JO SPENCE BIRTHDAY PARTY

EVENT:
Jo Spence’s Birthday Party
15 June 2012, 7 – 10pm
At Lambeth Women’s Project, 166A Stockwell Road Lambeth, London SW9 9QT

In a letter to Terry Dennett stating her final wishes Jo Spence writes that her birthday should be celebrated every year. X Marks the Spot will host a party at Lambeth Women’s project to celebrate the life and work of Jo Spence, with music, films, discussion and cakes baked by the Brixton WI.

JO SPENCE BIRTHDAY PARTY

EVENT:
Jo Spence’s Birthday Party
15 June 2012, 7 – 10pm
At Lambeth Women’s Project, 166A Stockwell Road Lambeth, London SW9 9QT

In a letter to Terry Dennett stating her final wishes Jo Spence writes that her birthday should be celebrated every year. X Marks the Spot will host a party at Lambeth Women’s project to celebrate the life and work of Jo Spence, with music, films, discussion and cakes baked by the Brixton WI.

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Initiated in December 2011 'X Marks The Spot' is a concerted period of research in conjunction with the Not Our Class and Jo Spence projects at Studio Voltaire, London - conducted by Mystique Holloway, Ego Ahaiwe, Louise Shelley, Gina Nimbhard, Emma Hedditch, Yula Burin and Zoe Holloway. Taking the focus of Spence's work, on body image, health, and the representation of a life lived, in the most social political form possible. This research does not stay on the page, or screen but has populated our daily lives and heightened our experience of the present. Through Spence's approach to photography as a transformative process, documentation of her life with breast cancer, and education around alternative therapy and self education through radical sociology, Spence's work has pushed us to the limits of what we can involve ourselves in. We are taking on Spence's ideas, with our selves as subjects, and sharing with our present communities.

X Marks the Spot have worked on various outcomes that have crossed into public programming at Studio Voltaire, including: a radio programme, this blog, photography workshops, research and public events series.