Fern Leigh Albert: Wild Campers
Fern Leigh Albert’s exhibition 'Wild Campers' documents the wild camping campaign from January 2023 to present day.
Invasion Ecology
Invasion Ecology is a group exhibition that uses decolonial, land-based inquiry to begin rethinking our relation to place and landscape. Artists include Ingrid Pollard, Iman Datoo, Hanna Tuulikki, Ashish Ghadiali, Fern Leigh Albert and Ashanti Hare, with works spanning installation, performance, moving image and photography.
Ashanti Hare: River That Never Rests Iteration II
River That Never Rests Iteration II is a ritual performance that explores the concept of the river Exe becoming sentient and revealing its story as ‘the observer of the land and guardian of passing over.’ The process of creating the ceremonial costume is an integral part of the work, encompassing the magick and meditation of ritual.
Hare developed this commission in part during a residency at Southcombe Barn in 2023. Observing the surrounding wildlife was integral to exploring the idea of the river Exe ‘as the watcher who connects the physical with documented histories of Exeter and the wider South West; other worlds; the many oral histories of Gobal Majority people and wildlife that travel through it.’
The work was commissioned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter.
Ashanti Hare is a Devon-based multidisciplinary artist and spiritual practitioner who explores their spiritual being through performance and traditional craft practices like textiles, ceramics, and wood carving. Their practice is informed by British and Global Majority folklore, occult practices, and history.
Hare’s research into both the African origins of Vodou and Vodon practices and water gods in a range of African and Norse mythologies reveal water as a bridge between worlds. In these narratives, water represents the cyclical nature of grief; death and rebirth; joy and celebration. For Hare, water also becomes a ‘symbol for the transatlantic slave trade’.
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Migrant Futurism: Of Other Worlds
For Refugee Week, Radical Ecology, in partnership with Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support and the Apricot Centre will bring city and regional stakeholders together in Plymouth to consider connections between immigration and asylum policy in the UK and wider cuts to public services.
Mariam Mohamed: Decolonising plant medicine workshop
Processes of colonisation and capitalism have historically led to the destruction of knowledge systems, ecologies and earth-based practices.
In this practical workshop we will challenge colonial systems of knowledge production and botanical language by engaging in a sensory-based session that draws on perception, intuition and oral storytelling as a way to develop deeper relationships with plants as medicinal and spiritual allies.
Honouring ancestral and indigenous knowledges, we will journey into the apothecary garden, learn about respectful plant medicine practices and weave together our senses and creativity to craft a herbal remedy inspired by the season.
Mariam Mohamed is a community herbalist, medical herbalist trainee, grower and mother who lives in Totnes, South Devon. She stewards a community herb garden based at School Farm, Dartington. She is founder and director of Radical Plant Folk C.I.C, a community growing project that supports community sharing on plant knowledge and cultural heritage. In October 2022 she ran a healing nature connection circle for black, mixed heritage and people of colour that explored themes around identity, belonging and healing with the land. Her work centers around land justice and themes of belonging, reconnection and reclaiming relationship with the land.
Hanna Tuulikki: Dawn Chorus performance
At dawn on Beltane, artist Hanna Tuulikki will sing the summer in, performing some of her solo vocal works based on the patterns of songbirds, animating the echoes of the greenwood and interacting with the music of the birds.
Webinar: Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in conversation with Tsitsi Mareika Chirikure
Join Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah and Tsitsi Mareika Chirkure for a webinar about the basic human right to clean air for everyone.
Webinar: Stephanie Loveless in conversation with IONE and Ashish Ghadiali
Join us for a special session led by Stephanie Loveless, the Director of the Center For Deep Listening, as we remember the profound philosophy and teachings of composer, accordionist, and theorist Pauline Oliveros.
A Silent Walk
Starting at 10.30am on Sunday 26th November, artist, activist and curator of Against Apartheid Ashish Ghadiali will lead a silent walk from the Mayflower Steps at Plymouth Garden up to the Peace Garden at Plymouth Hoe.
Open Jam Session with Tomorrow's Warriors
Musical Passage is a collaborative project initiated by Radical Ecology in Plymouth and aims to support the long-term development of a cohesive infrastructure for anti-racist jazz education across Devon and Cornwall. Drawing on Tomorrow’s Warriors expertise as the UK’s leading provider of free-at-the-point-of-delivery jazz education for young people, Radical Ecology is working with partners across Devon and Cornwall to identify a network of music teachers across the region.
Artist talk: Angela Camacho with Jelena Sofronijevic
A talk by artist Angela Camacho on her works exhibited in the Against Apartheid exhibition at KARST, with the host of EMPIRE LINES podcast, Jelena Sofronijevic.
Artist talk: Sylvie Sema Glissant with Jelena Sofronijevic
A talk by Sylvie Sema Glissant on her works exhibited in the Against Apartheid exhibition at KARST, with the host of EMPIRE LINES podcast, Jelena Sofronijevic
Tanisha Hicks-Beresford: Workshop on Joy
Join educator Tanisha Hicks-Beresford at KARST for an inspiring session where participants will collaborate to reshape the Black narrative in education, infusing it with joy and empowerment.
Black Atlantic
Black Atlantic is a weekend of public activity inviting participants to consider how far racial equity and inclusion can serve as creative tactics for the imagination of just and sustainable planetary futures here and now. The weekend will be a celebration of such tactics in all their diversity.
Webinar: TJ Demos in conversation with Khaled Jarrar and Lorenzo Pezzani
Art Historian and cultural critic T.J. Demos will interview artists Khaled Jarrar and Lorenzo Pezzani, about strategies of resistance from both within and beyond an aesthetics of liberation.
Webinar: Françoise Vergès in conversation with Sue Williamson and Deanna Dadusc
Renowned decolonial activist and theorist Françoise Vergès will be in conversation with artist Sue Williamson and Deanna Dadusc from frontline activist collective Alarm Phone, shedding light on their contributions to the Against Apartheid exhibition at KARST Gallery, Plymouth.
MOVEMENT Workshop with Anairda
In this workshop we will explore our connection with our body and with feelings of oppression and liberation through physical theater dynamics, in relation to the concept of decolonisation.
Musical Passage – Jazz Workshop & Jam Session
A free workshop for young musicians aged 14 to 18. This workshop provides an opportunity to develop your improvisation skills in an inclusive environment by exploring a diverse jazz repertoire.
Open City Night School: Deep Listening with Dr. Ximena Alarcón
Join this workshop with Dr. Ximena Alarcón from the Center for Deep Listening
Open City Night School: Trauma Geographies with Dr. Sana Murrani
Maps, Ruptures, and Storytelling from Iraq
Against Apartheid
Curated by Ashish Ghadiali, Against Apartheid explores the origins of climate apartheid through the work of international contemporary artists, activists and scientists.
Against Apartheid: Artist Panel
Join us for a panel discussion with the curator and artists from our upcoming exhibition Against Apartheid.
Keynote Speech: Plotting Against the Plantation by Annalee Davis
Join us for a keynote speech from Barbadian visual artist, cultural activist and writer Annalee Davis.
Migrant Futurism: Angela Camacho
The community organiser and domestic worker performs a Future Ancestors Ritual to conclude the afternoon’s Migrant Futurism programme.
Migrant Futurism: Françoise Vergès
The renowned decolonial activist and theorist delivers a key-note presentation reflecting on the context of the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill.
Migrant Futurism: Kenmure Street
This panel brings together community activists and organisers to reflect on the power of the Kenmure Street protest, two years on.
Jam Session: Tomorrow's Warriors and Musical Passage
Join us on Saturday 10 June for a free jam session with the amazing 'Tomorrow's Warriors'. Bring your own acoustic instrument along and take part in this very special musical experience.
Live Music: Tomorrow's Warriors and Musical Passage
Join us for an evening featuring the next generation of British jazz talent with 'Tomorrow's Warriors'.
Planetary Imagination
Planetary Imagination is a new film installation by Radical Ecology’s Founder/Director Ashish Ghadiali that explores the connections between global warming and migration.
Tarkovsky’s Stalker: Cinematics of Gaia & Magic
In the context of Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene showing at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery [RAMM], filmmaker and activist, Ashish Ghadiali, from Radical Ecology has selected Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker which he will introduce to explore themes of landscape, environmental degradation and the uncanny.
Tomorrow’s Warriors: Isobella Burnham and Romarna Campbell
Concluding Equilibrium: A public gathering on environmental justice, Jazz educators Tomorrow’s Warriors have partnered up with Radical Ecology and Serpentine to present an evening performance.
Equilibrium: A public gathering
This public gathering brings together interdisciplinary artists, campaigners and thinkers to address questions of environmental justice and the role of culture in creating it.
Equilibrium: Roundtable
A round-table hosted by Radical Ecology, responding to recent calls by the Prime Minister of Barbados for a new global architecture for climate finance that is fit for the need of the 2020s and beyond.
Scorching Suns, Rising Seas
An environmental justice programme, London, in the context of Sun & Sea at the Albany, 23 June - 10 July 2022
Film Programme: Scorching Suns, Rising Seas
Film programme for Scorching Suns, Rising Seas