Reading Group: Future Brown Library
Starts in March 2025
This reading group will be three course sessions, three hours each.
Date: 11 march, 25 march, 8 april 2025.
Reading group: Future Brown Library
The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts presents the Future Brown Library reading circle, in partnership with John-Paul Zaccarini and Pernilla Glaser. This reflective reading circle was developed based on the Swedish Research Council/Stockholm University of the Arts’ FutureBrownSpace research project led by John-Paul, and the Future-making Academy reading circle created by Pernilla in partnership with Malmö University.
One reading circle with three sessions
Are you interested in the ways in which inclusion, exclusion, power and authority can be organised around skin colour? Would you like to reflect on how post-colonial constructions of whiteness impact daily life for white, brown and black people? Would you like to explore how race manifests in different interactions? Are you interested in how contemporary research and literature can support new and different ways of thinking and acting?
Anyone interested in these questions is welcome to participate. The requirement is that you can attend all sessions and are interested in post-racism, collaboration and a future-oriented perspective. If you work in a setting in which you experience exclusion and microaggressions, or if you want more tools for discussing and working with heterogeneity and equity, you are welcome. The reading circle is held in English, but there are many opportunities for discussion in Swedish, as most of the work comprises group exercises.
Reflect and discuss
Future Brown Library offers contemporary texts from a curated list and a place to discuss, think and feel together. The reading circle will cover topics such as unconscious racism, care and memory, co-dependency and masochism, forgiveness and mercy, the intersection of race and gender, and various concepts for racialization and whiteness and how they relate to feminism and class.
Register
Course fee: SEK 750
More information
- 3 course sessions, 3 hours each
- Date: 11 march, 25 march, 8 april 2025.
- Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Venue: Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, Lilla Salen, Sibyllegatan 2 in Stockholm
- Number of participants: 30
- Literature: 2–3 pages copied article or pages from a book as well as a poem.
- The museum will serve coffee and sandwiches.
Course leaders
John-Paul Zaccarini
John-Paul Zaccarini is a professor of performing arts at the Research Centre, Stockholm University of the Arts. He is currently researching the intersections between art, therapy and activism in his project FutureBrownSpace, a creative space for BIPOC to work with Radical Healing and decolonizing research in majority white institutions and fields.
Pernilla Glaser
Pernilla Glaser is a facilitator, educator and author with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methods of cooperation. She creates and holds space for reflection and creation at the intersection of research, art and civil society.
Pernilla also trains teachers and facilitators in dialogue practices, for example at Malmö Theatre Academy. In addition, Pernilla is active as a method developer in the research project Society for Transformative Conversations at SLU.