Reimagining Structures of Rest
with Evie Muir and Martha Awojobi
Join Evie Muir, author of Radical Rest: Notes on Burn Out, Healing and Hopeful Futures, for an evening of exploration, dreaming and play.
Using the four case studies in Radical Rest (Home, Education, Health and the Charity Industrial Complex), Evie will guide us in creative activities and discussions that explore opportunities for future building and re-imaging our world through a lens of radical rest. Evie will be joined in discussion and facilitation in this workshop by anti-racist consultant Martha Awojobi, whose interview features in Radical Rest.
Both Evie and Martha’s work create spaces and structures centred for people of colour to heal from racial and other intersecting traumas and thrive within nourishing environments – be that work, social or beyond. In honour of these spaces and their work, this workshop will be for people of colour only.
What to expect:
- Q&A/discussion with Evie and Martha.
- Art-based activities and prompt to aid group future dreaming/building.
- An evening of community connection.
Both Evie and Marths’s work create spaces and structures centered for people of colour to heal from racial and other intersecting traumas and thrive within nourishing environments – be that work, social or beyond. In honour of these spaces and their work, this workshop will be for people of colour only.
Evie will also be in city the day before at her Manchester book launch, open to all, at House Of Books And Friends. Evie will be discussing her book with L’Oréal Blackett with an audience Q&A.
More about the facilitators:
Evie (she/they) is a nature writer and the founder and Director of Peaks of Colour, a Peak District-based nature-for-healing grassroots community group by and for people of colour. Evie’s debut book, Radical Rest explores activist burnout through a Black Feminist, abolitionist and nature-allied lens.
Martha (any pronouns) is Founder, Director and fearless leader of JMB Consulting. Martha works in coalition with organisations who share her goal of liberation from oppression through her work at JMB and through Uncharitable (formerly #BAMEONLINE) series which supports fundraisers and founders of colour to navigate the philanthropic sector and generate sustainable income.
Environmental justice at Manchester Museum
As part of our commitment to building understanding between cultures and a more sustainable world, the museum is developing a programme of work around environmental justice led by the Social Justice and Environmental Action managers.
‘Environmental justice’ means that everyone – regardless of race, gender, sexual identity, economic status, or ability – has the right to the same environmental protections and benefits, as well as meaningful involvement in the policies and action that shape their communities. However, this has rarely been a reality for many marginalised communities, who are also at the greatest risk of being impacted by the environmental emergency we’re facing. At the same time, these voices and lived experiences have often been underrepresented in and excluded from climate and environmental action groups/movements.
This series of work aims to increase awareness and understanding of environmental injustice and its root causes through events and collaborations that give space and priority to marginalised voices. Many of these events and opportunities will be open to all, whilst some will prioritise or only be available to people from marginalised communities to take part in. This is so they can engage with the topic in a ‘safer’ space where for example, racism or ableism present within wider movements that make them inaccessible is less likely to be present.
Further information on Environmental Justice
