Join a free workshop exploring care as political practice.

Drawing on knowledge of community care and mutual aid organisers, we will think about methods like resource sharing, letter writing for prisoner support, and DIY healthcare, as well as ways to share that knowledge through sound. This workshop will explore care as a range of political practices that involve maintenance, pleasure, conflict, sustenance, and scarcity.

Led by Rotterdam-based artist Cannach MacBride, the workshop will include grounding exercises, an intro to basic audio recording, and making care maps exploring relationships of care and community. We will explore ideas of care and communities that include formal and informal relationships with people, structures, systems, more-than-human beings, and places.

Together we will discuss needs, capacities, and ways to nurture both, and reflect on organising strategies towards building communities of care that others have tried out. The group will share discussions, food, and have the option to work with sound as an expressive medium by recording messages/stories/sounds and suggesting songs for a mixtape about community care.