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At the start of October, we gathered for our Autumn Saturday School session☀️🌙 Our Saturday School is a creative learning lab for migrant organisers to embody, imagine and design for border abolition 🌬️

Our final Saturday School Autumn Talk is coming up next Tuesday! ⭐ There's still time to sign up. Find out more & register through the link in our bio 🔗 x.com/MigrantsCultur…

🫛Tomorrow! 🫘 Remaking Economies: There's still time to register & join @DecolonisingE 's @guppikb and @itmeNoni in conversation with @joonlynngoh tomorrow lunch time (1-2pm) 🔗 in bio! 🪩 x.com/MigrantsCultur…

🍂🥮Our Saturday School Autumn Talks are coming up soon! It's not too late to book your free place. See the 🔗 in our bio for info. x.com/MigrantsCultur…

During the @FIRMCharter Summit 2023, @hannathomas held a science-fiction writing workshop inviting organisers to write a letter to an ancestor, descendant and a future self. 1 year on, we held a letter blessing at the MIC team office before posting them. Look out in the mail! 💌

Saturday School Autumn Talks: Shana Agid, Member of @C_Resistance + Nishma Jethwa: 1 Oct, 1-2pm-🔗 in bio Shana Agid (she/he/they) is an artist/designer, teacher, and organiser whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference in visual, social, and political cultures.

Saturday School Autumn Talks: @guppikb, @itmeNoni + @joonlynngoh: 25 Sept, 1-2pm-🔗 in bio Guppi & Nonhlanhla run @DecolonisingE, working to divest from whiteness in economic & financial systems, facilitate a solidarity economy & organise towards community ownership of assets.

Saturday School Autumn Talks: @danielyep + @joonlynngoh 23 Sept 1-2pm -🔗 in bio @danielyep is Co-founder & Director of Design at @CIVIC_SQUARE , which demonstrates neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social & ecological transition, together with many people & partners.

Our Migrants in Culture team is on a collective break from 25th July - 3rd September 2024 🐌

Migrants in Culture - Summer Inbox Blessings and August break 🐌☀️ open.substack.com/pub/migrantsin…

We’re delighted to launch Roots & Routes, our new residency programme exploring migrant + diasporic wisdom as a creative strategy for collective organising + movement building. This year we explore Daoism… (⅓

Last year we collaborated with @CborderForum to create visual notes on ‘The Criminalisation of Migrants from France to the UK’ and a ‘Solidarity Across Borders’ panel for #TheWorldTransformed. View + download in full on Crossborder Forum’s website (🔗in our profile).

This year, we are working with 20 organisers, infrastructure builders and creative practitioners with lived experience of migration, diaspora and/or racialisation to initiate experiments that support them and their communities to move towards abolition (⅓) 📸Photos by Sana Badri

🗣️ STRIKE FOR PALESTINE❗️Friday 31st May We are sharing @themosaicrooms call for a #culturalstrike4palestine tomorrow. Our designer @javhux made this illustration, inspired by conversations on transforming grief and heartbreak into action 🕊️ find tools in @themosaicrooms bio

🗣️ STRIKE FOR PALESTINE❗️Fri 31 May: coordinated by @TheMosaicRooms #culturalstrike4palestine We join the call for all UK and international arts and cultural colleagues to strike for Palestine. For more info on the strike, see @TheMosaicRooms bio. 'Strike' graphic by @JavHux x.com/TheMosaicRooms…

As Home Office escalates its racist & violent bordering regime, look at @migrantsorg compliation of resources & actions to support people at risk of being removed to Rwanda: migrantsorganise.org/we-keep-each-o…

⭐Thank you to everyone who came to the Abolition is Presence talk this afternoon, and to our speakers: @graciemaybe @cradlecommunity Azfar Shafi @nijjormanush Chaired by @NishmaJethwa You can view a recording of the talk here: migrantsinculture.com/saturday-schoo…

✨Thank you to everyone who attended our Sacred Civics webinar this afternoon! A big thank you to our speakers: @jayneEngle @manuwicktokai @FangJuiChang Chaired by @joonlynngoh 🐚You can view a recording of the webinar here: migrantsinculture.com/saturday-schoo…

Today we had our first Spring Conversation on ‘the right to stay, the right to move’ 🗣️ hugest thanks to our speakers for their inspirational words & insights! @aliyayule @migrantsorg , Innah Gaspar, Scott Mcaulay @AnthropoceneAS and Ghassan Ghaben @GazaFamReunited

Our @MigrantsCulture Saturday School 2024 is a creative learning lab to embody, imagine and design for border abolition 🍃 Join us for our 3 public Spring Conversations. Tickets and more info here🔗 migrantsinculture.com/saturdayschool…

📢 Join us in calling for a viable family reunion scheme for Palestinians in Gaza to join their loved ones in the UK until it is safe to return Sign this urgent petition and share it widely - at 100,000 signatures Parliament will have to debate it 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Abolition is Presence: Mapping the practices and possibilities of border abolition in the UK How are migrant and abolitionist organisers building on histories of resistance and experimenting into the future? With: @graciemaybe @cradlecommunity Azfar Shafi @NishmaJethwa (1/2

How are we shaping our relationships, infrastructures & systems as if peoples, lands & natures were sacred? How does the recognition of sacredness help us to envision & build for a world without borders? With @jayneEngle @manuwicktokai @FangJuiChang @joonlynngoh (1/2

Saturday School 2024 - Spring Conversation 1: The right to stay. The right to move: Organising in a climate changing and securitised world Thursday 18 April 1-2pm, Online Registration 🔗 in bio With: @GGhaben54006 @Innah_G & Scott McAulay Chaired by @migrantsorg @aliyayule

Work with this brilliant team ✨✨✨ x.com/migrantsorg/st…

Saturday School 2024 graphics by @JavHux 🩵

For more information on Saturday School, and for resources on embodied leadership, sci-fi writing and design justice principles, see the link in our bio! Photos of Saturday School 2023 by Sana Badri.

Stay tuned as we announce our guest speakers and conversations that reflect on border abolition, conflict and climate change adaptation and sacred strategy.

As part of our programme, we are hosting public conversations that frame the context in which we will explore practical experiments.

Saturday School builds on a 2023 pilot that brought together migrant organisers to explore the creative organising strategies of embodied leadership, science fiction writing and design justice principles in movement building.

Saturday School is a response to barriers migrant organisers often face: a mode of urgent reactivity, resistance and burnout, with little capacity or resource to imagine and organise beyond our current legal and political frameworks.

Through online and in-person gatherings, an invited cohort of 20 migrant organisers will be supported to initiate and/or develop a practical experiment that supports their communities to move towards border abolition.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Drawing for Reflection & Resilience workshop today with @HJusticeLdn. Sharing time, drawing it all, being consensual with our bodies is precious; is part of our liberation. Drawing prompts 👉🏼 drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

📢 Join us in calling for a viable family reunion scheme for Palestinians in Gaza to join their loved ones in the UK Sign this urgent petition and share it widely - at 100,000 signatures Parliament will have to debate it 👇 Follow @GazaFamReunited petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

On Saturday we had the total joy of running our first @MigrantsCulture Visual Organising Training session w @WhitworthArt ✏️ The hugest thanks to our fab cohort of Manchester-based community organisers for your art, enthusiasm and insights 🌱

Thank you @haymarketbooks UK for these gifts! If anyone wants a read, come thru to Pelican House 🙏🏼

On Friday March 22nd (12:00 - 13:30 GMT, online), we are offering a drawing for reflection and resilience workshop. We often use drawing to make banners and placards, but it can also be a way to process feelings and to get back into our bodies. Register with the link in our bio.

🐦‍⬛We recently designed a presentation for the incredible Rights & Justice team at Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk .

We're so excited to share Solidarity Knows No Borders @FIRMCharter's new website and organising workbook! Designed and edited by Rosalie here at Migrants in Culture, alongside @migrantsorg & @commonknowledge 🕊️🤍

If you’d like to find out more about resisting the UK’s racist & hostile immigration system, power mapping, 1-2-1s and other community organising tools, the workbook is for you. Get it over onor from the 🔗 in our bio! sknb.org

We take visual notes at meetings, conferences, protests and social gatherings, which we then turn into compelling visuals, illustrations, reports and infographics. Get in touch if you'd like visual notes for your events✏️

Here's a glimpse of our visual notes for @HJusticeLdn Rehearsing Freedoms opening night💚Thanks for letting us be part of the collective magic

Follow @UVWunion! ❤️‍🩹 x.com/UVWunion/statu…

Sometimes we're so busy with organising and production, we forget to share what we do. A while back, we made collaborative films and drawings with @wallsmustfall. TWMF is a network of refugee and migrant campaigners working with allies and supporters for radical change.

How are we creatively stewarding our cities? Findings from @joonlynngoh and @djrmcewen's @LDN_gov Civic Futures Programme, including reflections from a Learning Lab are now available to read, sharing unique insights, tools and approaches to creative stewardship. 🔗Link in bio!