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SUMMARY:Collective Vibrations
DESCRIPTION:April 29th 19:00 – 20:00 CET \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with AbletonFeaturing Mel Uye-Parker \n\n\n\nJoin us for our live music finale with Mel Uye-Parker\, who will be turning the crowdsourced everyday sounds you have shared with us throughout the festival into audio magic\, revealing the power of collective sharing\, learning and listening. \nYou can watch the recording of the full event and listen to the final music piece below. \n \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNER \n\n\n\nAbleton makes Push and Live\, hardware and software for music production\, creation and performance. Ableton’s products are made to inspire creative music-making. \n\n\n\n\n\nHOST / CREATIVE \n\n\n\nMel Uye-Parker is a British-Nigerian producer\, performer and educator based in London who has been making music for over 15 years. She spends most of her time teaching people how to make music with Ableton Live and Push. When she’s not doing any of the above\, she makes educational content and helps music teachers and schools integrate technology into their classrooms. She is particularly interested in training and supporting young female and non-binary people to succeed in the music world. Mel previously collaborated with CRIN at the 2019 Tate Exchange event in London | www.meluyeparker.com \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nWe want to make events throughout the Rights Studio Festival available to as many people as possible. Therefore\, many of our events – like this one – are free. We also offer a “Pay What You Can” option\, so you can choose to give a little more\, if that is within your means. Thank you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/collective-vibrations/
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SUMMARY:Tabula Rasa: Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:April 27 @ 18:00 – 19:15 CET \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with SawtiFeaturing spoken word artists from around the world \n\n\n\n“The only way to change the course of humanity is to challenge the input – to reimagine the way we think of knowledge with an altogether different\, corrective story. A tabula rasa.” – Minna Salami \n\n\n\nJoin us as we dare to reimagine dominant narratives with this special evening of spoken word in collaboration with Sawti\, featuring live poetry from artists based around the world\, including Ngollo Mlengeya\, K. Eltinaé\, Suhayl Omar and Manal Younus. \nWatch the recording of the event below.  \n \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNER \n\n\n\nSawti\, derived from the Arabic and Kiswahili for ‘my voice’\, intends to connect East African artists to their counterparts in the diaspora through conversation and collaboration. Its aim is to create and connect art that positions itself within the long-standing traditions of language and locale within East Africa and the diaspora. Focusing on Sudan and Tanzania in its first year\, the project programmed a series of workshops across London\, Khartoum\, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. The works created by writers in workshops and visual artists digitally in the zine interrogate what it means to be East African locally whilst considering the multi-lingual heritage that remains evident within shifts across national and cultural borders. Sawti is founded and programmed by Sumia Jaama with a team of freelancers based in the UK and Tanzania. \n\n\n\nSumia Jaama is a Dutch-born Somali poet and producer. She is the winner of FourHubs’ 2018 Poetry Prize and founder of SAWTI. She is also a Barbican Young Poet Alumni and a member of Octavia\, poetry collective for womxn of colour. She often writes about memory\, movement and the constant process of leaving. Her work has most recently been published in Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry and has previously worked with: Royal Academy of Arts\, Keats House Museum\, Southbank Centre\, Belfast Book festival\, Roundhouse\, Passa Porta\, Bush Theatre\, and Sauti za Busara festival. \n\n\n\n\n\nHOST \n\n\n\nNeema Komba is a poet and writer from Tanzania. She is the author of Mektildis Kapinga: a silent hero\, and See Through the Complicated\, a poetry collection. Her work entitled\, “The Search for Magical Mbuji”\, appeared in the creative non-fiction anthology\, Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction.  Her short stories have been featured in Payback and Other Stories: An anthology for African and African Diaspora Short Stories\, Adda Stories and Index on censorship. Her other works have also appeared in This is Africa and Vijana FM. She is the 2014 winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in the Flash Fiction category. She co-founded La Poetista\, a platform for poets and other performing artists to showcase their art and create a positive impact in the community through the arts. Through La Poetista\, she coordinated the Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival in Tanzania from 2013 to 2015\, a movement to fight violence against women. She is also a steering committee member for the Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize and has served as a judge for Project Sawti Poetry Prize (Swahili) and Andika na Soma short story competition (Swahili). Currently\, she is a doctoral student in Entrepreneurship at Hanken School of Economics. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS \n\n\n\nNgollo Mlengeya is a poet based in Dar es salaam\, Tanzania. She is a holder of a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from St. Augustine University of Tanzania and a mother of two boys. She started writing poetry as a way of expressing herself but it soon grew to be an exploration of human nature\, identity and why we do what we do. She believes poetry can heal by the comfort of knowing you are not alone. Ngollo was exhibited at the Uliza wahenga dada! project exhibition (February\, 2021)\, was the winner of SAWTI poetry prize 2019 (Kiswahili category) and she has performed at Poetry 255\, Lyricist Lounge\, The Annoying Artist and is a member of Waka poetry group in Dar es salaam. \n\n\n\nK. Eltinaé is a Sudanese poet of Nubian descent\, raised internationally as a third culture kid. His work has been translated into Arabic\, Greek\, Farsi\, French and Spanish. His work has appeared in The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Many Muslim Worlds (Penguin)\, The African American Review\, among others. He is the winner of The 2019 Beverly Prize for International Literature (Eyewear Publishing) and co-winner of the 2019 Dignity Not Detention Prize (Poetry International) \n\n\n\nSuhayl Omar is a Kenyan based community organiser and researcher. His interests lie in theorising policing\, surveillance\, militarism and Muslim precarity in Africa and beyond. \n\n\n\nManal Younus is an Australian based storyteller from Eritrea who believes that language and stories are the very fabric of our existence. Using her writing and performance\, Manal creates experiences that encourage audiences to join her in asking questions of themselves and the world around them. Following the Australian Poetry Slam National Finals in 2013\, Manal has gone on to perform around the country and the world including at the Jaipur Literary Festival and Georgetown Literary festival. In 2015\, she released her first book of poetry called ‘Reap’\, touring nationally in Adelaide\, Melbourne and Perth\, with performances in Queensland and parts of New South Wales. Manal frequently collaborates with Act Now Theatre to write and produce educational theatre pieces for schools. This includes the award winning play\, Responding to Racism\, which has toured South Australia for 7 consecutive years and is set to tour across schools nationally in the coming year. More recently she wrote two monologues that featured in The Decameron 2.0\, and is now working on her first feature length play incorporating spoken word\, hip hop and physical theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nWe want to make events throughout the Rights Studio Festival available to as many people as possible. Therefore\, many of our events – like this one – are free. We also offer a “Pay What You Can” option\, so you can choose to give a little more\, if that is within your means. Thank you. \n\n\n\n Photo by: Nim BJ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/tabula-rasa/
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SUMMARY:Seen & Not Heard: Comedy Gig
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nHosted by Jonny & the BaptistsFeaturing Nish Kumar\, Josie Long\, Deborah Frances-White & Charlie George! \nJoin us for a special evening celebrating youth\, challenging power and punching up\, with some of the UK’s finest comedy acts. The night will be hosted by musical satirists and comedy double act Jonny & the Baptists\, and will feature comedians Josie Long\, Nish Kumar\, Deborah Frances-White and Charlie George! \nEvent age recommendation: 14+ \nYou can watch the recording of the full event below. \n\n\n\n\n\nHOSTS \n\n\n\nJonny & the Baptists – real names Jonny Donahoe & Paddy Gervers – are among the hottest musical comedy acts on the UK scene\, regularly appearing on TV\, radio\, at festivals and comedy clubs around the country on their UK tours. From silly songs to satirical anthems\, their riotous live blend of comedy and rock gig has won adoring fans across the country. They have previously supported Mark Thomas at the National Theatre\, performed at major UK festivals\, and topped the iTunes Comedy Chart with single ‘Farage’. They have appeared regularly on Radio 4\, including The Now Show\, The Infinite Monkey Cage\, and Sketchorama; and on the BBC’s Live at Television Centre. | www.jonnyandthebaptists.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS \n\n\n\nJosie Long – often described as a unique voice in comedy – is one of the most respected comedians of her generation. She started stand-up at age 14 and soon after went on to win the BBC New Comedy Award. Josie founded Arts Emergency in 2011 alongside campaigner Neil Griffiths as a way to do something meaningful for the young people most affected by rising tuition fees and cuts to the arts. Josie has appeared on multiple TV and Radio shows\, including The News Quiz\, Just A Minute\, Never Mind the Buzzcocks\, The Alternative Comedy Experience\, Skins\, 8 out of 10 Cats\, Drunk History\, Russell Howard’s Stand-Up Central\, Celebrity MasterChef and Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls\, as well as Australia’s Thank God You’re Here\, and Comedy Central’s @midnight and Night Train with Wyatt Cenac and Hidden America in the US. | www.josielong.com \n\n\n\nNish Kumar hosts his own satirical\, spoof news series\, The Mash Report\, for BBC Two. Alongside stand-up\, Nish is a frequent voice and face across both television and radio. On screen you can catch up with Nish on the likes of Q.I.\, Mock The Week & Live At The Apollo (all BBC Two)\, Have I Got News For You & The John Bishop Show (BBC One)\, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4)\, Russell Howard’s Stand-Up for Central\, Drunk History\, The Alternative Comedy Experience & Live At The Comedy Store (all Comedy Central)\, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled (Dave) and Taskmaster (Dave). Nish starred alongside fellow comic Joel Dommett in a 6-part travelogue for Comedy Central\, Joel and Nish vs The World. | www.nishkumar.co.uk \n\n\n\nDeborah Frances-White is a stand-up comedian\, podcaster\, screenwriter and corporate speaker. You may have heard her on The Guilty Feminist podcast\, seen her on Have I Got News For You or seen the film Say My Name\, which she wrote the screenplay for. Deborah’s background as an improviser\, her quick wit and her warm and friendly style combined with her passion for justice\, fairness and inclusion make her a formidable comedian. Her hour-long shows Cult Following and Half a Can of Worms were turned into a BBC Radio 4 comedy series for which she won the Writers’ Guild Award. | www.deborahfrances-white.com \n\n\n\nCharlie George is an award winning stand-up comedian and writer. Named LGBTQ New Comedian of the Year 2019\, Charlie has performed stand-up on BBC Asian Network Live and the BBC’s No Country for Young Women Podcast. Charlie was chosen to feature in Charlie Brooker’s writers room for Cunk & Other Humans 2019\, AntiViral Wipe 2020 (Lockdown special) and Death to 2020 for Netflix. She has written for the C4 Election night special\, 8 out of 10 cats\, Hypothetical\, Newsjack\, The Now Show & Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. She was recently selected out of 3\,700 writers for the Penguin Write Now editorial programme to write her first autofiction book ‘Door to Door.’ | www.charliegeorgecomedy.com \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nWe want to make events throughout the Rights Studio Festival available to as many people as possible. This event is offered on a “Pay What You Can” basis\, so you can decide what is within your means to give. If you would like to attend this event\, but are unable to afford any of the below options\, please get in touch with us\, and we would be happy to offer you a ticket. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/seen-not-heard/
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SUMMARY:Drops of Joy: Film Screening & Q&A
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with AlanaFeaturing a post-film Q&A with Cacau Rhoden hosted by Irene Caselli \nChildhood games are a part of our social\, intellectual and emotional formation. Through them we socialise\, define ourselves\, and internalise many of the cultural habits of adult life. We all played in our childhood\, and were free and happy while playing. But do we still keep this joyful spirit and playful culture alive within us? Would the child we once were be proud of the adult we became? Drops of Joy is a manifesto on the importance of sustaining the playful spirit that arises in childhood but which our system encourages to abandon in our adult life. \nWe hope you will join us for this special film screening\, followed by a short Q&A hosted by Irene Caselli with the film’s director Cacau Rhoden. \nFilm length: approx 80 minutes | Q&A: approx 30 minutes \nYou can watch a recording of the full Q&A below.  \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS \n\n\n\nAlana is a socio-environmental impact organisation that promotes children’s rights to integral development and fosters new forms of well being. Alana is organised into three fronts: the Alana Institute\, the AlanaLab\, and the Alana Foundation. \n\n\n\nFLOW is part of Alana\, one of the largest non-governmental organisations in Latin America. With the experience of distributing Maria Farinha Filmes productions in Brazil and worldwide\, they have developed collaborative strategies to increase the reach and impact of inspiring narratives\, in a democratic\, accessible and global way. \n\n\n\n\n\nHOST \n\n\n\nIrene Caselli is the founder of The First 1\,000 Days\, a fully reader-supported platform that covers the foundational period of our lives that is too often overlooked. After working for a decade as a foreign correspondent in Latin America\, in 2019 she became the world’s only First 1\,000 Days correspondent for The Correspondent\, a transnational member-funded journalism site. When The Correspondent shut down in December 2020\, she launched her own platform. Irene has been awarded fellowships by the IWMF\, the European Journalism Centre and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She speaks six languages\, and is now learning Greek. In her free time\, she writes stories for children that she likes to test out with her son Lorenzo. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS \n\n\n\nCacau Rhoden is a filmmaker and partner director at Maria Farinha Filmes since 2012.Among his last films\, he directed the movie “Tarja Branca”\, awarded as best documentary at BRAFFTV – Brazilian Film & Television Festival of Toronto; “Not even in a wildest Dream”\, awarded as Best documentary at the Los Angeles festival and exhibited at the UN headquarters in NY; and the series “Hearts & Minds – Changemaker schools” for GNT channel. \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/drops-of-joy/
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SUMMARY:If These Walls Could Talk: Mural Painting
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with The Lawrence HouseInspired by the stories of children and young people in The Lawrence House\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nThis participatory storytelling and mural development event incorporates the stories and expressions of children and young people living in the Lawrence House\, South Africa.  \n\n\n\nArtists held a storytelling and visualisation workshop with 15-20 young people to develop the mural concept and paint this on the premises of the House. The storytelling workshop focused on children’s place in society and representation of their rights in a public domain. A separate workshop was held\, where children had the opportunity to use acrylic paints and canvas to present their own stories\, however they choose.  \n\n\n\nThe stories that emerged were translated into a mural\, painted by a creative collective. You can now view the filmed content documenting this process below\, accompanied by a time-lapse video. \n \n\n\n\n\nThe Process – from workshop to mural\n\n\n\n\nA note from the creatives: \n\n\n\nIf These Walls Could Talk: Together Everyone Achieves More \n\n\n\nThis mural tries to fold together ideas on how adults see children and young people\, how children and young people see themselves\, and how they would like to be seen by the world. \n\n\n\nAdults often think of young people as passive recipients of ‘adult culture’ or passive not-yet-adults – as can be seen in the far right of the mural in which a young girl is playing with figurines. \n\n\n\nIn actuality\, young people are fighting these social constructions imposed upon them by others\, fighting for their voices to be heard and developing through their own experiences and growth\, as can be seen in the remainder of the mural. The mural attempts to highlight the battles and positionality that children and young people face. \n \n\nMural Time-lapse – from start to finish\n\n\n\n\nYou can sign up HERE for updates. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS \n\n\n\nThe Lawrence House is a child and youth care centre registered to accommodate up to 25 children and youth who have been found in need of care. Ever since its inception\, The Lawrence House has dedicated its programmes and interventions to separated refugee children and unaccompanied foreign minors. The Lawrence House strongly believes that children and young people with migratory experiences who have been placed in alternative care have particular care and developmental needs\, which can only be addressed successfully within a framework of understanding migration\, integration in the South African context\, and trauma. The Lawrence House also has a comprehensive approach to the young person which means to analyse aspects of the legal stay in the country as well as explore family reunification on a broader spectrum\, not just locally but to actively work towards international reunification where deemed in the best interest of the child. \n\n\n\n\n\nCREATIVES \n\n\n\nNabeel Petersen considers himself to be a mixed martian (or other interplanetary) artist\, of sorts\, passionate about the fertile spaces between people\, disciplines\, places\, spaces\, approaches\, expression and life/nature. Unschooled in the participatory arts\, research and an insatiable explorer of finding middle ground between spaces and people\, he is a passionate adventurer in Space and developing inclusive collaborations and co-designed/participatory processes to challenge traditional research-engagement structures and programmes. He is the Director of Interfer\, a company focused on collaborations\, storytelling\, participation\, research and the arts\, and the co-founder of the NPO the Pivot Collective\, focused on egalitarian collaborations\, knowledge translation and research decolonization.  \n\n\n\nApril Sing is a qualified graphic designer\, illustrator and muralist based in Cape Town. She is particularly interested in the political and health potentials of public murals to stimulate dialogue and ignite collaborations. \n\n\n\nKauthar Drama\, AKA Eleganza Visual Investors\, is a film-maker\, photographer and animator. Kauthar enjoys using photography and video to visually present people’s stories. \n\n\n\nJack De Jong is a skilled multi-method artist passionate about inclusivity in arts and transformation. Jack is skilled at public murals\, fine art\, stencilling\, teaching and wheat paste. In his spare time\, Jack is actively involved in teaching young people various arts methods. He often uses painting as a tool to celebrate social victories or to challenge social issues and injustice. \n\n\n\nAdilah Petersen is a Registered Dietitian mastering in Public Health. She is an empathetic\, free loving spirit with a passion for change\, whether it be a change in the world or a change within an individual. In a world of worriers\, she hopes to be a warrior and build an army strong enough to overcome the walls that the world has built to prevent us all from achieving our true potential. \n\n\n\nMohamed Hassan\, also known as FØK\, is a cartoon and animation fanatic\, and introspective time waster. He uses a combination of different mediums and processes to visually communicate emotion\, or the lack thereof in the metaphoric post-apocalyptic world that we live in today. He enjoys and is passionate about touching on ideas of existence and purpose\, and communicating these ideas through bold lines\, hyper detailed backgrounds and apathetic characters. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/mural-painting/
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SUMMARY:Living Objects: A Digital Forest Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Identity 2.0Featuring a guided tour of an interactive digital forest \n“Even though every schoolchild knows trees are living beings\, they also know they are categorised as objects”  – Peter Wohlleben\, Author \n\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/537641509\n\n\n\n\nWander into Living Objects – a digital forest exhibition exploring the connections between technology and climate change\, and the lessons we can learn from the oldest storytellers in our world – trees. \n\n\n\nPrepare to embark on a guided virtual journey\, discovering the ways trees support and work together to protect their communities. Inspired by the work of young climate activists\, past movements and the grassroots organisations at the forefront of climate action\, this interactive exhibition –  created by Identity 2.0 – exists as a digital representation of our fight for the future. Launching on 15 April and accessible throughout the festival\, join us by signing up below. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS \n\n\n\nIdentity 2.0 is a creative art project empowering people to explore and protect their digital identity. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS \n\n\n\nArda Awais is a creative coder with dance moves that will put you to shame. Currently she works at Soho House’s Digital team. An alumni of Black Girl Fest Academy 2020\, she was most recently spotted in Elle Decoration UK’s as a ‘Young Voice in Design. \n\n\n\nSavena Surana is a proud pun user\, and can often be found on twitter or figuring out how to reuse a cardboard box. Currently she works in Marketing for the Institute of Imagination. She’s been named one of the Drum’s Future Marketers and as “pretty cool” by her mum. \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nWe want to make events throughout the Rights Studio Festival available to as many people as possible. Therefore\, many of our events – like this one – are free. We also offer a “Pay What You Can” option\, so you can choose to give a little more\, if that is within your means. Thank you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/living-objects/
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SUMMARY:In My Feelings About Climate Change: A Workshop on Climate Grief
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with SustyVibesFacilitated by Ama Josephine Budge \nHow do we talk about climate grief\, anxiety\, anger and mourning – in intersectional and collective ways – to better prepare all generations\, as we reckon with ecological breakdown and transformation? This workshop is one small attempt.  \nFollowing part one – In My Feelings About Climate Change: In Conversation – join us for part two:  In My Feelings About Climate Change: A Workshop\, an intimate space to discuss tactics and tools for navigating climate grief led by pleasure activist\, artist and science fiction writer Ama Josephine Budge. \nClimate change is triggering and exacerbating mental health conditions all over the world\, disproportionately affecting young people and those who face other intersections of oppression and anxiety.  \nLeading on from the key themes of the panel discussion\, this 90 minute workshop’s key objective is to co-create a ‘brave’ and safer space\, where participants can share and reflect on complex feelings that arise from a growing awareness of our changing climate. Feelings such as anxiety\, grief\, despair\, guilt\, fear\, powerlessness and denial will all be touched on; thinking through how and where grief sits in our bodies through breathing exercises; and locating the tools we already have to face social\, political and ecological anxiety and change.  \nCollectively\, we will affirm the much needed reminder: that everyone is worthy of receiving care and support\, and that we all have something to give and share as we approach climate change together. We hope you will join us. \nPlease note: tickets are limited due to the nature of this workshop. Please only reserve a ticket if you can definitely attend. \n\n\n\nPARTNERS \n\n\n\nSustyVibes is a youth-led organisation based in Nigeria that provides a platform for young people to drive sustainable development projects in their communities\, making sustainability actionable and relatable for children and young people. \n\n\n\n\n\nHOST \n\n\n\nAma Josephine Budge is a pleasure activist\, artist and researcher whose work navigates intimate explorations of race\, art\, ecology and feminism\, working to activate movements that catalyse human rights\, environmental evolutions and troublesomely queered identities. Ama is a PhD candidate in Psychosocial Studies with Dr Gail Lewis at Birkbeck. Her research takes a queer\, decolonial approach to challenging climate colonialism\, with a particular focus on inherently environmentalist pleasure practices in Ghana and across the Black diaspora. Ama is the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism with BARD College. \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/climate-grief-workshop/
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SUMMARY:In My Feelings About Climate Change: In Conversation
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with SustyVibesFeaturing Clover Hogan\, Elizabeth Wathuti and Britt Wray\, PhD\, in conversation with Jennifer Uchendu \nHow do we normalise spaces for conversations about climate emotions? \nClimate change is triggering and amplifying mental health problems in people all over the world. Children and young people\, in particular\, are disproportionately affected. With daily saturation of media and scientific reports on human-induced climate change becoming the norm\, grim images and predictions of an uninhabitable planet have taken centre stage. \nEco-anxiety has been referred to as chronic fear of ecological doom\, encompassing feelings of guilt\, anxiety and overwhelm about the state of the planet. Eco-anxiety is also a perfectly normal response; the realities and complexities of a changing climate are understandably difficult to grapple with.  \nSo how do we equip children and young people who experience eco-anxiety with the tools and support they urgently need to guide them through these psychological responses\, and empower them in their climate action? \nSustyVibes founder Jennifer Uchendu was joined by young climate activists Clover Hogan\, Elizabeth Wathuti and researcher Britt Wray\, PhD\, to share their own experiences and address how to navigate eco-anxiety in children and young people. This panel discussion was part one of our two-part collaboration with SustyVibes. Find out about part two  – In My Feelings About Climate Change: An Intimate Workshop on Climate Grief\, facilitated by pleasure activist Ama Josephine Budge. \nYou can watch a recording of the full panel discussion below. \n \n\n\n\nPARTNERS \n\n\n\nSustyVibes is a youth-led organisation based in Nigeria that provides a platform for young people to drive sustainable development projects in their communities\, making sustainability actionable and relatable for children and young people. \n\n\n\n\n\nHOST \n\n\n\nJennifer Uchendu is a sustainability communicator\, analyst and founder of SustyVibes – a social enterprise making sustainability actionable for young people in Nigeria. Jennifer’s interests lie between the intersects of youth\, women and climate action. Recently\, she focused her research on intersectional eco-anxiety in youth climate activists. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS \n\n\n\nClover Hogan is a 21-year-old climate activist\, researcher on eco-anxiety\, and the Founder and Executive Director of Force of Nature. Force of Nature is a youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action. Through virtual programmes\, they empower young people in 50+ countries to cultivate mindsets of agency\, purpose and resilience; and work with decision-makers across business\, policy and civil society to drive intergenerational solutions. \n\n\n\nElizabeth Wathuti is a passionate environmentalist and climate activist from Kenya and the founder of Green Generation Initiative and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Community development. She is currently the Head of Campaigns and Daima Coalition for green spaces protection Coordinator at Wangari Maathai Foundation.  \n\n\n\nBritt Wray\, PhD\, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human and Planetary Health at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Britt is also the creator of Gen Dread\, a weekly newsletter about “staying sane in the climate crisis\,” and author of Generation Dread Knopf 2022 – a forthcoming book about the mental health impacts of the climate crisis. Find out more about Britt’s work here. \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nWe want to make events throughout the Rights Studio Festival available to as many people as possible. Therefore\, many of our events – like this one – are free. We also offer a “Pay What You Can” option\, so you can choose to give a little more\, if that is within your means. Thank you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/climate-change-conversation/
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SUMMARY:The Red Cloud Project
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Ricebox StudioLaunching the digital campaign on breaking period stigma \n\nJoin us for the official launch of the Red Cloud Project: a campaign exploring how to break the stigma around menstruation through art and design\, developed by a collective of four young women during the first year of the Rights Studio Fellowship. \n\n\n\nAlongside producing the period education book “From Your Big Sisters\,” collecting crowdsourced stories from across the globe\, building an interactive printing machine and launching a social media campaign using augmented reality filters\, they also launched their own design practice – Ricebox Studio.  \n\n\n\nJoin them as they present the project in its entirety and discuss insights gained on the journey to tackling period stigma. \n\n\n\nYou can watch a video below of the #MenstruationConversation campaign – Ricebox Studio’s invitation to talk about periods openly on social media\, using their augmented reality Instagram filters.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can watch a recording of the full panel discussion below. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/536902790\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPARTNERS \n\n\n\nRicebox Studio is an award-winning design practice using creative technology and visual communication for social good. \n\n\n\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS \n\n\n\nSafiya Ahmed’s practice focuses on accessible and inclusive design and editorials. She likes to challenge the diversity and representation within Western design pedagogy. She is currently a Design Developer at Shades of Noir. | www.saf-ahm.com  \n\n\n\nBristy Azmi is a designer and maker. Her practice focuses on branding\, publications\, book making\, jewelry making\, 2D animation and accessible design. She is also the Lead Graphic Designer at Maternal Aid Association (MAA) and runs a jewelry shop\, Thread & Rock\, with her sister. | www.bristyazmi.com  \n\n\n\nMaria Than is a designer working with creative tech\, illustration\, graphic and interactive design. She is a project leader and network facilitator of the Digital Maker Collective\,an artist at Made In Arts London and volunteers at STEM The Violence. She is also the Design and Outreach Officer at Child Rights International Network. | www.mariathan.com \n\n\n\nAnna Tsuda is a designer and creative computing graduate\, passionate about visual communications and creative tech with a human centric approach for positive change. | www.annatsuda.com \n\n\n\n\n\nTIME ZONES \n\n\n\nPlease note that we’re using Central European Time (CET) for all events during the festival. We recommend that you check the event times listed with your local time\, to ensure you can join us at the right time. \n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nWe want to make events throughout the Rights Studio Festival available to as many people as possible. Therefore\, many of our events – like this one – are free. We also offer a “Pay What You Can” option\, so you can choose to give a little more\, if that is within your means. Thank you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/redcloudproject/
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SUMMARY:More Than Objects: Interactive Illustrations
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\nWith Miriam SugranyesFeaturing everyday objects turned into illustrated narratives \n\n\n\nHow often do we pause to really take in our surroundings? Which objects lie all around us? What kinds of things do we look at everyday that we might start to see differently? A sink\, ripened fruit\, a lamp\, a doorway\, clothing or a piece of furniture? \n\n\n\nAs we open The Rights Studio Festival\, from 1st April and across the whole month\, we invite you to look at the objects around you – whatever they may be – through a different lens. Capture these objects with your phone or camera and share a photo with us. Each week of the festival\, our Art Director Miriam Sugranyes will then reimagine these objects into illustrations that tell the narrative of children’s rights. \n\n\n\nTo get involved: please send a photo of an object to us HERE. You can send as many as you like throughout April. \n\n\n\nWe can’t wait to get creative with you!  \n\n\n\nYou can sign up HERE for updates. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nMore Than Objects Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/more-than-objects/
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SUMMARY:More Than Noise: Interactive Audio
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\nWith Mel Uye-ParkerFeaturing everyday sounds turned into live music \n\n\n\nWhat happens when we stop and listen to all the sounds that make up our everyday lives? \n\n\n\nThe rumble of a train\, swift typing on a keyboard\, blaring sirens\, snippets of conversation\, laughter\, rain beating against the window\, a baby crying\, or the sizzle of oil in a pan? Could we hear these sounds differently? Could we turn them into something else? \n\n\n\nFrom 1st April and across the whole month\, we will invite you to share snippets of your everyday sounds – whatever they may be – by uploading short audio recordings. These can be recorded on a phone or any device with audio-recording capabilities. \n\n\n\nAt the end of the Rights Studio Festival\, musician Mel Uye-Parker\, will host a live music session and transform your crowdsourced sounds into audio magic in real-time for Collective Vibrations. \n\n\n\nWe want to ask questions about how we can listen differently – and how we can listen better – through collective creative explorations. We hope you’ll join us! \n\n\n\nTo upload your sound snippets\, please click HERE. \n\n\n\nYou can sign up for updates here. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.rightsstudio.org/festival/more-than-noise-interactive-audio/
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