Safe(r) Space Crits
Do you produce or aspire to produce work that will help you to become an active agent for change and social justice? Is your work about your identity, race/inclusion, marginalisation, religion or politics? Do you have lived experience of discrimination and/or racism which influences and affects your creative output and experience at university?
Then come to Shades of Noir Safe Space Crits digital space, in these sessions you can present work exploring a range of issues. The sessions are facilitated and run by experienced teaching practitioners who have lived experience, historical understanding of marginalisation and a commitment to social justice pedagogy.
Safe(r) Space Crits use critical analysis and the careful consideration of issues of oppression to provide both deep knowledge and a direction for the application of that knowledge through students’ artistic practice.
Safe(r) Space Crits are an additional resource offered to students from marginalised backgrounds. Sessions are held online, on a one to one basis.
Please read our SSC Virtual Learning Netiquette 2023 before attending. We look forward to seeing you soon
Crit Guidelines:
- Safe Space Crits are designed to assist you with work that reflects self, positionality, sexuality, disability, gender, faith/religion and politics
- Crits will be held online and run for up to 30 minutes
- Within your 30-minute slot, we would like to prioritise your work within the session.
- Please send us a copy of the subject of the work you wish to be discussed the day before the session to ssc@shadesofnoir.org.uk
- You are able to book more than one session a term, however, we will not be able to see you more than once a week
- What is discussed is confidential and will not be shared with anyone without your permission
- We cannot comment or give an opinion on issues within your course, however, we will do our best to support your project development and personal wellbeing.
- Any discriminatory or unprofessional code of conduct will result in removal from the session
These are the kind of questions we will ask you:
- How are you?
- What are the deadlines you are working to?
- What is your area of practice and what projects are you working on?
- What kind of reference topics do you need to complete your work?
- Are you familiar with the marking criteria for your project?
- What are your main areas of development?
- What are your strengths?
- What are you trying to achieve and portray within this piece of work?
- How does this relate to your unit brief/ or what aspect of your brief does this speak to?