Parade Launch Event May 21, 2010

5pm - 7pm: Launch Event Bring things to share in our Pot-Luck of snacks, while Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive play music from "the commons" Location: The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground Chelsea College of Art and Design (beside Tate Britain) 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU Travel: Best to cycle, although public transport options include Tube: - 5 minutes walk from Pimlico tube (Victoria line) 10 minutes walk from Vauxhall tube (Victoria line) Bus: 2, C10, 36, 77A, 88, 185, 436. About PARADE Chelsea College of Art and Design has a large contemporary courtyard at its heart: the beautiful Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground. We have collaborated with Polish curator Kuba Szreder to develop a programme of events that will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public. In a bespoke, temporary structure designed by award-winning Polish architects Ola Wasilkowska and Michał Piasecki - assembled in public - we aim to produce a landmark event in an amazing location with a host of international contributors. Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer - in which amplified 'experts' speak at a passive audience. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound. Join us at the PARADE Launch Evening Friday 21st Participate in the PARADE Barcamps Saturday 22nd Or visit the PARADE Market of Ideas Sunday 23rd About US Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics hosted by Chelsea College of Art and Design, a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. We have a longstanding interest in art, public goods, spaces, services and knowledge, and a track record of producing original, participatory events. Return to Parade * or the Main Page

Launch Event Join us at the PARADE Launch Evening Friday 21st Participate in the PARADE Barcamps Saturday 22nd Or visit the PARADE Market of Ideas Sunday 23rd Artist Commission: Experience the obstacles and pleasures of the public realm from the position of helpless larvae by climbing into one of Joanna Rajkowska's human-sized cocoons. Parade Documentation: The hashtag for Parade on flickr, Twitter, Delicious and beyond is #parade10. Please make your online content locatable by including this tag. Parade is part of POLSKA! YEAR, which comprises over 200 projects presenting the most interesting achievements of Polish culture to UK audiences. The project takes place under the patronage of HM The Queen and HE The President of the Republic of Poland. POLSKA! YEAR is co-ordinated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. To find out more visit the POLSKA YEAR! website