Mondays, 10 March to 5 May, 6-9pm
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.
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.
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13 March 2022
Online
Support Not Separation
Ubuntu Women Shelter Legal Action for Women Recovering Justice
How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.
Mutual Aid
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Talk Hosted by Byron Coley
Byron Coley Daniel Carter Sabir Mateen
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
22 October 2016
Tramway
Captive Genders – Criminalisation
Che Gossett English Collective of Prostitutes Eric A Stanley Scot-Pep/ Umbrella Lane Tourmaline
What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
25 May 2013
Tramway
Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S)
Trajal Harrell
A meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
12 December 2004
DCA
La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine
Metamkine
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
19 April 2014
Holiday Inn
Icon’s Lunch
Various Artists
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Master Ballstar Weekend
18 October 2005
St Giles in the Fields, London
St Giles in the Fields, London 05
Angharad Davies Jandek Rauhan Orkesteri Rhodri Davies
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
9 December 2001
The Arches
Musica Electronica
Musica Electronica
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
INSTAL 01
17 April 2015
Tramway
TLRS Morning Show
Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
28 September 2014
Tramway
Realness
Charlene Sinclair Fred Moten Icon Ayana Christian Michael Roberson Tourmaline
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
13 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
INSTAL 05