A Fugitive Class: On Refusal, Escape and Joy

Name: A Fugitive Class: On Refusal, Escape and Joy
Start: 2024-10-31T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-31T21:30:00+01:00
Location: 13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom

Schedule

Thu Oct 31 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom | Dundee, SC

Zine making with Akwugo Emejulu.
Taking Audre Lorde’s classic essay, Poetry Is Not A Luxury, as an inspiration, this workshop explores what it means to use beauty as means to transform ourselves and the world. Poetry can be a revolutionary practice in which we refuse to accept the brutality of the world and escape into beauty, into community, into other wonders. Poetry is an act of internal reflection and contemplation but also conspiracy, possibility and change.
The workshop opens with a collective reading and discussion of Poetry is Not A Luxury. We will then read and discuss our favourite poems which helped us to escape other possibilities. We will conclude with a zine-making workshop about escape, joy and poetry.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
SIGN-UP
Event is free and open to all to attend. Sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite. Link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-fugitive-class-on-refusal-escape-and-joy-tickets-1006660467557?aff=oddtdtcreator
PARTICIPANT INFO
We will have papers and pens and scissors available. Please feel free to bring any additional dry drawing/writing material of your preference.
BIOGRAPHY
Akwugo Emejulu is Chair of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender and women of colour’s grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (forthcoming, Manchester University Press), Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press 2022) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019).
ACCESS
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]