Facilitator: A workshop by curator and artist Raju Rage
Following on from Recipes For Resistance and some of the themes of the exhibition and publication, Raju Rage will host this creative workshop to explore our food memories and how they connect to self and community care. The workshop will take the form of personal research, collective reading, conversation and writing activity and centers memory, migration, diaspora, intergenerationality and care.
Collective reading (during session): Sticky Traces – Priya Jay + My Nose, Our Grandmother, Our Beef - Vijeta Kumar
The workshop encourages migrants, people from the diaspora and black and people of colour of all ages to participate.
pre session exercise: listen to the audio ‘Never Send A Plate Back Empty’ (audio 30mins) + source a personal family recipe
Access info: All events will be free, hosted on zoom, will have live transcription notes provided using otter.ai. Please email info@12ocollective.com for any access questions.
Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Based in London and working beyond, they explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies, theory and practice, text and the body and aesthetics and the political substance. Their current interests are around sustainability, economies, care, and resistance. They are a member of Collective Creativity arts collective, A Peoples Art Collective, Another Roadmap and a creative educator and independent scholar with an interest in radical pedagogy. Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/ transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond from which their politics and works draw on and from.
This event is part of To the ritual knowledge of remembering, a curatorial project led by artist and community healer Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson as part of an online curation residency with 12ø collective.To find out about future events and more information about the project go to www.ritualknowledge.com.
Images Credit: Raju Rage