Aini Javaid on being an SPID Theatre’s 2022 Estate Endz Ambassador
Our newest visitor on our Runn Radio present was Aini Javaid. Aini is a 2022 SPID Theatre Ambassador for his or her upcoming Estate Endz exhibition.
Who are SPID Theatre
SPID makes artwork that advocates housing justice. Since 2005, the award successful charity’s performs, movies, excursions and exhibitions have dramatized the historical past of social housing. Partners embody North Kensington Library, Kids on the Green, Targeted Prevention Group, Octavia Housing Association, the Museum of Brands, the Curve, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Bush Theatre, the Playground Theatre, Full of Life, Trellick Residents Association, Kensal Residents Association, 20th Century Society, Shelter, and University College London. They are based mostly in Kensal House property near Grenfell. This yr their floor breaking £2.6m refurbishment of Kensal House Estate Community rooms lastly started. They have united lease holders and tenants to make RBKC fulfil their statutory duties relating to entry and security to convey the entire property as much as normal.
Estate Endz Exhibition
Over the final 12 weeks SPID’s younger individuals (13-25 yr olds) on their ‘Estate Endz’ programme have been gaining expertise in audio-visual with the steerage of business professionals specialising in audio-visual and structure. With social housing heritage and solidarity on the coronary heart of the mission, the individuals have been curating audio-visual materials which is able to contribute to an exhibition going down on the enduring Alexandra Rd Estate, London (26 Nov-Tenants Hall) and the celebrated Victoria and Albert Museum (27 Nov- Learning Centre/Art Studio). The workshops which have been working on an in-person and on-line hybrid format, has seen the individuals connecting and dealing collaboratively with Sutton Hill Estate residents in Telford. The exhibition will take you on a journey by time, transporting you to the resident’s houses and experiences by the magic of audio-visual.
The Podcast
As large followers of SPID we thought it was about time we spoke to them, or at the least somebody concerned with certainly one of their tasks. And that’s how we discovered ourselves chatting to Aini. She tells us what’s concerned in being an envoy for his or her newest mission, why being a part of it has been such a satisfying expertise and what she hopes for the longer term.