The Art of Conversation with Bareeka Vrede

The Art of Conversation is back with a third season of artist talks, creativity, and coffee!

Introducing: Bareeka Vrede

On behalf of Black Creatives of Aotearoa (BCA), Bareeka Vrede is a community arts facilitator and part of BCA. She has been a part of teams that have created writing workshops with acclaimed international and national authors, lead the BLM archive, hosted BCAs bookclub, co-curator for the Black Ink book stand at Auckland CBD library, co-edited the Black Ink Zine, and more recently spoken about the history of black literature at the Auckland Writers Festival.

Bareeka will be having a coffee at The Gallery Cafe in UXBRIDGE Arts & Culture centre, where she will chat about collective storytelling and ways of archiving social histories through art. You will also have the opportunity to create a shared tapestry together!

About The Art of Conversation

This project aims to highlight artists that already have a connection with East Auckland or to bring artists in to build new connections within the East Auckland arts community. Each artist will talk about their arts practice and work in their favourite local cafe. This is a free series for audiences to attend, with the hope that we can break the formal nature of artist talks and support local businesses.

All we ask is that when you attend, you purchase a hot or cold drink to support our local and independent cafes!

This season of The Art of Conversation will focus on underrepresented forms of artmaking, such as comics, animation and zinemaking with an aim to uplift diverse communities. We hope these conversations will platform alternative ways of storytelling and thinking about arts beyond traditionally Western perspectives.

While this is a free event series, there are only limited spaces available - Make sure to reserve your spot now!

This is a project funded by Arts Out East, supported by Te Tuhi and the Howick Local Board.

Host or Publisher Jennifer Cheuk