We recently collaborated with Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank to to write a series of posts for our project on their website Race Matters. Our first post was posted on the 7th of February.

On the post we argued that,

Art is a catalyst. It can drive people, and add energy to advocacy and civic agency. It can reach communities and individuals on deep emotional levels, conveying through action what cannot be said with words. Art provides a space in which stories that are often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media find a voice.

And we concluded with an invitation to our Festival in June,

The themes of the Creative Interruptions project, which will be covered in our academic arts festival, include creativity, resistance, race and the legacies of British imperialism. They have never been more relevant. The 2016 Brexit referendum, the Grenfell tragedy, the election of President Trump in 2017, and the 2018 Windrush scandal, alongside the growth of far-right politics, have profoundly shaped the experiences of migrants. From those who have moved to the UK from Europe recently, to black Caribbean communities who have considered the UK their home for generations, no one has been safe from the latent xenophobia bubbling to the surface.

You can read the post on Runnymede Trust’s website below:

Arts and Resistance in a Hostile World