The Women’s Art Activation System (The WAAS) is collaborating with the Women’s Health research group at King’s College London on a project supporting individuals navigating pregnancy after a previous loss or preterm birth. listening/shouting is a performance-film made for The Baby Makers: Making History. The project was a National Lottery Heritage Funded project in 2024, with Stroud’s Museum in the Park. We listened to stories of birth, as told by elder women and women of the global majority in Stroud District. Out of this listening we made a performance response. The WAAS were selected for a Walking the Land residency at the Gingerbread House, Oakbrook Farm, Stroud in November 2024. We presented our work at Stroud’s Museum in the Park in February 2025. The Baby Makers: Making History – The WAAS and Museum in the Park are partnering to collect histories of birth and reproduction in Stroud, thanks to an award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Baby Makers: Making History – creating collective artwork to tell the stories of reproduction and maternity in Stroud. Join us at the Museum in the Park on July 16th to learn more and take part. The Baby Makers, a series of creative workshops for women in pregnancy, is back for 2023-2024, thanks to a National Lottery Community Fund grant. We look forward to working together and creating material items, wellbeing and support. The WAAS are conducting ongoing intermittent research at the National Gallery, pursuing our interests in matresecence, pageantry, the unseen and invisible forces and activities in the space. We are undertaking a self-directed residency at The National Gallery in London supported by an a-n bursary 2022. We began…
Take A Pause – Collaboration with King’s College London
listening/shouting
The Farmer Wants A Wife
The Baby Makers: Making History 2024
The Baby Makers: Making History 2021
The Baby Makers
National Gallery Research
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