The day extends Creatives Now’s programme of arts for social change, connecting local communities through creativity, dialogue and making.
Aram Han Sifuentes is a social practice and fibre artist, writer and educator whose work draws on her experience as an immigrant and child of garment workers in the U.S. Based in Chicago, where she teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she centres immigrant and disenfranchised communities in her practice. Through participatory, collaborative projects, she explores race, labour, citizenship and belonging, reimagining civic systems to confront social and racial injustices while creating safe, playful spaces for skill-sharing and amplifying individual voices within collective action.
Amy Todd is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester researching the 1970s socialist feminist magazine Red Rag. She is also co-director of the Class Work Project – which publishes working class and poor writers and delivers workshops to groups, organisations and communities to facilitate cross class conversations and redistributive action. Amy has led on many community projects that use zines, writing and publishing to explore identity, gender, class and community.
Creatives Now: A youth-led arts collective based in Bolton, Creatives Now empowers 12–18 year-olds to take the creative lead in local cultural life. Through workshops, residencies and public-facing projects, young people collaborate with professional artists to explore identity, visibility and community.
Itenary:
From 2pm: Explore the Library’s remarkable collections on labour, protest and working-class history.
3–4pm: The Power of Making Together — an in-conversation with artist Aram Han Sifuentes on art, activism and reimagining belonging.
At Salford Museum & Art Gallery
4.30–7.30pm: Making Together: Banners for Change — a hands-on workshop inspired by Aram’s Protest Banner Lending Library, where you’ll create banners expressing what you stand for. Follow the link below to book your spot!
Making Together: Banners for Change with Aram Han Sifuentes
