About this Event
The conversation will explore media literacy, literacy being the new class divide, the way discourses shape-shift online, thinkfluencers, and censorship in media.
Panellists:
is the founder of ACV, a slow-journalism studio through which he exchanges perspectives with people shaping shared futures. He centres his practice on building cultural infrastructure that is equitable, regenerative and rooted in the communities it serves. For over a decade, Connor has worked with brands and institutions across arts & culture, design and the public sector, bringing together strategy, engagement, production and programming.
is a Kurdish artist and archivist whose experimental work moves between books, film, photography and mixed media installations. Her work explores how archives shape Kurdish identity formation, solidarity building, liberation tactics, and how communities resist erasure through their own forms of remembering. Êvar’s practice is grounded in the quiet gestures of collecting, annotating, and sharing knowledge, often with attention to the intimacies that formal archives overlook. She asks what role archives might play in shaping freedom - specifically that of occupied people and lands.
is a writer, digital curator, and 'creative academic' residing at the intersection between philosophy and literary studies. She writes autotheory, poetry, and experimental prose; curates and produces live events; creative directs publications; operates as a creative consultant for brands and galleries; makes performance art on the internet.
Moderated by:
is a writer and the co-founder and CEO of Metropol, a London-based platform that helps people discover and connect through culture, from nightlife and music to art, film and emerging creative scenes. Metropol champions human connection over the feed, tackling social isolation and loneliness by bringing people together around shared cultural experiences and using technology to get them back out into the world.
The panel talk will be preceded by a short film DIAPHRAGM.
DIAPHRAGM is a dual-screen autofictional short film that explores queer post-colonial narratives through two different types of individual representation of young Asian women as an object. She wanders as a performer in front of the camera, navigating urban-like theater spaces and daily life, sharing her "own" perceptions and memories of identity, language, and images in a modern city (Glasgow). Her representations are constantly altered by the influence of "the other" off-screen or by her own commentary.
About the filmmaker:
is an artist working between Shanghai and London. Their work is based on writing, through which they develop moving image, performance, theatre and other forms.
Their practice stems from a persistent doubt about reality: how can we determine whether we are experiencing life, performance or an image? In their work, autobiographical writing and fiction do not always sit neatly apart. By constructing and intervening in existing situations, they bring into question the very boundaries through which we distinguish between experiences, asking how these boundaries shape our understanding of lived experience.
is a London based events platform with a focus on transdisciplinarity in the arts sector to support conscious creativity.
30/11/2026
REFERENCE POINT
2 Arundel St, Temple, London WC2R 3DA
Doors 7 pm
Screening 7:30 pm
Panel talk 8:15 pm
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Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom
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