Reflections on Identity and Difference
Event Information
About this event
Identity manifests through personal, interpersonal and social experiences. To explore this dynamic interplay, Iniva Creative Learning is pleased to offer a three week evening course led by artist and art psychotherapist Georgina Obaya Evans.
Georgina will lead an exploratory series that aims to extend and deepen connections in thinking, making and experience, offering space for shared learning and individual development. The workshops will ask questions that explore inner worlds and external social frameworks, examine how gender/ race/ sexuality and class intersect in our 'performance of self' and how we are mapped by our environment. The workshops offer space to reflect on the impact that these questions have in shaping our identity as experienced by ourselves and by others.
£60 per person for all three sessions; £30 for students and concessions. Group size is limited to 10. In order to support those less able to pay we can also offer a sliding scale, please get in touch for more information.
Each weekly session will take a particular focus and approach to explore and identify the connections that we internalise and hold on to:
Self: Who do you think you are? What shapes your sense of self and how do you perform who you are to the world?
Self and the Other: In what ways do our encounters with others frame our sense of self? How might our gender, race, sexuality and class be framed in relation to people we know, meet or don’t know at all?
Social Structures: How do social institutions frame, enable or limit the flow of our lives? Can we negotiate our sense of self and our encounters with others within and through social frameworks to enhance our impact on the world around us?
We will use selected images from our sets of emotional learning cards as a starting point for self-reflection and group discussion. If you are engaged in a field which includes emotional learning, therapeutic support or creative practice, these workshops can support you in considering approaches to opening up conversations on identity and difference.
Our workshops are currently taking place on Zoom and offer 4.5 Hours Certified CPD.
Organiser Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts)
Organiser of Reflections on Identity and Difference
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is an evolving, radical visual arts organisation dedicated to developing an artistic programme that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation.
With the Stuart Hall Library acting as a critical and creative hub for our work, we collaborate with artists, curators, researchers and cultural producers to challenge conventional notions of diversity and difference. We engage a wide audience, particularly young people, in discourse and debate on issues surrounding the politics of race, class and gender.
Through our programme we work predominantly with British-born and British-based visual artists of African and Asian descent supporting them at different stages in their careers. We offer residencies, commission new work and promote existing practices enabling artistic ambition and development.
