Procreate Project

✨ Hi! I am Dyana Gravina, founder of Procreate Project and writer of the Integrated Care Toolkit, to be released on Saturday 18 April. Procreate Project began in 2013 as a grassroots arts organisation working towards systemic change and equity for artists who are mothers and primary caregivers.

✧ This Toolkit is grounded in 13 years of hands on work and lived experience as an artist, parent, and migrant in the UK.

✧ Far from an individual process, it has unfolded through conversations, encounters, and time spent together.

✧ Many of these pages began in my living room and online, shaped through dialogue with critical friends and I am grateful for their questions and perspectives. They include Maddalena Fragnito, Katie Deepwell, FRANK with Fatoş Üstek and Celina Loh, Ama Josephine Budge, Alex Martinis Roe, Elisa Fontana, Hettie Judah, Jo Harrison, and former P*P director Paola Lucente

→ During the event I will introduce the Toolkit website and guide people through its areas and resources, before opening up the conversation to those in the room, collaborators, and audiences joining online.

🌍 ALL (ages) welcome! Together with Stefania Zocco, we are designing a Family Room in the main Assembly gallery on the ground floor, where the different sections of the Toolkit will be translated into interactive creative play activities for all ages. Doors open at 1.45 for a 2PM START.

✨ I hope you can join us!

🎟 Book pay what you can tickets via the link in bio



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✨ Dear community, Dyana and Paola here with some news.

Founded by in 2013 and joined in 2018 by , Procreate Project has now been running for 10 incredible YEARS. We created an organisation that highlights injustices related to unpaid care-work and lack of support for artist- parents, yet the latter heavily relies on the unpaid work of two people caring for the project. This is a tension that we need to acknowledge and unpack.

Also due to politics of affiliation and rewards-based systems, the biggest struggle has been finding unrestricted funds to afford to sustainably grow the expansive vision we have for P*P with a team.

Due to the ongoing financial constraints and lack of resources, we decided to pause all the other projects for 2024 but the (So the Mother Art Prize call won’t open until further notice). We’ll take the next 12 months as a period of research and development, healing & reflection.

✨ On a very bright note, we have been offered substantial financial support from one of the artists whose life was positively changed by the experience at the Mother House when part of the very first pilot project in 2016.

Thanks to this funds we will be able to finally create the Mother House studio model tool-kit and move forward with a lighter internal organisation:

* Dyana will craft the Tool-Kit with digital archival/printed resources with collaborators.
* Paola will manage and grow the Mother House Studios new site in Lewisham.

The Tool-kit is seen as an opportunity to activate intergenerational facilitation of an important tool for socio-cultural change, beyond our current capacity.

It is a radical act to ensure that change can be made more easily when the right time and socio-political climate comes for us, and other people, in the future. A web of intercultural and intergenerational connections which is part of the overall academic and socially engaged practice of its founder.

This IG account will serve from now on to:
*share what we have done in the last 10 y
* send updates about the MH studios
* promote other people’s projects on mothering and care which we are glad to see flourishing