WORKSHOPS

KULTURBÜRO RHEINLAND-PFALZ

₂₀₂₄ _{Bad Dürkheim, Germany}

_{Workshop Description: This workshop for 18-25-year-olds looked at the role of visual journalism in communicating and captivating ideas on environmental issues. It was a hands-on workshop in which participants created animated posters that were used on social media and projected into public space. The 3-day workshop involved learning 2D animation, stop-motion} _{and collage skills.}

BRITISH LIBRARY

₂₀₂₃ _{London, UK}

_{Workshop Description: Juliana Gaertner, the British Library’s Environmentalist in Residence, and Guest Artist Hannah Kirmes-Daly offered an immersive zine workshop bringing the Library’s environmental collections to life and inviting participants to reflect creatively on our collective and historical struggle for global climate justice.}

DOKUMENTA

₂₀₂₂ _{Kassel, Germany}

_{Workshop Description: In collaboration with the artist Rüzgar Buşki, Hannah offered a workshop at the 2022 Dokumenta for artists exploring the interconnected themes that link creative research practices, and providing tools for future collaborations.}

HAU

₂₀₂₂ _{Berlin, Germany}

_{Workshop Description: With the artists Nagham Hammoush and Rüzgar Buşki, Hannah worked for the HAU theatre in Berlin to explore artistic practices in urban public space with the local community. This project involved community outreach practices, artistic workshops and spaces for exchange on the topic of gentrification and the ownership of public space in the city.}

BERLIN BIENNALE

₂₀₂₁ _{Berlin, Germany}

_{Workshop Description: Şipşak Druck is a mobile Screenprinting Workshop that was born during the Exchange Program of the 11th Berlin Biennale. In collaboration with Rüzgar Buşki and Duygu Örs we developed the outreach concept to bring the topics of the Biennale into public space and create an experimental studio practice for people who would not consider themselves artists.}

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BERLIN BIENNALE

₂₀₂₁ _{Berlin, Germany}

_{Workshop Description: In collaboration with Rüzgar Buşki, Hannah developed a workshop series for the Berlin Biennale with a focus on Queering the Museum. ‘For the 11th Berlin Biennale one has to enter the Gropius Bau from the Exit. How does queerness become a survivor technique maneuvering life through the Exits? What makes an artwork Queer? How to experience an artwork from a Trans-feminist perspective? Enter + stay: all were welcome to join this elegantly bitchy conversational counter-narrative tour, provoking constructions of norms and questioning centralised experiences through the artists of the 11th Berlin Biennale.’}

KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN

₂₀₂₀ _{Berlin, Germany}

_{Workshop Description: In the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Hannah developed a series of one-to-one collaborative research workshops with an activist from Ahwaz looking at the lived consequences of British colonialism. This process took place over one year and resulted in the production of a hand-printed comic strip.}

FRIEDRICH NAUMANN STIFTUNG + MISHWAR

₂₀₁₈ _{Akkar, Lebanon}

_{Workshop Description:} _{In collaboration with animators from Beirut gave a series of animation workshops for youth in refugee camps in northern Lebanon. Through theatre games and stop-motion classes, we created a space to explore visual storytelling on topics that directly affected them. The films were subsequently shown at exhibitions in Beirut and Berlin.}

FRIEDRICH NAUMANN STIFTUNG + MISHWAR

₂₀₁₈ _{Akkar, Lebanon}

_{Workshop Description: In collaboration with artists and researchers Roshan de Stone and David L. Suber, this workshop approached the parameters of a refugee camp in northern Syria as a space for collaboration and ownership. It celebrated the practice of art in public space, creating intergenerational dialogue, through mural painting, games and public film screenings.}

BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL

_{2017 Podu Turcului, Romania}

_{Workshop Description: Supported by the British Arts Council and working with the artist and musician Harriet Paintin and Sasha Rose, Hannah looked at the experience of schools in eastern Romania, focusing specifically on children from Roma and Sinti communities. Through graphic journalism workshops, children gained the skills and space to explore their own stories and reflections on broader socio-political issues.}

OPEN SOCIETY

_{2017 Georgia and Armenia}

_{Workshop Description: In collaboration with the musician and journalist Harriet Paintin, Hannah created a series of participatory research workshops looking at the songs and stories that are passed down to remember the Armenian genocide. These impromptu workshops were designed to flexibly respond to invitations in public spaces, bars and homes and took place with adults and children alike.}

Polaroid CUBE
Polaroid CUBE
Polaroid CUBE

BORDERLANDS

_{2016 Bristol, UK}

_{Workshop Description: In collaboration with artists and researchers Roshan de Stone, Joyce Nicholls, Louise Druelle and Jaz Pickney, Hannah worked with Borderlands Charity to produce and exhibition and music event celebrating the voices of Bristol’s diaspora communities. Hannah offered visual journalism, audio, and artistic workshops and curated the overall exhibition.}

CLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS

_{2015 Lesvos, Greece}

_{Workshop Description: Alongside the musician Harriet Paintin, Hannah worked with the organisation Clowns Without Borders in Lesvos to create impromtu spaces of perfomance and art for children who had recently experience trauma.}

BRUSH&BOW

_{2015 Calais, France}

_{Workshop Description: Over four years, Hannah worked in Calais, documenting the establishment and destruction of refugee camps. Hannah used reportage illustration and visual storytelling techniques to work with groups to research personal and collective experiences that underpin migration and smuggling insights.}