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VIRTUAL Creaction 2: 'No, I won’t calm down'

15 June 2021, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm

sparks of light, photo by Eric Han on Unsplash

In these sessions, participants will respond in various ways to their session title and to the ‘keywords’ of borders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations. They will also discuss their creative critical processes.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Institute of Advanced Studies

With Gabrielle Le Roux / Olumide Popoola / Syrus Marcus Ware / Şevval Kılıç

All are welcome. The event will run on Zoom. The link and passcode will be provided on your confirmation email when you register. Register to attend at: https://ias-creaction-calmdown.eventbrite.co.uk

In the Creaction series (funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship) we are bringing together performers, artists, writers, including academics, all of whom see their work as focussing on social justice. There are many inspirations for this work, including Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge's The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence and we have been exploring these issues in hakan sandal-wilson’s seminar series titled ‘Methods in Question: Epistemologies of Gender and Sexuality’, including this conversation between hakan and Natasha Tanna on the politics of writing, and Abeyamí Ortega's work on mapping art, activism and critical thinking for social justice, in collaboration with artist and editor Frédérique Bangerter.  

Our ethos includes a focus on:

  • Politically-engaged/social justice work that decentres or questions conventional scholarly forms 
  • Centring creativity, pleasure, and joy in knowledge production, even when working with difficult and painful issues, in order to counter the spectacle of violence towards racialised bodies
  • Addressing hierarchies of knowledge production and knowledge producers and bridging academia/activist/creative divide
  • Questioning what ‘rigour’ means and how the term is deployed
  • Thinking about experimental, creative, and collaborative ways of doing research, even when not technically doing what might be considered practice-based research

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need assistance on the day, and follow this FAQ link for more information and to read our virtual events code of conduct. All of our events are free, but you can support the IAS here.

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Image credit: Photo by Eric Han on Unsplash

 

About the Speakers

Gabrielle Le Roux

Artist

Gabrielle Le Roux is a queer South African artist for social justice. Her practice followed a decade of working with feminist NGOs challenging racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, during which time she received a rich informal education from radical black women, many of whom were also not formally educated. 

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Olumide Popoola

Writer and speaker

Olumide Popoola is a London-based Nigerian German writer and speaker who presents internationally. Her novella this is not about sadness was published by Unrast Verlag in 2010. Her play Also by Mail was published in 2013 by Witnessed (edition assemblage) and the short story collection breach, which she co-authored with Annie Holmes, in 2016 by Peirene Press. Her full-length novel When we Speak of Nothing was published in the UK and Nigeria in 2017  and in 2018 in the US (Cassava Republic Press).

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Syrus Marcus Ware

Vanier Scholar, a visual artist, community activist, researcher, youth-advocate and educator

Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar, a visual artist, community activist, researcher, youth-advocate and educator. For 12 years, he was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is currently a facilitator/designer for the Cultural Leaders Lab (Toronto Arts Council & The Banff Centre). He is the inaugural artist-in-residence for Daniels Spectrum (2016/2017). Syrus is also a core-team member of Black Lives Matter Toronto.

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Şevval Kılıç

Transgender activist

Istanbul born transgender activist, one of the founder members of Istanbul LGBT Solidarity Association and Istanbul Trans Pride, supporter of Istanbul Pride Committee and independent activist.

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