Dates: March (3 week engagement, see below)

Format: Correspondence

Maximum Participants: 40

Module Description:

This module is aimed at equipping participants with the tools necessary to identify, isolate and summon your own ghostly spectre from the acoustic atmosphere of your choice. Every ring tone, white noise machine, laptop fan or refrigerator buzz has the potential to contain a latent haunting. Every inside joke, gossip circuit and open secret might, if you listen the right way, have the capacity to raise the dead. Do you have what it takes to break open the world as you currently know it? Drawing on common affects like revenge, melancholy and ecstatic force to tune your senses, you will develop a sensitivity to wraiths, apparitions, and lingering presences.  Who knows what alternate worlds might emerge?

By signing up for SONIC SPECTRAL SUMMONING, you will receive a series of specially designed materials in your email inbox over the course of three weeks. These will include text, audio and images as well as prompts for how to build your own haunted skillset. Engage these materials fully and you may find yourself equipped to commune with the fabulously disembodied. You will receive instructions on how to listen for and document your local spectres, and how to share your results with a wider community of sonic summoners.

Practicalities

The module will be delivered via email newsletter. There will be five emails total – a welcome email, three themed emails (on revenge, melancholy and ecstatic force) and a follow up email with instructions on how to submit documentation of your own haunting to be shared online via Queer Extension and I’m With You.

Requirements:

• An interest in and capacity with: sound, ghosts, email.

Frequency/Contact:

• The module is delivered via email newsletter over the course of three weeks in March.

This event is brought to you by Queer Extension; Artist-Led Learning Online & By Correspondence. Queer Extension is funded by its participants and Arts Council England. 

About Queer Extension:  

Inspired by the University Extension movement that reduced barriers to access for marginalised communities; Queer Extension has invited queer artists to develop online and correspondence modules that enable queer community to learn together. Queer Extension is curated by Justin Hunt of I'm With You and produced by Jo Alloway of We Exist.

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Pay what you can policy: 

All modules hosted by Queer Extension are pay-what-you-can. We recognise that many LGBTQ+ folx may be experiencing financial hardship right now. All events have a sliding pay scale with a suggested minimum payment of £5. Please email imwithyouclapton@gmail.com if you would like to attend any of our events but do not have the financial means to do so. 

Accessibility Information: 

Queer Extension is committed to ensuring inclusive and accessible learning. Please email imwithyouclapton@gmail.com with any questions in regard to accessibility, including your own accessibility requirements.