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2026
2.30pm - 4.00pm

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QYAC Workshop: Web of Care

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    Camberwell Space, University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, 45-65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UF

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A participatory session exploring how individual art practices can evolve into collective, care-centered experiences.

How can art become a form of care not just for ourselves but within a shared collective setting?

This session is for members of the collective past present and future to come together and explore how our personal practice might shift when brought into community. What happens when we move from making for ourselves to making with and alongside others?

It is also open to anyone interested in participatory or community art and who wants to think more deeply about care access and collective practices.

Together we will explore how to hold ourselves while holding space for others and how to understand, communicate, and respond to different needs within a group.

Using tactile prompts, we will engage in thinking through feeling to notice what helps us feel present, supported, and able to participate.

Join us to play, reflect, and discover how our individual practices can weave into a collective web of care.

About the artist
Mars is a movement artist and arts practitioner working in inclusivity and accessibility. Their practice plays with paradigms of participation and performance, exploring sensory input and output as a framework for connection.

AboutQueer Youth Art Collective (QYAC)

This workshop is part of the Queer Youth Art Collective exhibition What Was, What Is, What Could Be- an exhibition by Queer Youth Art Collective (QYAC) following on from their three-month residency at Camberwell Space.

Queer Youth Art Collective is the UK’s only national LGBTQIA+ youth service working specifically in the arts. During their Camberwell Space residency, creatives aged between 18-28 were selected through an open call and introduced to what a studio practice could look like. This included workshops and mentorship from technicians as well as other members of staff at Camberwell College of Arts.

This exhibition marks a turning point, handing the reins of the organisation over to the young artists, alumni and community which has surrounded QYAC. Since 2019, QYAC has curated four group exhibitions with hundreds of queer artists from across the UK including at Bluecoat Liverpool, Glasgow Zine Fest, Curious Arts Newcastle, Studio Voltaire and QUEERCIRCLE.

The work of the residents in the exhibition will be accompanied by an archive of seven years of QYAC, curated in partnership with The Museum of Transology (MoT). The archive will then move to Bishopsgate Institute following the show.

Alongside this, a newly commissioned textiles piece called The Hanging Archivewill be in display, co-produced by QYAC attendees, facilitators and alumni as well as contributions from The Brunswick Centre LGBTQ+ yOUTh Service (Kirklees and Calderdale), Out Together (Leeds), HuGG Huddersfield Gay Group, Frutti Tutti (Leeds), Proud Terriers (Huddersfield), and Curious Arts Middlesbrough Curious Young Creatives.

In the words of QYAC - ‘We refuse censorship or judgement. In doing so we make more art possible’.

With generous support from Arts Council England, David Family Foundation, UAL and Awards for All.

For more information about the residency: www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/camberwell-college-of-arts/whats-on/camberwell-space/queer-youth-art-collective

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