We will acknowledge impossibilities.
We will listen together.
We will share stories and strategies for survival.

This gathering is anyone with lived experience of racialisation (BIPOC/global majority) who is a teacher/researcher or works in relationship with an institution. 

In 2020, artist Rajni Shah and academic Royona Mitra recorded adialogue under the title ‘Building the impossiblebridge: voice notes on anti-racism and/in institutions’. Now, three  years later, Rajni finds themself working within an institution for the first time, encountering the many challenges of continuing to do resistance work from inside the academy. For this event, Rajni and Royona will reflect on how things have changed since 2020, for them personally and also in their awareness more widely.Their dialogue will open up into a shared conversation with whoever would like to join them. 
 
Questions or concerns? Please email Rajni at rajni.shah@ahk.nl

Dates, times and location:
Friday 26 January
5-7pm
Location: This gathering is being hosted outside the institution so that we all might feel safe to speak and be however we need to be. We will gather at community space Tugela85 (Tugelaweg 85, 1091 VN Amsterdam Oost – close to Wibautstraat metro)

Participating artist(s):
The gathering will be hosted by Royona Mitra (professor in dance and performance cultures and associate dean (Equality and Diversity: Staff) at Brunel University, London) and Rajni Shah (artist, producer, and writer, currently researcher at ATD Lectorate).