Procreate Project

What if asking ‘how to balance art and motherhood’ is what keeps portraying the experience itself as the issue, leaving the sole responsibility for its solution to parents?

✨ Join Procreate Project founder Dyana Gravina for the launch of her new book, Integrated Care: From Individuals to Collective Systems. In conversation with Fatoş Üstek, curator and writer, author of The Art Institution of Tomorrow; Ama Josephine Budge, writer, artist and curator; and feminist art critic Katy Deepwell, founder of the international feminist art journal n.Paradoxa.

📅 Saturday 26th Sept
🕑 2–4 pm
📍 Mimosa House, London

Caregiving has become more visible in the arts as a subject. The infrastructures needed to sustain it have remained slow to change. Drawing on thirteen years of hands-on organising through Procreate Project, this book offers language and models for naming what support is needed, and practical, feasible steps individuals and institutions can take, adaptable to their current capacity.

Bringing together lived experience, feminists histories, embodied practice, and collective experimentation, the book explores how care can become part of artistic processes, programming, budgets and spatial design alike.

Come grab your copy and connect with organisers, artists, and curators working towards Integrated Care and systems change.

Children welcome, with family activities available.
Limited capacity, pay-what-you-can tickets. Link in bio.

“This book (and toolkit) feels almost like a closing piece of a chapter of my life-work, and at the same time, an attempt to share what I have learned so that the ultimate goal of making long-lasting change can feel and be felt in the hands of many more, across generations. Where the ‘inventions’ aren’t endlessly reinvented and renamed, but where clear, actionable gifts are passed on to the next, and the next, and the ones after that. This is about writing a love story and sharing it with you, in the attempt to show you where it hurt, what felt great, and how we can begin to repattern love and care from within.” Dyana Gravina | artist | curator | mover

✨ Join us tomorrow
Saturday 18 April
2pm – 5pm
Whitechapel Gallery + online

for the launch of the Integrated Care Toolkit
The Integrated Care Toolkit is a new free, open access resource for artists, organisers and cultural workers interested in embedding Integrated Care in their work

🧸 Together with friend and collaborator we are preparing a Family Room that mirrors the areas and practices of the Toolkit, translating them into interactive art and play spaces for all ages. Bring your children and kin and spend the afternoon with us!

The Toolkit offers guiding principles and practical resources, including examples of alternative models and how to integrate them into public programmes, residencies, presentations and more. It is designed as a generative resource, open to adaptation and translation across contexts.

✨ During the event will guide you through the Toolkit sections, followed by a shared conversation with collaborators and contributors including and .harrison14

🎟 Book via link in bio

✨ Hi! I am Dyana Gravina, founder of Procreate Project and writer of the Integrated Care Toolkit, to be released on Saturday 18 April. Procreate Project began in 2013 as a grassroots arts organisation working towards systemic change and equity for artists who are mothers and primary caregivers.

✧ This Toolkit is grounded in 13 years of hands on work and lived experience as an artist, parent, and migrant in the UK.

✧ Far from an individual process, it has unfolded through conversations, encounters, and time spent together.

✧ Many of these pages began in my living room and online, shaped through dialogue with critical friends and I am grateful for their questions and perspectives. They include Maddalena Fragnito, Katie Deepwell, FRANK with Fatoş Üstek and Celina Loh, Ama Josephine Budge, Alex Martinis Roe, Elisa Fontana, Hettie Judah, Jo Harrison, and former P*P director Paola Lucente

→ During the event I will introduce the Toolkit website and guide people through its areas and resources, before opening up the conversation to those in the room, collaborators, and audiences joining online.

🌍 ALL (ages) welcome! Together with Stefania Zocco, we are designing a Family Room in the main Assembly gallery on the ground floor, where the different sections of the Toolkit will be translated into interactive creative play activities for all ages. Doors open at 1.45 for a 2PM START.

✨ I hope you can join us!

🎟 Book pay what you can tickets via the link in bio



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