{"id":8228,"date":"2019-11-25T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:37:06","slug":"esther-johnson-role-to-play-quad-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-role-to-play-quad-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"‘a ROLE to PLAY’ – Professor Esther Johnson’s new artist film premieres on Thursday 28 November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

a ROLE to PLAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Esther Johnson<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s new artist film a ROLE to PLAY<\/strong><\/a> will premiere this Thursday 28th November 18:30 at QUAD<\/strong> in Derby.<\/p>\n

\"a<\/a><\/p>\n

The screening is free and you can book HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Working with adult literacy group members, food bank users and volunteers connected to Freedom Community Project<\/a><\/strong>, a ROLE to PLAY<\/strong><\/a> shares experiences of contemporary<\/p>\n

\"a<\/p>\n

working life in post-industrial Bolsover, a Derbyshire constituency where coal was once king. The project experiments with methods of co-creation, radical theatre, oral testimony and documentary. Esther is also working on an accompanying publication and exhibition with literacy group members to be launched next year.<\/p>\n

a ROLE to PLAY<\/strong> has been supported by animate projects<\/a><\/strong> WORK commission devised to explore ideas and realities of what ‘work’ means for the way we live today. WORK has supported four contemporary moving image artists to develop, produce and exhibit films in\"a<\/a> collaborative contexts. Each artist worked with a different arts partner \u2013 Johnson working with junction arts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Esther Johnson<\/a><\/strong> is Professor of Film & Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Esther\u2019s work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a ROLE to PLAY Professor Esther Johnson\u2019s new artist film a ROLE to PLAY will premiere this Thursday 28th November 18:30 at QUAD in Derby. The screening is free and you can book HERE. Working with adult literacy group members, food bank users and volunteers connected to Freedom Community Project, a ROLE to PLAY shares experiences of contemporary working life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":8243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103,139],"tags":[1356,5,1357,140,124,115,326,1358],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-a-role-to-play","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-derby","tag-esther-johnson","tag-film-research","tag-media-arts-research","tag-screenings","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/11\/2019-11-JOHNSON-Esther-a-ROLE-to-PLAY-Quad-Derby-banner.jpg?fit=888%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-28I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9023,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-work-online-premiere\/","url_meta":{"origin":8228,"position":0},"title":"Professor Esther Johnson’s ‘WORK’ premiering online with Q&A – Friday 01 May 2020","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"20\/04\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"WORK \u2014 ONLINE PREMIERE Friday 01 May from 10AM Live Q&A from 7PM On 01 May, International Workers' Day, there will be the online premiere of WORK \u2014 an artist film project that explores ideas and realities of what work means for the way we live today, engaging directly with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Still from a ROLE to PLAY by Esther Johnson","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/04\/2020-04-a-ROLE-to-PLAY-Esther-Johnson-Online-premiere-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C508&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/04\/2020-04-a-ROLE-to-PLAY-Esther-Johnson-Online-premiere-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C508&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/04\/2020-04-a-ROLE-to-PLAY-Esther-Johnson-Online-premiere-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C508&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/04\/2020-04-a-ROLE-to-PLAY-Esther-Johnson-Online-premiere-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C508&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/04\/2020-04-a-ROLE-to-PLAY-Esther-Johnson-Online-premiere-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C508&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5955,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-point-and-shoot-argos\/","url_meta":{"origin":8228,"position":1},"title":"Professor Esther Johnson’s artist film ‘Point and Shoot’ featuring in exhibition at ARGOS Centre for Art and Media in Brussels","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"22\/01\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Esther Johnson's artist film Point and Shoot will feature in the exhibition\u00a0Look at Me held at ARGOS Centre for Art and Media in Brussels, opening on Saturday 26 January and running until Sunday 28 April 2019. 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