9 – 13 March 2022
Online
Mutual Aid
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
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21 January 2012
CCA
Argument – We would argue: an ante/post discussion group
Gil Leung Ian White
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
26 February 2012
Tramway
Cosmic Pessimism
Eugene Thacker
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Episode 2:
A Special Form of Darkness
22 October 2016
Tramway
Resident Evil
Sondra Perry
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
12 October 2008
DCA
Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)
Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
14 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Polly Shang Kuan Band
Polly Shang Kuan Band
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
INSTAL 06
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Usurper
Usurper
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
INSTAL 06
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Topias Tiheäsalo
Topias Tiheäsalo
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
26 May 2013
Tramway
An Archive of Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
24 November 2019
Tramway
apparitions
Nat Raha
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
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.
2 October 2025
Workshop on Mutual Aid with Dean Spade
Dean Spade
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.