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Robin Hood: The Arts of Occupation is now available to purchase in collaboration with @flowersgallery to celebrate the exhibition David Hepher: The Elegy of Robin Hood Gardens. Join us this Thursday 6-8PM, at the gallery an evening of poetry, conversation and a workshop from the young producers behind the project - Mara Ahmed (@kindacoolmara ), Sadia Aziza (@thegreatsadia ), Sam Elbahja (@s_elbahja ), Sophie Mably (@sophnotfie ) and Ikram Chowdhury (@ikramphotos )with David Hepher. RSVP link in bio You can pop down throughout this week to grab a copy of the publication and see the exhibition IRL or purchase it online over on @flowersgallery ’s website. Proceeds are going towards supporting the Robin Hood Young Producers

Join us at Tate Modern for a performance and screening of Robin Hood: Past the Concrete. Featuring poetry, essay and lectures covering the lived experience, politics and community of the estate featured in the @dohosuhstudio exhibition. 📍Tate Modern, Starr Cinema 🗓️ Thursday 25th September, 1830 - 2000 🎟️ £15 Tickets | £5 Tickets via Free Form Channel 🔗Link in bio🔗

Robin Hood: Past the Concrete (2025) is on view in Gallery One at the V&A Storehouse @vam_east through to 2027. The film - co-produced with former residents and young people from the now-demolished Robin Hood Gardens - serves as a living memory of those who called the brutalist estate home. It transforms oral histories, guerrilla filmmaking, and poetry into a provocation for London’s future amidst the housing crisis, painting a picture of whose voices should be sovereign when we colour between the lines and tell the story of this grey city. Alongside objects and a publication, you can now watch this film at @vam_east . More to come on a lecture/performance we’ll be doing at Tate Modern later this month. Shoutout to the young people, residents, and team that poured into this project. ⸻ Directed by @nateagbetu Production — @cree_buttercup & @nateagbetu Featuring — @s_elbahja @faithxyo @thegreatsadia @ikramphotos , Paul Tandy Co-Production — @kindacoolmara @sophnotfie , Patrisha Galang, @firstsonofsoil , Hanifah Music Composition — @melozed Animations — @kindacoolmara Oral Histories — Asma Begum, Jean Whitelock, Bea Gamblin, Sister Christine, Osman Abdi, Ronnie Northfolk, Sister Christine, Paul Tandy Graphics — @lkhare @soake.xyz DOP — @kiafern B Cam Operator — Oliver Robbins 1st AC — Laura Flack 2nd AC — Niyi Ferreira Gaffer — Alina Kolosova Spark — Stan Proszowski Editor — @cutbyhewitt Colourist — @thomaskumeling V&A — @benswabyselig , @afia_yo , @thelondonbrick Many thanks to @180.studios and @pavilionworks

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 Focus On: Robin Hood Gardens - details via link in bio. 📍V&A Storehouse, Stratford ⏰️ 13:00-17:00 Join V&A East for an afternoon curated with former residents and young East Londoners to explore archives, oral histories, workshops, and films centering London’s social housing landscape. Curated by the cohort behind the co-production project that we led with @vam_east 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: 𝟐𝟓 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 (1300-1700) 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 (1330-1530) featuring @ikramphotos , @Faithxyo , @thegreatsadia + @s_elbahja 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 (1400-1600) facilitated by @serra_abbie and @kindacoolmara 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 (1400-1500) curated by @sophnotfie and @kindacoolmara Robin Hood: Past the Concrete (Nate Agbetu, 2025)   Chicken Shop (Lindsay Knight, 2014)   Friends of the Queen (Khadija Alban, 2025)  Brutalist Premolition (Gail Pickering, 2008)  Migrate Journey (Nurull Islam, Lindsay Knight, 2019)  Tower XYZ (Ayo Akingbade, 2016)  𝐀 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 (1600-1700) w/ Asma Begum, Sister Christine Frost, @nabil.alkinani , @nateagbetu , @benswabyselig , @afia_yo 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 @along.journey_ and @sh0tbyak

We want to thank everyone who has supported us in making The Gathering 2024 possible. 🌱 We are left with so many beautiful impressions from the invocations, workshops and conversations over the weekend and we hope that our efforts have strengthened the connections between creative practitioners and cultural workers across the UK. Our hope is that we bring restorative practices to the centre of our work for artists and communities - to value rest as a radical and restorative practice in all that we do.✨ 📸 Photo by Francis Augusto @franxisaugusto The Gathering 2024 is produced with Free Form and supported by Freelands Foundation.

𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 @trustmebaba 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 🌍 Celebrating her return after our collaboration three years ago for 𝓐𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓞𝓾𝓻 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼 🌺🌸 a film, publication and intergenerational launch event which celebrated Muslim Matriachs and created a space for them to peer into the lives of creativity that could be achieved for the next generation @180.studios Over the next two months she’ll be joining us as a Cultural Producer to return to 180 Studios for the delivery of The Gathering 2024 with @iniva_arts and support us as across something special with @vam_east … Check out more of her work over @muslimsisterhood . Welcome to the team Lami! 🫡🫶🏿

Announcement & open call for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵? We are looking for UK-based artists and cultural workers to participate in our two-day programme - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Offering a space for artists and cultural workers to convene, feel restored, and collectively imagine a more sustainable arts ecology. Through our five programme pillars – Embodiment, Mind, Environment, Practice, and Nourishment – we explore different forms of rest. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴? We have a number of bursaries to contribute to equitable access to 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, for travel and accommodation for participants living outside London. 🔖Closing date: Friday 16 August 2024, 12pm (BST) 🔗Link in bio for more information 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 is produced with Free Form, and supported by Freelands Foundation. Graphic design by Mohammed Samad @mosamad.xyz @zoe.whitley @suburbanelectrostar @johnimonlydancingagain @nateagbetu @freeformworld @freelandsfoundation

Public Powers is up for just under a week for you to visit anytime between 1100-1800 until the 1st April. You can chill in the installation to listen to our Sonic Sculptures, or chill and read from our library of references: Authors of the Estate: Chalkhill Edition by @freedom_balance A Modest Living by @thecockneysikh A New Institution by @newcurrency , Issue One A Sense of Place by @deemjournal , Issue Four Black Chapel by @theastergates Black Joy by @charliebcuff + @timshotaya Curatorial Activism by @maurareilly68 Designing With and Within Public Organizations by @aschaminee Displacements: Architecture and Refugee by Andrew Herscher Lost Dreams by @simonwheatleyphoto Now You Know by @sound_x_advice Pedagogy for a New World by @deemjournal , Issue Two Privatise The Mandem by @nabil.alkinani The Infinite Mix by @180.studios + @hayward.gallery

Public Powers: An installation as a part of UCL Research’s Field Work Exhibition‼️ Visit @hoxtonhall anytime from Tuesday - Sunday, 1100 -1800 or book one of our programmed moments convened by @nateagbetu and @chetna_m_s to eat and discuss our relationships to space through the link in our bio. A special shout out to the village that helped pour into this project @nabil.alkinani @pablopullen @nabsketchbook @thecockneysikh @fatima.rajina @saifosmani @nottasnim @tobikyere @willstowehos @kazeemkuteyi @_abisola @adeyumyum @friendly.pressure @ilco_design @referencepoint180 @young_space__

“We’ve created huge environmental, social, and economic problems, and I think we deserve better environments to spend our lives in.” - Anupama Kundoo (@anupama_kundoo ) Last November re:arc institute’s second Architectures of Planetary Well-being Symposium brought together more than 400 architects, designers, environmental organizers, and artists from around the world in London to explore what it will take to confront these problems, realize these imaginings and address the realities and canonical systems that drive contemporary practices. The prevailing global paradigm is characterized by extractive practices that exploit natural resources, perpetuate social inequalities, and either contribute to the climate crisis or fail to address it. Thank you to everyone who came out to tackle these conversations and for making the symposium such a success, especially our co-conspirators at Free Form World (@freeformworld ) and all speakers and performers: Resolve Collective (@resolvecollective ), Material Cultures (@material_cultures ), Worofila (@worofila ), Anupama Kundoo (@anupama_kundoo ), Shumi Bose (@tontita00 ), Koozarch (@koozarch ), Errol (@errol.and ) and Alex Rita (@alexritaa ) of Touching Bass (@touching_bass ), Lina Salih Didi, Miriam Adefris (@_badgalmiri ), Farzana Khan (@farzana.k.khan ) of Healing Justice (@healingjusticeldn ), Tori Tsui, Georgina Johnson (@saint_lovie ), Zakia Sewell (@zzzakia ) 🎥 credits: Director: Louis Bryant (@lb_ouis ), Nate Agbetu (@nateagbetu ) DP: Louis Bryant (@lb_ouis ) Producer: Cree Brown (@cree_buttercup ) Sounds Recordist: Marina Fusella EP: Morgan Faverty (@morganfaverty ) Sound Design: PULLEN (@pablopullen )

We’ll be co-convening 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠, a biennial symposium from @rearc.institute It wouldn’t make sense for us to return without a nod to the world that set us on this path, @gaiasgardenldn 🌿🌱 The programming explores themes of custodianship and care for our socio-ecological environments. Spaces for Friday are limited but we encourage you to join us for Saturday’s programming which opens with breathework from @breathquest and harpist @_badgalmiri ; a keynote on embodied practices from @farzana.k.khan of @healingjusticeldn ; explorations of eco-anxiety, well-being and grief with @saint_lovie and toritsui_; closed with food and music from @nts_radio resident, @zzzakia . Especially in this time of unrest and direct action, finding room to reconnect with our bodies and interpersonal ecologies is a must. 𝑺𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒖𝒑 𝒗𝒊𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒊𝒐

🌍 Reintroducing ourselves as 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓶 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 🌍 Community is a verb not a noun; it highlights our intention to share values, marking our place as stakeholders in the best futures that our minds can reach. Futures which are built through evolving questions, rather than answers. Virtuous attempts to dream. Comfortable chances to fail. In this next chapter we’re moving on from ‘Play Nice’ because whilst we share a planet, we all live in very different worlds. We’re redefining our relationship to the word community - because to grow we have to deepen our ability to articulate and influence beyond our immediate spheres. Reintroducing ourselves as Free Form World, a cultural production studio rooted in social innovation, arts and culture. With a promise to dream, share knowledge and to find form, through building near futures. On our hiatus, we recognised that beautiful things are born in the darkest of times, but without sight to see in the dark, there’s no limit to how far we can push our imaginations.