Podcast Launch: Insights from the 1000 WORDS FOR BELONGING

Insights from our 1000 WORDS FOR BELONGING project are being documented in a new 4-part podcast, due for release in Spring 2025. The podcast will explore multilingualism in arts education and will include conversations with students, teachers, artists, and academics. Each episode will be practical in focus, sharing stories of multilingualism in the classroom. Many schools in England still have posters on the walls that state ‘students must speak in English at all times’. This podcast will speak directly to the message in those posters, fighting against the policing of language as a form of behaviour policy.  

@Words4Belonging

 An interactive exhibition about language, community arts, and what it means to belong

11th to 13th April @ Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA

Featuring: Craig Bernard, Calixte Davis, Gearies Primary School and Maud Milton. 

Curated by: Neela Doležalová

Exhibition opening times: Friday 11th April, 2pm to 10pm, Saturday 12th April, 10am to 10pm

Sunday 13th April, 10am to 7pm

Neela Doležalová will introduce her new podcast ‘1000 Words for Belonging’ – a podcast about languages and belonging in the classroom. This workshop-style event will include readings by poets Gabriel Akamo and Helen Bowell.

1000 WORDS FOR BELONGING is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and a grant from the University of London’s Knowledge Exchange fund.

You can follow our 1000 WORDS FOR BELONGING antics on Instagram @words4belonging.