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Hostile Environments What happens to the land happens to us…

20 February 2025 at 19.00–21.30

Gauri Gill, Rajesh Vangad, The Eye in the Sky 2014–16. Tate. © reserved.

Join us for an evening considering what happens when connections between land and people are severed

Hostile Environments is an evening of performance, poetry and debate. The event explores the structural conditions of climate colonialism as they affect indigenous and diasporic communities. This assembly is a chance to imagine what a more equitable, accountable and reparative vision of environmental justice might be. Hostile Environments is organised in response to Gathering Ground.

The Programme features performances and poetry by Khalid Abdalla and Sunnah Khan. Imani Jacqueline Brown, Radha D’Souza, Nadine El-Enany will speak on their activist and research practices. A discussion will follow, chaired by David Birkin and Max Houghton, co-founders of University of the Arts London research hub Visible Justice.

This event is organised in partnership with UAL: London College of Communication.

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