How can safeguarding can be reimagined to better foster cultures of safety and care for the communities we work with? Join Latifa Akay for a reflective and interactive session diving into this question and its implications in our artistic practices.

Often ‘safeguarding’ processes fall short of offering the tools and approaches we might need and want. Safeguarding processes in themselves are often a source of harm to the most marginalised communities.

In this session we will reimagine safeguarding by focusing on what it means to strengthen a culture of care.

This is an interactive workshop and will include group discussion.

In this workshop, you will:

· Explore the ways that safeguarding can be reimagined to better foster cultures of safety and care

· Learn about tools and framings to support this in practice

· Connect with other artists and practitioners with similar areas of interest

This event will be held in our courtyard room at Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ.

More about Latifa Akay

Latifa Akay is the Head of Collective Care at Act Build Change and has over a decade of experience working and organising with communities around social justice issues and on arts-based community projects. Latifa is interested in transformative approaches to safety and justice and produced and co-wrote The Radical Safeguarding Workbook in their former role as Director of Education at Maslaha. They are a former trustee of the Inclusive Mosque Initiative and co-directed the 2021 MFest at the British Library. Latifa holds an LLM in Human Rights Law and before moving to London in 2012, worked for two years as a journalist in Istanbul.

About Bow Skills

Bow Arts seeks to support creative professionals at all stages of their careers. In 2015, Bow Arts launched Bow Skills in response to an artist survey which showed over 90% of practicing artists find it useful to receive further support outside formal education.

Bow Skills is a dynamic and relevant programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is informed by an artist steering group and open to all creative practitioners across London. The programme of talks, panel discussions, new skills labs and peer crits is open to all, with concession rates available to students, over 65s, under 18s, Bow Arts artists and key workers.