21 – 23 August 2026
11 – 15 November 2026
Episode 12
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
15 – 22 April 2026
Touching the Future
John Lee Clark
Dr Gabrielle Hodge shares words on Touching the Future, a Protactile project with John Lee Clark, Soline Vennetier, Issy McGrath, Lisa van der Mark, Kyle Bettley and Jordan Goldman, supported by Arika, kickstarting radical DeafBlind Protactile world-building in Glasgow.
Mondays, 10 March to 5 May, 6-9pm
In Our Hands 2025
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
Arika is a political arts organisation concerned with supporting connections between artistic production and social change.
We think of art as a relationship that constantly unfolds in the realm of the common, a process and a continuum. We see our role in this unfolding relationship as celebrating and supporting connections between art and social change. When we say art, we mean the ways we sing and dance together, the ways we listen and want to be heard, how we look and hope to be seen, how we think of our bodies and how we move through space, how we feel and want to be felt, for example.
▴ 'Corpus Infinitum' study session with Denise Ferreira da Silva at Arika's Episode 10: A Means Without End at Tramway in Glasgow on Thursday 21st November 2019
▴ 'Ueinzz Crossings' workshop with Ueinzz Theatre Company at Arika's Episode 7: We Can't Live Without Our Lives at Tramway, Glasgow on Friday 17th April 2015
▴ 'Blackness, Animality and the Unsovereign' workshop with Che Gossett at Arika's Episode 8: Refuse Powers' Grasp at Tramway in Glasgow on Sunday 23rd October 2016
▴ Party and Unity Fundraiser at Kinning Park Complex as part of Arika's Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist in Glasgow on Friday 17th November 2017
Archive
The Archive is a space to share the documentation of our work, over 1,000 events from the past 20+ years!
Collection
11 Items
Episodes
A key part of our programming, Episodes explore the interlinked nature of aesthetics and social organising, through public events, investigating interlinked themes and contradictions, which develop from one Episode to the next.
Theme Pair
80 items
Sociality | Plurality
Grouped here are performances and talks about or exploring sociality, and performances and talks that involve lots of people (thematically or literally). For example: the second part of a wide ranging and vital conversation between Amiri Baraka, Fred Moten, Sonia Sanchez and Wadada Leo Smith. The Ueinzz Theatre Company discuss the relationship between their creative practice and care. Or the sets and performances from the Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight Club night.
Collection
14 Items
Sex Worker Organising
This collection brings together projects and events from our archive related to sex worker organising and the decriminalisation of sex work.
Theme Pair
80 items
Resistance | Power
Some suggestions of ways in to exploring this theme could be Hortense Spillers’ conversation with Denise Ferreria da Silva on fleshliness and bodiliness and the From Subjection to Subjection discussion with Reina Gossett, Charlene Sinclair and Saidiya Hartman or Mujeres Creando throwing eggs in their Recipes to Change Society provocation.
Type
44 items
Discussion
Dean Spade
Mar 2022
Oct 2016
(and 1 more)
We collaborate with filmmakers, performers, dancers, musicians, philosophers, activists, community organisers, educators, academics, and writers.
Hal Duncan
Nov 2017
Ingar Zach
Oct 2004
Oct 2005
Shuji Inaba
May 2005
Morgan Bassichis
May 2015
Avery F. Gordon
Nov 2024
Recovering Justice
Mar 2022