Timetable of symposium

All times in GMT +1

Please don’t forget to register to participate in the Proximity Zoom Rooms and for more information on the live stream

Friday 12 June

  • Opening and welcome

    Mary Pearson and Jennifer Verson

    14:30

  • Proximity Zoom Room #1: What are our approaches to art and social repair?

    Hosted by Jennifer Verson and MaMa

    16:00

  • How to Be Afraid? check-in #1

    We ask the question: what are you afraid of right now? to each other and our guests as improvisational practice

    Hosted by mayfield brooks & Mary Pearson with guest Seke Chimutengwende

    17:00

  • Humanise Film Club presents: Human part 2

    Hosted by Aleasha Chaunte

    18:00

  • Presentation: Stating The Obvious

    Aleasha Chaunte

    21:30

  • Double bill: Transatlantic Horror Show

    Horror Reading Project by Seke Chimutengwende

    How to Be Afraid? by mayfield brooks & Mary Pearson

    22:00

  • Digital Interlude: A House Through Time

    Chosen by Seke Chimutengwende

    23:00

Saturday 13 June

  • Presentation: A Guide To Navigating Institutions

    Priya Sharma & Salma Noor

    10:00

  • Digital Interlude: Reading & Listening

    Curated by Priya Sharma and Salma Noor

    Please find Priya & Salma’s reading list on the programme page

    10:30

  • Performance: Ebru Art

    by Merve Kurt

    11:00

  • Panel Discussion: Migrant Artists Mutual Aid

    Hosted by Amina Rafique and Sam Farmery

    11:30

  • Proximity Zoom Room #2: Connecting Social Justice Struggles through performance: Asylum, Detention, Slavery and our work with ISM

    Hosted by Jennifer Verson & MaMa

    12:30

  • Digital Interlude: Black Lives Matter Playlist

    Curated by mayfield brooks

    13:30

  • Trialogue: Priya Sharma, Salma Noor & Aleasha Chaunte

    Artists will respond to pre-collected questions and discuss activism in their practice

    14:30

  • Presentation: Refugee support programs in Turkey and art therapy method

    Yasin Duman and Merve Kurt

    Yasin will talk about the mental health and psychosocial support programs he did with refugees in Turkey. Merve will provide some details about how Ebru Art can be used as an art therapy method.

    15:30

  • Proximity Zoom Room #3: Performance and Peacebuilding

    with Yasin Duman, Merve Kurt, Aleasha Chaunte, Priya Sharma, Salma Noor, Jennifer Verson and MaMa

    16:00

  • How to Be Afraid? check-in #2

    We ask the question: what are you afraid of right now? to each other and our guests as improvisational practice

    with guests from Migrant Artists Mutual Aid

    17:00

  • Mocktail Hour Break

    18:00

  • Trialogue: Seke Chimutengwende, mayfield brooks & Mary Pearson

    Artists will respond to pre-collected questions
    then discuss approaches to similar themes in their work

    18:30

  • Digital Interlude: Dance Party

    Hosted by mayfield brooks & Mary Pearson

    19:30

  • Digital Interlude: Improvising While Black

    Curated by mayfield brooks

    til late