What is Soft Power?

Arbeit Studios

How can we awaken our power and activate agency? Workshop with soft power expert Indra Adnan and artist Cath Carver.

What is Soft Power?How can we awaken our power and activate agency?Explore power and agency in this workshop, with soft power expert Indra Adnan and artist Cath Carver.We’ll take a look at:* Where is my agency?* What is the difference between hard and soft power?* The interdependency of power at three levels: I - personal, We - community, World - planet.* Activation, awakening and power literacy.An opportunity to discuss and share our views on power and agency at this time, and take forward insights.Brought to you by the Soft Power Agency – a project from artist Cath Colour Carver, as part of her High Street Happenings residency at Arbeit Studios in Palmers Green. Hybrid event: join in-person at the studio in Palmers Green, or online via Zoom.Doors open from 6pm at Arbeit Palmers Green: rear of 310 Green Lanes, London N13 5TT (colourful building down a little alleyway) https://maps.app.goo.gl/maA9A9eCWuMoE8X57ONLINE - Zoom room open from 6:15pm<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85064243479?pwd=GNp3s4JOzvJfzLQxlMnsSsGh3A5vip.1" title="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85064243479?pwd=GNp3s4JOzvJfzLQxlMnsSsGh3A5vip.1" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85064243479?pwd=GNp3s4JOzvJfzLQxlMnsSsGh3A5vip.1</a>Meeting ID: 850 6424 3479Passcode: 672487 Co-facilitatorsIndra Adnan is Founder and co-initiator of The Alternative Global (AG) socio-political platform. AG publish a Daily Alternative media and act as systems convenors for what is increasingly described as an emerging ecocivilisation. The work includes developing global architecture for education, media and a participatory socio-political system. Central to the vision is the interdependency of the complex individual, the community and the planet: I, We, World.Indra is concurrently a psycho-social therapist, journalist and author. Her book The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility In The Fractal Age was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2021. She has consulted to the World Economic Forum, Indian and Finnish governments, NATO, the Scottish Executive, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts amongst others. She has written extensively for The Guardian and The Huffington Post, and her publications Soft Power Agenda, New Times and Is the Party Over? are available on www.indraadnan.global.Instagram: @politics.of.waking.up / @thealternative.global Cath Colour Carver is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist and producer, exploring the social, spatial, sensory and sonic in her chromatic and civic practice. Cath is the founder of Colour Your City and COLOURWORXX.Her work uses colour to honour life and ecology, elevate wellbeing, invite imagination, activate agency, expand creativity and connect community. Projects for Canal &amp; River Trust, Enfield Council, Fore Street For All, Hackney Council, Migration Museum Project, Young Minds and V&A Late. Colour Talks/Walks for Placemaking Europe and London Festival of Architecture. Radio appearances include Netil Radio and Threads Radio. More info: www.colouryourcity.com Instagram: @colourcarver / @colour_your_city Cath Carver’s residency project “Soft Power Agency” at Arbeit Studios Palmers Green in North London, invites the community on a soft power journey with communications, colour and textiles. All are welcome to attend the workshop series, and they’ll be an exhibition from 4th - 27th April 2025.More info on the Arbeit Studios High Street Happenings residency: www.arbeit.org.uk/highsthappenings

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