Seeds of Change – Creating Communities of Care (Panel Discussion)

Presented in response to the widescale humanitarian crises and injustices playing out across the globe, Seeds of Change is a three-part series of online workshops and discussions to fuel the intersection of music and activism. Hosted by Saffron and open to all who would like to participate, these sessions will offer a soft space to ask hard questions and galvanise each other towards meaningful change.

WORKSHOP 2: EXAMINE – Creating Communities of Care: Challenges and Considerations

Join us for a panel discussion exploring the realities, practicalities and new possibilities being forged within the music and social justice space. Guided and sensitively facilitated by the journalist Chal Ravens, this session will seek to unravel questions like...

• How do we build platforms outside the control of large corporations?
• How do we boycott with integrity?
• How can we become more offline/analogue?
• How do we avoid virtue signalling?
• How can we find others within social movements more easily?
• How can we engage and uplift our local communities?

This session will include space for audience Q&A. If you would like to submit a question in advance, please email members@saffronmusic.co.uk

Participants are requested to signal their attendance by registering via Eventbrite or the Saffron Members portal. Those who wish to contribute financially to their participation have the option to make a donation upon sign-up, with all proceeds going to M.A.P.

View our full event schedule.

About Chal Ravens

Chal Ravens is a London-based journalist whose writing on electronic music and club culture has appeared in the Guardian, the Wire, Pitchfork, the London Review of Books and many other publications over the last decade. She is the co-host of No Tags, a podcast about underground music culture which launched in late 2023, and the co-editor of the first collected volume of interviews and essays from the show.

About Nicky Böhm

Nicky Böhm is a Berlin-based curator and creative producer specialising in interdisciplinary, community-driven, and socially engaged projects. Vice Chair of Lilipad, a nonprofit supporting marginalised children through multilingual libraries, she has worked with Academy Films, Berlin Atonal, Tresor, Beatport, Refuge Worldwide, and indie labels including !K7, BPitch Control, and Kitty-Yo. A former board member of Aslice’s charitable foundation and mentor for YouTube, Primavera Sound, VUT, and Musicboard, she received the inaugural Keychange Inspiration Award.

About Imogen Malpas

Imogen (she/they) is a freelance journalist, medical student, DJ and founder of Club SOL, an award-winning, internationally exhibited collective connecting people to planet through creativity. Past work & collaborations include The Guardian, The Conversation, The Independent, TedX, Atmos, Earthed, The Lancet and BBC New Creatives. She has been a recipient of The New New Fellowship, the International Save The Night fund and the Sail Britain Creative Ecology residency.

About Ãzuka (Jessika) Khazrik

Ãzuka (Jessika) Khazrik nurtures a plural, antimilitarist practice. Born and based in Lebanon in year 7291 of the enduring Chaldean calendar, raised in a club at the outskirts of Beirut and brought up in the vicinity of a quarry secretly contaminated by military waste from Europe, she has been making music, DJing and organizing in struggles for genocide recognition and environmental justice since early adolescence. As an extension to her polymathic musical practice, Ãzuka creates assemblies, teaches-studies in community and academic spaces and runs the liberational platforms '“ خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness”, AATMA ✦ عتمة and “ܟܪܟܐ Astrorevolt”.

ACCESS

Each of the gatherings in this series will be delivered via Saffron's online community platform, but can be accessed for free by individuals of all genders and locations.

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Workshops are open to people worldwide, but will be running at 7.30 pm UK time, so please bear differences in time zone in mind. If you book a ticket but aren’t able to attend live, you will automatically be emailed a recording of the workshop(s) after the event.

We are committed to making our online events as accessible as possible. We have created a guidance document about this - Click here to view the accessibility document. Alternatively, please email us with any access requirements you may have.

ABOUT SAFFRON

Saffron is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to advance gender equality in the music tech sector by creating safer spaces for marginalised people to learn, create and grow confidently through forward-thinking technological music creation, DJ and music industry experience. Saffron’s work focuses on educational courses, online workshops, mentoring, a global members club and an artist development and label platform. We are building a future industry that is inclusive and diverse. Founded in Bristol UK in 2015, Saffron has grown from a one-woman operation to an initiative supporting thousands of people worldwide to find music education and community.

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This series has been made possible thanks to the support of Ninja Tune.