Discussion group: The Atom: A Love Affair

May 5, 2025 7:00 PM

Welcome to our online reading and discussion group! The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!

Event shout-out: "Living through the End - Nuclear war in 1980s TV & movies”

Apr 22, 2025 6:00 PM

The Day After (1983 - US), Testament (1983 - US), and Threads (1984 - UK) depicted the horrors of nuclear war and its impact on its indiscriminate victims. The livestream will discuss these films, nuclear anxiety past and present, the environmental impacts of nuclear technologies, and the potential for films like these to spur collective action. Speakers include: Vicki Lesley, filmmaker and director of The Atom: A Love Affair (2019) Allison McCracken, DePaul University American Studies Professor Min-Kyoo Kim, Film and Screen Studies PhD student at the University of Cambridge

Reading Group: Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich

Feb 24, 2025 7:00 PM

Welcome to our online reading and discussion group! The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!

Reading Group: Ursula K. Le Guin

Nov 11, 2024 7:00 PM

Welcome to our online reading and discussion group! The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!

Reading Group: 'Ness' by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood

Jul 23, 2024 7:00 PM

Welcome to our online reading and discussion group! The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!

Reading Group and author Q&A: 'The Half-Life of Snails' by Philippa Holloway

Apr 30, 2024 7:00 PM

The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us online on April 30th 2024, from 19:00 - 20:00, for an online discussion of 'The Half-Life of Snails' with author Philippa Holloway.

Reading Group: discussing 'The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture' by Mark Bould

Feb 22, 2024 7:00 PM

The AiNA reading group meets every two months online, for a 1 hour discussion of a text that help us think about the complexities of living in the nuclear age. We read fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. Please join us!

Remembering Collective Memories and Art

Sep 2, 2021 12:00 PM

An online interactive panel discussion, focusing on Yoshio Shirakawa’s current exhibition at Maruki Gallery for Hiroshima Panels in Japan.

Monument / Collective Memory / Historicity

Dec 10, 2020 5:52 PM

Discussion between artist Yoshio Shirakawa and Rachel Reid how Socio Political context has been impacting their practice, exploring the issues around Monument/ Collective Memory / Historicity / Colonialism.

How we value art - responses during the Covid 19 crisis

Sep 12, 2020 1:00 PM

An online interactive panel discussion, focusing on artists’ experience under the current global Covid-19 pandemic.

Knowledge Meltdown

Jun 6, 2020 1:00 PM

An online panel discussion with Japanese socio-political commentator, Dr. Yoshitaka Mori, and artist and film-maker Hikaru Fujii.

Art and Political Censorship in Japan

Nov 12, 2019 6:30 PM

Discussion Event with Satoshi Hashimoto, Dr. Yoshitaka Mōri, Morgan Quaintance and Jenny White.

Exposing Imperceptible

Mar 11, 2019 6:00 PM

Panel Discussion with Yoi Kawakubo, Gabriella Hirst and Warren Harper

Art Action UK symposium: Art in the Age of Crisis

Sep 8, 2018 10:00 AM

Symposium at Deptford X Event Space.

Make a break: Immediacy in Art after Fukushima

May 21, 2016 6:00 PM

An artist talk and discussion event with Jason Waite, Dr. Ele Carpenter, Kaori Homma and Kyun-Chome.

Those Who Go East

Mar 15, 2015 6:00 PM

At White Conduit Projects

Discussion Event — After Fukushima

A discussion event exploring discourses on the global ecological crisis in the wake of Fukushima, with Satoshi Hashimoto.

311 – A Point of No Return

With White Conduit Project

Place as an extension of body — artists and cultural agendas

Panel discussion event

Art, Culture and Politics at the Margin

Artist Talk and Film Screening Event with Satoshi Hashimoto