BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//O N C A - ECPv6.7.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:O N C A X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://onca.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for O N C A REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220912T174521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T105809Z UID:39450-1663866000-1664038800@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Pakistan Floods: Solidarity Fundraiser Events Programme DESCRIPTION:A third of Pakistan is under water due to the devastating floods that struck in recent weeks. Please come to ONCA to show your support\, learn about the systemic injustices and other issues behind the floods\, and contribute to the relief efforts and fundraiser. \nEntire villages have been swept away\, along with the majority of the country’s crops. More than a million people are homeless and urgently need help to survive\, while more rain is set to make conditions worse. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he has “never seen climate carnage” on the scale at which Pakistan is suffering. Guterres and many commentators blame wealthier countries for contributing to the devastation. But what responsibility exactly do these wealthier nations bear? \nEVENTS PROGRAMME\nThursday 22 September\n\n5-8pm: Performance poetry and music night curated by legendary local queer feminist art collective Devil’s Dyke Network \n6-7pm: Online panel discussion chaired by Dr Nichola Khan\, Co-director of the Centre for Spatial\, Environmental and Cultural Politics\, University of Brighton. (Watch from home via Zoom or Facebook Live\, or from the gallery with DDN.) \n\nFriday 23 September\n\n11am-1pm: Circle Weaving with Saj Fareed \n\n3-5pm: Zines Zinedabad workshop with Soofiya\n\nSaturday 24 September\n\n1-4pm: Film screenings – Voice from the Roof of the World documentary series \n4-5pm: Ecofeminism and Pakistani Women’s Poetry workshop with Manjot Dhaliwal \n\nArtwork fundraiser\nThroughout the events\, artists will be selling low cost prints to raise funds for Pakistan – these will be printed to order for a minimum donation of £5.00 and poster prints on 100gsm. \nSoofiya\n \nAbout Soofiya: \nSoofiya’s design practice centres around illustration\, visual identity and book design\, with most clients tending to be in the arts\, cultural and activist sector. Soofiya’s art practice and writings aim to articulate a commentary on gender\, race\, politics and bodies through a DIY and therapeutically informed approach. Soofiya has worked as a lecturer in design and arts at Universities and HE institutions nationally and internationally in the UK and Xiamen\, China. Soofiya is currently an associate lecture at UAL on their MA Internet Equalities course as well as a sessional lecturer at Ravensbourne and Brighton University. \nAbinaya Kamalanathan\n \nAbout Abinanya: \n“Hello\, my name is Abinaya. I live in London and I’m passionate about children’s illustration. I create digital and hand drawn illustrations for children\, on subjects that affect children and to look at certain topics from a child’s point of view.” \nSabba Khan\n \nAbout Sabba Khan: \nSabba Khan is a visual artist and graphic novelist based in Newham\, London.\nPage 269 & 270 of Sabba Khan‘s graphic novel\, The Roles We Play\, is an artistic response to an excerpt of Allama Iqbal’s poem ‘Manzil Talash Kar’. The poem talks of coming face to face with one’s oppositions\, both metaphysical and worldly. We are invited to be brave\, and summon the courage from within to face whatever demons lie ahead. Later in the poem\, he proclaims “Every person is burning in the fire of oppositions. Search for the water that distinguishes that fire”. As the climate emergency comes to a head in places like Pakistan\, Bangladesh\, Haiti and Somalia\, it feels important to use these ancestral messages from the past to fuel our collective action.\n\nSaj Fareed\n \nOriginal A3 & A4 mindfulness drawings. \nAbout Saj: \nSaj Fareed is a British Asian slow artist and artist educator. She has developed her career working on a wide range of art education projects for museums\, galleries\, schools and many other establishments for over 25 years. Saj has a keen interest in promoting the arts and crafts to a wider audience and as a tool for creative expression and learning. The aim is to also empower and inspire individuals in their own creative process. Through her practice\, Saj takes inspiration from her desire to live a slower pace in her life and the importance of creative self-care for our wellbeing. \n  \nThese prints will be available to buy online soon. If you’re an artist and would like to sell you prints at this event and online via our website please email info@onca.org.uk. \nMore artists TBA. \nDonations\nAll of these events are drop in and free to attend but donations are encouraged. All proceeds will go to WDF (Women Democratic Front)a Pakistan-based\, independent socialist-feminist resistance movement\, providing aid to communities affected by flooding since 2018. \n___ \nImage credit: Amandeep Singh \nImage description: A crescent moon lies sideways\, like a boat\, on a watery blue background. A child sits on the crescent\, head bowed\, back resting against the star which has also fallen from the Pakistan flag which hangs limply from the boat’s mast\, with no moon and star. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/pakistan-floods-solidarity/ LOCATION:ONCA Gallery\, 14 St George's Place\, Brighton\, East Sussex\, BN1 4GB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Course,Exhibition,Film Screening,Private View,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot_2022-09-12-18-40-17-19_1c337646f29875672b5a61192b9010f9-e1663005362581.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220805T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220805T113927Z UID:39309-1662575400-1662580800@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Listening Lab with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia DESCRIPTION:A listening lab featuring sounds capturing in The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere during Andrés Saenz de Sicilia’s TLC artist residency. \nJoin us on the ONCA Barge at Brighton Marina for a listening lab featuring sounds capturing in the Brighton & Lewes Downs UNESCO Biosphere during Andrés Saenz de Sicilia’s The Living Coast Artist Residency. An immersive soundscape lasting around 45 minutes will be performed on a multi-channel sound system\, with space for participants to sit or lie down and listen. The presentation will be following by a discussion between the artist and audience. \nAbout the artist\nAndrés Saenz de Sicilia is a British-Mexican sound artist/performer\, philosopher and researcher. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy\, Kingston University London and teaches at Central Saint Martins\, University of the Arts London. His works and performances have been featured in programs at the British Museum\, Victoria & Albert Museum\, Café OTO\, Whitechapel Gallery\, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma\, Villa Lontana\, Flat Time House and ZKM Center for Art and Media\, Karlsruhe. He has released music both under his own name and as Pataphysical on record labels including 12th Isle\, Good Morning Tapes and Villa Lontana Records. \nWEBSITE \nPlease note: this event will take place on the lower deck of the Barge which is not wheelchair accessible. Please email info@onca.org.uk if you have any questions or access requirements. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/listening-lab-with-andres-saenz-de-sicilia/ CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Andres-e1659699553310.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220901T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220808T160028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T142749Z UID:39333-1662057000-1662062400@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Epha Roe In Conversation DESCRIPTION:Epha Roe in conversation with Dr Annebella Pollen about the processes and ideas behind their solo exhibition: Photosymbiosis \nJoin us in the gallery to learn more about how and why Epha Roe makes their analogue photographs and the research behind them. In this informal event Epha will be in conversation with their PhD supervisor Dr Annebella Pollen. There will also be opportunities for audience Q&A. \nDr Annebella Pollen is Reader in History of Art and Design at University of Brighton\, with particular research interests in photography studies and British cultural history. Her books include Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (2015)\, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (2015) and Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain (2021). \n___ \nThis is an in person event but\, as the gallery capacity is limited\, it will also be lived streamed via our Facebook page or for those not using Facebook it can be accessed via Zoom: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84428741636?pwd=WG5BRDZ0UlhPdmdNZzg3eTNZekdaQT09 \nMeeting ID: 844 2874 1636 \nPasscode: 132691 \nRead more about the exhibition here. \nFree tickets are available for those that need them (including carers & PA’s). Donation tickets available for those able to give and are a vital form of support for ONCA’s work with artists and communities. \nAccess information about our venue available here. Please email lydia@onca.org.uk\, call 01273 607101 or drop in during our opening hours (Wed – Fri\, 1 – 6pm & Sat 1 – 4pm) to discuss further. \n  \n___ \nImage credit: Photograph by Epha Roe \nImage description: cropped photograph of a mature oak tree. The tones of the leaves are lush pastel pinks and reds\, envisaging a chemical pigment in oak leaves called phytochrome that detects seasonal change through the levels of red light in the atmosphere. The leaves sway and blur in the breeze. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/epha-roe-in-conversation-2/ LOCATION:ONCA Gallery\, 14 St George's Place\, Brighton\, East Sussex\, BN1 4GB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/4e35a9db918b1b1c6cc20b279c037ac1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220630T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220630T213000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220608T171148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220617T110802Z UID:39062-1656613800-1656624600@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Resisting Killer Corporations: Strategic Use of Law Against Extractivism DESCRIPTION:Join us in the gallery for an evening of talks from inspirational movement leaders and a workshop exploring the strategic use of litigation as a tool for activism. \nKiller corporations with headquarters in London are promoting extractivism in the Global South\, violating human and ecological rights. Communities such as the Yukpas (in Colombia) have a unique and long trajectory of resistance. Their first hand experience is invaluable for justice to be sought through strategic litigation\, yet often they face severe threats and difficulties for resisting transnational corporations. Join us to learn about the strategic use of litigation and international solidarity to amplify anti-extractivist struggle. \nWe are thrilled to be working with Colombian youth justice advocate Helena Müllenbach Martinez and University of Sussex’s Centre for Global Political Economy to welcome a stellar panel of speakers – Mikaela Loach\, Gilberto Torres (via Zoom)\, Lara Montesinos Coleman and Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz – to ONCA Gallery. \nAfter a break with refreshments\, please stay for a workshop on how to use litigation strategically against corporations. The aim will be to make a long-term plan (up to a year) thinking through how we can mobilise to work with the Yukpas and use litigation as a tool of activism. We’ll be focused on outcomes and commitments. Workshop facilitator: Ketan Jha of Plan B Earth and Lawyers for Nature. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nMikaela Loach is a climate\, social and racial justice activist who has been at the forefront of the #StopCambo campaign which has successfully pressured stakeholders such as Shell and Siccar Point to withdraw or pause from their plans on investing in a new oilfield off the Shetland Islands. Moreover\, Mikaela is one of three Paid to Pollute claimants who have taken the UK government to court\, demanding it to terminate public payments and tax benefits for oil and gas companies which threaten the UK’s commitment to net zero emissions and consequently a liveable future on this planet. \nGilberto Torres is a Colombian Trade Union Leader who survived a brutal abduction and torture by paramilitaries hired by Ocensa\, a Colombian subsidiary of the oil company British Petroleum (BP). In an unprecedented case 13 years after his kidnapping\, Torres took BP to court in London. Currently exiled in Venezuela\, he remains an outspoken human rights advocate and political activist. \n Lara Montesinos Coleman: Reader in International Relations\, Law and Development at the University of Sussex whose research and publications revolve around issues of international resistance\, dissent\, and solidarity as well as critical legal thought and human rights. For over a decade\, Lara has been working with a network of peasant\, trade union and indigenous organizations in Colombia. Drawing on this ethnographic engagement\, she co-authored a book which explores the possibilities and pitfalls of the strategic use of law to challenge the pervasive human and environmental harm caused by the extractivist operations of multinational corporations. \n Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz is the Senior International Programmes Officer (Latin America) at War on Want in London\, working primarily with frontline communities resisting the expansion of extractivism and defending their territories and water. He is part of grassroots Latin American collective\, Movimiento Jaguar Despierto\, London Mining Network and London-based environmental justice collective\, The Wretched of the Earth. \n_______________________________________ \nThis event will be streamed via ONCA’s Facebook page. \nThe talks will be transcribed and shared online after the event. \nONCA Gallery is wheelchair accessible. Please email info@onca.org.uk to let us know about any access needs. Please wear a mask and sanitise your hands. \nImage credit: Margot Kafka URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/resisting-killer-corporations-strategic-use-of-law-against-extractivism/ LOCATION:ONCA\, 14 Saint George's Place\, Brighton\, England\, BN1 4GB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/d6244557cff48d562a6b18a8be75c383-e1654708568128.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220427T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220406T083931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T154332Z UID:38680-1651075200-1651082400@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Anti-colonial ecologies: Indigenous art and resistance in Brazil DESCRIPTION:Indigenous peoples in Brazil have been fighting colonial conquest for centuries\, trying to protect their lands\, livelihoods and cosmovisions. \nUnder the double assault of a hostile government pushing for expansion of extractive industries in Indigenous territories and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, these struggles have only accelerated in recent years. Amid the tragedy of the pandemic\, with death\, mourning and the cowardly use of the virus as a tool to plunder rights\, various forms of cure began to arise\, which were found in the territories\, hidden in the memories of the elderly. From sadness\, the light of resistance is kindled\, the power of recreation of the world. From these territories of art and war emerge different forms of resistance\, narratives\, constructions and reconstructions of worlds torn by conquest\, colonialism and capitalism. \nThis free seminar brings together artists and academics to discuss Indigenous art and resistance and anti-colonial ecologies that seek another horizon of conviviality of differences and more just and egalitarian ways of living. \nThis is a hybrid event\, accessible via a livestream from our Facebook page. \nSeminar Details\nLocation: University of Sussex Campus\, Jubilee Building (Room G30)\, 4-6pm. No need to sign up. \nIntroduction – Persephone Pearl (ONCA) \nSession 1: ‘From atmospheres of violence towards another sky’ – Dr Mary Menton (Research Lead\, Not1More;  Research Associate\, School of Global Studies) \nSession 2: ‘Reclaiming imaginaries and enchanting horizons: anti-colonial ecologies\, art and resistance in Brazil’ – Dr Felipe Milanez (Professor at Institute of Humanities\, Arts and Sciences\, Federal University of Bahia\, Brazil) \nSession 3: ‘Memories of the future: art\, mourning and struggle’ – Arissana Pataxó (Indigenous artist; Phd student at Federal University of Bahia; teacher at Indigenous College of Coroa Vermelha\, Brazil) \nChairs: Dr Mika Peck (School of Life Sciences) and Dr Evan Killick (School of Global Studies) \nThis seminar is co-hosted by ONCA and the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) and forms part of the University of Sussex Biodiversity Week taking place 25-29 April 2022 and coinciding with the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) 2022. \nFor further information about the topic of this event\, visit the ‘Another Sky Project’ and the SSRP-funded project ‘Indigenous visions for rights-based approaches to sustainability’ websites. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/anti-colonial-ecologies-indigenous-art-and-resistance-in-brazil/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screenshot-2022-04-06-at-09.30.56-e1649234035489.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220324T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220324T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220216T120341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T124910Z UID:38488-1648143000-1648148400@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Letters to the Earth Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join the CDE Southeast Coastal Hub at Hastings Common Room for a free Letters to the Earth workshop that explores the subject of the climate and ecological emergency. \nLetters to the Earth is a creative participatory campaign launched in 2019 in collaboration with Culture Declares Emergency. It has generated\, received and amplified thousands of letters to or from the Earth from people all over the world. \nThis workshop will create space for participants to share responses to the climate and ecological emergency\, and facilitate the generation of creative and personal responses through the writing and sharing of Letters – which can be to or from the Earth\, another species\, person\, moment in time or place. Expect new conversations and a chance to find common ground and new collaborations. The facilitator is Kay Michael\, a theatre-maker\, co-founder of Culture Declares and the director of Letters to the Earth. All ages are welcome. \nThis free session will take place at Hastings’ lovely new community space The Common Room on March 24th from 5.30-7pm. It will be followed by a Transition Town Hastings Food for Thought pot luck supper – please bring a dish to share if you would like to stay on for the evening. \nCulture Declares Emergency website \nLetters to the Earth website URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/letters-to-the-earth-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/f3cdb4f67d15899ae1793d28913722fa-e1645013301812.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220312T163120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220312T163552Z UID:38584-1647536400-1647543600@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Sensing Sound: Ali Donaldson & Chris Cutler in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Two strangers exchange experiences of listening and hearing loss. \nTwo professionals from different fields exchange experiences of listening and hearing loss. How do they hear – and sometimes mis-hear – sounds\, music\, noise\, nature and speech? What have they learned about sound and living with disability? What difference do the latest technologies make? And how can others include them in social exchanges? \nAli Donaldson is a specialist in writing and communications\, having worked as a policy researcher\, archaeological digger\, magazine writer\, editor and writing coach. \nChris Cutler is a musician and composer who was in Pere Ubu\, worked with The Residents\, wrote for orchestras\, made radio art pieces and ran a year-long soundscape programme for Resonance FM. \nThis is a hybrid event that will be livestreamed by Sound Art Brighton. \nRefreshments will be available to those attending the venue. Read the accessibility information for the ONCA Barge here. \nSound Art Brighton Festival | Third Thursdays URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/sensing-sound-ali-donaldson-chris-cutler-in-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/6b922d36be67dbc8d3c49af69ce72503-e1647102931123.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220223T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220203T172427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T173136Z UID:38452-1645641000-1645646400@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Meet the Artist: Olga Saavedra Montes De Oca DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal online conversation with our current exhibiting artist Olga Saavedra Montes De Oca. \nOlga will be joined by Emile Devereaux\, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex and Maddy Kelly\, ONCA’s Communications Manager to discuss the themes within the exhibition in more detail. There will also be the opportunity for audience Q&A. \nBy reflecting on contemporary images of transgender individuals in relation to their family\, the artist seeks to query a focus on gender transition as a contemporary\, individual process\, to re-locate it in personal and family histories. The focus is on the heteronormative family as a space where gendered differences take place. \nRead more about the exhibition here. \nThis event is offered on a donation basis with free tickets also available to those that need them. \n_______________ \nImage description: A photograph by artist Olga Saavedra Montes de Oca of an outdoor scene. The viewer looks up at a closeup scene of denim jeans with rips in the legs and a clear tarpaulin sheet hanging on a washing line that is propped up by a long thin piece of wood\, surrounded by trees. Clear blue skies peek through the leaves of the large stubby palm trees and taller native trees\, making the tarpaulin appear baby blue whilst keeping the scene darker and intimate. There is a top section on a wall visible at the bottom of the photograph. A pair of navy Adidas trainers with three yellow stripes and white soles are sitting on the wall along with a dirty\, plastic football and a pair of sun damaged orangey rubber gloves. Some small green foliage is sprouting from the wall seen in the bottom left corner of the photograph to the left of the trainers. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/meet-the-artist-olga-saavedra-montes-de-oca/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/284772e09edd1a0a2361a677d10a9178.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T110000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220113T185111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T173454Z UID:38327-1644487200-1644490800@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Culture Declares Emergency SE Coastal Hub Meet #2 DESCRIPTION:New year CDE catch-up! \nJoin us for our first 2022 online gathering: a post-COP26 catch-up\, a discussion of possibilities for Refugee Week\, and conversations about what we’re up to and next steps for our regional Culture Declares Emergency Hub. Speakers TBC – watch this space! \nMany thanks to Polly Gifford and What Next? Brighton & Hove for collaborating on this and co-hosting the hub with us. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/culture-declares-emergency-se-coastal-hub-meet-2-2/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/696a1abeaf7d7cb5082b104891b086cc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20220119T165555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T170722Z UID:38334-1643826600-1643830200@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Jennifer Uchendu & Sarah Ray: Launching The Eco-anxiety in Africa Project DESCRIPTION:ONCA is thrilled to host Jennifer Uchendu in conversation with Sarah Jaquette Ray to mark the launch of The Eco-anxiety in Africa Project (TEAP). \nTo coincide with the launch of The Eco-anxiety in Africa Project (TEAP) on February 2nd\, join Nigeria-based project founder Jennifer Uchendu in an online conversation with US-based author of A Field Guide To Climate Anxiety Sarah Jaquette Ray to discuss the climate change-related mental health issues facing communities in Nigeria and across the continent of Africa. \nTEAP seeks to understand and validate the experiences of eco-anxiety and other environment-related emotions in Africans. Environmental enthusiasts and climate advocates there feel a form of eco-anxiety that is unique to the African population. Africa is among the continents which are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis\, combined with biodiversity loss\, plastic and oil pollution\, as well as illegal wildlife trade. The erosion of environments\, cultures and histories has intense impacts on people’s emotions. The direct connections between the changing climate and other social challenges such as increased spread in communicable diseases\, food insecurity\, community displacement etc. are not always obvious; TEAP intends to raise awareness of these issues while making space for dialogue\, support and self-care with young people\, women\, farmers\, frontline workers and environmental practitioners who are consistently exposed to the reality and potential future threats. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nJennifer Uchendu is an ecofeminist and sustainable development advocate based in Lagos. She is the founder of SustyVibes\, a youth-led organisation making sustainability actionable and relatable to young people. Jennifer’s interests lie at the intersections of youth\, women and climate action. She researches and advocates on issues around climate justice\, art\, youth and eco-anxiety. \nWebsite \nSarah Jaquette Ray is professor and chair of environmental studies at Humboldt State University\, on Wiyot territory in Arcata\, California. Her work focuses on the environmental humanities\, climate justice pedagogy\, and climate psychology. She is author of two books\, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture\, and most recently\, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. She publishes and speaks extensively on the topics of emotions\, climate justice\, and youth activism\, and is currently working on a project to help educators inculcate existential skills that students will need to survive and thrive in a climate-changed world\, An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators. \nWebsite \nACCESSIBILITY\nThe discussion will be hosted via a Zoom meeting. Unfortunately due to limited resources\, it is conducted in the English language only. It will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online afterwards. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk. \nIf possible\, we invite you to make a donation when you reserve your space at this event. Money raised will go to TEAP. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/launching-the-eco-anxiety-in-africa-project-jennifer-uchendu-sarah-ray/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk,Young People ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bbc56ff8ab89817529a312bd6cc44fcd-e1642611392563.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20211217T145057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T190751Z UID:38266-1642096800-1642102200@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Meet the Artists: A.MAL Collective DESCRIPTION:Informal conversation between A.MAL Collective and ONCA about their current exhibition: In\, Among & Between من الى عن على في \nWinners of ONCA’s Lost Species Day 2021 commission\, A.MAL is a curatorial platform exploring ecology\, migration and post-coloniality through speculative art and research projects. \nA.MAL cast a critical eye on past and present global issues while seeking to harness human connection and creativity to imagine a better\, more hopeful future. Always questioning\, always exploring. A.MAL aims to address the interconnectivity of colonialism and climate injustice by questioning current relationships between the Global North and Global South. Challenging over-consumption (which is leading to extinction of species\, the pollution of seas and climate change as a whole) through imagination and creativity. \nThere will also be the opportunity for audience Q&A. \nRead more about the exhibition here. \nThis event is offered on a donation basis with free tickets also available to those that need them. \nImage credit: Photograph by Ella Hunter \nImage description: Photograph of Leila from A.MAL Collective standing in front of a projection of one of A.MAL’s films. Leila is stood sideways on and their silhouette is cast onto the film. They have a shaved head and are wearing silver hoop earrings\, a cream jacket and red scarf. The film shows a blurry image of a beach in El Jadida (Morocco) with plastic waste on the shore and a few people sitting on rocks near the water. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/meet-the-artists-a-mal-collective/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fdcf1e6d99c223ab5dfef17e2f193e9e.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211130T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211130T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20211103T063647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211115T120614Z UID:37895-1638297000-1638300600@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Lost Species Day 2021: Interdependence Ritual with Bea Xu DESCRIPTION:Join Bea Xu on Lost Species Day for a ritual inspired by the theme of ecological entanglement and webs. \nHaving initiated an online ritual offering last year during the winter lockdown\, Remembrance Day for Lost Species is glad to repeat this practice. We’re delighted to announce the return of transpersonal* ritual practitioner Bea Xu to hold the space for this year’s Lost Species Day. \nBea will facilitate a ritual inspired by the theme of ecological entanglement and webs – calling in the networks that exist across the elements of air\, fire\, water and earth. Participants will be supported to explore the Lost Species Day tenth anniversary theme of Interdependence through the human and more-than-human relationships they weave; visible and invisible\, at the planetary and microbial level. \nLost Species Day co-founders will introduce Bea and offer a short remembrance reading at the start of the event. \nNo prior experience or materials are necessary. \n*The transpersonal is defined as “experiences in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind\, life\, psyche or cosmos”. \nABOUT BEA XU\nBea is a Chinese-British\, transdisciplinary psychic worker from London currently located in Vilnius for the 9th Rupert Alternative Education Programme. Using collaborative play\, speculative fiction and therapeutic intervention they design and means-test integrated\, sustainable and post-capitalist realities with live audiences. Bea’s work is intuitive\, visionary and narrative-driven – foregrounding blood magic\, decolonized time and non-binary logic within a world-building and ritualistic framework. \nBea is the creatrix of ritual laboratory LUNARCHY 2.0; has collaborated with Omsk Social Club\, FemmeDaemonium\, Heal Her Project\, the RenewRebels; and had work selected by UNFIX Festival 2021\, Tech Arts Gallery for the 14th Baltic Triennial\, Solo Show\, Artlake Festival 2020\, Virtual Futures\, The Rollright Fayre 2018\, ONCA Gallery\, Gods & Radicals Press\, and upcoming projects with Furtherfield Gallery and IAM Festival 2021. She has a background in climate communications and campaigns and co-founded a pan-European sustainable travel startup that is in its incubation phase presently. Bea is an English graduate from Oxford University and is a trainee integrative\, transpersonal psychotherapist studying at CCPE. \nACCESSIBILITY\nThis ritual will be hosted via a Zoom meeting. Unfortunately due to limited resources\, it is conducted in the English language only. It will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online afterwards. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk. \nIf possible\, we invite you to make a donation when you reserve your space at this event. Money raised through the Lost Species Day 2021 online programme will go to Pacific Climate Warriors and the SustyVibes fund for climate anxiety in Africa. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/lost-species-day-2021-interdependence-ritual-with-bea-xu/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Performance,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ac41703d40d11c078831390bc4091223.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211129T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211129T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20211103T071228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T222226Z UID:37901-1638210600-1638216000@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Lost Species Day 2021: Interdependence in a Changing Climate - panel talk DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion of interdependence\, eco-emotions and ecological loss through a Global Majority and youth climate justice lens. \nIn the wake of the COP26 climate summit and on the eve of Lost Species Day 2021\, join ecofeminist Jennifer Uchendu\, climate anxiety teacher Sarah Jaquette Ray\, youth activist Elouise Mayall and interdisciplinary artist Beverly Naidus for an exploration of interdependence\, eco-emotions and ecological loss through a Global Majority and youth climate justice lens. \nAbout the speakers\nJennifer Uchendu is an ecofeminist and sustainable development advocate based in Lagos. She is the founder of SustyVibes\, a youth-led organisation making sustainability actionable and relatable to young people. Jennifer’s interests lie at the intersections of youth\, women and climate action. She researches and advocates on issues around climate justice\, art\, youth and eco-anxiety. \nWebsite \nSarah Jaquette Ray is professor and chair of environmental studies at Humboldt State University\, on Wiyot territory in Arcata\, California. Her work focuses on the environmental humanities\, climate justice pedagogy\, and climate psychology. She is author of two books\, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture\, and most recently\, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. She publishes and speaks extensively on the topics of emotions\, climate justice\, and youth activism\, and is currently working on a project to help educators inculcate existential skills that students will need to survive and thrive in a climate-changed world\, An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators. \nWebsite \nBeverly Naidus is a US-based interdisciplinary artist\, writer and facilitator. She has been creating interactive installations\, digital projects\, artist books and narrative and conceptual drawings for over four decades. Inspired by lived experience\, topics in her art focus on environmental and social issues\, including how we are individually and collectively affected by racism\, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression. \nWebsite \nElouise Mayall is a Master’s student at the University of East Anglia where she researches population ecology and rewilding alongside studying in impacts of eco-anxiety on young people around the world. She is also a member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition\, a youth activist group focusing on bringing climate justice to the forefront of the climate movement. \nTwitter \nAccessibility\nThe discussion will be hosted via a Zoom webinar. Unfortunately due to limited resources\, it is conducted in the English language only. It will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online afterwards. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk. \nIf possible\, we invite you to make a donation when you reserve your space at this event. Money raised through the Lost Species Day 2021 online programme will go to Pacific Climate Warriors and the SustyVibes fund for climate anxiety in Africa. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/lost-species-day-2021-interdependence-in-a-changing-climate-panel-talk/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-16-at-22.11.03.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211128T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211128T213000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20211102T043155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211128T161642Z UID:37875-1638122400-1638135000@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Lost Species Day 2021: Vigil for the Smooth Handfish DESCRIPTION:A space for a digital congregation to contemplate loss\, grief\, the parameters of care\, the interconnectedness of conservation and radical hope\, and “collaborative survival”. \nFeaturing 27 unique contributions from individuals and communities across the globe including scholar\, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate\, Dr Vandana Shiva; Aboriginal Australian writer and scholar\, Bruce Pascoe; Palestinian artist and conservationist\, Vivien Sansour and Canadian cellist Zöe Keating. \nThe Vigil will be followed by a live conversation facilitated by Fleur Ramsay\, Special Counsel – International Program and Chair of the First Nations and Indigenous Peoples Program Working Group\, Environmental Defenders Office with: First Nations storyteller and activist\, Chris Bonney;  Palestinian artist and conservationist\, Vivien Sansour; grief worker and somatic educator Camille Barton; Vigil for the Smooth Handfish Artistic Director\, Daz Chandler. \nPlease visit handfishvigil.com for more information. \ninstructions TO JOIN THE EVENT\nInfo to participate in the Vigil for the Smooth Handfish and the live conversation “How Do Grief\, Ritual and Creativity Serve the Climate Crisis?” – both of which are taking place today on Sunday\, November 28\, 2021 between 6pm and 9.30pm (GMT):\n\n*VIGIL 18:00 – 20:30 (GMT)\n\nFrom 6pm (GMT)\, join the Vigil for the Smooth Handfish – featuring 27 unique and thoughtful contributions from individuals and communities from around the world. Join the Vigil for the Smooth Handfish live from 6pm on YouTube here:\nhttps://youtu.be/ip6FRvrfpSg\n\nFor your convenience\, The Vigil will also be streamed on @TheParallelEffect\, @ONCAarts and @LostSpeciesDay Facebook and Instagram channels.\n \n*LIVE PANEL CONVERSATION 20:30 – 21:30 (GMT)\n“How Do Grief\, Ritual and Creativity serve the Climate Crisis?”\nFrom 8.30pm –  immediately following The Vigil presentation – join some of The Vigil’s contributing artists for a live panel conversation exploring how grief\, ritual\, creativity and beauty may serve the Climate Crisis?”\n\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88609837304?pwd=U01pN0xGSUJyb3g1UWl3Mko5K2VVUT09\nPasscode: 024483\nAbout the congregation\nThe Smooth Handfish – a sea dweller with bulging eyes\, a distinctive fin on its head\, and hand-like fins that allowed it to walk on the seabed – was once so plentiful in the Tasman region\, it was one of the first fish species to be documented in ‘Australia’. In July last year\, it was declared extinct. What is known of its collective story – within the limits of human cognition of its existence and loss – feels relevant to where we find ourselves today. \nFor many people\, the last two years in particular\, have given multiple pauses to rethink the question\, ‘What does it take to survive?’ These are difficult times in the midst of multiple crises\, with profound losses occurring each day. The frantic pace of the world and the type of systems that much of humankind are expected to navigate\, has meant that over the years many important personal and communal rituals have been misplaced or usurped. Spaces for meaningful philosophical discourse have been lost – as well as spaces for connection with living companions – human\, non-human\, across earth\, ocean\, freshwater\, ice… \nTo reckon with this\, The Parallel Effect – a collective of creators and thinkers – have curated a Vigil for the Smooth Handfish. Our intention is to provide a space for congregation\, to contemplate loss\, grief\, the parameters of care\, the interconnectedness of conservation and radical hope\, and “collaborative survival”. \nThis pre-recorded two and half hour congregation\, first shared in November 2020\, features 27 unique contributions by renowned artists\, musicians\, scholars\, scientists and First Nations speakers from communities across the globe including ‘Australia’\, India\, US\, UK\, Germany\, Morocco\, Syria\, Afghanistan and Palestine. Contributions take on a multiplicity of forms: music\, spoken word\, performance\, animation\, academic papers and video essays. Many have been developed collaboratively between contributors\, as the Vigil creates a space to foster reflexive interdisciplinary multimodal works at the nexus of art\, politics\, science and geography. \nEach contributor has been given the freedom to remember and respond to the loss of the Smooth Handfish however they wish. \nAustralian First Nations man\, Chris Bonney\, shares a 130\,000 year old Ngarrindjeri Dreaming story about sustainability; biological anthropologist\, Dr Barbara J. King presents some of her research documenting grief and bereavement across the animal kingdom; filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour confronts the parameters of care; and Afghan artist Kabir Mokamel — joining us from his home in Kabul — articulates the relationship between time and daily tragedy in a war-zone. \nAs each uniquely mourns the loss of the Smooth Handfish\, in communion they offer a collective expression and reflection of grief and survival in an increasingly complex\, and often far too difficult\, world. \nAccessibility: \nVigil for the Smooth Handfish will be streamed via YouTube Live. Unfortunately due to limited resources\, it is conducted in the English language only. The event is captioned and transcripts are available upon request. \nThe post-Vigil conversation will be hosted on Zoom – a webinar link will be sent shortly beforehand. It will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online afterwards. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk. \n\nIf possible\, we invite you to make a donation when you reserve your space at this event. Money raised through the Lost Species Day 2021 online programme will go to Pacific Warriors and the SustyVibes fund for climate anxiety in Africa. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/vigil-for-the-smooth-handfish/ CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Online Event,Performance,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Vigil-Key-Art-SquareImage-Only-e1635827655648.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T184500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T220000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20211011T133536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T141810Z UID:37709-1636656300-1636668000@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Sacha Taki (Songs of the Forest) DESCRIPTION:“Our forest sings through all the living beings in it; we sing to the jungle\, and we want it to be like this forever” (Nancy Santi 2019) \nSacha Taki (Songs of the Forest) is a short documentary about the irrevocable links between biological and cultural diversity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. \nIn the film members of the Pueblo Ancestral Kichwa Kawsak Sacha (PAKKS)\, an indigenous organization in the province of Pastaza\, describe how their soundscape is a critical point of contact for communication between humans and all other beings in the forest – the animals\, weather\, forest spirits and their ancestors. This communication is the foundation of Sumak Allpa – “a land without evil”. The film is accompanied by an exquisite illustration of how humans listen to all the beings of the forest to live better lives. \nThe film and illustration were created as part of a participatory action project carried out with the communities in order to register and articulate the ecological\, cultural\, social and spiritual value of their forests. This in turn contributes to an ongoing project of the same name which addresses the conservation of biological and cultural diversity through soundscape heritage and has enabled the first step in applying for cultural heritage status\, toward protection of their natural and cultural heritage. \nThe event is the world premiere of a short documentary (15 mins in Spanish with English subtitles) and exhibition of these exquisite illustrations\, followed by a chance to talk with the film maker\, artist\, project researchers\, NGO director and community members. \nThrough this work we gain insight into the cosmovision of the PAKKS community\, we understand the soundscape\, as a nexus between nature and culture; we realise that we cannot understand and protect one without considering the other. Insights from the communities invite us to reconsider global conservation imperatives and to reflect on our own relationship with the rest of the natural world. \nPanelists include: \n\nPaola Moscoso – Independent researcher\, Ecuador\nGus Chiriboga – Film maker\, Ecuador\nSozapato – Illustrator\, Ecuador\nDidier Lacaze – Director\, Sacha Warmi Intercultural Health Programs\, Ecuador\nAlice Eldridge\, Reader in Sonic Systems\, University of Sussex\, UK\n\n“It is through these songs that we communicate with the forest and its guardian spirits\, to call the animals of the forest or the fish of the river\, to invoke or propitiate the fertility of the gardens\, to cure illnesses and diseases\, to bring tranquility to families\, to remember and transmit the teachings left by our ancestors\, to live well together. They are like pathways and bridges that reconnect us with our history and our origins. The living beings of the jungle also have their own way of expressing the life that manifests itself through them. Their songs and ours celebrate life. The ensemble of songs that can be heard in is a symphony which took thousands of years to write. It is a unique and priceless creation\, which we cannot let be destroyed or disappear.” (SWF) \nThis event is a part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. It is a co-production between Sussex Humanities Lab\, Experimental Ecologies initiative and ONCA\, and will be streamed on As If Radio as part of COP26. The film and illustrations were created through an action research project funded by Sussex Sustainability Research Programme‘s Global Challenges Research Fund. \nWe were honoured to work closely with Sacha Warmi Foundation in contributing to their excellent ongoing work to fortify and revitalize traditional systems in the Ecuadorian Amazon. \nFor more information about Sacha Taki\, visit the PAKKS community website and Sacha Warmi Newsletter \nThis is a hybrid event that will be in person in Brighton and streamed globally online – please ensure that you select the correct ticket type. \nThis event is free\, but please consider making a donation via Sacha Warmi foundation to support the PAKKS communities in protecting their natural and cultural heritage. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/sacha-taki-songs-of-the-forest/ CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2a70aa252a86cf598072ef4f14a3cb1d-e1643045084925.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20211022T035926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T035955Z UID:37802-1636038000-1636052400@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Atmospheres of Resistance DESCRIPTION:Join representatives from a range of grassroots campaigning organisations at the Sustainable Glasgow Landing for an evening of talks and short films by indigenous artists and land defenders from Brazil\, Cambodia and the UK. \nONCA is supporting and facilitating this programme of art and conversation from Not1More; Zé Claudio and Maria Institute (IZM); Cambodian Youth Network; Um Outro Céu (Another Sky); Together We Ride. \nArtists\, activists and researchers will share films that explore and highlight a wide range of lived experience and resistance to ecologically and culturally destructive extractive projects\, ranging from mega dams and logging to the construction of HS2.  \nExpect discussions about the specific stories of resistance\, as well as exploration of the commonalities and differences of struggles to defend lands and the environment in different countries. \nThursday 4 November\, 3-7pm \nThe Sustainable Glasgow Landing \n220 Broomielaw \nGlasgow G1 4RU \n  \n  URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/atmospheres-of-resistance/ LOCATION:The Sustainable Glasgow Landing\, 220 Broomielaw\, Glasgow\, G1 4RU\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/6.-Farewell-ceremony-2018-1-scaled-e1634874974366.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T110000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210903T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T161441Z UID:37548-1632391200-1632394800@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Culture Declares Emergency South East Coastal Hub Launch DESCRIPTION:Come to the online launch of the Culture Declares Emergency South East Coast Hub. \nCulture Declares Emergency (or CDE) is a growing movement of individuals and organisations in the cultural sector declaring climate and ecological emergency. Its aim is for the sector to be a leading contributor to creating a regenerative future that protects the planet and sustains everyone\, everywhere. CDE’S mission is to grow\, support and mobilise a movement of declarers in the UK cultural sector\, and to inspire and work with others internationally. \nIn partnership with What Next? Brighton & Hove\, and building on 2018-19 WN Climate & Culture meetings and other initiatives such as Hastings Sustainability on Sea Festival\, ONCA invites you to the launch of the Culture Declares Emergency South East Coast Hub. \nCDE advocate Polly Gifford will introduce the project\, regional CDE organiser Mike Prior will talk about the lively Kirklees CDE Hub\, and Persephone Pearl will talk about ONCA’s experience of declaring climate and ecological emergency in 2019. This is a chance to meet like minds\, re-ignite environmental projects and commitments as individuals\, organisations and as a community. Join in! \n Website URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/culture-declares-emergency-south-east-coastal-hub-launch/ CATEGORIES:Forum,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screenshot-2021-09-07-at-17.13.43-e1631031243251.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T194500 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210520T105406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210520T110051Z UID:36904-1623954600-1623959100@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:kin'd & kin'd: field fairing\, with Dr Jason Allen-Paisant DESCRIPTION:Join kin’d & kin’d for field fairing\, an online event series with ONCA where they investigate and celebrate diverse views and thinking about ways of making eco-poetry. \nIn his debut collection\, Thinking with Trees\, due to be published in June\, Jason Allen-Paisant has followed what he describes as ‘a Caribbean tradition of weaponising language through irony\, and does so as a means of challenging social\, racial and spatial boundaries.’ Please join kin’d & kin’d online to discover more about these concerns and hear Dr. Allen-Paisant read from his eagerly-awaited collection. \nAbout Jason Allen-Paisant \nJason Allen-Paisant is a Lecturer in Caribbean Poetry and Decolonial Thought and the Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds. His creative work (poetry\, memoir\, critical life writing)\, which addresses issues of time\, race\, class\, and the environmental conditions underpinning Black identity\, has appeared in Granta\, The Poetry Review\, PN Review\, Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII\, Callaloo\, among other places. He is a member of the Leeds University Poetry Centre and serves on the editorial board of Callaloo: Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. Dr. Allen-Paisant’s first poetry collection\, Thinking with Trees\, is forthcoming from Carcanet Press in June 2021. \nTwitter | Website \nAbout kin’d & kin’d\nSince 2018\, kin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler) have led a series of eco-poetry workshops at ONCA under the title Changing Everything Carefully\, also at the re-wilded estate\, Knepp Wildland\, near Horsham and at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Their collaborative poems have been published in Magma and Finished Creatures\, and Elephant Press has published their chapbook\, h/edge (2021) and their anthologies of participants’ work: Poemish & Other Languages (2019)\, Poemish of the Wildland (2019)\, fabri-cation: slip back to source – a journey of materials (2020) and Alice Willitts’ interview with them\, Think Thing (2021). URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/kind-kind-field-fairing-with-dr-jason-allen-paisant/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,Performance,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/3ba7eb5a3ca1936e8c8c1bdb97a83fa7-e1621508285690.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T194500 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210505T111030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T082252Z UID:36824-1623177000-1623181500@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:On Police & Prison Abolition in the UK: talk with Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper on the arguments for police and prison abolition in the UK and how these connect to climate justice. Expect a presentation by Adam followed by an opportunity to ask questions. \nTickets are free or by donation – select your preferred ticket option (free or donation) at checkout. All money raised will be shared between ONCA and Account\, a youth-led social action project based in Hackney\, London\, that monitors and scrutinises police activity to empower young people\, generate knowledge\, campaign for justice\, and hold those in power to account. \n\nPlease email info@onca.org.uk before the event if you have access needs.\nPlease note this event will be recorded (speaker view)\, transcribed and shared on ONCA’s YouTube channel afterwards.\n\nAbout the speaker\nAdam Elliott-Cooper is a research fellow in sociology at the University of Greenwich. His research interests include policing\, anti-racism\, colonialism and postcolonialism. His current research focuses on resistance to racist state violence in 21st century Britain\, with an interest in how this resistance is shaped by histories of imperialism and anti-imperialism. \nHe has published on anti-racism and policing in Ethnic and Racial Studies\, Antipode and City\, as well as on housing and gentrification in Progress in Human Geography and Sociological Review. He has a forthcoming article in South Atlantic Quarterly analysing the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain\, forming part of a special issue on Black Lives Matter scheduled for publication in 2022. His journalistic writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Verso Blog\, ROAR\, Open Democracy and The Voice. Adam also regularly appears on podcasts and broadcast news discussing policing\, anti-racism and racism in Britain. \nAdam’s first monograph\, Black Resistance to British Policing\, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He also has a co-authored book\, Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State\, written with seven other academics\, published by Pluto Press in February 2021. \nAdam sits on the board of The Monitoring Group\, an anti-racist organisation challenging state racisms and racial violence. \nAdam on Twitter | Hackney Account URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/on-police-prison-abolition-in-the-uk-talk-with-dr-adam-elliott-cooper/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/adam-elliott-cooper-e1620213157756.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210318T144628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T092140Z UID:36661-1622743200-1622748600@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:The Puma Years: Book launch with Laura Coleman & Nena Baltazar DESCRIPTION:Please join ONCA and CIWY for the online launch of The Puma Years\, published by Little A. \nONCA is delighted to host author Laura Coleman in conversation (via Zoom) with Tania ‘Nena’ Baltazar\, founder and president of Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY). Jon Cassidy\, CIWY secretary of international relations\, will translate. \nIn The Puma Years\, ONCA founder Laura shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle\, where she fell in love with a magnificent puma who changed her life\, at the same time as finding a life-long home with CIWY. Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of deforestation\, the illegal pet trade\, and forest fires\, The Puma Years explores what happens when desperate creatures in need of rescue find each other. \nCIWY is the leading organisation in Bolivia for the care of rescued wild animals\, seized from illegal trafficking. CIWY fights to end the animal trade through educational programs\, research projects and public actions. During this conversation\, CIWY’s president Nena will discuss the challenges and pitfalls of running a frontline NGO in apocalyptic times. \nThe conversation between Nena and Laura will be followed by a reading from The Puma Years and a short Q&A with the author. \nProceeds from The Puma Years are supporting CIWY’s work fighting the illegal wildlife trade\, supporting local communities and providing safe homes to those who need them. If you too would like to help\, either by volunteering or making a donation\, please visit CIWY’s website: www.intiwarayassi.org. \nThe Puma Years \nComunidad Inti Wara Yassi URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/the-puma-years-book-launch-with-laura-coleman-nena-baltazar/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screenshot-2021-03-12-at-10.49.06.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210520T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210520T194500 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210409T120845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210514T081706Z UID:36727-1621535400-1621539900@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:kin'd & kin'd: field fairing\, with Merrie Joy Williams DESCRIPTION:An invitation to all who are curious: join kin’d & kin’d for more eco-poetry at ONCA \nkin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler) return for their third Changing Everything Carefully series at ONCA. They say: \n‘We want to investigate and celebrate diverse views and thinking about ways of making eco-poetry\, and we are proud to announce the first guest in our programme –  Merrie Joy Williams. Merrie will be performing her poems and discussing the invention of new poetic forms\, something that kin’d & kin’d have found essential in working with eco-poetry. Merrie’s recent work is a study of the Wellesbourne river beneath Brighton\, a winterbourne that appears and disappears with the seasons – and how that relates to human stories of hiddenness\, belonging and unbelonging\, and migration.’ \nRead their new blog post here. \nAbout the artists\nkin’d & kin’d \nKay Syrad is a poet and novelist\, formerly Poetry Editor of the longstanding journal Envoi. Her third poetry collection What is near is forthcoming in September. \nClare Whistler is a collaborative artist in movement\, text and performance. She is co-founder of the award-winning annual WaterWeek event. \nMerrie Joy Williams \nMerrie is a poet\, novelist\, writing tutor and editor. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Bridport Poetry Prize\, longlisted for the 2020 National Poetry Competition\, and is a winner of The Poetry Archive’s ‘Wordview 2020’ competition\, permanently featured on their website. She is the recipient of a London Writers Award\, and Arts Council England awards for both poetry and fiction. Her debut collection is ‘Open Windows’ (Waterloo Press\, 2019). Magma Poetry wrote: ‘She is clearly good at her craft. Her writing is assured\, driven by sonorous language… generous and open-hearted poems’. \nMerrie was a poet-in-residence with MMU Special Collections and Manchester Poetry Library\, who are currently releasing an illustrated broadside of one of her poems. She was commissioned by Historical England\, in partnership with Spread the Word\, to research and write ‘In Between Days’\, one of their High Street Tales (Woolwich). Her most recent residency is researching The South Downs National Park\, as part of Applause Rural Touring’s ‘Full Harvest’ project. \nWebsite URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/kind-kind-field-fairing-with-merrie-joy-williams/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Performance,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/e067349897add32d77561dba9cb34ce5-e1617970427417.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210518T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210518T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210511T205854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210513T084543Z UID:36849-1621362600-1621366200@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Susuana Amoah: Curating Chromophobia DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk and screening by artist-curator Susuana Amoah that delves into the question: What do white walls have to do with whiteness?  \nChromophobia and White Cube Galleries is a video-essay by Susuana that discusses the implications of white cube aesthetics in contemporary art galleries\, specifically looking at the connections between chromophobia\, the aesthetics of modernity/coloniality\, and attitudes towards artists of colour. Expect a presentation followed by conversation. \nAbout the artist\nSusuana Amoah is an artist-curator and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths University of London. Susuana’s research project explores how cultural equity can be realised in public contemporary art galleries in England through decolonial approaches to curatorial practice. The study maps the influence of European modern art theories within the development of conventional contemporary curatorial practices and examines how these colonial/modernist ideologies and practices work to produce epistemicide and reinforce cultural imperialism. Through the engagement of a mixture of participatory action research and creative qualitative evaluation methods\, this practice-led research project ultimately aims to develop an ethical framework and guidance for decolonial curatorial practice. \nTwitter | Website URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/susuana-amoah-curating-chromophobia/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/7b5b73920cabd46626fb6dd58265c406-e1620767658497.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210420T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210420T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210312T131341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T085909Z UID:36628-1618941600-1618948800@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Um Outro Céu website tour & film screenings DESCRIPTION:Come to the UK launch of Um Outro Céu – mapping environmental conflicts in N.E. Brazil and showcasing new work by indigenous artists \nJoin Um Outro Céu (meaning Another Sky in Portuguese) researchers and artists to learn about this project and website that document and celebrate the emergence of different forms of resistance\, narratives\, constructions and reconstructions of worlds torn apart by conquest\, colonialism and capitalism. \nAmid the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil\, with deaths\, mourning and the cowardly use of the virus as a tool to plunder indigenous peoples’ rights\, different forms of healing have emerged in indigenous territories and from the memories of elders. \nUm Outro Céu maps ecological conflicts in N.E. Brazil and showcases new art and film works by indigenous artists. It combines reports of defenders’ experiences\, conflict cartography carried out by indigenous researchers and students\, and works by indigenous artists exploring the effects of the pandemic\, and ecological conflicts experienced by communities. \nUm Outro Céu is a collaboration between the University of Sussex\, Federal University of Bahia\, Federal University of the Recôncavo of Bahia\, and the State University of Bahia funded by the International Development Challenges Fund (Sussex / Research England) and part of the Atmospheres of Violence international research project funded by the British Academy. \nAfter an initial introduction there will be a guided tour of the website\, two short film screenings\, comments from several of the artists and then an opportunity for questions/discussion. \nUm Outro Céu website \nAPOINME website (Articulation of People & Indigenous Organisations in the Northeast\, Minas Gerais & Espirito Santo) \nImage credit: artwork by Yacunã Tuxá URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/um-outro-ceu-another-sky-website-tour-film-screenings/ CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MEMÓRIA-@YACUNÃ-CORRIGIDA-e1615555197498.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210306T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210306T153000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210129T123333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T101726Z UID:36496-1615039200-1615044600@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Artists in Conversation: Adapting Practices During Covid DESCRIPTION:Hili Greenfeld and invited speakers explore how they have adapted their artistic practices to some of the challenges Covid presents. \nJoin event using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87687498230 \nJoin Hili Greenfeld and invited speakers for this event exploring how as visual artists\, with a variety of practices and based in different locations\, they have adapted their work to the challenges the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic presents. \nThis event accompanies Hili’s online exhibition ‘MaGifa’ that was made during the first lockdown of 2020 in place of being able to travel to the UK to be ONCA’s artist in residence. \nEach speaker will deliver a short presentation about their work and how the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has affected the way they work. There will then be an opportunity for questions and informal discussion from attendees. \nSpeakers will share their personal accounts and experiences and\, whilst we hope you will find their insights inspiring\, ONCA acknowledges that this is not representative of all artists’ experience and identities. \n**SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR TICKET LINK** \nAbout The Artists\nHili Greenfeld\, Visual Artist | Tel Aviv\, Israel\nHili will talk about the experience of creating art during the pandemic. The setting\, limitations and reality causing a turn around in the way she works. Getting back to the most elementary essence of drawing and painting\, and shifting her thoughts regarding installation\, which is mostly in the physical space\, into a different space – the web space.  \nGreenfeld’s work has been exhibited in Israel\, New York\, London\, Singapore\, Korea and Slovenia and Amsterdam. Recently she had a solo exhibition  at Bradwolff Projects\, Amsterdam in cooperation with BijlmAir CBK Zuidoost where she was a resident. She was an artist in residence at Lasalle College in Singapore (2012)\, and a residence at Tobačna 001 Cultural Center Ljubljana\, where she had a solo show (2016). Greenfeld received the Rabinovich Foundation grant twice for solo exhibitions. She received a grant from the Resisim Association for ‘Snow Table’ at Hansen Gallery Bezalel (2015) and was awarded research grants from Asylum Arts\, Via Sabra LTD for ‘The Sweet Water Canal’ solo exhibition that was exhibited at Art Cube Gallery\, Jerusalem (2017).  \nFrom 2016 through 2018 she received the Artist-Teacher Scholarship for teaching art at the Center for Arab-Jewish Youth at Risk in Jaffa. In 2018 she exhibited\, at The Museum of Islamic Art and at Architect House\, Jaffa both supported with grants for a new artwork\, at the 10th Fresh Paint Art fair\, and the Gamma International\, Yonsei University\, Seoul. Greenfeld holds an MFA and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts\, Jerusalem\, where she received the Presser Award (2007). She also studied at Slade School of Fine Arts in London (2006)\, and later in the Literature Department at Tel Aviv University (2010). \nWEBSITE | INSTAGRAM \nAndrea Knezovic – Visual Artist & Artistic Researcher | Amsterdam\, The NetherLands\nDuring this event Andrea Knezović will introduce her artistic practice\, research methods and the creative anxieties and failures she faced during the precarious circumstances of the pandemic. Knezović will critically touch upon topics of value production inside creative industries\, question the neoliberal paradigm of “the artist entrepreneur” and talk about future-mythologies of art institutions. She will talk about how speculative fiction\, forensic methodologies and writing shifted her practice from material/ tangible to immaterial/ conceptual. \nAndrea Knezović​ (1990) is a visual conceptual artist and researcher based in Amsterdam\, with a Masters degree in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam (2019) and a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts from A.V.A-Academy of Visual Arts\, Ljubljana (2014). Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world\, including Kiribati National Museum and Cultural Centre\, Bikenibeu; Nieuw Dakota Gallery\, Amsterdam; NEVERNEVERLAND Gallery\, Amsterdam; The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova\, Ljubljana; Škuc Gallery\, Ljubljana; 12 Star Gallery\, London\, UK; Kino Šiška\, Ljubljana; The Israeli Center for Digital Arts\, Holon ; Aksioma Gallery\, Ljubljana; Flip Project & Umberto Di Marino Gallery\, Napels; Künstlerhaus\, Klagenfurt; The Center for Contemporary Art\, Hanikah Gallery\, Sarajevo. \nShe has published theoretical text in Lish Journal\,​ Simulacrum Jurnal-Tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur and Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean (Young Slovenian Artists). Her work is part of the SCCA-DIVA Archive collection and was nominated for the Essl Art Award in 2013 and 2015. \nWEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM \nShirel Kadambari Horovitz – Visual Artist | Tel Aviv\, Israel\nShirel will talk about the two projects she is currently working on. “The Bell & The Bow” is an imagined city performance and a series of etchings exploring the doorstep as a place of ritual and wonder separating the intimate home space and the outside world. “The Israeli Art Hotline” is a crisis line opened by Horovitz on January 1st 2021 to provide a virtual space for all art professionals to share their pains. The accumulated sound bites will be adapted into a sound installation. \nShirel Horovitz’s installations and performances focus on the meeting points between cities and communities leaning into the physical structures of body and matter. Through sculpture\, drawing\, sound and more\, her works look to lure and engage the viewer in an active role\, proposing alternative rituals and spaces of reflection. She sees herself as a choreographer of relationships and stories and views art as a field which can and should create moments of compassionate observation and attentive humor. \nHorovitz received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2007) and her MA from The Interdisciplinary Art Program in Tel Aviv University (2015\, with honors) and is a recipient of the Rabinovitch Art Fund Foundation Prize (2018). Her work has been exhibited in galleries\, museums and art festivals in Israel and the US. \nWEBSITE | INSTAGRAM \nLydia Heath\, ONCA Gallery Manager & Freelance artist/curator | Brighton\, UK\nLydia will talk about how the pandemic postponed plans for a year long sabbatical to focus on their artistic practice\, and what months of lockdown and furlough taught them – both in terms of being an artist and a human being – specifically in relation to mental health and queerness. They’ll also share a project they ran as part of LADA’s DIY2020 Programme: Public Realm as Playground – an online intensive weekend workshop for 22 performance artists around the world exploring approaches to making in public spaces during the pandemic. \nLydia Heath is a queer visual artist and curator whose work uses performance\, installation and writing to explore the politics of public spaces\, the relationship between art and activism\, science fiction\, speculative fiction and counter-narratives to capitalism. Over the past ten years they have been selected for exhibitions and residencies in Australia\, Singapore\, Spain and throughout the UK. Since 2016 they have worked as ONCA’s Gallery Manager – an arts organisation that bridges environmental and social justice issues. They are passionate about accessibility and inclusion\, and addressing structural exclusion within the arts. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/artists-in-conversation-adapting-practices-during-covid/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/dcc14ac154b0a52d276ea74a040182bb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210225T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210225T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210118T121142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T104158Z UID:36297-1614276000-1614281400@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Beyond Ruin: Meet The Artists DESCRIPTION:Join us and some of the artists from our current exhibition Beyond Ruin for this online event exploring the themes behind the artists’ work. \n**Join the event using this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85892656200** \nONCA’s Co-director Amie Rai will chair a discussion drawing out the connections between the artists’ practices and the questions their work raises in relation to the intersectional environmental movement.  \nThis event will be hosted on Zoom and the presentation will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online after the event. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk or complete this form. \nConfirmed speakers: Deru Anding | Josephine Chime | Mother Eagle | Felipe Jacome | Ruby Wolfe \nView Beyond Ruin here. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/beyond-ruin-meet-the-artists/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BeyondRuinMTA.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210218T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210218T193000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20210119T111351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210218T113616Z UID:36368-1613673000-1613676600@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Meet the Artist: Hili Greenfeld DESCRIPTION:Artist Hili Greenfeld offers insights into her practice\, a project with ONCA that never happened due to Covid-19 and the online exhibition MaGifa that she made instead. \n**Join the event using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89892190990** \nONCA’s Gallery Manager\, Lydia\, first met Hili in 2012 when they both took part in an international artist residency\, Tropical Lab at Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore) with 24 other artists from around the world. \nThey have remained in touch ever since\, and in 2017 Hili visited Brighton where discussions of an exhibition at ONCA that responded to collections within Brighton Museum and Brighton Toy Museum began. Hili’s trip to Brighton was inspired by a chance encounter with her MA tutor that revealed an unlikely connection between an Egyptian artist\, the Yom Kippur war in 1973\, and an English toy manufacturer. \nHili spent three years working on the exhibition\, which was due to take place in August 2020 after a month-long residency on the ONCA Barge. However\, the coronavirus outbreak meant the residency and exhibition had to be postponed\, and at this stage it is not possible to say when it could take place. During this online event Hili will share the archive of research material compiled for this unrealised project and the fascinating story behind its inspiration. She’ll also talk about ‘MaGifa’\, the work that was made during 2020 despite Hili being unable to travel to the UK as planned\, which can be viewed here. \nThis event will take place on Zoom\, a link & passcode will be sent out to attendees shortly before. \nAbout the artist\nHili Greenfeld’s art connects fragments of private memory to cultural narratives in shrine-like installations. These installations consist of imitations of relics – objects that testify both to our desire to capture time through the objects that persist through it\, and our inability to finally make peace with the change and decay that time brings. She calls these installations ‘environments’ because they combine manipulated ready-mades\, sculptures and paintings\, creating a complex\, integrated space. Though memories are elusive and private rather than concrete and public\, these scenes reify personal memories and thus enable them to be shared.  \nRead more here. \nWEBSITE | INSTAGRAM URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/meet-the-artist-hili-greenfeld/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-e1611247580485.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201129T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201129T200000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20201106T194411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210118T135821Z UID:35609-1606665600-1606680000@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Lost Species Day 2020: Rituals for the Anthropocene? DESCRIPTION:From the mundane to the epic: discover some of the diverse possibilities of what a ritual for the Anthropocene might be. This event aims to inspire and give confidence to participants to hold their own ceremonies\, as well as to explore some of the tensions in the term. The event will take place in two parts: from 4 to 6.15pm\, Lost Species Day co-founder Rachel Porter of Feral Theatre will host the following UK-based ritual practitioners discussing their work: \n\nLive artist and showwoman Marisa Carnesky\nInterfaith minister Monica Douglas\nDeep listening practitioner Beckie Leach\nLunarchy 2.0 founder and multidisciplinary psychic worker Bea Xu\nContemporary artist and ornithologist Marcus Coates\n\nWatch a recording of this event here (click CC on the menu bar to turn on subtitles). \nAt 6.30pm\, after a break\, all attendees are invited to participate in a live experimental online ritual for Lost Species Day 2020\, devised by the invited speakers. \nThis event will be hosted on Zoom (a meeting link will be sent shortly beforehand) and the presentations will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online after the event. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk. \n______________________________________________________________________ \nWe invite you to make a donation when you reserve your space at this event. Money raised will go to the Black Land & Spatial Justice Fund and Land In Our Names. \nIf you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk or complete this form. \nAbout the artists\nMarisa Carnesky is a British live artist and showwoman. She uses spectacular entertainment forms\, including fairground devices and stage illusion\, and draws on themes of contemporary ritual to investigate social issues from an ecofeminist perspective. Marisa has won many awards\, including the Laurence Olivier for Best Entertainment in 2004\, Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel in 2005 and Time Out Best Theatre in 2004. \nWebsite \nMonica Douglas is a spiritual counsellor\, mentor\, coach and One Spirit minister who supports people of any faith or none through sacred space holding\, ritual\, ceremony\, stillness and somatic movement practices. She helps people to release burden\, move forward and remember the wild wisdom of their body\, heart\, mind\, spirit and environment. Her events\, ceremonies\, circles and 1:1 support have evolved from 20+ years training experience in embodied spirituality\, yoga\, dance\, meditation & personal development. \nWebsite \nRebecca Leach McDonald is a deep listening practitioner\, storyteller and educator whose practice brings together storytelling and learning for sustainability into participatory experiences that explore what it means to be human/animal within a fast-changing world. She creates opportunities to engage with phenomenology (lived experience and the senses)\, and is inspired by systems theory and the idea that true beauty resides in acts of kindness and reciprocal exchanges between the human and more-than-human world. \nFacebook \nBea Xu is a British-born Chinese\, multidisciplinary psychic worker based in London who utilises mixed media\, ritual and visionary fiction to explore speculative cosmologies beyond our current timeline. Inspired by myth\, social &/ digital anthropology and the EcoGothic\, she’s interested in the interplay of archetypal symbols with personal trauma and the potential of using play in collective shadow work. Her work constitutes the manifest\, ongoing process of sublimating her personal demons while delving into the occult\, futurology and her anxieties about late capitalism. \nWebsite | Instagram \nMarcus Coates is a contemporary artist and ornithologist living in London. At the core of Marcus’ work is a relationship to the unknowable. From his attempts to become animal to his vicarious experiences on behalf of terminally ill patients he seeks to uncover degrees of understanding and knowing\, testing our definitions and boundaries of autonomy. Marcus has collaborated with people from a wide range of disciplines\, including politicians\, palliative care consultants\, primatologists and many more. Recent publications include UR…A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning\, 2014\, published by Bookworks. Marcus has exhibited extensively internationally since 1999. \nWebsite \nRachel Porter produces physical theatre. She is a performer who runs her own company\, Tiger’s Bride. She also holds a Master’s degree in Drama & Movement Therapy from The Sesame Institute. As a therapist\, she carries out pioneering work in the area of pre-linguistic communication and teaches students at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Rachel is a co-director of Feral Theatre. \nWebsite \nImage credit: Zoe Childerley \n  URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/rituals-for-the-anthropocene/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Online Event,Performance,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/steller-10-e1604695561792.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T210000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20201104T130037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210118T113839Z UID:35549-1606503600-1606510800@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Lost Species Day 2020: An Evening with Sadiah Qureshi\, Audra Mitchell & Suzanne Dhaliwal DESCRIPTION:Join us online for an evening with scholar-activists Audra Mitchell\, Sadiah Qureshi and Suzanne Dhaliwal discussing historic and ongoing connections between colonialism and extinctions\, exploring assumptions embedded in much mainstream environmental campaigning\, and celebrating intersectional environmental work. \nWatch a recording of this event here (click the CC button on the menu bar for subtitles). \nLost Species Day co-founder Persephone Pearl will introduce the speakers and set the intention for the weekend of events for Lost Species Day 2020. This talk is part of a weekend programme exploring how ecological remembrance can or does contribute to the intersectional environmental movement. It is an opportunity for interested people to spend time learning together\, building connections and moving forward in clear and energised ways that embed anti-racism in all Lost Species Day activities going forward. \nThis event will be hosted on Zoom (a meeting link will be sent shortly beforehand) and the presentation will be recorded\, transcribed and shared online after the event. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your access needs\, please contact info@onca.org.uk or complete this form. \nAbout the speakers\nSadiah Qureshi is a cultural and social historian of race\, science and empire in the modern world whose research explores the ways in which racialised knowledge is produced\, circulated and mobilised in the modern world. Sadiah is currently working on her second book\, provisionally entitled ‘Vanished: Episodes in the History of Extinction’ for Allen Lane. Drawing on histories of genocide\, settler colonial studies and animal studies\, ‘Vanished’ will explore how the very notion of extinction emerged and shaped our relationship with the natural world in the Anthropocene. \nWebsite \nAudra Mitchell Audra Mitchell is a settler scholar living on the lands of the Haudenosaunee\, Anishinaabe and Neutral/Attwandaron people. She currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research\, teaching and community engagement addresses global ecological harms through the lens of multi-scale structural violence. This includes increasing understanding the connections between ecological harms and ongoing global patterns of colonisation\, genocides\, gendered and sexual violence and global capitalism.  \nWebsite | Institutional website \nSuzanne Dhaliwal is a climate justice creative\, campaigner\, researcher\, lecturer and trainer. In 2009 she co-founded the UK Tar Sands Network\, which challenged BP and Shell investments in the Canadian tar sands in solidarity with frontline Indigenous communities\, spurring the internationalisation of the fossil fuel divestment movement. Suzanne has led campaigns and artistic interventions to challenge fossil fuel investments in the Arctic and Nigeria that violate the rights of Indigenous peoples\, and of those seeking justice in the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster. \nWebsite | Instagram | Twitter \nPersephone Pearl is co-director of Brighton based arts and environment charity ONCA\, where she works to expand and develop the role of creativity and the arts in social and ecological regeneration. She co-founded Feral Theatre and Lost Species Day. \nWebsite | Instagram | Twitter \n  \nImage Credit: The Emancipator by Mother Eagle \n  URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/lost-species-day-2020-an-evening-with-audra-mitchell-suzanne-dhaliwal-sadiah-qureshi/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Emancipator-Katie-Tume-e1604673743596.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201107T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201107T153000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20200828T104017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210118T135359Z UID:34805-1604757600-1604763000@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Meet the Artist: Jaye Ho DESCRIPTION:The Vanishing Act is ONCA first 2020 online exhibition with an accompanying window display. We invite you to join us online where we’ll be hosting a conversation with artist Jaye Ho\, with BSL interpretation. \n\n  \nThis brilliant exhibition includes a series of portraits of war criminals and piles of skulls from genocide victims. The Vanishing Act is a powerful body of work that addresses war crimes\, focusing on the plight of ‘Comfort Women’ in Japanese-occupied WW2 countries and sexual violence survivors seeking justice. \nWatch a recording of this event here (click CC on the menu bar to turn on subtitles). \nAbout the Artist\nJaye Ho (b England) is an identical twin\, born in Oxford to Singaporean and Malaysian parents. She currently lives in Hastings. Jaye studied at Central Saint Martins (BA Fine Art 2003) and The Slade (MFA Fine Art 2006)\, exhibited nationally (including London\, Birmingham\, Hastings) and internationally (including Dublin\, Krakow\, Sydney). Recent shows include ‘Dazzleship NN201’ (2017) where she painted a Hastings fishing boat in Dazzleship camouflage\, and Nigel Cooke’s ‘Telescope’ show at the Jerwood Gallery (2019). ‘The Vanishing Act’ is her first show in Brighton (2020)\, and is funded by Arts Council England. Jaye works for the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and has worked on human rights since 2017\, including on the International Criminal Court\, Freedom of Religion or Belief\, and the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative. \nWebsite | Instagram | Twitter \nImage Credit: Painting by Jaye Ho URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/meet-the-artist-jaye-ho/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:BSL Event,Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Gladys.jpg-tweak-scaled-e1602578962459.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200924T144500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200924T163000 DTSTAMP:20260818T201308 CREATED:20200815T071046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200830T091617Z UID:34712-1600958700-1600965000@onca.org.uk SUMMARY:Weaving connections webinar: Extracting Us exhibit collective reflections DESCRIPTION:Extracting Us brings together reflections and creative work from thirteen artists-activists-researchers in relation to diverse extractive contexts\, and responses from virtual visitors and participants over the past month. \nThrough facilitated conversation with co-curators and artists\, this event will begin to weave together the threads that connect the contributions\, and consider some collective learnings and potential future work. We will ask: what (unexpected) connections have been made and what kinds of questions have been raised? \nWe will draw upon the six themes explored through the exhibition and conversation (care\, agency\, temporalities\, scales\, inter-generational\, and modes of engagement)\, and the event will be an opportunity to introduce and discuss newly-found intersections and ideas to nurture activism\, creative engagements and research on the feminist political ecologies of extractivism. \nThe conversation will be part of the POLLEN20 Political Ecology Network virtual conference\, co-hosted by ONCA and open to all. \nImage: Tiles of artwork from Extracting Us contributors \nAbout the Organisers\nThe Extracting Us exhibition and conversation series is being co-curated by Siti Maimunah\, Elona Hoover\, Alice Owen\, Dian Ekowati and Becky Elmhirst with critical insight and support from Lydia Heath\, Persephone Pearl and Louise Purbrick. \nThis project is made possible by support from ONCA Gallery\, the Centre for Spatial\, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton\, the Wellbeing\, Ecology\, Gender and cOmmunity research network funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 764908)\, and collaboration with the ‘Sustainable’ Development and Atmospheres of Violence: Experiences of Environmental Defenders project funded by The British Academy. \n\nContent Warning: Death\, Violence. URL:https://onca.org.uk/event/weaving-connections-webinar-extracting-us-exhibit-collective-reflections/ CATEGORIES:Online Event,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://onca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Extracting-Us-contributors-tiles-2020-e1597475964496.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR