Ancestral Transmissions: Collective Collaging Future Portals

Join us for a care-centred, imaginative and creative workshop that celebrates our shared identities, stories and East, South and Southeast Asian queer and trans+ lineages.

Ancestral Transmissions invites participants to explore themes of belonging, identity, grief, love and community through creating a ‘collective portal’ through collaging – a process of creating, healing, connecting and imagining together.

Through intuitive making and imagining, guided by gentle prompts, we’ll connect to our ancestors (real or imagined) and offer transmissions to future queer generations. This practice will encompass connecting to the different parts of us, connecting to the collective and positioning ourselves as future ancestors gathering together in solidarity, resistance and joy. We will honour that we have always existed in our cultural histories and will continue to exist.

We’ll begin with gentle reflection to connect with our ancestors and our ancestral queer histories and practices (real and/or imagined), or inner selves, before co-creating a collective collage – a fabric ‘portal’, using paint, collage, fabrics and textures.

This is a relaxed space for LGBTQ+ East, South, and Southeast Asian people to connect, express, and rest in community. No art experience is needed and all materials will be provided.

There are no expectations or pressure to come as anything more than you are and feel on the day. Bring your stories, your softness, your silence and anything you’d like to offer to the collective art (this could be a fabric, a word, a flower, a photograph – or just yourself).

Photos by Aaran Sian from a previous workshop at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.

About the facilitator

Aaran Sian (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working at the intersection of visual art, community and speculative futures.

Their collaborative, process-led approach creates space for connection and collective making. Through workshops, participatory projects, visual art and world building, their work carves space for urgent dreaming and for imagining radical, speculative futures and reclaim histories through the lens of QTPOC.

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