Date Tuesday 29 October 2024
Location Camberwell College of Arts - All UAL Students welcome
Overview
If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair, let’s try to offer an activism that is beautiful, kind and fair. It sometimes feels like the only way to create change is to stand up and fight for the world we want to see. To march under giant banners and shout to have our voices heard. There’s time for the loud, there’s also time for the quiet. There’s time for the fast, there’s also a need for the slow. In everyone’s heart is a desire to change things for the better – it is essential that there is an activist toolkit that is as diverse as humanity. Learn how Sarah Corbett uses craft as a form of Gentle Protest and prioritise attracting and working with introverts as well as Highly Sensitive People, those struggling with anxiety and burnt-out activists looking for a quieter, gentle way to protest.
Image: Slow and mindful activism accessible to everyone (activist Malala Yousafzai, at a past Craftivist Collective event).
Lecture details:
This is an in-person event taking place at Camberwell College of Arts on Peckham Road.
Address: 45-65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UF
Any UAL student can attend, regardless of whether they study at Camberwell College. Please bring your student ID to enter the barriers. Signs will direct you to the event, but if you get lost, you can ask the reception team for directions.
Room location - PR_BB01: Peckham Road Lecture Theatre
Speaker's Bio:
An award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born into an activist family in Everton: fourth most deprived ward in the UK. A professional campaigner most recently with Oxfam GB. Corbett founded the Craftivist Collective in 2009 to engage non-activists and influential target audiences globally to deliver what she coined ‘Gentle Protest’ tactics. Her pioneering work has directly helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world.
Corbett works with national charities such as Save the Children, Unicef and The Climate Coalition amongst others, creates bespoke events for museums and and galleries such as Tate and V&A as well as collaborates with unusual allies such as Secret Cinema to reach new and nervous audiences to activism. WWF used Corbett’s 10-point manifesto to create their own successful craftivism campaign that led to a change in law to protect migrating birds.
Corbett co-created the new Girlguiding Craftivism badge (2018), has exhibited in Stockholm (2015), Helsinki Design Week (2016) and currently with Design Museum Denmark until Dec 2024. Sarah was included in the Crafts Council 2018 ‘Power List’ and her TEDx speech ‘Activism Needs Introverts’ was chosen as a TED Talk Of The Day with over a 1.2million views so far. For her services in design activism and public engagement Goldsmiths, University of London granted Corbett an Honorary Fellowship in July 2022. Corbett’s book ‘How To Be A Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest’ is now available in paperback and her new project book The Craftivist Collective Handbook was published 2nd May 2024.
Follow Corbett on Instagram.