We Are Free To Change The World is a new series of three Dash Cafés exploring how artists and creative activists respond to the urgency of our times.

Through performance, film and conversation, each event, chaired by Dash Arts artistic director Josephine Burton, brings together creative voices to consider how we act – and how we do this together. A collaborative act between Artsadmin and Toynbee Studios resident, Dash Arts, the series also celebrates Dash Arts’ 20th birthday, and 18th year in the building, and part of the Fête of Britain.

Framed around preparation, balance and movement, the series will make space for connection and reflection, for building or sharing tools and practices, and might be the starting point for something new we imagine together.

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READY

How do we begin? What does it take to prepare for change—artistically, emotionally and politically?

The first event in the series explores the conditions that help artists and creative activists find their ground. Through performance, short film, and conversation, READY invites a range of perspectives on how we get ready: to listen, to make, to resist, and to come together.

We will be joined by

Bishi Bhattacharya – Artist, Composer and Producer

Lehni Lamide Davies –  Artist, Creative Producer and Coach

Carole Cadwalladr - Author and Investigative Journalist

with performances by

Aïda Jamal – Artist