Array Collective artists Jane Butler, Emma Campbell and Clodagh Lavelle will facilitate a five day workshop drawing upon ancient mythology and folklore as a way to reflect stories about contemporary human conditions. Through site-specific drawing sessions, worldbuilding from found ephemera, collaboration and performance, we'll develop characters that will allow us to consider our own stories, and reflect issues that we care about within our communities.

Array Collective are a group of eleven artists rooted in Belfast, who create collaborative actions in response to socio-political issues affecting Northern Ireland. The collective has been working together since 2016, galvanised by the growing anger and momentum in local movements advocating for human rights. Array Collective reclaim and question traditional identities in the North of Ireland using humour, storytelling, and DIY approaches. They playfully merge performance, protest, ancient mythology, photography, installation and video.

Array Collective are the first Northern Irish artists to win the Turner Prize - they were awarded the prize for their work "The Druthaib's Ball", presented in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry (UK), in 2021.



WHERE AND WHEN?

The course takes place at our residential centre in Aulus les Bains. It's two hours south of Toulouse, high in the French Pyrenees, very near the border with Spain. For detailed travel information, see the transport section. The course starts on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. We advise that you arrive the evening before (23/05/2023) - dinner and accommodation that night is included. The course runs for five days, ending on Sunday night. Accommodation on Sunday night is included, then we leave on Monday morning (29/05/2023). If you decide to take the minibus with us, you will be picked- up in Toulouse at 6pm on 23/05/2023, and will be back in Toulouse at 11am on 29/05/2023.

HOW TO BOOK

To book your place on the course, click the button in the green section above. You won't pay anything right now - we'll send you a booking confirmation email with everything you need to know next. Your place is reserved without payment for three days.

You'll find a payment link in the booking confirmation email - follow the link to make a payment (either in full, or the first payment of a month payment plan). In the latter case, a monthly payment plan will be put in place, so your card will be charged 1/ of the fee today, and 1/ each month (on the same day) for an additional -1 months. All card payments are handled by Stripe, and are extremely secure. We don't store any card data ourselves - all of this is handled securely off-site by Stripe. If you have a discount or grant code, you will be able to add it when you follow the payment link in your confirmation email.

Once you've made a payment, you'll receive another email containing your receipt, links to resources, contact information and access to our group chat to discuss the workshop with other participants.