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The ACTS programme was established in 2020 to explore how artists might conceive of staging speculative events online.

ACTS 

 John Hughes & The Very Loud Reading Group 

‘We got it on > January 23. Took up a semi-circle once a month, bookmarked with a black suitcase and a bad back. A broken zip. Our stage? The top floor of a tower block classroom. Heating: turned ON. In February we take over the grey carpet spiral of a university lecture theatre. Just for one day. April slides up to March and we find ourselves locked inside the back room of a converted pub. Together. Smelling of paint, not beer. Mixing. Working our way through a hard to find, obscure, 1971 music education text.’

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 JJJJJerome Ellis: Trembling (extract) 

In this talk, composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis discusses his ongoing research into the intersections of Blackness, music, and stuttering.

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ARCHIVE 2010-2022

Archive of the Picker Public Lecture Series 2010-2022 including: 

ACTS 2020-2022 programme HERE 

Including: Nils Röller, Cédric Maridet, RYBN.ORG, Rindon Johnson, Alice Gale-Feeny, mayfield brooks and Mary Pearson, Barby Asante, Jenna Collins, Emma Hart, Bill Leslie, Joey Ryken, Daniel Shanken, Stephen Sutcliffe, Steven Warwick, Matt Williams + MOBBS 

Plus events: Amy Hale (online lecture) , Anne Tallentire (open studio event), Joanna Walsh (book launch) 

Full archive 2010 -2022 HERE