Online course 
Wednesday evenings 19.00 - 21.30 (BST), 11th June - 2nd July
& Saturday 28th June, 14.00 - 17.00 (BST)
£550 per person / £400 concession (for artists, students and those with a low-income
Bookings are secured with a £100 deposit

Birth Rites Collection’s Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. The four-week course will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice, this year’s themes, and the artworks. The Birth Rites Collection Summer School is is led by artist and BRC Curator Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan.

The course will empower you to articulate your own practice and responses to the collection in a supportive environment whilst exploring critical perspectives in the field of birth.

Summer School workshops will explore the aesthetic, ethical, political and visual discourses of birth via text, film, and performance. In addition, this year we present a unique opportunity to engage with a curated selection of works from the collection that are not ordinarily accessible to the public. In a dedicated online space, these pieces will enrich participants' engagement of the summer school themes.

Themes include: navigating mortality from preterm birth to post-partum; artistic responses to preterm birth; how the collection informs and unpacks different perspectives in midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to improve practice and policy; the Collection’s impact on feminist art practices and the rehabilitation of visual discourses of birth into art history; censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law.