Date: 15 February, 24 May, 13 September, 22 November
Duration: +/- 4 hours

Varia facilitates a series of quarterly meetings, where people who care for kin can grow confidence to claim space for their presence and the acknowledgement of their ebbs and flows within art institutions and the cultural sector in general. They share their experiences and offer listening and support to one another. This serves as a platform for collective recognition of patterns of discriminative behavior directed towards caregivers within the art and design fields. Often, these experiences remain isolated and fragmented, lacking systemic recognition.

“Caring for family (bio or chosen), community and/or kin, either professionally or informally can form and create artistic practices as well as disrupt them. We recognise how difficult it is for artists with caring responsibilities to grasp time, energy, resources and focus for their practices. This is particularly the case when support networks have been disrupted, home and work have become tangled up and funding [is] systemically diverted away from caregivers infrastructures of support”. SSW X Counterflows Caregivers Residency.
For those who are parenting, there is childcare provided for the time of the meeting in a location next door to Varia
If you want to join these meetings or are curious, please get in touch with us info@varia.zone) using [caregivers-unite] in the subject line.