Join us on 29 March | 1 - 6 PM to gather as a community to share food, play, and nurture the networks of care that sustain us.
Taking place the day after London’s March to Stop the Far Right, the event also marks the culmination of Rachel Sale’s three-month residency at QUEERCIRCLE.
Through conversations, workshops, informal gatherings, and collective exercises, Rachel has worked closely with the many people and groups that make up QUEERCIRCLE’s ecology. Together we’ve explored what it means to be a community built through relationships, shared values, and mutual support in the face of rising fascism.
This open studio offers a chance to encounter traces of that process: notes, maps, prompts, and participate in playful experiments that have emerged from three months of collective thinking. Rather than a finished outcome, the studio becomes a space to continue imagining how solidarity might grow within and beyond QUEERCIRCLE.
This gathering is an opportunity to come together in a different register: to rest, reconnect, and hold space with one another. There will be delicious Hong Kong style congee to share by Alastair Kwan, moments of play, and room for social conversation and new connections.
Solidarity is built not only through action in the streets, but through the quieter practices of care and community that sustain us.
Rachel Sale (she/her) is a London-based artist who focuses on collective making. Since 2019, she has been leading F.A.T. Studio CIC, a non-profit arts organisation that runs collaborative art projects from a shopfront on Old Kent Road, southeast London.
In 2024, she was Illustrator-in-residence at the V&A Museum, where she explored illustration as a method for building self-compassion, community, and visions of the future. Since then, she’s been working with her neighbours on projects that explore collective representation and new structures for living/working together.