Bow Skills workshop: reimagining safeguarding and fostering a culture of care with Latifa Akay
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 , 6:00pm to 8:00pm
How can safeguarding be reimagined to foster better cultures of safety and care for the communities we work with? Join Latifa Akay for a reflective and interactive session diving into this question and its implications in our artistic practice.
Often, ‘safeguarding’ processes may fall short of offering the tools and approaches we might need and want. Safeguarding processes in themselves are often a source of harm to the most marginalised communities.
In this session, we will reimagine safeguarding by focusing on what it means to strengthen a culture of care.
This is an interactive workshop and will include group discussions.
In this workshop you will:
- Explore the ways that safeguarding can be reimagined to better foster cultures of safety and care.
- Learn about tools and framings to support this in practice.
- Connect with other artists and practitioners with similar areas of interest.
This event will be held at our Courtyard Room 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 Latifa Akay
Latifa Akay is the Head of Collective Care at Act Build Change and has over a decade of experience working and organising communities around social justice issues on arts-based community projects. Latifa is interested in transformative approaches to safety and justice, and produced and co-wrote ‘The Radical Safeguarding Workbook’ in their former role as Director of Education at Maslaha. They are a former trustee of the Inclusive Mosque Initiative and co-directed the 2021 MFest at the British Library. Latifa holds an LLM in Human Rights Law and before moving to London in 2012, they worked for two years as a journalist in Istanbul.
About Bow Skills
Bow Arts seeks to support creative professionals at all stages of their careers. In 2015 Bow Arts launched Bow Skills in response to an artist survey which showed over 90% of practicing artists find it useful to receive further support outside formal education.
Bow Skills is a dynamic and relevant programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is informed by an artist steering group and open to all creative practitioners across London. The programme of talks, panel discussions, new skills labs and peer crits is open to all, with concession rates available to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists and key workers.
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust office has 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.
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
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.
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
