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We also believe that we can build stronger and more authentic connections with our audience via in-person conversations and programming at the Stuart Hall Library. We invite you to join us on our new platforms.

As such, we are now prioritising new platforms such as Discord and Bluesky, alongside our current social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Youtube, where we believe we can build a more positive and productive online experience.

After careful consideration, we've decided to transition away from X. The platform's evolving culture, censorship, and disinformation no longer resonate with our values, nor do they provide the environment we believe is conducive to meaningful engagement with our community.

iniva is committed to fostering respectful and inclusive online spaces that align with our core values of equity, diversity, and cultural understanding.

#iniva30 Newsletter: February 2025 -

Say hello to our new Finance & Operations Director, and Co-Director, Susie Gorgeous! 🎇 . She makes sure iniva runs smoothly as a visual arts organisation, centring Global Majority and diaspora perspectives. She’s holding the recently acquired book, ‘Doorways’ by Bekki Perriman.

Here's a summary of our February event line-up!. Tap the link 🔗 to reserve your spot for the talks and workshops, and to know more about iniva's programmes this month!✨.

Stuart Hall Library was visited by interdisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada who found his catalogue 'Osman Yousefzada : What is Seen & What is Not' on our shelves. We're also hosting a talk by Osman Yousefzada and writer and curator, Ekow Eshun.

London-based painter Ruby Dickson recently dropped by Stuart Hall Library to donate her latest catalogue for her 2024 exhibition, 'Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK'. (AS DIC) 📚

iniva and @downriverroadke invite you to join us in a poetry gathering at Stuart Hall Library, facilitated by Brian Muraya from Karara Community Library. We invite you to take part in an opening of the ear. @britisharts

Huge shout out to Jenny Starr, our previous Development Manager for 10 years, and now Executive Director of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. ⭐.She dropped by Stuart Hall Library and recommended the Emotional Learning Cards, available in our shop. 🛍️.

#TheGathering2024 produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf, explored ways of rest . Interludes: Sound Ritual explored the healing potential of sound through a meditative consideration of our own practices and responding to artist prompts from the series.

#TheGathering2024 produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf, explored ways of rest 🌱. Notes from the Veranda with Foluke Taylor explored how collective writing and reading help us navigate conditions of containment.

#TheGathering2024 produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf, explored ways of rest 🌱. Place is a Pause explored “space” and “place” thinking with Yi-Fu Twan’s ‘Space & Place: The Perspective of Experience’ through mapping, writing, and paper sculptures.

#TheGathering2024 produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf, explored ways of rest 🌱. _Draft Day with Resolve Collective explored various stages of development within our practices and organisations, focusing on the approaches of Gentle Radical.

Lola Hatmil is retired but worked previously as the London Daily News' Editor. Interested in Black art history and photojournalism from 40s-60s, she is of parental Jamaican & adopted Guyanese heritage and recommends ‘Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures’, from the Library.

It's 2025 but we're still thinking of the workshops at #TheGathering2024. Oikos with Exodus Crooks used sculpture to collectively reflect on our current environmental structures, possibilities, and needs. The Gathering 2024 is produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf

It's 2025 but we're still thinking of the workshops at #TheGathering2024. Savouring Stories with Victory invited us to share our culinary recollections and archive the stories through zine-making. The Gathering 2024 is produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf

It's 2025 but we're still thinking of the amazing workshops at #TheGathering2024. Liquid Strategies with Angela Dennis explored somatic movement practice using layered art-making within a ritual setting. The Gathering 2024 is produced with Free Form and supported by @freelandsf