Synergi Project
LightNews LightNews
synergiproject.bsky.social
Synergi Project
@synergiproject.bsky.social
120 followers 69 following 53 posts
https://linktr.ee/synergiproject
Posts Replies Media Videos
synergiproject.bsky.social
Lets look at abolitionist approaches to conflict. How do we respond to our rage in navigating injustice? What is useful about transformative approaches to justice, and what feels hard about them?

Join us on 10 November at 12pm for this free session: synergiproject.org.uk/event/abolit...
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
Spaces for Black people to focus on their wellbeing and recharge are so important. House of Dread and History for Our Futures are putting on something really special here, on 25 Oct between 1-3pm at The Dojo Space.

RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Be Still & Remember Deep Dive Session with Dr Rowan Hassan A circle of somatic yoga, meditation, and breath work to return, reclaim, and move forward with intention. We are inviting you to join our next DEEP DIVE session as part of History for Our Future Network to help our network pause, restore, and ground. Curated by Nubia Assata, this special gathering offers space for researchers, leaders, and artists working on histories of the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans to step back from the demands of daily work and reconnect with intention. Guided by Dr. Rawan Hassan and supported by Amberlee Green, the afternoon will centre on holistic wellbeing for the Black Diaspora through: Breathwork and somatic practice Gentle yin yoga and guided meditation A calming herbal tea ceremony Journaling and collective reflection We invite you to come as you are—to slow down, release, and replenish in community. Places are limited and RSVP is essential
October 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
This weekend's far right marches will have been triggering and traumatising for many Black and Global Majority people. In times like these we need to hold our communities close and take care of each other.
white text on green background Reads: Many Black and Global Majority people are afraid and feeling anxious. Our sense of safety has been rocked by this weekend’s far right marches. We’re seeing the rise of the far right, and their rhetoric increasingly becoming mainstream. We are seeing policing treat pro-Palestinian protesters more harshly than far right racist protestors. And existing as a Black person or a person of colour in this reality is in itself traumatising. white text on a green background Reads: These events have a detrimental impact on our mental health. But the systems as they exist are not prepared to help Black and Global majority people process the trauma of systemic racism. Hold your communities close, talk to each other to help heal the pain, and organise spaces for healing. We move through spaces where sharing our experiences and feelings around racism is dangerous, so find those spaces where you can be yourself. White text on a green background. Reads: We will be sharing resources and community spaces in our stories. Tell us in the comments what you are doing to take care of yourself during these difficult times.
September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🥀Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group will explore rage, fear & numbness. How do we make space for grief in our movements?

📅Date: Monday 9th June
⏰Time: 12-2pm
💻Where: Online (zoom)

🔗Register your place using link in bio!

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#abolition #bpoc #grief
May 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group is on the theme of non-carceral alternatives to policing, community accountability, transformative justice & intersectionality

Date: Monday 12th May
Time: 12-2pm
Where: Online (zoom)

🔗Register using link in bio

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#abolition #bpoc
May 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🫖✨ Amy Bullard from The Teapot Collective and Story of the Changing joins us for this months community blog. She shares with us her love for tarot, yoga and being in community!

🔗🌱Read it following the link in our bio

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#joy #healing #bpoc #tarot #decolonial
Image description: orange background with green flowers and two brown hands with a green and blue card in each hand. There is the green synergi flower logo in the bottom right hand corner. The text reads: Joy As Resistance by Amy Bullard.
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🗣️✨We had a wonderful time at the Northern Race Equality Conference in Bradford last week!

👐🏾We had important discussions around making racial justice the centre of our sustainable movement building, funding and leadership!

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#racialjustice #socialjustice #event #fyp #le #bpoc
April 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
Drop us a comment of any organisations/folks doing this work 👇🏾

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#disabilityrights #Disability #bpoc #qtibpoc #grassroots #communityorganising #le #mh
Image description: Green background with green polka border. There is a black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. Text description: Do you know any folks/organisations doing work to support BPOC communities affected by Labour’s Disability benefit reforms?
April 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
⚖️🙏🏾Our second workshop with the wonderful folks from Sistren Legal Collective is coming up soon!

🌿This workshop is for folks from BPOC user-led organisations

📅 Friday 25th April
⏰1pm - 3pm
💻Online (zoom)

#Legal #legalworkshop #abolition #bpoc #racialjustice

@nsunnews.bsky.social
Image description 1: Green background with brown hand on blue squiggly background holding a twig with leaves. There is the white synergi logo in the bottom right hand corner. Text reads: Legal Workshop.For BPOC user-led organisations working at the intersection of racial justice & mental ill health, trauma & distress led by: sistren legal collective. Date: Friday 25th April . Time: 1pm - 3pm Where: Online (zoom).
April 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🫶🏿🎋Our upcoming Abolition in Practice Group is on the theme of Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice & the body as a resource & locus of trauma

📅: Monday 14th April
⏰: 12-2pm
💻: Online (zoom)

🔗Register your place using link in bio!

#bpoc #le

@nsunnews.bsky.social
Image description 1: Maroon background with flowers with orange dotted border. There is pictures of Liberated to The Bone book by Susan Raffo and My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem as well as a video picture of vice video titled A Therapist Breaks Down How Our Bodies Carry Racial Trauma. Text description: Abolition in Practice Group. Theme: What's the Body got to do with it? Date: Monday 14th April. Time: 12-2pm.Where:Online (zoom).
March 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱⏰We are closing submissions for our online creative exhibition Friday 4th April!

🎨 We're looking for short creative pieces of artwork, poetry & music to be published on our website

🔗 Read more following the link in bio!

#racialjustice #arts #bpoc #poc #exhibition #online

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱 Dal Kular for the second part of her community blog shares more about her zine making journey!

🔗🦋Read it following the link in our bio

#zinemaking #zines #healing #poc #bpoc #zine #creative

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱Register for our final online zine workshop with Dal Kular using the link in our bio!

Date: Friday 28th March
Time: 3-5pm
Where: Online (zoom)

#racialjustice #socialjustice #zine #zineworkshop #workshops #nature #activities #community

@nsunnews.bsky.social
Image 1 description: Lime green background with circle border. with butterflies and flowers. Text description: Workshop 3: Nurturing Our Nature with Dal Kular. In ‘Nurturing Our Nature’ Zine Workshop, Dal will be guiding participants to step-by-step create their own mini personal zine inspired by our connections with/to nature, as beings of nature ourselves. From houseplants to the sky above us and from cityscapes to remote landscapes, nature surrounds us wherever we are. Think inspiring readings, guided meditations and relaxation, playful word-making activities, nourishing images, conversation and optional sharings, glue sticks, pens and scissors, and joyful mess-making! No prior experience needed. Zines are for everyone! Date: Friday 28th March Time: 3-5pm Where: Online (Zoom). Image description 2: Lime green background with a photo of Dal Kular. Text description: Dal Kular (she/her). Dal Kular is a writer, maker, zinester and facilitator of creative and nature-allied arts for healing, liberation and joy. She left school at 16 years old with 3 O-levels having been told she could never be a writer – returning to the power of words in her late forties – as an act of radical care and healing. Her debut poetry book (un)interrupted tongues, published by Fly on The Wall Press, emerged from a zine she created during her masters dissertation about the therapeutic and healing powers of zine-making. She lives in Sheffield. Image 3 description: Lime green background with black synergi flower. Text description: Registration. Please register your interest using the link in our bio and a zoom link for entry will be sent to you closer to the date. If you have any questions in the meantime please get in touch with us at synergi.info@nsun.org.uk.
March 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱🌈Our final workshop in our zine series is with Dal Kular on the theme of our connections with/to nature!

Date: Friday 28th March
Time: 3-5pm
Where: Online (zoom)

🍄Register your place using link in our bio!

#zine #zineworkshop #workshops #nature #activities #community

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱Have you listened to the first episode of our Remembrance As Resistance podcast with Hamja Ahsan yet?

🔗✨Listen now using link in our bio

📢 We have exciting guests coming up so please share with anyone who would enjoy listening!

#podcast #bpoc #le

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🐝🌱Tomorrow at 9am registration will close for our online zine workshop with Seleena Laverne Daye!

🔗Make sure you sign up for your place using the link in our bio

#zine #zinemaking #workshop #zineworkshop #bpoc #poc #racialjustice #socialjustice

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🍄Next up in our zine series is an online zine workshop with Seleena Laverne Daye a textile artist, zine maker & retail worker exploring what brings us joy!

📅: Friday 14th March
⏰: 3-5pm
💻: Online (Zoom)

🔗Register your place using link in bio!

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#zinemaking #zines #joy #le
Image description - lilac background with pink and blue stars and a green stem in the bottom left hand corner. There is the black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. The text reads: Workshop 2: Exploring what brings us Joy with Seleena Laverne Daye. Join Seleena Laverne Daye as she runs through a potted history of zines, their importance in modern day, and the roles they play within art and activist circles as well as being a fun way to express yourself creatively. Seleena will share her DIY approach to zine making, show you how to make a one page zine and talk about zine ideas. With a focus on what brings us joy, allowing time for creativity and the things we love. Date: Friday 14th March. Time: 3-5pm. Where: Online Zoom. Image description: lilac background with green circle borders top and bottom. The text reads: Seleena Laverne Daye (she/her). Seleena Laverne Daye is a textile artist, zine maker and retail worker based in Manchester. Her textile work uses traditional techniques such as embroidery and cross stitch and features themes around race, class, gender and sexuality. She has been making zines for over 20 years Her Zines and art is often bright and playful and is inspired by 90s pop culture and a DIY attitude. Image description: lilac background with green circle borders top and bottom. The text reads: Registration. Please register your interest using the link in our bio and a zoom link for entry will be sent to you closer to the date. If you have any questions in the meantime please get in touch with us at synergi.info@nsun.org.uk.
March 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🐔📚Tomorrow at 9am registration will close for our online zine workshop with Hamja Ahsan!

🔗Make sure you sign up for your place using the link in our bio

#zine #zinemaking #workshop #zineworkshop #bpoc #poc #racialjustice #socialjustice

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
⏳🐔This Thursday is the last day you can register for this upcoming online zine workshop with Hamja Ahsan!

🔗Register using the link in our bio

#zines #workshop #online #share #racialjustice

#socialjustice #bpoc #poc

@nsunnews.bsky.social
Image description - pink background. There is a picture of a fried chicken bucket in the left hand corner and an exclamation mark in the top right hand corner. There is the black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. Text reads: Workshop 1: Fugitive Fried Chicken : Zines, Fast Food & Race Struggle with Hamja Ahsan. Artist Hamja Ahsan will explore his project Radical Chicken, which takes inspiration from the Chicken shop landscape of London and beyond. What is the story of soul food in surviving oppression? How does comfort food alleviate or mask social problems? How do politicians use fried chicken in elections and demographic outreach? Ahsan will delve into his vast collection of zines on food and justice struggles. He will showcase the processes behind his recent zine Chicken Contemporary, and zines in progress. Collectively, the group will explore Fried Chicken as lens for navigating the artworld and the city, a zone for marginal people. Date: Thursday 6th March. Time: 3-5pm. Where: Online (Zoom).
March 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🎙️✨Introducing Synergi’s Remembrance as Resistance podcast, where we are building an oral history of learnings from archivist’s, artist’s & organiser’s!

🗣️Our first episode is with Hamja Ahsan an artist, writer, curator & activist

🔗Give it a listen in our bio & please share

@nsunnews.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🫂Our community blog this month is by Jemmar Samuels from The Collective Punishment Campaign

🌱This piece highlights the need for systems prioritising care & accountability over carceral forms of punishment

🔗Read by following link in bio

#blog #community #family #abolition

@nsunnews.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
👐🏾Our new Abolition In Practice group will start from March!

🌿This group is a free monthly online peer-led space, for Black People & People of Colour doing user-led work at intersection of #MentalHealth , #Racialjustice & #Abolition

🔗Register your place using link in bio
@nsunnews.bsky.social
Slide 1 image description: Maroon red background with orange dotted border, flowers and hands laid on top of eachother in the centre of the page. There is the green synergi logo in the bottom right hand corner. The text reads: Abolition in Practice Group. Slide 2 image description: Maroon red background with orange dotted border, flowers in the centre and green synergi flower logo in the bottom right hand corner. The text reads: Who is this group for? This group is a free monthly online peer-led space, operating on intentional peer support principles, for Black People and People of Colour doing user-led work at the intersection of mental health, racial justice and abolition. Slide 4 image description: Maroon background with orange dotted text boxes and green synergi flower logo in the top right hand corner. The text reads: Upcoming Dates: What do anti-psychiatry and abolition mean to and for us? - Decolonizing mental health, reframing madness and history of othering and carceral practices Date: Monday March 10th Time: 12-2pm Where: Online (zoom) What’s the Body got to do with it? - Somatic abolitionism, decolonizing ‘wellness’, embodied social justice and the body as a resource as well as locus of trauma Date: Monday April 14th Time: 12-2pm Where: Online (zoom) Navigating conflict – Non-carceral alternatives to policing, community processes around accountability, transformative justice and intersectionality Date: Monday May 12th Time: 12-2pm Where: Online (zoom) Slide 5 image description: Maroon background with flowers in the centre and the green synergi flower logo in the bottom right hand corner. The text reads: Our Facilitators. Matthew (he/him).Hello, I’m Matthew – my pronouns are he/ him. As a light-skinned black cis man of mixed and global majority heritage I spend a lot of time thinking about how I’m shaped by the different intersectional identities I hold and present in the world, those I choose as well as those that are ascribed to me without consent, wondering how best to navigate this fraught landscape. Almas (she/her). I’m Almas (she/her) and I’m an activist based in Bristol. Increasingly I am thinking about the sociopolitical context of distress, the importance of social justice in healing and what radical, abolitionist care could look like. I am part of the Synergi funded group Abolitionist Healing Collective. Through this group, and more generally in my work, I like to think about how decolonising and abolition are central to understanding our own and others’ distress and can help us build anti-oppressive communities of care.
February 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
✨Thrilled to announce the first of our zine workshop series with Zinester Hamja Ahsan

🍗🐔In the workshop, Hamja will explore his project Radical Chicken around themes of food & justice struggles

🔗Register your place using link in bio!
#zine #racialjustice #chicken #mh

@nsunnews.bsky.social
Slide 1 Image description - pink background. There is a picture of a fried chicken bucket in the left hand corner and an exclamation mark in the top right hand corner. There is the black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. Text reads: Workshop 1: Fugitive Fried Chicken : Zines, Fast Food & Race Struggle with Hamja Ahsan. Artist Hamja Ahsan will explore his project Radical Chicken, which takes inspiration from the Chicken shop landscape of London and beyond. What is the story of soul food in surviving oppression? How does comfort food alleviate or mask social problems? How do politicians use fried chicken in elections and demographic outreach? Ahsan will delve into his vast collection of zines on food and justice struggles. He will showcase the processes behind his recent zine Chicken Contemporary, and zines in progress. Collectively, the group will explore Fried Chicken as lens for navigating the artworld and the city, a zone for marginal people. Date: Thursday 6th March. Time: 3-5pm. Where: Online (Zoom). Slide 2 image description: Image description - pink background with blue spiked squares. There is a picture of Hamja Ahsan (he/him). Text reads: Hamja Ahsan (he/him).Hamja Ahsan is an award-winning artist, writer, curator and activist based in London. He is best known for the book Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, recently made into a film, that envisions a utopic homeland for quiet, awkward and neurodiverse peoples. Based on the language and formats of Liberation movements – he imagines a Black Panthers for introverts struggling against Extrovert-supremacy. Slide 3 - Image description - pink background with black synergi flower logo. Text reads: Registration. Please register your interest using the link in our bio and a zoom link for entry will be sent to you closer to the date. If you have any questions in the meantime please get in touch with us at synergi.info@nsun.org.uk.
February 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
synergiproject.bsky.social
🌱📚This March, come get creative making your own zine with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular each running an online zine workshop with us exploring different themes of racial justice & mental health!

🔗Register your free place using link in bio

@nsunnews.bsky.social
Slide 1 - Image description: Pink background with spiky aqua boxes. There is a picture of a butterfly, zine, scissors, pens, a brown hand in a fist and cellotape rolls. There is the black synergi logo in the bottom right hand corner. Text reads: Zine Workshops: as part of our Building our own archives: Zines as a toll for resistance online series. Slide 4 - Image description - pink background. There is a picture of a fried chicken bucket in the left hand corner and an exclamation mark in the top right hand corner. There is the black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. Text reads: Workshop 1: Fugitive Fried Chicken : Zines, Fast Food & Race Struggle with Hamja Ahsan. Artist Hamja Ahsan will explore his project Radical Chicken, which takes inspiration from the Chicken shop landscape of London and beyond. What is the story of soul food in surviving oppression? How does comfort food alleviate or mask social problems? How do politicians use fried chicken in elections and demographic outreach? Ahsan will delve into his vast collection of zines on food and justice struggles. He will showcase the processes behind his recent zine Chicken Contemporary, and zines in progress. Collectively, the group will explore Fried Chicken as lens for navigating the artworld and the city, a zone for marginal people. Date: Thursday 6th March. Time: 3-5pm. Where: Online (Zoom). Slide 5 - Image description - pink background with pink and blue stars and a green stem in the bottom left hand corner. There is the black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. The text reads: Workshop 2: Exploring what brings us Joy with Seleena Laverne Daye. Join Seleena Laverne Daye as she runs through a potted history of zines, their importance in modern day, and the roles they play within art and activist circles as well as being a fun way to express yourself creatively. Seleena will share her DIY approach to zine making, show you how to make a one page zine and talk about zine ideas. With a focus on what brings us joy, allowing time for creativity and the things we love. Slide 6 - Image description - pink background with orange and yellow flower and a black and white butterfly. There is a black synergi flower logo in the right hand corner. Text reads: Workshop 3: Nurturing Our Nature with Dal Kular. In ‘Nurturing Our Nature’ Zine Workshop, Dal will be guiding participants to step-by-step create their own mini personal zine inspired by our connections with/to nature, as beings of nature ourselves. From houseplants to the sky above us and from cityscapes to remote landscapes, nature surrounds us wherever we are. Think inspiring readings, guided meditations and relaxation, playful word-making activities, nourishing images, conversation and optional sharings, glue sticks, pens and scissors, and joyful mess-making! No prior experience needed. Zines are for everyone! Date: Friday 28th March. Time: 3-5pm. Where: Online (Zoom).
February 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
synergiproject.bsky.social
❣️📖On the final day of our valentine series - a collection of written pieces exploring radical acts of love and community care we have an important piece by Jemmar Samuels

🔗Find the entire valentine series using link in our bio

@nsunnews.bsky.social

#radicallove #love #community #care
February 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM