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Together We Can … Resist Imaginatively

Mariame Kaba once wrote that "we live in a system that has been locked into a false sense of inevitability". Breaking it out of that state is complex and difficult. Doing so will require a wide spectrum of tools and approaches, from actively dismantling the current system to building what comes next.

All around the world we are seeing an upsurge in resistance to the fossil fuel industry, to logging and mining companies, to corrupt governments. What are the best examples of people using imaginative and playful approaches in their work of resistance? We’ll be joined by Jay Jordan and Isabelle Frémeaux of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, by Fathi Bouaroua of the extraordinary Apres M project in Marseille, and by Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell whose ‘Power’ project, the follow up to their brilliant 'Bank Job', a star of last year's Summit, is aiming to turn their street into a power station.

Jay Jordan is an art activist, co-founder of direct action groups, cinematographer for Naomi Klein’s The Take, and co-editor of the book “We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-capitalism”. Isabelle Frémeaux’s action research explores popular education, storytelling and creative forms of resistance. Together they co-founded the art activism and permaculture collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.

Fathi Bouaroua is the former regional director of the Foundation Abbé Pierre for the Housing of the Underprivileged in Paris, and co-president at Emmaüs Pointe Rouge in Marseille. He will be speaking on behalf of the extraordinary Apres M project in the north of Marseille.

Artist Hilary Powell and film maker Dan Edelstyn recently pulled off a community heist on the financial system by setting up their own bank, printing money and exploding £1.2 Million of local predatory debt. Their feature film “Bank Job” was nominated for Grierson and British Independent Film Awards 21 and continues to screen. The Bank Job led to the pair setting up Optimistic Foundation CIC committed to investigating and tackling urgent economic, philosophical and social issues through anarchic, joyful cultural production. The heist continues as they give themselves the power of Government and Central Banks to print money and unleash vital stimulus to build a (solar/retrofit) POWER STATION and community wealth. May 2022 sees the launch of a new currency called the ‘Greenbacks’ – an emergency currency demanding and taking action on the crises of our time.

About your hosts...

This event is brought to you by Transition Together, which supports and connects Transition groups in England and Wales. It is part of our ten-day online Summit, Together We Can, designed to nurture, build and inspire individuals and groups working in their communities to rebuild and reimagine our world.

We're offering all Summit sessions for free to make it as inclusive and accessible as possible. If you are able and find value in this event, please do contribute a donation when you book. Money raised will go directly to making future Transition Together work more inclusive.

Together We Can and the hosting organisation Transition Together are supported by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. We are grateful to The National Lottery Community Fund and Lottery players for the funding that makes this project possible.

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