Soft Power Agency
Cath Carver’s project as the new artist-in-residence at the High Street Happenings Residency at Arbeit Studios Palmers Green.
Cath will be exploring Soft Power – in it’s varied forms and the awakening of agency through workshops and public interventions around Green Lanes in Palmers Green, North London.
Cath will be working with textiles, colour and communications, inviting the community on a soft power journey.
Residency: 13th January - 6th April 2025
Exhibition: 4th - 27th April 2025
Exhibition
Open 5 - 27 April, weekends only, 12-4pm
At the Soft Agency exhibition people can expect: an exploration of power narratives and activation – centred around soft power and its potential to empower our lives and community at this time; community-design new street signs, sensory softness through textiles; a personal colour power story; and community voices celebrating Palmers Green’s considerable soft power.
Soft power is a fascinating topic to unpack at this time.
Free exhibition, just pop-in!
Arbeit Studios Palmers Green: rear of 310 Green Lanes, London N13 5TT
Special events coming up...
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Past Events
WORKSHOP 1
What is Soft Power? Tuesday 11th March 6.30-8pm
How can we awaken our power and activate agency?
Explore power and agency in this workshop with soft power expert Indra Adnan and Cath Carver. An opportunity to discuss and share views on power and agency at this time, and take forward insights.
Where is my agency?
What is the difference between hard and soft power?
The interdependency of power at three levels: I - personal, We - community, World - planet.
Activation, awakening, collective imagination and power literacy.
WORKSHOP 2
Words on the Street Saturday 22nd March 12-4pm
Narrative mapping, sign design and stop-motion animation.
What is Soft Power: what does that mean to each of us?
Map local signage and word spot.
Collective imagination practices to envision new narratives and textures, to spark community connections, civic agency and soft power.
Make speculative signage: create our own new designs.
Create a stop-motion video with animator Camrhon Mitchell.
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