Event in the Wellcome Reading Room, Photo: Thomas SG Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Join a creative workshop inspired by objects, artworks and archival material in the ‘Hard Graft’ exhibition. You will explore themes of desire, resistance and work through talking, writing and collage making.
Together we will craft a satirical handbook for work-related illnesses, whether that’s in the context of office work, sex work or domestic work.
The workshop will be led by facilitator and producer F. Zeeshan Choudhury who uses creativity to encourage self-knowledge and wellbeing. They are particularly interested in the folklore of queer and disabled communities.
Everyone is welcome and no experience is necessary. Materials will be provided and you can take home what you make.
Dates
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Tickets via Eventbrite
Need to know
Location
We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.
Place not guaranteed
Booking a ticket for a free event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.
Waiting list
If this event is fully booked, you may still be able to attend. We will operate a waiting list, which opens 30 minutes before this event starts. Arrive early, and we’ll give you a numbered ticket. If there are any unfilled places just before the start time, we will invite you to enter in order of ticket number.
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About your facilitator
F. Zeeshan Choudhury
F. Zeeshan Choudhury leads community projects that use creativity to facilitate radical wellbeing. Their research and practice finds tangible ways for people to interrogate injustice and imagine new futures. They are an advocate for hyper-local community engagement, and run community groups in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, including the Queer Writer’s Circle at The Common Press in Shoreditch, and Writing to Uncover The Self at St. Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. They have recently been commissioned by Unlimited to collect and record gender-diverse and disabled folklores.