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Building Our Collective Futures with Simmone Ahiaku

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  • Free
  • Workshop
  • Youth event
  • British Sign Language
  • Relaxed
Photographic and digital artwork showing a young person wearing headphone smiling with thier finger in the air. Behind them is a large colourful drawing of planet earth, surrounded by the shoots and leaves of vine-like flowers.
Reimagining Our World. Artwork: Jess Thom. Portraits: Steven Pocock. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how we can create liberated futures through world-building, care and imagination.  

Inspired by science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction, facilitator and organiser Simmone Ahiaku will guide you through creative activities including games, conversations, writing and making.   

After exploring how care is personal, political and communal, together we’ll create a collective artwork called ‘The Future is Built’.  

All materials will be provided.  

Timings 

The workshop will run from 15:00 – 18:00.   

A free communal dinner will be provided from 18:00 – 19:00 for anyone who would like to stay and eat. The meal will be nut-free and have vegan and gluten-free options. 

Chill-Out Room 

We want you to feel comfortable to be yourself and experience the workshop in a way that is right for you.    

Any time you want to find a space away from the activities, you can head to our Chill-Out Room to lie down or relax. There will be low lighting, comfortable seating, cushions and mats throughout the room. You can also make use of ear defenders, earplugs, board games, stim toys and materials with different textures. 

Who can come 

This workshop is for people aged 14 to 19 years old and disabled people aged 14 to 25 years old. 

You can watch this video to view the information above in BSL.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Studio and the Forum on level 1. When you enter Wellcome Collection, head up the stairs or take the lift, then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

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.

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.

British Sign Language

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

Relaxed

This is a relaxed event, which means that if you need to, you are welcome to move around and make noise at any time.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 0 2 0. 7 6 1 1. 2 2 2 2

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About your facilitator

Photograph of Simmone Ahiaku.

Simmone Ahiaku

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Simmone is a campaigner, facilitator, writer and organiser. She’s worked on air pollution, divestment and climate justice campaigns, and on anti-Prevent, reproductive justice, decolonisation and sexual violence campaigns for the National Union of Students (NUS) Liberation Collective. Simmone currently uses workshops to explore colonialism and climate change, and she is an organiser at London Renters Union