#Repost @communityreadingroom ・・・ Please join Dr Denise Chapman and special guests Sista Zai Zanda, Maxime Banks, Amarachi Okorom and Achut Thuc for ‘(Re)Storying our Freedom’ - an evening of poetry and storytelling exploring the impact of oppression on the mind and the body. The artists will discuss a range of methods for understanding / troubling / resisting / speaking to oppressive social structures and power. FREE and all welcome. . Image: a grainy black and white photograph of a microphone nestled in the curled mic lead. It sits on top of a PA speaker. Text in the top left corner reads: “tonight 6:30-8:30pm Testing Grounds, Achut Thuc, Amarachi Okorom, Denise Chapman, Maxime Banks, Sista Zai Zanda. . . Testing Grounds is accessible for people using wheelchairs. Bathrooms are gender neutral and there are baby change facilities. . . Black Tourmaline is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Carstairs Prize, funded by a private donor and administered by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). #navagrants . . #testinggrounds #communityreadingroom #counternarrative #readingroom #blacktourmalineproject #narrm #birraranga #melbourne #publicpedagogy #communityeducation #communitylibrary #archiveproject #discursiveproject #books #artbooks #margintocentre #decolonisetheacademy #poetry #storytelling #resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/ByaI487Acrq/?igshid=6ljbl11k28mp