We hope this is only the beginning of a longer term engagement around different issues that emerge from our thematic co-investigations on ‘care’. Please take some time to reflect on your overall experience with Reading Assembly: Care here. This will help us shape our future thematic pathways and collaborations.
One of the things we worked on during our workshops with sound artist activist collective Ultra-red (copied in) and Reading Refugee Support Group (RRSG) was the creation of a CARE VOCABULARY. This was built on by several individuals who contributed with their own words for care, (like ‘listening’ or ‘solidarity’ or even words in languages… Continue reading Care Vocabulary
We are a group of parents and carers deeply concerned about the climate crisis and what it means for all children both now and in the future. We are currently running a project called Letters to Our Children and would love to invite you to contribute a letter. The letter can be to your own… Continue reading Extinction Rebellion ‘Letters to Our Children’
Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing is a research project investigating the relationships between care, inequalities and wellbeing among different generations of transnational families in the UK, Spain, France and Sweden. This comparative, intergenerational project uses a multi-sited family-focused ethnographic and participatory action research methodology to co-produce the research with transnational families, peer… Continue reading Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing
How We Work Now: Parents and Carers in the post-COVID screen sector is a new piece of research developed by Raising Films, whose mission is to support, promote and campaign for parents and carers in the UK screen sector. It’s a survey aimed at anyone who works or has worked in the screen industries in… Continue reading How We Work Now: Parents and Carers in the post-COVID screen sector
Readi Food delivers thousands of parcels of food to people during Covid-19. We are really grateful to everyone who has donated food over the past months. We have faced unprecedented demand for food parcels due to COVID, but the people of Reading have risen to the challenge. If you can, please support ReadiFood with food or… Continue reading Support ReadiFood