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.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
A spectacular musical show which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history. A learning play on myth construction and its reproduction.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
