Hope Reading Group.

Seventh x Collingwood House presents: a Hope Reading Group.

This reading group will be facilitated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and take place across four Sundays from 11-1pm in October-November in Collingwood.

Hope is the core concept of Isabella's PhD research, which proposes hope as a generative and disciplined curatorial methodology. The group will explore the concept of hope as a type of recommitment that reorients despair and has the potential to cultivate new forms of solidarity.

Week 1: Introduction: Defining Hope. Sunday, October 19.

Week 2: Resonance; Hope as Methodology and the Pedagogy of Hope.
Guest: Lucreccia Quintanilla - Sunday, October 26.

Week 3: Otherwise; Problems of Hope and Reading Group as Hopeful Format.
Guest: Audrey Pfister - Sunday, November 2.

Week 4: Scaffolding; Activism and Imaginaries of Hope.
Guest: Archie Barry - Sunday, November 9.

This reading group is free to attend and will be capped at 15 people to allow for depth of discussion. All readings will be sent to registered participants, but no homework is necessary; we will aim to read a chapter together each session. We will be looking at the written work of key thinkers such as; Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Lauren Berlant, José Esteban Muñoz and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Tea, coffee and refreshments provided.

Due to the small number of participants, participants will be selected based on their ability to attend all four sessions and on the content of their motivation statement.

If interested and able to attend all sessions, please send a 1-3 sentence motivation statement to info@seventhgallery.org by October 5.

(E.g. your current relationship to hope, why this interests, troubles, or energises you, what you might like to get out of this group).