2-5 pm, Saturday 18 April 2026. Assembly Room and Auditorium, groundfloor, Whitechapel Gallery, London & online
Join Procreate Project to celebrate the release of the new free, open-source Integrated Care Toolkit. We will celebrate the webpage going live together, with an interactive guide through the sections by founder Dyana Gravina, accompanied by other researchers and artists connected to the work. We are preparing a family room that will mirror the areas and practices in the Toolkit and translate them into interactive art and play areas for all ages. So bring your children and spend the afternoon with us.
This Toolkit is a home for artists, organisers and cultural workers interested in embedding Integrated Care in their work. It’s a printable, modular roadmap designed to help reimagining spaces, politics, and practices to centre and support people with caring responsibilities within the arts and culture.
Artists who are mothers and primary caregivers have long been facing systemic bias and barriers in the art world. They account for barely a third of artists represented in major galleries, an inequity compounded by the lack of infrastructure that drives many out during the crucial years of pregnancy and parental labour.
Whether you are creating online workshops, social platforms, exhibitions, residencies or community projects, this Toolkit offers resources, examples, and practical guidance to re-shape and create spaces, politics and practices that centre and support people with caring responsibilities. It aims to engage individuals and organisations to adopt inclusive, non-tokenistic practices within the arts and culture.
It draws on 13 years of hands-on practice. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable to other contexts of work and communities, and takes the form of an interactive website, a downloadable PDF with additional resources and a book that expands on the personal, political and historical framework that surrounds and grounds this work.
Content and access notes:
- Step-free access to all spaces from street level via lift
- Changing facilities are located on the ground floor
- Children are welcome at all times
- There will be a family room with resources and activities organised for families
- All the talks will be live-streamed via a Zoom link available to access from your device
- There are books, chairs and sofas available in the Common Rooms of the gallery for a quieter space
- Find the venue's access page here
- The event is free, but donations are greatly welcome.
About Procreate Project
Procreate Project is a pioneering grassroots arts organisation born in 2013 as an intersectional feminist proposition aimed at creating systemic change and equity for artists who are mothers and primary caregivers. Operating at the intersection of grassroots organising and institutional dialogue, Procreate Project continues to develop strategies that reposition care not as an add-on, but as a structural condition for cultural sustainability. Through exhibitions, residencies, commissions, public programmes, and research, Procreate Project has foregrounded the lived experiences of artist-parents while proposing practical and systemic alternatives. Partners and collaborators have included Whitechapel Gallery, AWITA, Create London, Tate Modern, Frieze London, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Mimosa House, Cromwell Place, the Royal College of Art, King’s College London, Arts Council England, LADA, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Rich Mix, Leyden Gallery, Goldsmiths University, London South Bank University, Lace Gallery Nottingham, Manhattan College New York, the Mayor of London, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and Lewisham Council.