something Human\, the curatorial initiative that launched Europe’s largest Southeast Asia Performance Collection at the Live Art Development Agency (2017). She also leads Asia-Art-Activism\, an interdisciplinary and intergenerational network\, and is a founding council member of the Asia Forum for the Contemporary Arts of Global Asias\, co-launched with the Bagri Foundation at the 59th Venice Biennale and presented with Asymmetry Art Foundation at the 60th Biennale (2024). She currently serves as Curator of the Brent Biennial (2023–25) and is a TECHNE scholar at CREAM\, University of Westminster. \nEva Cheuk-Yin Li (she/they) is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts at Lancaster University. Her research explores fandom and audience participation\, gender and sexuality\, and Hong Kong media and culture. Her work has been published in edited volumes\, encyclopaedias\, and peer-reviewed journals including Media\, Culture & Society\, European Journal of Cultural Studies\, Feminist Media Studies\, and Sexualities. Her recent projects include queer media in Southeast Asia and social media consumption among Hong Kong migrants in the UK. \nJohn Tain curated Of Mountains and Seas\, the third edition of the Lahore Biennale\, in 2024. As Head of Research at Asia Art Archive (2017-2023)\, he played a lead role on projects including AAA’s contribution to documenta fifteen (2022); Art Schools of Asia (2021-22); the exhibition “Crafting Communities” (2020)\, devoted to Thailand-based Womanifesto; and MAHASSA (Modern Art Histories in and across Africa\, and South and Southeast Asia\, 2019-2020)\, a collaboration with the Dhaka Art Summit and Cornell University. He serves as an organizer of Asia Forum\, a collateral event at the Venice Biennale\, and previously worked as a curator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. \n \nMay Adadol Ingawanij is Co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Westminster. \n \nNikki Lam is an artist-curator and filmmaker based in Narrm/Melbourne and Hong Kong. Working primarily with moving images and text\, their work contemplates time\, memory and impermanence. Nikki is interested in the complexity of migratory expressions\, fragmentation and relations. Nikki’s work has been shown\, published and screened internationally. Their latest work The Unshakable Destiny (2021-2025) is a modular moving image trilogy on Hong Kong cinema and its spectres\, exploring diaspora art making as a witness to the slippery political context of a homeland from afar. Nikki is currently co-director of Hyphenated Projects\, an award-winning artist-led network that nurtures practice in Asian diasporas\, and co-founder of Slow Burn Books. Nikki is a PhD (Art) candidate at RMIT University. \nQuek Jia Qi is an artist and educator whose socially engaged practice bridges community and learning through storytelling. Working at the intersection of art and pedagogy\, she collaborates with people across disciplines and walks of life. Her work unfolds through site-specific installations\, public programmes\, and performances that create space for connection and dialogue—inviting new ways of learning\, relating\, and being together. A recipient of the Social Art Award in 2017\, Jia Qi has exhibited her work internationally across the US\, UK\, Europe\, and Asia\, including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore\, Raven Row and 5th Base Gallery in London\, Whiteconcepts Gallery in Berlin\, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum in South Korea\, and Framer Framed in Amsterdam\, Netherlands. Her work has also been presented at public festivals such as the Singapore Night Festival and Singapore Archifest\, and in public spaces across Singapore\, London\, and New York. Grounded in reciprocity\, care\, and curiosity\, her practice explores how art can be offered as a gift—expanding modes of exchange and nurturing meaningful relationships. \nAbout the organisers \nAsia ForumThe Asia Forum for the Contemporary Art of Global Asias is a platform envisioned for discourse surrounding experimental art practices and research that produce hopeful new worlds beyond the North Atlantic. The Asia Forum will bring awareness to and contextualise the fast-developing artistic practices and contemporary geo-politics of Asia/s. Its interdisciplinary approach and reflexive work will reveal and explore deep histories of exchange and flows\, and overlapping concerns and heritages. It will engage a ‘public’ eager for discourse on urgent issues of climate\, democracy\, anti-racism\, and creative agency for addressing global anxieties through the lens and engine of “Asia/s’. Asia Forum was launched in 2021/22 with the generous support of the Bagri Foundation. \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-asia-forum-exploring-diaspora-narratives/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – Into the Cave
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a guest lecture from critically-acclaimed artist filmmaker Jesse Jones\, tracing two decades of her film practice\n\n\nAbout the event \nJoin artist Jessie Jones for an in-depth talk tracing two decades of her film practice\, from Spectre in the Sphere (2008) to her recent commission The White Cave for the Singapore Biennial. Through selected clips\, discussion\, and a special test screening of new work in progress. Jones will map the key principles guiding her films: feminist histories and suppressed voices\, with subjects that range from communist spectres\, witches and oysters . This event offers a rare insight into her evolving practice and future directions. \nThis event is co-organised by Brent Biennial and the Arts Communication and Culture Research Community (ACC) at University of Westminster. It will take place in the Auditorium\, University of Westminster Harrow Campus. \nYou will also have the chance to experience Jesse Jones’ sound installation\, The Spectre and the Sphere \, onsite at University of Westminster. The Spectre and the Sphere is a sound installation from 2008\, The work features “The Internationale” an international anthem that has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist\, communist\, socialist\, and social democratic movements eerily played on the electronic instrument\, the theremin. This soundtrack by Lydia Kavina\, the celebrated musical protégée and great-niece of the inventor Leon Theremin\, will be installed at Westminster University as an unannounced intervention into the sonic ecology of the space. The spectre and the Sphere evokes the spectres of ideology and amplifies residual voices that haunt the cultural vessels of history. Playing this Marxist anthem through the building aims to blend these histories with everyday student life in an attempt to echo and evoke possible futures as well as haunted histories. \nImages:1/ Production still from The Spectre and the Sphere (16mm film\, 2008): Photo of Lydia Kavina by Dianna Caramaschi2/ Jesse Jones\, photo by Mark Duggan \nAbout Jesse Jones \nJesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist\, her practice is multi-platform\, working in film\, performance and sculpture through speculative feminisms and Myth. She studied sculpture in NCAD and IADT and has been making film for gallery installations since 2005. She has shown nationally and internationally with films made in Korea\, Los Angeles\, Ireland\, The UK and Australia. \nShe represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 with the film installation entitled: ” Tremble Tremble” whose title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement\, during which women chanted “Tremate\, tremate\, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble\, tremble\, the witches have returned!)”. Her most recent work\, “The White Cave” will premier in October 2025 at the Singapore Biennale. \nShe teaches on Sherkin Island\, West Cork for TU Dublin and is an elected member of Aosdana. \nAbout ACC \nArts\, Communication and Culture (ACC) at the University of Westminster is a vibrant interdisciplinary research community dedicated to addressing the pressing challenges of our times. Our work spans critical issues such as systemic inequality\, democratic reform\, climate action\, care\, responsibility\, and the societal impact of technology. By fostering collaboration between researchers\, artists\, practitioners\, and communities\, we aim to bridge urgent real-world questions with innovative knowledge generated through the arts and humanities. Through this work\, we strive to cultivate spaces for dialogue\, reflection\, and collective action\, supporting new ways of living\, thinking\, and creating in a rapidly changing world. \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-into-the-cave/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – From Flat to Phat workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join University of Westminster’s Fine Art Mixed Media group for an exploration of inflatables – what happens when air is the main actor?\n\n\nAbout the event \nTake a moment to explore what happens to light\, ephemeral materials when air becomes the main actant. Ask questions of materials: How large can they go – how small and light could they be – can they float can they fly can they hold heavy objects? If lines are drawn on the flat materials what happens to lines when they become air filled objects. Can these potential objects be ‘performed’ to fill them with air? \nAbout the organisers \nUniversity of Westminster’s innovative Fine Art Mixed Media BA gives students the opportunity to explore and develop work across boundaries\, within the ever-expanding contemporary fine art disciplines. \n \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-from-flat-to-phat-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:One ticket to see all the AIR Ritual artworks at University of Westminster and Northwick Park Hospital
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-exhibitions/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual – Breathing Space
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an open and dynamic participatory dialogue exploring the vital intersections of art\, wellbeing\, and collective care\n\n\nBreathing Space: Art\, Wellbeing\, and Collective Care \nJoin us for an open and dynamic dialogue exploring the vital intersections of art\, wellbeing\, and care\, as part of the Brent Biennial AIR Ritual programme. This special session brings together researchers from Arts\, Communication and Culture (ACC) and the Creative Health Initiative at the University of Westminster\, alongside artists and members of Northwick Park Hospital\, to share experiences and collectively imagine new possibilities for creative health. \nIn collaboration with The People Speak\, using their engaging participatory format Talkaoke\, everyone is invited to take a seat at the table. Through conversation\, storytelling\, and speculative thinking\, we will explore how art can nurture wellbeing\, transform care environments\, and build meaningful connections between individuals\, institutions\, and communities. \nThis event takes place in the FORUM\, University Of Westminster\, Harrow Campus. \nPlease note\, there will be a break for lunch at 1:00pm\, and the session will resume at 2:00pm. \n \nAbout Talkaoke \nTalkaoke is a live\, television-style talk show format developed by The People Speak collective. It’s a great way to connect with strangers and find out about the latest ideas people are talking about! Talkaoke host sits in the middle of an illuminated round table while participants sit around the outside\, discussing whatever topics emerge. It’s completely non-hierarchical – participants set the agenda by grabbing the microphone and sharing their views. Conversations can be topical\, funny\, deep\, or surreal\, creating an unexpected journey from subject to subject. Participants are invited to drop by for as long as they want and contribute to the conversation or just listen. Don’t worry if your thought is not fully formed – we will complete it together in the course of the session. You don’t have to agree with everybody – we welcome difference of perspectives and explore commonalities. \n \nAbout the organisers \nArts\, Communication and Culture (ACC) at the University of Westminster is a vibrant interdisciplinary research community dedicated to addressing the pressing challenges of our times. Our work spans critical issues such as systemic inequality\, democratic reform\, climate action\, care\, responsibility\, and the societal impact of technology. By fostering collaboration between researchers\, artists\, practitioners\, and communities\, we aim to bridge urgent real-world questions with innovative knowledge generated through the arts and humanities. Through this work\, we strive to cultivate spaces for dialogue\, reflection\, and collective action\, supporting new ways of living\, thinking\, and creating in a rapidly changing world. \nThe People Speak are a collective of artists and creative communicators based in London\, collaborating with partners in the UK and Europe. We have 28 years’ expertise in helping people to understand each other and collectively process the complexity of the world. We develop creative\, fun and engaging communication tools to repair the damaging impact of polarisation in society in a live – unmediated by AI\, technology way. For us\, conversation is a creative medium that leads to new ideas – not just means to share information\, knowledge and opinions. Creativity is a powerful and rebellious force necessary in areas that are not typically associated with creativity: science\, academic research\, public decision making\, community engagement. \nBrent Biennial 2025: AIR Ritual \nEach breath is a new possibility of life. Inhalation and exhalation as cycles of existence. Air is also the catalytic substance of ignition; it represents the power of utterance; declaration\, song\, whistles\, chants\, spells\, of mobilising ideas and knowledge\, people and animals. The intangible\, invisible force that creates changes in culture\, education\, legal systems\, religion and ideologies. \nAIR Ritual forms part of the programme for Brent Biennial 2025. Titled “Bones\, stones\, and calling the four elements”\, it seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. Between June to October 2025 four ‘rituals’\, WATER (22 June)\, EARTH (24 July – 1 August) FIRE (26 September – 12 October) and AIR (17 -24 October) will unfold at four Brent sites – a public reservoir\, a park\, an old medical facility and a university campus. Located in the north and south of the borough — Harrow\, Wembley and Kilburn — the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops\, talks\, performance and exhibition.
URL:https://cvsbrent.org.uk/events/brent-biennial-2025-air-ritual-breathing-space/
LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Harrow Campus\, Watford Rd\, Northwick Park Roundabout\, Harrow\, England\, HA1 3TP\, United Kingdom
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