Saturday 28.03 | 11am - 2pm
At our studio, Unit 1B Cedar Units, Webbers Yard, Dartington (next to Luna’s Bakehouse)
Free, drop-in event, open to all! Sign up here:
Resource Saturday in March will be led by Angela Camacho, Emily Churchill Zaraa and Basel Zaraa, exploring worlds beyond exile and imagining different futures through installations, reimagined materials, textiles, performance and print. Centering on imagination as a form of resistance, each artist presents a world of resilience, and uses creativity as a tool to translate political ideas into meaningful forms, and transport to alternate realities of freedom.
Speakers:
Angela Camacho: Angela Camacho is a London-based artist, organiser, and community facilitator of Quechua-Aymara heritage from Bolivia/Argentina. Her practice sits at the intersection of collective art, Indigenous knowledge, and grassroots political organising.
Working across textiles, performance, healing practices, workshops, and community facilitation, Thebonitachola develops participatory practices that use creativity as a tool for collective memory, resistance, and care. Her work emerges from migrant justice movements, climate activism, and Indigenous cosmologies, often taking shape in community spaces rather than traditional art institutions.
Central to Camacho’s practice is the idea of “becoming a good ancestor.” For her, this means creating spaces where people can gather, imagine different futures, and cultivate responsibility toward future generations. Through collective embroidery, arpilleras, storytelling, and ritual practices, she explores how creativity can translate political ideas into forms that are accessible and meaningful within migrant and working-class communities.
Camacho’s work has been presented in a range of contexts including community gatherings, activist interventions, workshops, festivals, museums, and international cultural events. While she has collaborated with institutions and participated in exhibitions and panels internationally, her practice remains grounded in the communities and movements that shape her life and political commitments.
Having lived for ten years undocumented in the United Kingdom, her experience of migration, precarity, and resilience deeply informs her work. Camacho’s practice continues to explore how creativity/art function as a collective tool for healing, organising, and building futures rooted in solidarity and care.
Basel Zaraa: Basel Zaraa is a UK-based Palestinian artist whose work uses the senses to bring audiences closer to experiences of exile and war, and who creates art in order to face, express and understand the trauma that his community lives with. His current installation, ‘What Will We Do Without Exile?’ is an immersive, multi-sensory installation that creates a lush world within a refugee tent, inviting audiences to imagine life beyond occupation and war. Since 2022 he has also been touring ‘Dear Laila’, an intimate, one-person-at-a-time installation centred around the recreation of a destroyed family home, which received the ZKB Audience Award 2023. His previous work includes ‘As Far As My Fingertips Take Me’, a collaboration with Tania El Khoury, which was awarded Outstanding Production at the Bessie Awards in 2019. His work has been shown at over 50 venues and festivals across five continents.
Emily Churchill Zaraa: Emily Churchill Zaraa is Basel’s partner and artistic collaborator on ‘What Will We Do Without Exile?’ and ‘Dear Laila’. Emily is a Birmingham-based organiser, writer and researcher, and in January joined the Radical Ecology team as Facilitator (Emergent Strategy). She is also Senior Administrator at Retrofit Balsall Heath, a resident-led movement for climate transition in the neighbourhood where she grew up, and freelance researcher with Spectra, a radically inclusive neurodivergent and learning disability arts organisation. Her previous roles include Writer, Researcher and Organiser with CIVIC SQUARE, Community Engagement Producer with Midlands Arts Centre and Refugee Week UK Coordinator with Counterpoints Arts.
A Bit About Our Ecology as Method Studio Programme and Resource Saturdays:
Until March, Ecology as Method will form the seedbed of Radical Ecology activity at the studio in Dartington. Exploring Ecology as a way of seeing ourselves and our connection to one another and to the world, and Method of creativity through which we can constellate meaning and cultivate newness in the world. The Ecology as Method programme will share some of our learning around the ways of approaching our creative lives, and build questions of how we resource ourselves in the context of this crisis ridden decade.
As part of this, once a month, we open our studio doors to create a space where our community can share work. We’ll be bringing together guest speakers whose own practices shed light and inspire action and learning around questions of what ecology as method is in practice.
Find out more about our programme here.