On 31st May 2017 artist Loraine Leeson and the Geezers took part in a virtual symposium organised by the University of the Highlands and Islands.
They presented the Active Energy project as a case study to demonstrate the value of social practice in art, research and education. Artists, cultural professionals, academics and students connected online from more than a dozen different locations including Shetland, Orkney, Ireland, as well as some of Scotland’s most remote islands, to discover and debate how socially engaged arts practice can help to build a better society.