How do we hold onto hope in dark times? Join us as we gather with Dr Aditi Jaganathan to moor ourselves in possibilities of hope as we organise for collective liberation

As babylon crumbles; its architectures of oppression fall, in Gaza, in Haiti, in Sudan, in the Congo, in the heart of empire. In this brokenness,  spirit speaks; spirit calls on us to reach into otherwise possibilities, otherwise ways of being in the fold of our collective being.

We gather as an offering of refusal, refusing the structures which refuse our complex personhood, refusing the suppression of rhythms of liberation. Leaning into this spirit of refusal we figure out ways to relinquish control and lean into our shared vulnerability; to orbit around ways of being moored in possibilities of hope. It is in the matter of being together, as ritual, that our tethering to hope as possibility emerges. 

This event invites organisers, cultural workers, creatives as well as dreamers and schemers who are affected by the passing of the Rwanda Bill and are organising in the wake of ongoing violence, whether that be in the UK or beyond. We hope that by gathering we can thread together our interconnected struggles and hold space to resource ourselves through ritual and by centering our collective liberation.

Dr Aditi Jaganathan is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer.

Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of  (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production. She teaches her own course, Rhythm, Race, Revolution as well as courses at different London-based academic institutions.

With a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Her research work examines the different ways in which Black and Brown cultural production has activated autonomous modes of meaning-making and self-determination in London, through contesting racialised norms and (re)imagining racialised postcolonial subjectivities. And it is through an ethic of jazz that Aditi curates this work.

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