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Worlding amplifies the voices of refugees through art and storytelling, fostering awareness and action. They collaborate with organizations to address the humanitarian crisis, emphasizing the interconnectedness of land and sea in the journey for safety.

Join our Art Auction supporting Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE 🌍🚢 Your participation helps fund urgent support for people on the move, while advancing Worlding&rsquo;s mission to connect communities through shared experience and learning. Bid on donated artworks and show solidarity across borders. Each piece has a story; each bid strengthens practical aid, sea rescue efforts, and the kind of global cooperation we believe in.

Art Auction for Collective Aid + SOS MEDITERRANEE

WORLDING is delighted to offer 7 unique drawings by the artist Anouk Mercier, created specifically to sponsor her residency at WORLDING (21-26 September 2026).&nbsp; The drawings are part of an ongoing, hand-drawn series, called Ruin Arrangements. Impossible arrangements of ancient architectural elements evoke ruins, fashionable in Piranesi&rsquo;s 18th century. Anouk Mercier &ldquo;borrowed&rdquo; &nbsp;from his remarkable etchings, playing with this tradition (indenting lines on a plate). She uses a modern copying technique, photocopying, to choose the details that stand out, cutting and re-arranging them. Then she draws them with ink on paper. Today, these piled-up fragments resonate differently, no doubt, as the tongue-in-cheek title Tetris I (miniature) suggests. But aren&rsquo;t the politics and aesthetics of order, chaos, history and its knowledge&ndash;or lack thereof&ndash;still at play in our imaginations of the present&ndash;and the future? Read Ellen Wilkinson&rsquo;s text about this series <a fr-original-style="" href="https://4ormat-asset.s3.amazonaws.com/vfs/970538/public_assets/160298784/Ruin%20Arrangements%20Text.pdf" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a> .&nbsp; Anouk Mercier has developed a unique technique of drawing. It combines her encyclopaedic passion for historical etchings, with an awareness of image-making&rsquo;s contribution to the intertwining of our dreams and values. Her re-fashioned and deconstructed 18th century etching repertoire reveals the intertwining of history, beauty and, often, ideal. What histories do images carry? Does the contemporary scalpel reveal what we were or what we still are? Mercier is one of those artists whose research-driven approach does not hinder aesthetic plenitude. Her work is mostly on paper, but she has also worked with textiles, laser-cuttting and sculpture through site specific contexts. She has been commissioned public and private work for The Office of Public Works Ireland (2022), Torbay Council (2021) and Trust New Arts (2018), amongst others. Recent exhibitions include Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol (2024), Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham (2023), Casino Marino OPW, Dublin (2022), Saatchi Gallery, London (2021).&nbsp; During her residency at Worlding, Anouk will develop Soft Edit, a self-directed project that studies and responds to the work of eighteenth-century women printmakers and the historical, social, and material contexts in which it was created <a fr-original-style="" href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/popout?ver=1ztex6hthjy2#attid%253Datt_19fd6d0c5c3ce168_0.1_f_msheyyef0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">(link to full project outline here)</a>. Place your bids below to contribute to Anouk&rsquo;s residency and Worlding&rsquo;s cultural exchange programs.&nbsp; Please note that you have two options to obtain your drawing(s): 1) pick-up at Worlding in Elephant and Castle, 2) shipping via mail or a courier service, whose costs are added to your final bidding amount.

Art Auction – Anouk Mercier's Drawings

3-4 PM &ndash; WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP: Painting with handmade inks, charcoal, soil pigments and salt. Exploring watercolour techniques, through a handmade approach with added mineral materials to explore texture. Led by Constan&ccedil;a Saturnino.&nbsp;<p fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;"> 4 - 5 PM &ndash; WORD WORKSHOP: Words are important. They convey meaning and drive attention. But sometimes they fails us, mislead us or even intimidate us. This workshop stimulates a rediscovery of words, perhaps even helping you find your own. Led by Joana P. R. Neves. What better way to stimulate intention and awareness than by working with our most embodied tools: language, making, and looking? ⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣About the ExhibitionWorlding,&nbsp;Collective Aid&nbsp;and&nbsp;SOS MEDITERRANEE&nbsp;invite you to&nbsp;an exhibition&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;conversation&nbsp;around&nbsp;art, civil society and field action, sharing tales of a different kind of courage, in line with the theme of Refugee Week.Across Lands and Seas &mdash; Refugee Week 2026EXHIBITION16 &ndash; 20 June | 11am&ndash;5pm (free, booking advised) Donations to a joint campaign &mdash; split equally between Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE &mdash; are welcome throughout the week. You can donate during registration or in person via donation box and QR code at the venue.

Workshops (Across Lands and Seas Exhibition)

Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE invite you to an exhibition &amp; <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">conversation</a> around art, civil society and field action, sharing tales of a different kind of courage, in line with the theme of Refugee Week.&nbsp;Across Lands and Seas &mdash; Refugee Week 2026EXHIBITION16 &ndash; 20 June | 11am&ndash;5pm (free, booking advised) Across Lands and Seas is an invitation through photography, installation, VR, text and film to know the realities of those who cross lands and seas, and who Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE encounter, care for, and support on the field. Across Lands and Seas traces the continuum from water to soil, from the open sea to different lands, across borders. Both charities were created around the same principle: refusing to stand by while people died. While one operates on land and the other at sea, both believe that people in danger are a civic responsibility, not a political and administrative problem. They often encounter the same people, rescued in the Mediterranean, after having crossed the Balkans forests. But every year, people die. They&rsquo;re trying to reach safety in Europe, whose policies have progressively withdrawn safe and legal access to protection. Land and sea are an interconnected journey of disappearances, loss, bearing witness and survival.Support the work Donations to a joint campaign &mdash; split equally between Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE &mdash; are welcome throughout the week. You can donate during registration or in person via donation box and QR code at the venue. ⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣Don&#39;t forget our evening conversation about the unmentionable courage of those who cross and those who bear witness:<a fr-original-style="" href="http://⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Evening Conversation &ndash; What Courage Costs: BOOK HERE</a>Friday 19 June - Doors open: &nbsp;6:30pm | Event starts: 7pm Drinks w/ Concha&rsquo;s famous Elderflower Cordial + Homemade Nibbles + Ben &amp; Jerry&#39;s ice-cream and more... on sale.All proceeds are split equally between Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE.Refugee Week&#39;s theme is Courage. There is no shortage of stories about it; still, some remain untold, unfathomable.<ul fr-original-style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; box-sizing: inherit;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: inherit;">The courage to accept being helped, meaning: sacrifice of self, guilt of receiving what others didn&#39;t.&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; box-sizing: inherit;">The courage found within discouragement&mdash;the last drop of energy when the work is hard. &nbsp;</li></ul>Sam Pordale fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. Nine attempts to reach Europe before the UK. Supported by the Red Cross, he won a scholarship to the University of Warwick. He was named Big Issue Changemaker in 2024. He campaigns for the right of asylum seekers to work &amp; study, and teaches English to those who endured the same journey.&nbsp;Tigs Louis-Puttick founded Reclaim the Sea, helping those who crossed the seas in &nbsp;to reconnect with the water. After four years leading the project, she stepped back to be a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard researching sea borders and refugee rights.&nbsp;

Across Lands and Seas, Exhibition

Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE invite you a conversation, at the heart of the exhibition Across Lands and Seas, around art, civil society and field action, sharing tales of a different kind of courage, in line with the theme of Refugee Week.&nbsp; Evening Conversation &ndash; What Courage CostsFriday 19 June - Doors open: &nbsp;6:30pm | Event starts: 7pmDrinks w/ Concha&rsquo;s famous Elderflower Cordial + Homemade Nibbles + Ben &amp; Jerry&#39;s ice-cream and more... on sale.All proceeds are split equally between Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE. Refugee Week&#39;s theme is Courage. There is no shortage of stories about it; still, some remain untold, unfathomable.<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The courage to accept being helped, meaning: sacrifice of self, guilt of receiving what others didn&#39;t.&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The courage found within discouragement&mdash;the last drop of energy when the work is hard. &nbsp;</li></ul> Sam Pordale fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. Nine attempts to reach Europe before the UK. Supported by the Red Cross, he won a scholarship to the University of Warwick. He was named Big Issue Changemaker in 2024. He campaigns for the right of asylum seekers to work &amp; study, and teaches English to those who endured the same journey.&nbsp;Phoebe Boswell, artist, author of the Underground commission <a fr-original-style="" href="https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/we-move-through-scales-of-blue/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">we move through scales of blue</a>.Nadira Saraswati (COO of Insight Collaborative). Support the workDonations to our joint campaign &mdash; split equally between Worlding, Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE &mdash; are welcome throughout the week. You can donate during registration or in person via donation box and QR code at the venue. ⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣⇣Across Lands and SeasEXHIBITION &mdash; Free.Across Lands and Seas &mdash; Refugee Week 20265 &ndash; 20 June | 11am&ndash;5pm (free) Across Lands and Seas is an invitation through photography, installation, VR, text and film to know the realities of those who cross lands and seas, and who Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE encounter, care for, and support on the field. Across Lands and Seas traces the continuum from water to soil, from the open sea to different lands, across borders. Both charities were created around the same principle: refusing to stand by while people died. While one operates on land and the other at sea, both believe that people in danger are a civic responsibility, not a political and administrative problem. They often encounter the same people, rescued in the Mediterranean, after having crossed the Balkans forests. But every year, people die. They&rsquo;re trying to reach safety in Europe, whose policies have progressively withdrawn safe and legal access to protection. Land and sea are an interconnected journey of disappearances, loss, bearing witness and survival. &nbsp;

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Past events

Past events

Art Auction for Collective Aid + SOS MEDITERRANEE

Art Auction – Anouk Mercier's Drawings

Workshops (Across Lands and Seas Exhibition)

Across Lands and Seas, Exhibition

Conversation: "What Courage Costs" around the show "Across Land and Seas"

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