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.
How does Palestinian anticolonial resistance struggle against the colonisation of our concept of time?
Join world-renowned Puerto Rican decolonial thinker and activist as he unpicks the Eurocentric lie of linear time, and shares anti-colonial temporalities that arise out of, and in light of the life ways, suffering, dignity, and creative drive of oppressed communities around the world.
A book launch and conversation with JAMAC: an insurgent art project in São Paulo who visually embed stories into drawn patterns used towards processes of community self-determination. They have done the set design for Episode 12.
A BPOC study group for artists/arts workers in performance, theatre, Live Art, and dance. Organised with BUZZCUT, this event offers a shared reflective space to spend time with Leda Maria Martins and engage with her ideas.
Michel will screen his landmark documentary of anti-colonial time and persistence, Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction, clips from some other films, and discuss them with Rene and Ayreen as examples of Sumudic Cinema.
A poetry reading by Mahmoud Alshaer, a central figure in Gaza’s cultural life and author of I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza. His poetry serves as a vital affirmation of presence and testimony of everyday life in Gaza in a time of genocide.
Centring performance within a host of concepts crystallised from Black worldmaking and religious frameworks, Leda Maria Martins is one of the most influential thinkers of Afro-Brazilian experience today.
How has the idea of innocence been weaponised to conceal the crimes of colonisation? Three leading anti-colonial thinkers will explore its history and examine how it continues to facilitate colonial systems today.
A conversation weaving together music, poetry and discussion which asks what decolonisation means in the Gàidhealtachd and how we can hold the complexity of Scotland’s role in empire?
Conversation and launch of a publication and interview with Brazilian Indigenous activist and thinker Jerá Guarani, whose community at Kalipety near São Paulo extends the practice of ‘land back’ to also reclaim anti-colonial time.
An evening with one of the great decolonial feminist thinkers, sharing rarely seen films commissioned by her father, as leader of the Communist Party of Réunion, that celebrate the island’s insurgent anti-colonial resistance.
A performance by one of the most influential anti-colonial poets and translators internationally: a refusal to be legible that demands to be read, a translation of the unspeakable that must be heard.
