Following six months of conversation as the Groundwork working group, Amy, Melissa, Hamshya, Penny, Hannah, Emily and Luke sit down together to review actions and offers to share with the membership and an intention setting - as a sort of space for dreaming in or drafting of a manifesto, towards a more embodied approach to climate justice and sustainable working for our members and The Work Room - it's arranged by Sonia Killman, who brilliantly edited this series with us, and designed the beautiful sound that you've heard throughout.

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The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Emily talks about circus solidarity, paying attention and, leaning into one another and the reality that could be. Emily shares approaches to nurturing our embodied relationships with our natural surroundings, and centering ecological justice into the how of the practicalities of producing, touring and sharing practice and performance.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Hannah discusses what resources you; what keeps you grounded; bodies, land and being alive in aliveness. Hannah introduces us to the Greendykes Bings, to dealing with scars on the land, asking questions about slower processes in an accelerated world, and how we might find hope in unlikely places.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Penny talks about wild swimming, our connection to water, resources and responsibilities, recognising resilience, shaping things together, sustainability planners, and how we might better engage with eco-anxiety and distress by leaning into embodiment, imagination and opening up to what's needed.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Hamshya talks with Luke about finding a better balance, about other ways of perceiving, perception and the presence of all life. Hamshya brought to the group a rich knowledge and keen interest to continue to learn about how we can consciously participate in the movement ecology of Glasgow.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Melissa shares her thoughts on what it is to be a beginner when it comes to climate justice, about getting outdoors, getting connected, and the knowledge amongst us to make work in sustainable ways-how we don't need to be the first or duplicate what others are doing, but can provide one another with the support, hope, and awe we urgently need.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

Amy centres her research ideas and practices around mutual aid, rest, interception, and conversation with land. Amy discusses her intension to share tools for situating our collective experience of ecological destruction in our growth oriented society and hopes to propose rituals for moving through difficult emotions arise from this together.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room

This a new pilot series of podcasts from The Work Room.  In this episode, Luke Pell introduces the Groundwork working group of dance artists who met to consider approaches to greener working practices, environmental ethos, policies, and sustainability.

At the heart of every conversation was an intention to work towards more embodied approaches to responding to climate and biodiversity injustice, in our work and our daily lives.

Download or view a transcript of this podcast episode here

The Work Room is an artist led membership organisation based in Glasgow, Scotland. Our members are independent artists in Scotland who work in dance, movement or choreography. 

Groundwork was a project by The Work Room, led by artist, facilitator and dramaturg Luke Pell, which brought together a working group of six artist members based across Scotland, who explore ecological practice within their artistic work.

More on Groundwork:

• About Groundwork

Groundwork Artists: Amy Dakin Harris, Hamshya Rajkumar, Penny Chivas, Hannah Draper, Melissa Heywood, Emily Nicholl

Groundwork Facilitator & Podcast Host: Luke Pell

Editing & Sound Design: Sonia Killmann

Artwork: Laura Fisher

Distribution support: Nancy Jacinto

Produced by The Work Room