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GROUNDWERK 6.1: Creative Strategies for Activists

THU 31 OCT 6-7.30pm // FREE & OPEN TO ALL

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How can we employ our creative skills to push for social changes we care about? In this workshop, we will explore various activist strategies, with a focus on navigating and countering aggressive immigration policies that divide communities. Led by Rosalie Schweiker and Joon Lynn Goh of Migrants in Culture, we will consider how the hostile environment impacts everyone living within it, and will brainstorm ideas for a toolkit for creatively organising for change.

Groundwerk is a monthly series of free practical workshops for artists and creatives wishing to gain the skills to support their practice.

This workshop is free to attend and open to all but booking is recommended, as spaces are limited. Children of attendees are very welcome to join! Jennifer Martin’s exhibition ‘Channel 6’ will be open until 8pm on the evening.

 

// ABOUT MIGRANTS IN CULTURE

We are migrant cultural workers.
We organise for justice in the Hostile Environment.
We are a support network and action group that holds the cultural sector accountable to migrants, citizens of colour and all other people being impacted by the immigration regime, in our workplaces and neighbourhoods.
We live, work and pay taxes in the UK, but have no political representation. We work in economically and legally precarious workplaces, where we are invisible or hypervisible. We refuse to be tokens of internationalism or ‘diversity’ without a voice in our sector.
Together we use our skills and resources to change the way the cultural sector operates.
We are migrants in culture.

Image credits:
Images courtesy of Migrants in Culture

KEY ACCESS INFO​

  • To help us support you best, please let us know if you have any access needs when booking.
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  • Our unit in the Whitgift Centre is 4 minutes walk (0.2 miles) from Wellesley Road Tram stop via the underpass, and 7 minutes walk (0.3 miles) from West Croydon Station and 8 minutes walk (0.4 miles) from East Croydon station.

 

WORKSHOP CODE:

Turf aims to be a space where all are welcomed & respected. We ask all attendees to align with this spirit when booking and support us in creating a welcoming & collaborative atmosphere together. We ask that everyone is;

  • Kind and respectful in our language and behaviour towards others. Turf is a space which is anti racism, sexism, homophobia and ableism.
  • Considerate of others’ time; allowing others room to speak & engage.
  • Respectful of the space itself as belonging to many people, treating the space & objects with care.
  • Attend wherever possible: In 2023, around 30% of people booking free tickets didn’t turn up! Our free tickets are limited and in high demand. Every person who doesn’t turn up means someone else can’t attend, so please let us know if you can’t make it to free up a space. If you don’t attend twice or more without letting us know, you may be restricted from booking again.

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