Agency - Towards a Film about Radical Ageing Now

This participatory workshop at House of Annetta, as part of Antiuniversity was open to all aged 50 and over, developing creative strategies around issues of ageing and elder knowledge in contemporary society. Working together we explored forms of cultural expression for these ideas. Workshop initiated by film-maker and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman with curator and creative consultancy by Gareth Evans.

Agency is a long-term, cross-disciplinary, collaborative cultural-social project considering ageing in its traditional, imposed, multi-dimensional and oppositional manifestations. Working with older people both invited and drawn from open participatory workshops, as well as those younger and from various communities of interest, Agency will explore diverse expressions of what it means to grow older in our society. Thinking through and with the body, ecology, the more-than-human, scales of time, class, race and gender concerns, it will deliver various outcomes. Under the direction of Andrea Luka Zimmerman, and with Creative Consultancy from Gareth Evans, it is currently partnered with House of Annetta and Raven Row.