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Book now for Embodied Vision, with Anna Bambridge

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EMBODIED VISION A contact improvisation weekend with Anna Bambridge LIMITED PLACES SO DON'T DELAY YOUR BOOKING! Workshop Saturday 26 March 2016, 11am–5pm Class and Jam Sunday 27 March 2016, 1–4.30pm Kinning Park Complex Using relaxation and movement techniques grounded in the Bates method of vision education we will explore how our attention and intention affects how we see and how we feel. Vision is a learned sense that we can continually attend to and we will encourage new ways of using our eyesight. Aspects of vision we will explore include peripheral and central sight (and the relationship between them) and our senses of perspective, colour, movement and depth. You are encouraged to bring warm layers, as there will be times of stillness in the workshop. You are invited to explore your natural vision for this workshop. This means that if you wear glasses you can take them off or if you wear contact lenses please bring what you need to take ...

Cheshire Dance Contact Improvisation Residential Jam

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A residential CI jam from our Friends Cheshire Dance in April 2016. Check it out!

Into 2016, and into New Jamming Hands!

Dear Jammers!! Happy New Year! Here at @TheGlasgowJam we wish you all the best for 2016!! It is also time for us to publicly announce a change of jamming hands. Tom heads back to Australia, bringing Laura Gonzalez to the forefront of growing into the role of Co-Director of @TheGlasgowJam alongside myself. It is with sadness that I bid Tom farewell, but with great joy I welcome Laura into the fold of the work. I am entirely sure that Laura's passion, joy and knowledge will see us in good stead in 2016. Tom, Laura and I have written some words on the change over to share with you. (Your normal newsletter will be on its way in a few days, next jam 8th of Jan, from 6pm, KPC with Nina!) Penny xx Tom It is with a mixture of emotions that I announce my departure as Co-Director of @TGJ. Doing so will make the space necessary for Penny and Laura to move the organisation forward into what promises to be an exciting and varied future. Three years ago, I invited Penny to join me in this bold e...