At thePROJECT2 : In The Flesh, Beki Bateson is leading a workshop called – Alternative Futures, how art can capture the imagination. Click here for Beki’s biography information.
Walter Brueggemann suggests
“Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of the imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one”
Having visited various human rights and justice projects around the world as well as working with and funding UK initiatives Beki Bateson has seen firsthand how art has the potential to transcend despair and capture the imagination of the people suffering injustice, poverty and oppression; how it gives voice to the voiceless and casts light on the forgotten. This interactive session will explore the prophetic role of the artist and the alternative futures art can perhaps hint at, why this is central to Greenbelt’s mission (and equally that of thePROJECT) and how we can all help create just spaces.
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