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HIP HOP AND SCI FI WRITING WORKSHOP

Fri 02 Jul

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Online Workshop

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HIP HOP AND SCI FI WRITING WORKSHOP
HIP HOP AND SCI FI WRITING WORKSHOP

Time & Location

02 Jul 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 BST

Online Workshop

About the Event

Join Amahra Spence, the founder of MAIA and YARD for a sci-fi writing workshop, using hip hop as a prompt to explore 'place', dystopia/utopia and speculative futures. If the Hip Hop tradition is rooted in social critique of its environment, how might we take this knowledge and creativity to draw upon alternative possibilities? How do we nurture the power of imagination to think about 'place' for ourselves and future generations? This event will take place online.

Amahra Spence is an artist, writer and spatial practitioner.

In 2013, she co-founded MAIA, an arts and social justice organisation, with a vision of a world in which artists are seen as powerful decision-makers in how systems and structures work and where the manifestations of systemic change are recognised as art. MAIA's mission is to redefine what it means to be an artist, challenge who gets to make their dreams real, and invest in…

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