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Creating safe and inclusive spaces in society

By Aya Haidar and Rhiannon White
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Silver group: results of first iteration

Create an autonomous, bottom up inclusive space to promote networks of differences and commonalities.

 

Silver group: results of second iteration

Civil society can renew democracy through the creation and preservation of safe and inclusive spaces.

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We also agreed to change the title to “Creating safe, inclusive spaces in society”.

Silver group: results of third iteration and final statement

Safe and inclusive social spaces fundamentally preserve and empower civil society. These valued spaces are grassroots, bottom up, collective efforts, whose beneficiaries own an equal stake in it.

This poem was put together by Rhiannon White based on statements written and spoken by participants during the final presentation.

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Aya Haidar

Aya Haidar is a Lebanese multimedia artist, whose work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects in order to create poetic works exploring loss, migration and memory. Aya graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Slade School of Fine Art in London and completed an exchange at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her MSc. in ‘NGOs and Development’ came from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

 

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Rhiannon White

Rhiannon is co-founder/ co-director of Common Wealth an award winning theatre company that makes site specific performance. Her mission is steeped in her values of being working class and creating a space where people are reminded that the arts are for them. She has worked extensively with National Theatre Wales, she has also collaborated and made work for National Theatre, Sherman Cymru, Chapter Arts Centre, BBC, Southbank Centre, Bread and Goose. A Clore fellow and Creative Wales Award Winner; Rhiannon recently joined the panel for the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society.

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