Bow Skills talk: how to build and nurture an interdisciplinary art collective and community with Baesianz
Tuesday 10th September 2024 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Hear from arts collective and platform Baesianz on the foundations of creative community building through an anti-capitalist lens and how to nurture a collective ethos in an organic and sustainable way that’s in alignment with your core values.
What are the potentialities that can unravel when artists and practitioners collectively move together? How can we build creative communities that sustain and nurture us?
Using these questions as their springboard, Baesianz co-founders Sami Kimberley and Sarah Khan will begin by unpacking the formation of their art collective and platform Baesianz and the ethos that underpins their work.
They will speak to the importance of identifying the community purpose and shared goal which grounds your work as a collective, bringing in others who share your values, and how to make the most of the resources at your disposal when collaborating and working together as a collective.
We will end the session workshop-ing ideas around collaborative practice, ideating creative and artistic solutions to collective issues, and imagining ways we can move towards more liberated and interdependent futures for all through our practices.
In this event, you will:
- Learn about the fundamental things to consider when establishing and sustaining a creative community or grassroots collective
- Gain an insight into values-centred collective practice and how this feeds into your work
- Get the chance to come up with creative solutions and ideas which respond to collective issues or questions
- Connect with other artists and practitioners with similar areas of interest
This event will be held in our courtyard room space at Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ.
Concession rate applies to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists, National Art Pass members, and key workers
More about Baesianz
Baesianz is a London-based collective and platform that celebrates Asian artists from all over the globe, founded by Sami Kimberley, Sarah Khan and Roxanne Farahmand in 2019. Born from a shared need to nurture their Asian roots and uplift Asian communities, the collective organises multidisciplinary events including exhibitions, film screenings, solidarity fundraisers, workshops, radio shows, audio-visual performances and artist residencies. Now a team of seven, Baesianz curates and exhibits the art and voices of Asians living both within and outside of Asia to create an evolving archive that can be experienced by all. The collective now includes Baesianz FC and Baesianz Adventure Club, a football team and outdoor space for women, trans and non-binary people of Asian heritage.
More about Sami Kimberley
Sami Kimberley is a creative and film director passionate about planetary and societal regeneration, using storytelling to foster appreciation and compassion for our world and its communities with an aim to generate positive outcomes for our collective futures.
More about Sarah Khan
Sarah Khan is an artist-filmmaker, writer and organiser who draws on her lived experience and collective memory to explore themes of cross-cultural identity, embodied resistance, and the boundless potential of worldmaking when exclusion is confronted by the ‘othered’.
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust offices have step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a seat near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
