This is a fun activity for parents and young children to do together - with a little extra exploration for parents.

Feeding babies can often be a joyful and satisfying experience. But things don't always feel so good. Many women suffer from shame, guilt and embarrassment surrounding decisions about how they feed their babies, whether they are breastfeeding directly or feeding breastmilk or infant formula in a bottle or tube. It can also be hard to talk to other people about our decisions.

Fiona Woollard's research in philosophy of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood explores why this happens and what we can do about it.

Fiona will talk about her research while showing you and your child how to make matching heart decorations.

Children can enjoy being creative while parents may use the decorations to explore their feelings about their own experiences of feeding babies.

You can post questions, comments or pictures of your creations.

There are also posters to look at, a short animated video to watch, and a website to explore.

Join the Health and Wellbeing Community Engagement Hub at the University of Southampton as hub members discuss sexual health, with a focus on Black and Minority Ethnic groups.

Special guest will be Dr Adaeze Ifezulike, a General Practitioner and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, who is a recipient of the Sir Lewis Ritchie award for Excellence in General Practice and has been a medical doctor for more than 22 years, serving in several capacities within the NHS.

Dr Ifezulike is also the Regional Director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and has authored a number of books including 'Understanding Contraception' and 'Medicine Abroad.'
After her talk, there will be time for questions, answers and further discussion.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session to give you the chance to contribute to the conversation and ask questions directly to Dr Ifezulike.

Fancy having more discussions about healthy living and wellbeing with community members around Southampton? Or just interested in knowing more about health and wellbeing research being conducted at the University of Southampton?
Then, you should take the chance to join the Health and Wellbeing Community Engagement Hub!

This event will take place in Blackboard Collaborate and is free but please book your ticket to receive the joining instructions.

We look forward to seeing you there.

This interdisciplinary webinar focuses on humour that confronts our own media habits, dependence on technology and the wider cultural imaginary surrounding visions of a Hi-Tech, posthuman future.

In Western thought, humour has a long tradition of being regarded an exclusively human phenomenon. Henri Bergson's Le Rire (1900), for instance, introduces the comic as something that "does not exist outside the realm of what is strictly human: "You may laugh at an animal," Bergson notes "but only because you have detected in it some human attitude or expression" and it also erupts each time "a person gives us the impression of being a thing". The theory Bergson sketches out, thus presents laughter as an automatic bodily corrective that separates the human both from animals and machines, and thereby automatically humanises us from within.

In this session, we turn to the "impossible object of humor" (to cite Simon Critchley), to probe the lines between the human and being an animal body animated by machines, a distinction, as Bergson's theory underlines, that is necessarily ambiguous and fluid. For humour is said to attain its infectious dynamic precisely because our lives habitually stray across these lines - we laugh, because being human is only a precarious part time job, an intermezzo between being animal and functioning absentmindedly like a machine.

Speakers
o Chris Muller (Macquarie University)
o Benjamin Nickl (University of Sydney)
o Megen de Bruin-Molé (University of Southampton)
o Mihaela Brebenel (University of Southampton)
o Jonathon Hutchinson (University of Sydney)

The idea that being human is a kind of practice or activity has a long history in philosophy, beginning with Aristotle's suggestion that human flourishing consists in the performance of distinctively human activities (or, more technically, in the 'energeia' (a 'being-at-work') of human beings qua human beings).

This old idea was revived in rather different ways in late modern philosophy, in figures such as Marx, Nietzsche, Arendt, and Deleuze.

In this seminar-style live event, Dr Kurt Sylvan and Mr Sigmund ('Ziggy') Schilpzand, Philosophy at the University of Southampton, will begin by introducing the history of this idea in philosophy, and then focus on its development in Arendt (discussed by Sylvan) and Deleuze (discussed by Schilpzand).

After two brief talks on Arendt and Deleuze, they will give you some time to reflect on some discussion questions in breakout groups and then assemble as a larger group to share reflections, and end with a general Q&A.

The aim will be to better understand what philosophy has to contribute to the theme of 'being human as praxis', which will be a theme of other events during the day.

This event will run in Blackboard Collaborate. Links to access the online event will be sent to you through Eventbrite in the week before the event.

In this online workshop we will explore the relationship between Artificial Intelligence, creativity and the artist. Using the BBC quiz "will a robot take your job?" as a prompt, we will ask how creative work is impacted by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. Whilst "artist" is identified as a very safe job, the emergence of robot painters such as Ai Da - "the world's first ultra realistic robot artist" - raise questions around what it means to be artist or creative practitioner.

On first look, it is the technical proficiency which marks out Ai Da as an artist. As we look more into the aims of Ai Da's creators, we see efforts to develop an artist persona. In doing so, experiments and explorations in AI artists go beyond technical expertise to aesthetic expertise. Aesthetic expertise involves not just techniques to produce a work of aesthetic value, but also a knowledge of aesthetic codes and classifications. Seemingly, Ai Da has the potential to become the ultimate artist. However, can Ai Da ever be considered a 'true' artist? What is the relationship between aesthetic expertise and an artistic persona, and does Ai Da really threaten the future jobs of artists?

Join Dr Dan Ashton (Associate Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) and Dr Karen Patel (AHRC Leadership Fellow, Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham School of Media) to talk about these and other issues related to AI and the arts.

The World After roleplaying game reimagines Canvey Wick (Essex) as an alternate future world, devising creatures based on local wildlife and myth, and imagining societies that have evolved in vast underground Havens. This is a world that feels familiar, but gives a new perspective on current global turmoil, imagining the Earth after humanity, 8,000 years after the Climate Cataclysm and a 20 meter sea-rise, where the emerging societies must cooperate to face new threats from old foes.

Have you ever wanted to play a game where you could...

Create a character that can change gender every Lunar cycle?
Be part of a lost underwater civilisation founded by People of Colour?
Play with magical Essence, letting you manipulate Blood, Bone, the Elements and Time itself?
Set the world to rights while learning about a fascinating deep-future version of our world, where our flora and fauna have adapted into incredible and terrifying forms?
Discover a diverse world that has been built from the ground-up to be open to all?

PREPARE TO ENTER FAIN - THE WORLD AFTER THE CATACLYSM

Join a live online roleplaying session hosted by creator and artist David Blandy.

The #SotonAstroArt workshops are back!

Join the University of Southampton Astronomy researchers and get inspired to create your own Astronomy themed piece of art from whatever materials you have in your home.

And while you make your own art, you can have a live chat with the Astronomers and learn all about the Life Cycle of a Star, Supernova Explosions and Dark Energy research!

Get ready with paper, cardboard, pens, pencils, scissors, glue, tape, aluminium foil... and anything else you can think of to express your inner Astro-artist!

This online Supernova themed art workshop will be run in Blackboard.

Links to access the workshop online and tutorials on how to use Blackboard will be sent to you through Eventbrite in the week before the event.

In response to the 400-year anniversary of the Mayflower sailing from the UK, ArtfulScribe, in partnership with Winchester Poetry Festival, offers a weekend of poetry workshops led by poets who've made their homes in England from countries including Hungary, Nigeria, The Philippines, and Poland.

George Szirtes, Theresa Lola, Romalyn Ante and Bohdan Piasecki will explore themes such as journeys, new beginnings, identity and belonging, in a series of ninety-minute Zoom sessions on the 14 and 15 November.

A crowd-sourced poetry reading on the theme of 'Giving Thanks' is also featured on this weekend of poetry activities.

All events are free to attend and priority access will be given to people from Southampton and SO post-codes. Find out more on the official website at: https://mayflower400southampton.co.uk/events-and-workshops/4612-2/

How much do you know about art, history and heritage in Southampton?

Join the YouTube Premiere screening of two new videos by SEE Southampton and embark on a journey through ten centuries or local art and heritage: from medieval graffiti and the underground wine vaults to modern city murals and mosaics!

Maybe you have been inside St Michael's Church, Bargate, Westgate Tower, Tudor House, Dancing Man brewery and Seacity Museum. But did you see all that incredible art inside?

Come and find out a bit more about the city's statues, fountains, medieval and Tudor graffiti and witch marks, embroideries, stained glass windows, scrimshaw art, and much more.

SEE Southampton will provide an exciting 30 minutes e-tour directly from the safety of your own home!

- YouTube Premiere of Video #1 at 11:00 AM (GMT) available at: https://youtu.be/Wp4gYJ47-uk

- YouTube Premiere of Video #2 at 11:15 AM (GMT) available at: https://youtu.be/ZhLbCdalyeA

Wessex Film & Sound Archive holds 38,000 historic film and sound items dating as far back as 1898.

This film, "'There' but not 'there'": Challenges of representation and diversity in the archive film; a Southampton perspective, considers a selection of amateur films made by local filmmakers during the 1920-1950 period, with particular focus on representation and visibility of underrepresented groups.

The commentary is provided by Zoë Viney, Curator of Film at Wessex Film & Sound Archive (WFSA), based in Winchester and Postgraduate Research Student in Film at Southampton University.
Zoë's research seeks to explore gender and class in the amateur film collection of WFSA between the years of 1920-1950.
WFSA is a regional repository for historic film and sound items from Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

In her commentary, Zoë seeks to explore how issues of visibility, attribution and representation impact on our understanding of this regional collection and how this can serve to contribute to a wider view of amateur filmmaking in the UK. Zoë has a background in historic textiles and dress and in particular the interaction between gender, socio-economics and lived experience, as depicted in amateur film.

This compilation of film with commentary lasts for 35 minutes. The film is free to view but booking through Eventbrite is essential to receive the link to the movie screening and commentary.

The link will be live until 11.30pm on Sunday 22 November enabling you to view at your leisure.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/479577524

This collaborative workshop invites you to explore what it means to be human by contributing to the creation and critical discussion of a mashup-style computer generated novel.

Computer generated literature connects back to experimental literary practices in Dada and Oulipo, as well as to early AI language research. This has shaped the current landscape of creative text generation, or, computer generated text which does not serve a practical purpose. It is text which has been made for expression, enjoyment, playful experimentation, to convey points, and to represent concepts.

This workshop will focus on the generated novel as an emerging form of creative text generation which has the potential to complicate the role of the author and machine. Participants will get a taste of this complication by selecting and preparing found texts which they feel resonate with the theme 'being human'. Everyone's selected text will be combined and computationally processed together to produce, tweak, and curate a 50,000 word generated novel which will be used to stimulate discussion during the workshop. The generated novels will be submitted to the annual National Novel Generation Month (NaNoGenMo) challenge, with all the participants listed as collaborating authors.

No prior programming knowledge required.

About the Hosts

Lesia Tkacz is a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, researching auto-generated novels.

Dr Noriko Suzuki-Bosco is an artist and researcher based at Winchester Schol of Art. She is responsible for the Library of Re-Claimed Books project.

The impact of how we design and who gets to design has never been more apparent than in an age of surveillance capitalism and employee walkouts; of racist chatbots and tech worker organising. As designers and makers, what actions do we need to take to design the equitable and just futures we want to exist?

By using holistic design and design justice frameworks, this workshop will be an opportunity to both interrogate and critically evaluate how we work but also provide a space for us to consider how we might redesign design.

No materials are needed but there will be mapping and paper prototyping exercises so having pens and paper to hand will be useful!

About the Host
Florence Okoye is a user experience and service designer, interested in community centred and participatory design practice as an approach for creating sustainable solutions within complex systems. She primarily works on designing digital products and has experience in a range of sectors, from utilities to museums. Since 2015, she has been part of AfroFutures_UK, an interdisciplinary collective that explores the intersection of race and critical perspectives on technology.

"A gripping, upsetting and tenderly told dramatic memoir of one man's ordeal during the Windrush scandal" - The Independent

When Stephen Thompson's brother was imprisoned during what later became known as the Windrush scandal, as a writer, he wanted to write about it, but he thought maybe the moment had passed. Instead, that story became the lightly fictionalized film "Sitting in Limbo," was purchased by the BBC, and then aired in summer 2020 just as protests about George Floyd's killing in America prompted protests here and in the UK.

Thompson, a Southampton resident who has also published three novels, will talk to Carole Burns, the university's head of creative writing, about how he shaped this true-life story into a film; whether writing is (or should be) a kind of activism; and how his fictional writing feeds and impedes his screenwriting.

"There is a clarity and intimacy in the retelling which feels remarkably true to life" - Radio Times
"This Windrush story should - and will - make you angry" - The Telegraph

This event broadcasted live on YouTube and Facebook.

You can watch Sitting in Limbo on BBC iPlayer at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08g29ff/sitting-in-limbo

Sitting in Limbo trailer: https://youtu.be/1brHDPtSgZo

You can read Thompson's opinion piece from last June on The Guardian at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/22/sitting-in-limbo-windrush-victims-stephen-thompson

Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood are amongst the experiences most central to human lives. In three online events, the University of Southampton Faculty of Arts and Humanities Advanced Seminar Series 2020 brings together scholars working on Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood from across the arts and humanities and beyond.

Join Professor Fiona Woollard, Philosophy at the University of Southampton, for this second seminar on Motherhood. This event will explore expectations and representations of mothers from the past to the modern day, maternal and infant health and wellbeing, and the pressure and judgment that many mothers feel.

The session will include a panel discussion, followed by a short break, then speakers will respond to questions and comments submitted in the chat from the public.

Speakers:
- Mark Hanson (UoS Medicine, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease), Maternal Responsibility and Blame, Preparing for Pregnancy, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal and Child Health |
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/about/staff/markh.page
- Mariana Thomas (UoS English), Maternal Life Writing |
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/research_students/meh1e15.page
- Fiona Woollard (UoS Philosophy), Maternal duties and Reproductive Objectification |
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/about/staff/fw1n09.page

Music provides unique opportunities to interrogate difficult issues, for example, people's experiences of working for organised criminal groups.

Scholarly and media depictions of Mexican organised criminal groups often focus on so-called drug-lords who fight for territory, commit gratuitous violence and revel in excess.

In this webinar, Dr Hettie Malcomson, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Social Anthropology at the University of Southampton, will draw on interviews with musicians who create directly commissioned narco rap and lyrical analysis of songs to nuance one-dimensional representations of those working for organised criminal groups. She propose that subjects who participate in organised crime are made grievable and human through the ethical sense-making done by narco rap songs.

Additionally, Hettie will discuss how musicians negotiate the moral dilemmas of writing songs for organised criminal groups.

You will then be able to provide your contribution during the Q&A session.

This event will run in Blackboard Collaborate, please book your ticket to receive the joining instructions.

Screening as part of the thirteenth annual Southampton Film Week and Southampton's Mayflower 400 programme, Mashpee Nine is the story of injustice, activism, and vindication that emboldened cultural pride and integrity for the Mashpee Wampanoag in 1976.

The story documents the raid and brutal arrest of nine men participating in a traditional drumming ceremony on the Mashpee Pond campsite. The events took place in the context of the dramatic growth of a small Native American town on Cape Cod. The subsequent trial became a celebrated cause for cultural justice within the community.

After the screening, the film's director Paula Peters will join Caterina Loriggio, Southampton's Mayflower 400 Anniversary Director, for a Q&A session.

This is an online event. Ticket holders will be emailed a link to access the film and Q&A session.

Southampton Film Week, the city's annual film festival is delivered by City Eye in collaboration with organisations, filmmakers and artists who share our passion for film. First launched in 2008 the festival enjoys the focus it can bring to locally relevant themes by considering them through a regional, national or international lens.
Southampton Film Week runs from 6 to 22 November 2020.

Join artist Larry Achiampong in conversation over Zoom with the University of Southampton's Dr Priti Mishra and Dr Nisreen Alwan, as they discuss Achiampong's new film Reliquary 2.

Reliquary 2 has been especially commissioned for John Hansard Gallery's new digital programme. The film is a meditation on a period of separation between Larry Achiampong and his children, where the artist observes his own familial narrative within the pandemic and the trauma of forced isolation during unprecedented times.

Speaking directly to his children, Reliquary 2 is an archive of contemplative prose and a historical record during what has been a surreal and challenging period for many. The film features animation by Wumi Olaosebikan and is a continuation of the Relic Traveller series (2017), a multi-site and multidisciplinary speculative project that builds upon a postcolonial perspective informed by technology, agency and the body, and narratives of migration. Mixing the visual poetry with generational healing, the series explores past, present and future, through narratives of Pan Africanism and African diasporic identity in relation to colonialism, postcolonialism and the heightened nationalism of current times.

Reliquary 2 can be viewed on John Hansard Gallery's website, www.jhg.art.

This event forms part of John Hansard Gallery's digital exhibitions programme, supported by the Barker-Mill Foundation.

Book your place: https://larryachiamponginconversation.eventbrite.co.uk

My home is headlights winking at me, reflecting off my glasses / My home is police sirens, singing to me like opera / My home is autumn leaves, crunching beneath my feet (Year 6, Bevois Town Primary School)

What is home to you? Where is it?

Home could be the place you live. Home could be a memory, the place you left behind. Home could be drinking a cup of cocoa with your family.

Now, more than ever, as we live in a world come alive from the pages of a dystopian novel, home allows us to anchor ourselves in the familiar.

If your heart swells with emotions when you think about home, poetry is the way to express it.

This hour-long workshop will give you the chance to explore what home means to you through a series of guided activities.

All you need is some paper, a pen and your thoughts.

Join Aiysha Jahan, English at the University of Southampton, for the opening event of Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital 2020!

The workshop is free, open to children and their families, and will run in Blackboard Collaborate. Please book your ticket to Hands-on Humanities Day to receive the joining instruction with the reminder emails.

Join puppet Pythagoras in an exploration of science and music making. Pythagoras will provide the tools - join us as an investigating music creator.

How does music work? How is it built?

Pythagoras has made a video with the help of University of Southampton, composer Benjamin Oliver, puppetry director Rachel Warr, acoustics expert Dr Matthew Wright, musicians from Ensemble Paramirabo and cellist David Lale.

Watch the videos and get involved in your own collaborative experiments, we'll show you how!

- Pythagoras' Tool Kit - Constructing Music (in the video section below):
https://youtu.be/Ava5yJhDB3M

- Pythagoras' Tool Kit - How Does Music Work?: https://youtu.be/czXb9TRZ8Dc

And get some more help and tips from our friends at the John Hansard Gallery at: https://jhg.art/resources/

You can upload your own experiments on our own central Library of Geometric Sounds on the Padlet board in the Photos tab below.

-> Please submit your scores by THURSDAY 19th NOVEMBER at 12:00PM (GMT)!


** Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital **

Finally, see your own experiments come to life! Tune in to watch composer Benjamin Oliver play your experiments on the piano on 21st November 2020 - this event will broadcast live on YouTube as part of Hands-on Humanities Day, so please do not forget to book your ticket!

Pythagoras' Tool kit at is part of a wider project in development with Ensemble Paramirabo from Canada. A live show with puppetry and music is due to be performed at venues in Canada and the UK in 2021 & 2022. For more information watch this space: https://ensembleparamirabo.com/en/node/889

Grab your smartphone, headphones and your VR headset and experience the world premiere of an immersive, luminescent ride through a virtual 3D electronic music performance.

Human beings have both innate biological and learned cultural reactions to the sound of their environment, and to sounds in their environment - Dr Drew Crawford's research foregrounds these profound responses in his composition practice by working with music and sound in relation to the space(s) in which they are experienced.

Waves of... was originally composed for concert performance, a piece where the performers moved around the stage in a choreography of spatialised sound. Partly as a response to the COVID-19 restrictions on performance, the piece has been reimagined as a virtual reality experience where you can be inside the performance space, amplifying the affective spatial aspects of the piece impossible in real life.

* The VR experience is available for Android in the Downloads section. Instructions on how to install the programme in Android are available in the Videos section below.

* The team wanted to make an iOS version of Waves of... available publicly but that hasn't been possible at this time. If you have a Mac you could experience Waves of... on your computer, minus the VR headset by downloading File 2

Translating the piece to a virtual environment using the popular game engine Unity represents the first experiments working as part of a team with colleagues from the Winchester School of Art, James Stallwood (Teaching Fellow, Games Design and Art) and MA Communication Design student Andreea Ogledean, exploring how to tackle the problem of creating a believable hyperreality using Unity's audio capabilities.


** Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital **

Finally, do not miss a final video premiere and live Q&A session with Dr Drew Crawford, James Stallwood and Andreea Ogledean on Saturday 21st November for Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital.

The event will stream live on YouTube but please don't forget to book your ticket on Eventbrite!

Brought to you in cooperation with Southampton's John Hansard Gallery, we are pleased to present a panel of expert speakers in conversation about the idea of 'being human as praxis', speculative futures, and the future of the (post)humanities and creative industries more broadly.

The event will include discussion and audience Q&A.

Featuring contributions from (in alphabetical order):
- Larry Achiampong (artist)
- David Blandy (artist)
- Dr Kevin Brazil (academic, English Literature)
- Dr Megen de Bruin-Mole (academic, Media Studies)
- Dr Sarah Hayden (academic, Literature and Visual Culture)
- Professor Nicky Marsh (academic, Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
- Florence Okoye (ux designer and coder)
- Dr Kurt Sylvan (academic, Philosophy)

In addition to forming part of Southampton's Human Worlds Festival, this event will mark the launch of the University of Southampton's Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH). SIAH supports, promotes and develops arts and humanities led-research in order to expand the scale of what we can achieve. SIAH will enable scholars to use the critical, creative and theoretical approaches of the Arts and Humanities to lead on large and ambitious projects.

This event will broadcast live on YouTube - please do not forget to book your ticket for Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital

Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestselling novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, will talk about her most recent book, A Single Thread, set in Southampton and Winchester shortly before the start of World War II. In a reading and discussion led by Carole Burns, the university's head of creative writing, Chevalier will explore ideas around the intersection of writing and history and how she crafted her new book.

"A Single Thread" weaves a tale about Violet Speedwell, a woman who moves to Winchester in 1930s Britain after her fiance dies in World War I, then falls in love with a married man whom she meets while volunteering to embroider cushions for Winchester Cathedral. As in many of Chevalier's novels, the hero is not a well-known historical figure, but an everyday person. In Girl with a Pearl Earring, she focused on the young servant who posed for Vermeer, not the great artist himself. Here, Chevalier explores this "surplus" woman - one of the many left single after World War I - and teases out the largeness of this one individual woman's story.

"This was a unique generation of women... but their stories feel familiar nearly a century on." -- The Guardian

Tracy Chevalier official website: https://www.tchevalier.com/

This event will broadcast live on YouTube - please do not forget to book your ticket for Hands-on Humanities Day Goes Digital

Have you thought about the journey of your toothbrush - where does it spend the rest of its thousand years after you've binned it?

Have you wondered about the plastic particles that end up in the ocean as a result of using the washing machine every day?

What has poetry got to do with environmental issues?

Eco-poetry is a way of combining both these ideas to create thoughtful reflections about the world around us and the effects of pollution in its various forms. Writing about these issues can create awareness and an understanding of how to express one's concern for the planet through the power of words.

Join ArtfulScribe for a free 90-minute writing workshop as part of the Human Worlds Festival. Open to young people, this workshop will focus on both poetry and prose, discussing contemporary themes that are important and relevant in these present times and writing in a fun and collaborative way.

Screening as part of the thirteenth annual Southampton Film Week and Southampton's Mayflower 400 programme, Stephano follows the story of the only Mayflower passenger to have travelled previously to North America.

A decade before Mayflower left England Stephen Hopkins sailed aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda inspiring Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest. The film retraces Hopkin's life criss-crossing the Atlantic.

Twice Emmy-nominated producer Andrew Giles Buckley, a Hopkins descendant, grew up hearing stories that his ancestor may have inspired The Tempest's drunken and mutinous Stephano. Buckley and crew take to land and sea, seeking out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.

Andrew Buckley will join Caterina Loriggio, Southampton's Mayflower 400 Anniversary Director, for a Q&A after the film screening.

This is an online event. Ticket holders will be emailed a link to access the film and conversation which follows.

Southampton Film Week, the city's annual film festival is delivered by City Eye in collaboration with organisations, filmmakers and artists who share our passion for film. First launched in 2008 the festival enjoys the focus it can bring to locally relevant themes by considering them through a regional, national or international lens.

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'
What is the purpose of dystopian fiction? What role can a writer of fiction play in shaping the social or political landscape?

Looking at classic and contemporary examples of 'alternative worlds' in fiction, workshop leader Joanna Barnard will supply prompts to help with your own world building, for example how to create an immersive setting using the five senses; how to use the realities of current or recent society to draw up the 'rules' of your invented world, and how to plant characters in that world and watch them grow.

Writing about alternative worlds can be entertaining and cathartic, and can open our eyes to the possibilities in our own world if things were subtly - or perhaps spectacularly - different.

Join ArtfulScribe for a free 90-minute writing workshop as part of the Human Worlds Festival.