In Our Hands 2025
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
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In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.