{"title": "Building Solidarity Across Cultural Contexts", "start": "2026-11-19T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T16:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square", "address": "43 Gordon Square, WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/solidarity", "stage/theatre"], "description": "This is a workshop on building solidarity across cultural contexts, exploring how activism, storytelling and embodied practice can connect different struggles. It is led collaboratively by theatre maker and Birkbeck Senior Lecturer Molly Flynn and Oksana Potapova, a feminist decolonial scholar and facilitator from Ukraine. Grounded in embodied social justice, decolonial praxis and arts-based methods, it uses somatic, theatre-based and narrative practices. 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