“Take Your Space in UpStage” is a presentation given as part of the Skillsharing Herbst 2023 organised by mur.at. Skillsharing Herbst is a workshop buffet based on the open source tools that mur.at offers its members. As well as UpStage, there is a WordPress workshop and sessions on a variety of collaboration tools.

The theme of “Take Your Space” follows on from the “Taking Space” workshop in April 2023 with the Mobilise/Demobilise team. Initially inspired by the current ventures into space for commercial ends such as mining and tourism, and the potential environmental and political consequences of such activities, the theme also relates to the act of taking one’s place in the world. We invite new players to take their space in UpStage – to create their own stages and performances in a virtual space that is truly ours.

The presentation, led by Helen Varley Jamieson, will provide a general introduction to the new UpStage platform and the features it offers for creating live online or hybrid performances. UpStage is unique in that it combines all kinds of digital media such as images, audio, animation, text, live drawing and live audio-visual streams in a single browser-based interface, allowing artists maximum creativity and giving easy access to audiences globally.

The presentation is at 18:00 CET on 21 November 2021, and will be online and hybrid – if you are in Graz you are welcome to gather at mur.at’s space in Leitnergasse.

Following the presentation there will be a three hour hands-on workshop held at KiG! in Graz,(Austria) on Satruday 2nd December, for mur.at members. There is more information about the workshop and how to register at mur.at’s website. The workshop will be led by Helen Varley Jamieson online and Eva Ursprung in Graz, and will be in English and German.