Rising in Our Power is a landmark interdisciplinary artistic takeover at MIMA, by the IN/Visible National Disabled Women’s Arts Collective, on Saturday 8 February 2025, 11.00 am -3.00 pm. There will be performances, interactions, workshops, and a mini procession from the family art trolley, and you can make your own zine to take away. It is a celebration of community and the power of all of our voices, whoever we are and wherever we are from as we ask people from all generations, what one thing would you do to make the world a better place?
We are absolutely thrilled to be working in close partnership with the amazing team at MIMA, for the IN/Visible Collective invite audiences & participants to share in a living work of art & insight into the world of women’s creative activism, community & equitable community space-making, offering audiences a variety of different experiences. The event also includes a publication made by the artists to take away as a tangible reminder of the event.
Events Schedule
This event has never happened before, so we're all on adventure together. We hope the timings work but they are approximate! They could shift for any number of reasons so listen out for any announcements and roll with us.
Performance Trail over 3 floors and drop in workshops.
Morning
11.00am Lynne McFarlane Re-LOVE-ution Craft Table in the atrium
11.10am Dolly Sen at the Ground Floor lifts
11.20am Caroline Cardus in the atrium/ shop area (ground floor)
11.30 -12.30 Dolly Sen Procession Placards - what one thing would change the world? (Ground Floor Atrium)
11.40am Michelle Baharier in Gallery 4 (ground floor)
11.40- 12.40 Caroline Cardus zine-making - make a zine about your interests to take home. (Ground Floor Atrium)
11.50am Vici Wreford-Sinnott promenade out of Gallery 4 (ground floor)
12.20pm Pauline Heath on the landing outside lifts on floor 2
12. 35pm Samantha Blackburn in Textile gallery (floor 2)
12.50 pm Julie Mack McNamara Collections room (floor 3)
Afternoon
1.00pm Dolly Sen at the Ground floor lifts
1.10pm Caroline Cardus in the atrium/ shop area (ground floor)
1.30pm Michelle Baharier in Gallery 4 (ground floor)
1.40pm Vici Wreford-Sinnott promenade out of Gallery 4 (ground floor)
2.00pm Pauline Heath on landing outside lifts on floor 2
2.20pm Samantha Blackburn in Textile gallery (floor 2)
2.40pm JulieMc McNamara Collections room (floor 3)
We are absolutely thrilled to be working in close partnership with the amazing team at MIMA, for the IN/Visible Collective invite audiences & participants to share in a living work of art & insight into the world of women’s creative activism, community & equitable community space-making, offering audiences a variety of different experiences. The event also includes a publication made by the artists to take away as a tangible reminder of the event.
Events Schedule
This event has never happened before, so we're all on adventure together. We hope the timings work but they are approximate! They could shift for any number of reasons so listen out for any announcements and roll with us.
Performance Trail over 3 floors and drop in workshops.
Morning
11.00am Lynne McFarlane Re-LOVE-ution Craft Table in the atrium
11.10am Dolly Sen at the Ground Floor lifts
11.20am Caroline Cardus in the atrium/ shop area (ground floor)
11.30 -12.30 Dolly Sen Procession Placards - what one thing would change the world? (Ground Floor Atrium)
11.40am Michelle Baharier in Gallery 4 (ground floor)
11.40- 12.40 Caroline Cardus zine-making - make a zine about your interests to take home. (Ground Floor Atrium)
11.50am Vici Wreford-Sinnott promenade out of Gallery 4 (ground floor)
12.20pm Pauline Heath on the landing outside lifts on floor 2
12. 35pm Samantha Blackburn in Textile gallery (floor 2)
12.50 pm Julie Mack McNamara Collections room (floor 3)
Afternoon
1.00pm Dolly Sen at the Ground floor lifts
1.10pm Caroline Cardus in the atrium/ shop area (ground floor)
1.30pm Michelle Baharier in Gallery 4 (ground floor)
1.40pm Vici Wreford-Sinnott promenade out of Gallery 4 (ground floor)
2.00pm Pauline Heath on landing outside lifts on floor 2
2.20pm Samantha Blackburn in Textile gallery (floor 2)
2.40pm JulieMc McNamara Collections room (floor 3)
Drop in Workshops and Art Activities all in Ground Floor Atrium
11.00 am - 15.00 pm Family Art Trolley and Lynne McFarlane's Re-LOVE-ution Craft table
Artist Lynne McFarlane is hosting an arts table with art kits and packs to take away and lovely colourful things to make while you’re at MIMA.
11.30 am -12.30 pm Dolly Sen Procession Placards - what one thing would change the world?
Artist Dolly Sen is hosting a placard procession where you get to make your own placards stating what one thing would change the world, with your own interests.
11.40 am - 12.40 pm Caroline Cardus zine-making - make a zine about your interests to take home.
Artist Caroline Cardus is hosting a zine making workshop where you get to make your own zine, on the subject of your choice, and take it home with you.
11.00 am - 15.00 pm Family Art Trolley and Lynne McFarlane's Re-LOVE-ution Craft table
Artist Lynne McFarlane is hosting an arts table with art kits and packs to take away and lovely colourful things to make while you’re at MIMA.
11.30 am -12.30 pm Dolly Sen Procession Placards - what one thing would change the world?
Artist Dolly Sen is hosting a placard procession where you get to make your own placards stating what one thing would change the world, with your own interests.
11.40 am - 12.40 pm Caroline Cardus zine-making - make a zine about your interests to take home.
Artist Caroline Cardus is hosting a zine making workshop where you get to make your own zine, on the subject of your choice, and take it home with you.
Performances
11.10 am and 1.00 pm Dolly Sen is doing a residence in the lifts at MIMA, encouraging them to rise up with us. Drawing on the wisdom of Audre Lorde and Maya Angelou this is a powerful and witty performance piece. 11.20 am and 1.10 pm Taking disabled suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst as a starting point, Caroline Cardus reflects on, and challenges, the space disabled women are and aren’t allowed to take up, subverting how we are perceived. 11.40 am and 1.30 pm Becoming an activist in childhood can be a way of navigating a world that isn’t accessible. This is the starting point for Michelle Baharier’s performance taking us on a journey, labelled as ‘mad’, she discovers similarities between herself and some of Middlesbrough’s lesser known women activists. 11.50 am and 1.40 pm Punk performers Sheena and the Access Monitors take us through MIMA’s Gallery 4 and back to the atrium as Vici Wreford-Sinnott remembers the importance of finding a tribe when she felt she didn’t fit the world. Punk was her first community. 12.20 pm and 2.00 pm Down a rabbit hole of the brutal benefits maze, dressed a little bit like Alice, Pauline Heath shares what it’s like to feel like a ‘reject’ from birth in your own country. But don’t worry she’s got pinatas for a party game! 12.35 pm and 2.20 pm The life and amazing history of Elizabeth Packard, a 19th century reformer, is celebrated as she speaks about her true experiences, her passion for change and the difference she was able to make, through Samantha Blackburn’s beautiful powerful piece. 12.50 pm and 2.40 pm Politician, activist and reformer Red Ellen Wilkinson, inspired JulieMc’s performance piece after she made a research visit to Middlesbrough, to look into the stories of the 8th and 9th plinths memorialising noteworthy people in the Middlesbrough area. Red Ellen was overlooked but speaks large in this powerful monologue and imagined connections. 11.00 am - 3.00 pm Activism comes in lots of different forms and frequencies. Lynne McFarlane is offering a cosy space to get comfortable and make some lovely things. It's about care and support, and the power of creativity to bring people together. One of our members, Honor Flaherty, can't be with us in person on the day unfortunately, but will most certainly be shouting us all on with support from home. And vice versa. Her art work is in the zine and her protest embroidery is in the pop up exhibition. It won't be the same without her but we know that this is how life goes sometimes and we send her all our love. |