We, Mouries Collective, are a fluid and interdisciplinary group of female artists, researchers and therapists based in Athens, Greece. Originally we gathered due to our common interests in healing and divination practices. We focus on developing connections with trees, plants and the diverse beings with whom we share this planet. We are now working under […]
Domestic resilience and creative communities
Funding OpportunitiesNurture
Nurture documents the development of a raised bed scheme across a city in the UK during the first national lockdown. The project installed 52 raised beds in 33 households as a direct response to the isolation, mental wellbeing and food sovereignty issues triggered by COVID 19.
OLDER and BETTER
A deep on-going concern about ageism in our society. Independent artist Janice Parker,
questions what we have come to accept as normal and asks us to do the same.
performing borders
performingborders is a collectively run, migrant-led platform for artistic research and creation, centered on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders through live art and performance practices. Co-run by Alessandra Cianetti, Xavier de Sousa and Anahí Saravia Herrera, in collaboration with guest curators, thinkers, artists, activists and researchers.
POWER
POWER declares that a climate emergency has arrived on every street. As artists and filmmakers working with our home community we are taking a vital leap of the imagination – giving ourselves the power of government to print money and enact a Green New Deal now setting up a solar POWER STATION across the rooftops of Waltham Forest, London.
PROJECT PAUSE
Project Pause is a collaborative space for people with experience of displacement or migration to share wisdom. These centred-voices share hope and help to all who are learning to navigate a life on pause and the effects of sudden change.
Project Ride Cumbria
Project Ride Cumbria exists to explore and support the emergence of equestrian resources, to facilitate learning, wholeness, equipping and resilience. The vision is to work with a skill mix team to create a process whereby people can discover their gifts, strengths and weaknesses.
Radical Herbalism Gathering & Network
As a collective of medical herbalists, healthcare activists, bodyworkers and designers we have organised Radical Herbalism gatherings for the past eight years. We’re currently offering information and resources through our website, addressing the COVID-19 crisis through the lens of healthcare inequality and race-based and other injustices, with solidarity and support for people and communities experiencing the pandemic and its effects disproportionately.
RADMIN
The project and concept of RADMIN emerged out of an email conversation about
laminating at Bristol’s Cube Cinema. It has since taken on a life of its own.
Its radical yet delicate proposal is to reconsider administration not just as an infernal condition of life but also a site for action and intervention, dark
arts, wild experiments and meaningful work.
Regenerate
Regenerate creates opportunities for young people to thrive. We inspire and support young people by building strong relationships and creating life changing opportunities, helping them grow in confidence, make the best of their lives, and impact the world for good.
Repository of the undercommons – creative response
Repository of the Undercommons (RotU) is a curator/artist residency borne out of Enough! as a way to (re)imagine alternatives + (re)create cultural codes, messages + values for our future(s).
Resilience
The Green Backyard is a community green space in an urban environment, this film is a response to it and is dedicated to all the people who make it the inspirational place it is. Thank you to all of those who contributed. A film by Jay Gearing (Red 7), Kate Marsh & Welly O’Brien
Restore Project
The Restore project is about engaging polar opposite communities, locals of traditional welsh valleys and communities of asylum seekers and refugees, bridging the differences using food and the production of food, creating a space to belong and to learn.
Rethink Food
At Rethink Food we are creating systems where food becomes the solution and not the problem. Our mission is to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children, young people and communities by changing the way we think about food.
Sew and Sow
The Sew and Sow Free libraries project was created to address the urgent need for more sociable and solidarity economies, with the desire to strengthen care-based communities and highlight the feasibility of growing and mending in the domestic scene.
Sewing Café Lancaster
Run by Victoria Frausin, Sewing Café Lancaster is a grassroots project that advocates for an ethical textile industry and sustainable textile practices. We draw on ideas of conviviality in actualizing “the eight ‘Rs’” – revalue, reconceptualize, restructure, relocate, redistribute, reduce, reuse and recycle in relation to clothes and textile production and consumption.
shado mag CIC
shado is a lived experience-led community of artists, activists and journalists united in the fight for social justice. shado provides a space for those across different fields, who are currently working in isolation, to co-exist. We work with a community of over 300 artists, activists and journalists in over 50 countries around the world to spotlight and celebrate necessary and innovative stories.
Shieldfield Art Works
Shieldfield Art Works (or ‘SAW’) is an arts organisation based in Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne. SAW is an artist-led organisation committed to creativity, theological critique and community engagement. Through making art, growing, cooking, discussion and learning, we seek positive change for the welfare of the city, in order to seek out ways of supporting and enabling social transformation.
SHIFT
SHIFT is a digital platform that undertakes research and conversations with UK based learning disabled and neurodivergent artists about where and how their works are placed, showcased, and written about. The accessible films showcase eight artists and their practices, alongside important conversations with these artists, hearing their opinions.
https://www.shift.jenniferlaurengallery.com/
Siyakhuluma Wetalk Podcast
We Talk is a platform that makes asylum seekers and community voices heard. On the podcast we really do welcome everyone.