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‘Refugees Welcome’ will be parked outside the Tate Switch building on Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 March
Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts, (a company engaging with refugee and migrant experiences through arts and cultural programmes) Áine O’Brien writes about their latest project Who Are We?, coming to Tate Modern (14-19 March).
Jensiat, the graphic webcomic designed by Mahsa Alimardani, Kioomars Marzban, Vahid Fazel and Hajar Moradi
Charmaine Wombwell in Scarlet Shambles: It Used to be Me
To mark International Women’s Day on 8th March Stratford Circus Arts Centre have put together a mini-festival of performance and events by women. Run Riot talks to Charmaine Wombwell whose show Scarlet Shambles: It Used to be Me is a part of this celebration of women.
Image credit: A Peoples Apothecary by Dimitri Launder
“The role of the artist is to transform society not represent it” Joseph Beuys
Multi-award winning writer, comedian and activist Josie Long is currently on tour with her eighth solo show, Something Better. Josie also co-founded the charity Arts Emergency to help low-income students get a head start in the arts world through a mentoring program. I caught her for a chat about being optimistic, making a difference, and jellyfish.
David Jubb is artistic director of Battersea Arts Centre. Here, he writes for Run Riot, on the responsibility of the press in such challenging times, and the return of theatre activism.
Why is Battersea Arts Centre doing a season about Cash, Capitalism and Corporations?
From 1-5pm on Sunday 26 February artist Katy Baird is inviting an audience to come and spend some time chatting with her inside Hurwundeki in Hackney Central whilst beauty industry professionals will wax, pluck, paint, attach and inject her body in order to help Katy achieve a brand new look for herself.
I have always been slightly obsessed with hair, mainly facial hair since I was a kid. My father was a pilot in Kenya, East Africa and fittingly, he had a huge handlebar moustache. I used to sit on the end of his bed and watch him brush, twiddle and oil the long curvy hair that was his pride and joy.
