Collective Action: Wikipedia edit-a-thon with Clare Qualmann

This year’s Art+Feminism theme is Collective Action, so this will be the foundation for another edit-a-thon at LADA’s Study Room, taking place on Thursday the 16^th of March.

As grassroots organising and worker power rise around the world, how are the works and practices of artist collectives, art workers and art-as-activism recorded and shared? From museum worker strikes at the National Gallery to the creative advocacy of Migrants in Culture, from the work of Land Body Ecologies on existential distress caused by environmental change to the direct-action feminist performances of Speaking of Imelda, co-operation, collectivity, and care are at the centre of today’s fights.

Join us to edit and create Wikipedia articles that speak to the theme of Collective Action. We will use LADA’s Study Room collections, as well as online resources, academic articles, books and any other sources we can get our hands on.  

Please feel free to come for the whole day or drop in for an hour. We will give an introduction at the start of the session and after a lunch break, but there will be people on hand to support you and help you get started whenever you arrive.

This edit-a-thon is organised by Clare Qualmann and LADA as part of Art+Feminism’s Year 10: Collective Action. Clare organised another Wikipedia edit-a-thon at LADA, for International Womxn’s Day 2020.

 Art+Feminism is a non-profit organisation building a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia.