SATURDAY 04 OCTOBER.

Join us on the land for a session of creating and discussion around how we can be inspired by our ancestor’s reliance on knowledge of their environments for strategies of resistance.

A bunting making workshop exploring and archiving the connections between historical instances of ancestral reliance on  land as tools for resistance as well as current approaches to land justice and resisting exploitative relationships with land. No sewing skill necessary! Bring fabrics you feel connected to and are happy to use in the session. 

This session is with Tallawah @wovenradical

artist bio

Tallawah is a mixed media artist and workshop facilitator who utilises collage to disrupt colonial historical narratives and explore Black speculative concepts. Tallawah centres collage in their practice as a tool of cultural recovery, using visual archives and oral histories to piece together distorted narratives as well as reimagine worlds outside of the oppressive systems we inhabit. African and African diasporic textile practices are also foundational to Tallawah’s mixed media work. They explore the role of the patterns and symbols that frequent these craft mediums as decolonial approaches to archiving and small acts of resistance.

Tallawah founded the research project Woven Radical, an exploration of the political and social capacity of craft to facilitate the sharing of political knowledge accessibly through collective making workshops and zines. In these sessions, participants have discussions around complex political issues broken down through crafting activities with up-cycled waste material. The goal of this project is to encourage decentralised knowledge sharing to counteract the disillusionment felt in response to the happenings in our political climate.

This workshop shares research from Jade’s zine on the toxic pesticide legacy in Guadeloupe and Martinique and the ways communities resist through Jardin Creoles. Together, we will explore how these gardens challenge the plantation system and environmental racism at large. 

This session is with Jade @jadesroom

artist bio
Jade-Lou Bassien Capsa is a zine-maker and researcher whose work moves between text and collective practices. She explores mainly themes of ecology, spirituality, knowledge exchange and cultural hybridity in the Caribbean context

In this workshop, participants will explore the rich heritage and living histories of natural indigo dyeing. Guided by Samantha, an interdisciplinary artist and textile designer, the session combines hands-on practice with storytelling and discussion to uncover indigo’s cultural significance across Africa and the Caribbean. Participants will experiment with dyeing techniques, patterns, and play, creating a unique textile piece to take home. Rooted in anti-colonial methodologies, the workshop nurtures dialogue, skill-sharing, and connection, offering an inclusive space to honour resilience, creativity, and ancestral knowledge through the transformative process of indigo.

You’re welcome to bring a small item to dye—please make sure it’s been washed many times (to remove chemicals), is light in colour, and made from 100% plant-based fabric (e.g.cotton or linen). Kindly keep items no larger than a shirt.

This session is with Samantha @fiberlegacy

artist bio

Samantha is a researcher, artist, and educator whose practice interweaves archival research, African and Caribbean craft traditions, and material experimentation. With an MA in Global Black Studies, Decolonisation and Social Justice, her work engages with diasporic histories, liberation, and alter-destinies, inspired by Sun Ra’s visionary thought. Rooted in sustainable, process-led methods, Samantha uses natural materials as conduits to memory, belonging, and resistance.

Her research and making focuses on diasporic narratives, bridging archives with lived experience to challenge colonial legacies. Through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborations, Samantha creates art as both a site of healing and a space for cultural reclamation.

Repair Nation: reparations through community gardening and urban food justice

This talk and workshop will explore: what are reparations? Expand definition beyond money to include land return, food sovereignty and healing justice. And explore the history of land dispossession (Indigenous, Black, migrant communities) and how urban gardening is a reparative act.

This is with Connie Bell the Co-founder of Decolonising the Archive / @de_archive

artist bio

Connie Bell is the co founder and Director of Decolonising The Archive (DTA) and University of Repair. As a Consultant, Memory Worker and Cultural Producer her work explores decolonial methodologies and memory as technology within archives. Currently, Connie is the creator of the overarching course module Museum Restitution, following the success of DTA's Correcting Our Collecting Community Archive Course launched two and a half years ago.