Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
Pluralising Palestine to unsettle colonialism everywhere. For liberation, justice and revolution to be successful they must be planetary. Between every river and every sea, and beyond every border and state.
The São Paulo collective JAMAC visually manifests community histories and desires into patterns: for fabric, houses, ceramics, dishcloths… They have developed the set design for Episode 12 with participating artists and workshops locally.
Create your own badge designs, with collaging, drawings, stickers and more! Whether your badge is playful, political, expressive or just for fun this is a space to create something that feels like you.
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
Life drawing class for artists of all genders, backgrounds and levels of ability, 18+. Draw strippers and sex workers as they perform their usual club routines, in a different context; from the strip club to the art gallery.
Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.
A screening of short films by queer sex workers, who reclaim the authorship of intimacy.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
A chill sex worker only breakfast hang, hosted by Scotland for Decrim, with delicious vegan, vegetarian, meaty, gluten free options & fresh coffee. (Both present & past lived experience welcome).
An excavation of the 1805 Lock Hospital in Glasgow. Its official function was to support ‘unfortunate females with venereal disease’, but really what happened was that women and girls were marched in, experimented on, and often never released.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
A 101 panel on sex work in Scotland, hosted by Scotland for Decrim and National Ugly Mugs
