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A rehearsal for a concert, with three singers at microphones, a choir waiting behind them and a harp on the left

Inside RAFTS: Live

A selection of lyrics, reflections and behind-the-scenes imagery from RAFTS Live, the concert component of Rory Pilgrim Turner Prize-nominated project.

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A view of a river in an industrial zone. It looks like we're in southern England from the willow trees and shrubs and reed lining the riverbank. Further off, you can see industrial buildings and electricity pylons. The image is framed by two pillars and a railing.

And I have come to listen in

Writer Priya Jay responds to the sounds of Radio Ballads by weaving together a series of reflections that are, by turn, poetic, raw and resonant.

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A group of five women or girls, wearing black, singing in a purple-lit space. Most of them are wearing accessories that recall traditional African necklaces or headbands and sashes in colourful print.

Speaking to Support Structures: Nawi Collective

Support Structures fellows Nawi Collective consider how they foster care and connection through voicing, listening, and responding to one another's needs.

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A group of about ten people wearing winter clothing, in front of a colourful mural that says 'stop gentrification' and shows important events in community history through active groups of figures.

Speaking to Support Structures: Skin Deep

Members of Skin Deep – a cultural collective that makes space for creatives of colour to work towards racial justice – offer insight into how they develop shared practices.

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A group of people stand inside a public building holding the edges of a colourful silk parachute

Speaking to Support Structures: Jacob V Joyce

Artist, researcher and educator Jacob V Joyce considers the importance of working together towards liberatory new realities.

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Three people are experimenting with a golden light and a camera in a dark room

Speaking to Support Structures: Other Cinemas

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah introduce their practice through Other Cinemas, a project that focuses on the transformational power of film.

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A group of people are holding a golden parachute above their heads and smiling

Speaking to Support Structures: FerArts

FerArts, a collective of socially-engaged artists, share their approach to amplifying marginalised voices across the creative industries and society.

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A group of people in winter clothing smiling in front of a door with marble pillars.

Speaking to Support Structures: Beverley Bennett

Artist, filmmaker and Support Structures fellow Beverley Bennett speaks about founding and caring for the different forms of relationships that are core to her work.

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A group of young children are playing on colourful construction-style materials with their parents watching

Speaking to Support Structures: RESOLVE Collective

Members of interdisciplinary design collective RESOLVE consider how they work to realise just and equitable visions of change.

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Bringing together the artists, writers and thinkers of our time to explore timely questions around technology, ecology and equality.

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Archive

Discover over 50 years of the Serpentine

From the architectural Pavilion and digital commissions to the ideas Marathons and research-led initiatives, explore our past projects and exhibitions.

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