Arika
Tuesday: 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 18:00
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About Arika
Arika is a political arts organisation concerned with supporting connections between artistic production & social change through a programme of public Episode events, working in solidarity with local groups, international collaborations & our archive.
Arika Description
We think of art as a relationship that constantly unfolds in the realm of the common, a process and a continuum. We see our role in this unfolding relationship as celebrating and supporting connections between art and social change. When we say art, we mean the ways we sing and dance together, the ways we listen and want to be heard, how we look and hope to be seen, how we think of our bodies and how we move through space, how we feel and want to be felt, for example.
We currently do this through a programme of public events called Episodes comprising performances, discussions, screenings and collective learning. Developing iteratively, each informing the next, they often involve watching, listening, talking or dancing together. They are a continuation, through friendship and solidarity, of conversations we are entangled in both locally and internationally. Especially, Episodes are committed to experiments in a sociality that goes beyond personhood and that propose new ways of living in the world today, born of collective desires and struggle.
We are also trying to practice being accomplices with specific UK based activist and political communities who we have long-term relationships with, supporting their specific struggles.
We do our best to act in solidarity with local groups whose ideas, experiences and struggles we feel especially connected to, recognising how critical the resistance of these groups is. We co-operate closely with specific groups who are pushing back against the violence of racist borders, poverty and criminalisation of sex work; taking their lead on projects and events they want to see happen. Each activity is suggested and decided upon by the community then managed by them with Arika’s collaborative support. A few of those events are open to a wide public, like parts of the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance and the How to Ally with Sex Workers on Decriminalisation of Sex Work events. However, most are specifically with smaller more discrete groups and are not broadly publicised. Other events we organise, such as the Episodes, are directly nourished and informed by the multiple insights these smaller projects generate.
Arika is inspired and galvanized to do this work by many predecessors: artists, organisers, witches, anarchists, students, educators, heretics, activists, militants, mothers, children, as well as those who make trouble in between and at the peripheries of these and other categories. We hope in our work to pay tribute to these histories, and carry on the belief that radical forms of resistance can find crucial support in the aesthetic registers of social life.
More about us here http://arika.org. uk /about-us
Reviews
Artist in Residence opportunity at the National Library of Scotland working with their archive of birdsong, interviews with ornithologists and ornithological conference proceedings from the Scottish Ornithologist’s Club 🐦🦉🐦
Mutual aid projects can help us mobilize and survive the conditions and challenges we are facing and Dean Spade and CIRO CARILLO map out how.
Our Shadowed Spaces tour of overlooked and unconsidered nooks and crannies has it's 12th anniversary this week!
Helpful notes picked up from Unity Centre at the Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair last weekend.
Some links for 💞groups aiming to stop evictions of Glasgow asylum seekers from their homes + immediately supporting asylum seekers. All these groups need 💸, active volunteers, donations e.g. clothes, food, computers etc.
Living Rent Glasgow (acting directly to stop SERCO & MEARS in their tracks) + Glasgow No Evictions Campaign (directly supporting asylum seekers facing eviction) + Unity Centre (fighting deportations and supporting asylum seekers) + MORE - Migrants Organisin...g for Rights & Empowerment (both campaigning for rights for & directly supporting asylum seekers) + LGBT Unity Scotland (vital support group for LGBT+ asylum seekers) + Ubuntu Women Shelter (setting up a night shelter for women without recourse to public funds & directly supporting asylum seekers) + Positive Action in Housing (runs a home hosting network to connect people wth spare room with homeless asylum seekers + much, much more) + Herbal Unity (free herbal & massages treatments for asylum seekers) + Refuweegee (takes donations of clothes, kids buggies & gets them to asylum seekers in need) + Glasgow Night Shelter (overnight accommodation + meals for male asylum seekers).
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Edinburgh Folks - Ubuntu Women Shelter 🥰 part of a bunch of interesting events at Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair - a workshop exploring and challenging contemporary conceptions of "No Borders" from a liberatory persepctive...
Hey Y'all 👇- a session of poetry and story telling exploring the multiple stories shared by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Glasgow, presented by MORE - Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment - coming up this sunday Kinning Park Complex 4 - 7pm 👣👣👣
Gather to oppose Serco evictions - Saturday 15th June 1pm at Buchanan Steps 🌍
https://www.livingrent.org/serco - with the bad news about SERCO's plan to continue with forced evictions of asylum seekers joining Living Rent Glasgow Serco Eviction Resistance sign up is the way to go!💞💞
Event title says it all really. It's been insult to injury - or injury to injury - as people continue to die in the UK due to unfit or no accommodation.
A film of enduring relevance 🖤 (which the police tried to ban) If you haven't seen this get yourself along...
Please sign this petition from English Collective of Prostitutes & help save lives 💞as part of the movement for decriminalisation of sex work. They say: "Government commissioned research on prostitution is due out soon and we need as many signatures as possible. Please continue sharing and supporting to #MakeAllWomenSafe"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/ 241311
BE HEARD: Creative Scotland are having a Strategy Update and Funding Review and alongside a roadshow of Creative Conversations (http://bit.ly/2wypj2I) about the review they are looking for online responses, if you can't make it to one of their events. There are two questions. What can Creative Scotland do for you? How should Creative Scotland prioritise and deliver its funding? D/L 31 July
REVIEWED: “In a chronically inaccessible and isolating world, such togetherness is the forbearer of political agency.” Adelita Husni-Bey shares their experience of I wanna be with you everywhere in Artforum
Looking forward to this screening and discussion - the launch of Collective's summer school REPRODUCTION - organised by Collective and SCOT-PEP on Sunday 2 June at 3:30pm. The film was made in 1975 and documents the occupation of Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon by 200 sex workers' protesting violence and exploitative living conditions. Since 1976 this occupation - critical to the birth of the sex workers rights struggle in Europe - has been marked as International Sex Workers Day!
More about Arika
Tuesday: 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 18:00
Thursday: -
Friday: -
Saturday: -
Sunday: -