For the final session, we will collectively explore the connections between creative practice and mutual aid. How might we enact collective creative practices with collective care at the centre? How do we artistically reject the lures of reform and charity? How can we find more creative approaches to our mutual aid practices in ever more dire and urgent contexts? For this session Ruari will be in discussion with artist Ruth Catlow and members of trans collective and mutual aid group We Exist! We will then collectively discuss the session topic, draw some conclusions from the series as a whole, and hopefully find some new comrades and collaborators in the process.

'Creative Anarchy' is an event series exploring the relationships between anarchist thought, organising, and creative practice. Resulting from a placement at the Mayday Rooms, researcher Ruari Paterson-Achenbach will host a series of discussions around materials in the archive, alongside creative practitioners, trying to explore what it might mean to 'create anarchically'. What might it mean to consider creative practice a form of direct action, or vice-versa? How can artists incorporate the principles of mutual aid into their work? Is the notion of 'art' compatible with anarchist thought? Across these three events, we will answer these questions together using historical examples, with all the possibilities and limitations they might offer us.