Learn whilst connecting with other artists, activists and academics at one of our online events

We invite artists, activists and academics at all stages of their career to join one of our online learning or open space events. Each event is designed to address issues that are relevant to using the arts as a tool for change during a period of global uncertainty, stark inequality and a climate crisis.

Upcoming events

Calling question:  What can creative approaches bring to archiving practices? About this event: Building archival spaces for social justice means disrupting patterns that document and preserve dominant points of view by silencing the lived experiences of everyone else; and subsequently, ensure and deepen societal amnesia.  Miranda Mims, “Archival-Futurism: Archives as Social Justice” _ _ [...]

Collective Encounters is delighted to deliver our popular Trauma Informed Practice for Participatory Artists training in collaboration with Unity Theatre, led by experts in the fields of participatory performance and psychotherapy. This training is specifically for artists, facilitators and activists working in community settings and takes a social justice approach to understanding trauma and [...]