Becoming eventful: making the 'more-than' of a youth activist conference matter. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Renold, EJ; Edwards, Victoria; Huuki, Tuija
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 25:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 441
• Page End: 464
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Gender -- sexuality -- youth conference -- arts-activism -- new materialism; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2020.1767562
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based online youth activist resource, AGENDA (www.agendaonline.co.uk ) is becoming eventful and re-mattering youth voice on gender and sexual violence. Utilising the concept of the 'cwrdd' – a Welsh word for gatherings made, found and stumbled upon – we explore how our AGENDA cwrdds attune to, nurture and platform a range of micro-political moments across performances and workshops that entangle human and non-human participants. Inspired by Erin Manning's concept of the 'more-than', we illustrate how the cwrdds carry the past-present-future potentials of what has mattered and is mattering to young people.