New Exhibition and Weekend of Events!

Thu 25 May - Sun 28 May 2023
Four Days, Five Exhibitions, Creative Workshops, Family Activities, Artists in Residence, Events + Screenings

Everyone has the right to participate fully in worldmaking and self-determination. Hosted by Resource for London, this event looks to exercise that right by way of its commitment to social, civic, racial, and health justice, and its wholly collaborative nature.

Exhibitions curated by UCL Institute of Education students in Art, Design and Museology.

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Join us for the OPENING PARTY!

Thu 25th May, 6pm-8pm

at Resource for London (Reception & Cafe)

356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

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Join us for an inspirational opening event:

‘The Right To Participate’

Thu 25 May, 4-6pm
at Resource for London (Lewis Suite)

‘Provocations’ from curators, practitioners, academics, activists, and social justice warriors on embedding and enacting ‘The Right To Participate’.

with:

Dr Rafie Cecilia (UCL)

Dr Domenico Sergi (Museum of London)

Livvy Murdoch (Autograph)
Reconnect London (tbc)

Refugee Community Kitchen (tbc)

Renee Odjidja (Whitechapel Gallery, CCW, UAL)

Dr Lee Weinberg (CSM, UAL)

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Fri 26, Sat 27, Sun 28 May
Opening Times: 10-6pm (Fri + Sat) 10-2pm (Sun)

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Three women, from Taiwan, Vietnam and St Vincent in the Caribbean all of whom have fled from modern day slavery and exploitation came together to take photographs of the city where their paths have crossed.

The three woman have been forced to leave family and home far away on other continents. They are learning to call London home, finding a way, at least for now, to live in this tumultuous, fast paced, at times unforgiving city.

Working with Charlotte Hockton, a community artist from Street Talk they explored the city together, walking the streets of different neighbourhoods just looking, seeing beauty in unexpected places.

The women were flung together by displacement and each is on a personal journey to overcome their individual loss and suffering, Their photographs are a testimony to the infinite beauty of the human spirit, its capacity to find friendship and beauty in the worst of times, to create something beautiful in spite of all that has been lost forever.

The title brings together the journeys the women have made which have brought them to London, the hopping on and off trains all over London to take the photographs and the tracks each will choose to make in the future, perhaps away from London perhaps not.

The exhibition is a partnership between Street Talk and Medaille Trust.

Currently showing in the cafe area on the ground floor of Resource for London is a photographic exhibition by Charlotte Hockton. 28,395 is the number of migrants who made the perilous journey in boats across the English Channel to seek safety in the UK in 2021.

The photographs explore the conflict shared by all those forced to leave their own country for another. They are about the pull of home, the loss of all left behind blending into the fear and hope for life in the new land, a place of mystery.

If you would like to exhibit at Resource for London please email:

mike@resourceforlondon.org

Note that exhibitions need to be aligned with our mission which is to address poverty and inequality in London

Come and see the Exhibition displayed at Resource for London by Street Talk.

You can visit every day between 9am-6pm.

Street Talk is a small charity which takes psychotherapy and art therapy to vulnerable women with a particular focus on women in street prostitution and women who have escaped from traffickers. This exhibition shows the work of three Street Talk art therapists, Catriona Alderton, Asta Jakobs and Helen Valentine. Through our work the Street Talk therapists witness courage and glimpse the infinite beauty of the human spirit.

Catriona Alderton has a deep interest in exploring spirituality and the creative process from a multi-faith and cross-cultural perspective building on her experience of living in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Asta Jakobs, the daughter of a fisherman, grew up in a fishing village in Iceland. Her works are pieces in process and mostly responsive to different experiences, loss, the masculine and feminine, vulnerability, listening out for guidance both from within and around. Knowing without knowing that we know.

Helen Valentine has lived in South Africa and the UK. After graduating in painting she trained to be a Steiner teacher. She is currently teaching art as well as working for Street Talk.

To celebrate UK Black History Month, two members of the Galop team, Nikki Nathan Lucas and Taranjit Chana have designed and produced this exhibition. It includes their choices of the people they believe should be celebrated for their contributions to Black history. They also recognise there are many, many more people that should be up there.

Black history month originated in the United States, where it is known as African-American history month. Today it is celebrated in the USA and Canada in February. Whilst in the UK. Ireland and the Netherlands it is October. It began as a way for remembering important people and events in history of the African diaspora. In the UK, Akyaaba Addai-Sebo was the architect of Black History Month in in 1987 and it’s been celebrated nationwide every year since.

Galop is the UK’s LGBT+ anti-violence charity. For over 35 years we have provided advice, support and advocacy to LGBT+ survivors and campaigned to end anti-LGBT+ abuse and discrimination. Working around three key areas - hate crime, domestic abuse and sexual violence - our mission is to make life safe, just and fair for LGBT+ people.

The Exhibition is displayed at Resource for London and open to visitors 7 days a week (8:30am-6pm).

Come to our special event to mark Black History Month on Tuesday 29th October from 5.30 p.m. till 7 p.m. in the Green Bean Cafe, Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

Hosted by Galop you will have the chance to see an exhibition celebrating the history, achievements and contributions of black people to the UK and the world. There will also be speakers and free refreshments.