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.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
