Hannah Kemp-Welch recorded this, the final episode of Ways of Listening, at the symposium ‘Listening Together: Practices for Community-Centred Listening’ at London College of Communication in February 2025.
Hannah Kemp-Welch chairs a panel featuring Beverley Bennett & Sam Metz at a symposium titled ‘Listening Together: Practices for Community-Centred Listening’.
Hannah Kemp-Welch talks to Hector MacInnes about a project in HMP Inverness.
Hannah Kemp-Welch talks to Joanne Coates about her recent work with young women in the Yorkshire Dales and Orkney, Scotland.
Hannah Kemp-Welch talks to Angharad Davies about her long term work with communities at Rurban in Poplar, London.
Hannah Kemp-Welch talks to Nisha Duggal about Held, a multi-platform project in which she guided people to make simple, clay sculptures while sharing conversations.
Paul Crook talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch about his work with young people to facilitate listening.
Natalie Smith talks about her work with Arc Theatre and the role of listening in this work.
Jorge Lucero discusses ‘Conceptual Art and Teaching’ and considers listening within critical pedagogy and as a daily practice.
Alex Parry describes a collaborative project that intervenes in the structure of the seminar to disrupt the usual power dynamics.
Simon James reflects on the process of a recent project, and how listening played a central part throughout it.
Practitioner and researcher Sylvan Baker examines listening within applied theatre practices.
Marley Starskey Butler, a multidisciplinary artist and social worker, talks about workshops as spaces for listening.
Jody Wood talks about listening as a practice of care – where to care is not to cure.
Disabled artist and drag king Lady Kitt talks to host Hannah Kemp-Welch about their practice of ‘mess making as social glue’.
Sam Metz talks about listening beyond the aural, sharing examples from their work with non-verbal participants.
Edwin Mingard explores social change through moving image. Here he talks about the need to turn off ‘broadcast mode’.
Albert Potrony introduces his participatory arts practice, describing a recent project with young fathers in Gateshead.