Embodied Resistance event to be live streamed on WOW 365

On Monday 22 June, King's College London will present a fascinating evening co-hosted with WOW featuring Dr Andreza da Silveira Jorge and S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys photographer Kay Rufai, with in person free tickets and a live stream available exclusively for WOW 365 Members. 

Following Kay's incredible recent project in Rio, Embodied Resistance: Art, Youth and Gender Justice Across Borders will art, territory, youth resistance and gender justice across Brazil and the UK. Together they'll explore how artistic and creative practices can be used to understand, challenge and transform gendered, racialised and territorial experiences of violence, inequality and resistance. Bringing together Brazilian and UK-based perspectives, the event will reflect on art as a method of research, political expression, care, healing, community building and social change. 

This event is open to everyone – whether you are a student, researcher, artist, activist, community practitioner or just inetrested in feminist, participatory and arts-based approaches to gender, race, youth, violence, urban life and social justice.

Free tickets are available now here. This event will also be broadcasted on WOW 365 for Members. 

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More about the organisers:

The event is organised by the Gendered Resistance Lab, led by Professor Cathy McIlwaine and Renata Peppl, co-hosted by WOW - Women of the World and in partnership with the Visual and Embodied Methods (VEM) and the King's Brazil Institute. 

This event is presented as part of the Gendered Resistance Lab (GRL) Lecture Series and the Feminist Activism Among Youth in Brazil (FAYB) project. The FAYB project is a collaboration between King’s College London, Redes da Maré, People’s Palace Projects at Queen Mary University of London, and WOW - Women of the World to explore feminist activism among young people in Brazil, with a focus on creative and participatory methods, artivism, gendered violence, political consciousness and social justice, looking at the FAYB project and S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys.