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Green Lions x Bow Arts takeover
Sunday 23rd July 2023 , 11:00am to 4:00pm
To mark the end of Second Nature: imagining climate futures, East and Southeast (ESEA) climate organising group Green Lions are taking over our Bow Road site with a day’s worth of pop-up makers stalls, talks, workshops, and music, to celebrate and give voice to the ESEA community as we resist and push against the climate crisis.
Join East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) climate organising group Green Lions as they open the doors of our Bow Road site, with a takeover amplifying voices agitating for more equitable climate futures, spotlighting the creativity found in the ESEA community, and carving out space for people to connect and reimagine how we can act with care and kinship towards the world and our local ecologies.
On the day, there will be a maker’s market featuring almost 20 pop-up stalls, selling a dazzling selection of sustainable and environmentally conscious wares made by makers, artists, and creatives of ESEA heritage. Some members of the Green Lions crew will be pitching a stand on the day where you can chat to the team, find out more about some of the exciting projects they are working on, and learn how to join the community.
Alongside the main market, there will be a free, mini programme of events in our courtyard room featuring:
- A talk from Dr Kerry McInerney on the entanglement of AI narratives, Asian diasporic science fiction, and environmental catastrophe
- A group discussion with Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee teasing apart what moving towards the end of the Anthropocene could mean for planetary wellbeing and the multiplicity of knowledges available that we can use to imagine more radical, equitable ecological futures
- A cli-fi writing workshop with Taey Iohe on the potential of cli-fi as a dystopian forensic tool, enabling us to investigate the implications of climate change through a decolonial lens.
You can find out more info about the workshops and book on to guarantee your place below!
Miyuki Kasahara will also be leading a drop-in, family friendly workshop on making flower, butterfly, bee and other pollinator shaped wildflower seed bombs to celebrate the pollinators in our ecologies that allow our plants and crops to thrive! No booking required for this workshop – find out more here.
We’ll have live DJ sets across the day from chakra, Tiff Lai, and Just Win (俊彥), who will be bringing the vibes and soundtracking the takeover. Set times are below:
- 11.30am-1pm: chakra
- 1pm-2.30pm: Just Win (俊彥)
- 2.30pm-4pm: Tiff Lai
Tasty food and drink will be available to purchase throughout the day by our very own Nunnery Café.
Please be aware a tube strike is scheduled for this day and plan your travel accordingly.
More about Green Lions
Green Lions are a grassroots community group and space for East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) people who want to take action and make environmental change to connect, build a more equitable world, and amplify ESEA and PoC voices resisting and agitating against the climate crisis.
Their core areas of focus are education & awareness, community & culture, and activism.
More about Taye Iohe
Taey Iohe (@taey.iohe) is an artist and writer whose work spans across diverse media, including text, moving images, social practice and assemblage through an Asian crip/queer feminist lens. Their practice fuses research-based works with personal narratives that challenge socio-botanical entanglements in social medicine and climate justice.
Taey is a co-founder of the Decolonising Botany Working Group and has presented a performance, A Refusing Oasis at Documenta 15 (2022). Taey holds a PhD in the programme of Gender, Identity and Culture at the School of English and Film, University College Dublin, funded by Writing On Borders. Currently, Taey is a working member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and a resident at Somerset House.
More about Miyuki Kasahara
Born in Japan, Miyuki Kasahara graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art.
Her work is research driven and addresses the impact of humans on the ecosystem. How we can find ways to reconnect with a losing grasp of the natural world and stop poisoning it and ourselves. She examines in her work the environmental factors affecting global issues, including that arising from politics and societal change. The outcomes from her research have included drawing, film, installation, interactive performance, sculpture, or a combination of those. She has exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and Japan.
More about Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee is an interdisciplinary practitioner based between London and Singapore. Her practice slips between the fields of visual practice, cultural research and education. Working across photography, film, writing, oration and curation, her work encounters themes of soft histories, sensuous and sacred ecologies, salvage fiction and mechanics of control. Her practice aims to deviate from monolithic forms of power, shining light on peripheral and spectral forces. She is an associate lecturer in Creative Direction at University of the Arts London and Photography the University for the Creative Arts. She co-runs XING, a research and curatorial platform centred on the poetics and politics of East and Southeast Asian art practices. The platform attempts to dismantle matrices concerned with the region from non-dominant perspectives.
More about Kerry McInerney
Dr Kerry McInerney (née Mackereth) is a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where she researches anti-Asian racism and AI and Asian diasporic approaches to AI ethics. Kerry is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, where she brings complex conversations about gender, race and artificial intelligence to wide audiences. She is a Research Fellow at AI Now and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.
More about chakra
Growing up between the Philippines, China, Nigeria, the US, and now based in the UK, chakra seeks to bridge sounds from the communities & cultures that have shaped her. Her sets are a fusion of genres, such as amapiano, baile funk, neo soul, future beat, tech house and melodic techno.
More about Tiff Lai
Tiff Lai is a freelance journalist and creative based in South London. She hosts the radio show Seasonal Expression on Voices Radio where she attempts to translate a temperature into an hour of sound and music. Though the show touches on many genres she tends to favour old school salsa, hi-life, italo and boogaloo in her sets. You can listen to her show on the second Sunday of every month at 7pm on Voices radio.
More about Just Win (俊彥)
Just Win (俊彥) is a DJ and sound designer hailing from Cardiff in Wales with family roots in the New Territories of Hong Kong. He plays with the London-based DJ collective Step To, and his sets tend to focus on evoking emotions. Just Win will be coming to Bow Arts this time with a mixture of classic cantonese and taiwanese tunes, r&b, dreampop, left field electronic, and dub reggae.
Access information
The Bow Arts Courtyard and Courtyard Room 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 table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Friday, 9am to 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.
