https://www.thepostcollective.be/  Since 2018 The Post Collective has been an autonomous platform of co-creation, co-learning and cultural activism created by and for refugees, asylum seekers, sans-papiers and accomplices. It introduces a range of artistic, cultural and employment opportunities and provides an environment of commoning for its members regardless of their legal status. The collective aims to develop creative alternatives beyond the dominant systems of control and exclusion it is facing. This means facilitating the position where one does not struggle to be assimilated, but instead rethinking and re-conceptualizing critically a future together as a community. The Post Collective develops relationships of kinship, solidarity and co-elaboration with other artists and institutions in Belgium and from various diasporas. Individual and group projects already generated by the collective include the Paperless Art Alliance Contract, A Vocal Sound not yet found, the Post (film) Collective, Metaspora and Collaborative Speculations; Poco Manifestations. the core group of the Post COllective are: Mirra Markhaeva (Illustrator / visual artist), Elli Vassalou (transmedia artist / community organiser, researcher), Sawsan Mahir (Philosopher), Marcus Bergner (Filmmaker / Writer / Sound Artist). Selected events: November 2023, workshop for the employers of AMAL integration centre, Gent November 2023, 3 days workshop with students at Autonomous design department, around the PAACT, KASK, Gent September 2023, performative assembly So Happy together #1 event, Roodkapje Rotterdam Jan-feb 2023, “Deschooling expo”, Peopl, Brussels. 2021 -22  “Collective of Collectives” contribution to Catalizadora: CIRCLUSION, ten cuiadado, Spain. November 2020 Intersections of Care: Decolonial practices, Wiels, Open School / Risquons-Tout (see performative video produced for the occasion) April 2020, A Piece of Hope, a sound poem, “Festival of Hope”: A Global Virtual Poetry Initiative by Versopolis February 2021- How to Build Up a Collective in COVID times, Kunsthal Gent March 2021 - Towards a Manifesto of Care, residency at Buda, Kortrijk. 2020-2021 Collaborative Speculations, Development residency, Kunsthal Gent. November 2019 INVITATION,  lecture performance, Radical Imagination: INTEGRATED 2019, deSingel Antwerp May 2019 CO-WORKING SPECULATION: Lecture Performance, transnational alliance of schools “We cannot work like this”, Contour Biennale 9, Mechelen publications: June: On migration, text and editing of the chapter with Nicolas Galeazzi, Kin arts Almanac 2023, State of the Arts The Post Collective: Building spaces for change, Interview by Eva De Groote, Ruimte voor Kunst, Flanders Art Institute, Brussels 2021 How To Get Into School In (Not So) Simple Steps_4 Stories , School of Equals (Stijn Van Dorpe, Sarah Késenne), Grafische Cel 2021 Money in Community: what to take into account? - Interview by Wouter Hillaert, kin arts almanac 2023 Email: odc.postcollective@gmail.com fb page: https://www.facebook.com/post.collective/ Instagram: @the.post.collective