Join us for a night of discussion, artmaking, and activism!
This is the first in a returning series of events hosted to prioritise racialised and diaspora voices amongst growing anti-immigration sentiment. We are creating a space that is driven by and for our community, so come along to our first session to hear more and help shape this space as it unfolds.
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In January of 2025 Skaped launched We’re Here to Stay: Honouring Our Many Identities. The 5-week programme was a response to the racist, Islamophobic riots of August the previous year, as well as growing anti-immigration sentiment throughout the country.
After consulting our community on how they would best like to be supported we designed a programme that honoured and celebrated the diverse heritages of East London, with a panel talk, film screening, creative wellness, and book club. We learned a lot from the experience, developing ideas throughout and delving into the history of collective struggle and how we achieve liberation. Out of a desire to connect our community reflection with wider struggles our series culminated in a community celebration and fundraiser supporting causes in Sudan and Palestine.
This year we are returning to the series as long running participant driven programme. We want to create a lasting space we can gather, make art, and respond to an -honestly exhausting- social, and political landscape.