Event
Writing & Decolonising Together
Workshop facilitated by Titilayo Farukuoye
Thursday 20 November 2025
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
To you, my dear Enemy
Join a series of letter writing experiments addressing “Other” or “Enemy” to imagine decolonial practice and embrace lessons of collective change, liberatory action, empathy and humanity.
Participants are invited to write anonymous Love Letters (to be shared with each other) to engage in bridge-building and toward truth and reconciliation with the Other.
The session is grounded in the spirit of anti-racism, feminism and decolonial strategies centred in Ndiritu’s Book Being Together – A Manual For Living.
Responding to and informed by Ndiritu’s practice, writer, organiser and anti-racism practitioner Titilayo Farukuoye will guide participants through a series of invitations to prompt the letter writing. No prior experience or preparation is required.
Beyond the session, participants are invited to contribute their physical letters to be added to Ndiritu’s archive.
This event is part of A Season of Peace Building, programmed with Grace Ndiritu for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #5. This series of conversations, workshops and gatherings is designed by Grace Ndiritu, drawing on her book Being Together: A Manual For Living as a template.
Sign-up
Free, open to all.
To participate please sign-up for a space via Eventbrite.
Participant Info
No prior experience or preparation is required.
Participants are invited to contribute their physical letters to Ndiritu's archive.
The exhibition will be open to view ahead of the workshop beginning.
Equipment
Paper will be provided.
Please bring a pen/pencil for writing with.
Biography
Titilayo Farukuoye (they/them) is a writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. Their work addresses social justice and community care and is informed by rights and cultural leaders like Assata Shakur and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Titilayo invites us to dream and use our radical imagination to seek more just realities. Titilayo co-directs the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and is a winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Their poetry pamphlet In Wolf’s Skin is available with Stewed Rhubarb Press and Titilayo’s non-fiction book But We Did: Dismantling colonialist myths towards collective liberation is forthcoming with Saraband.
Access
Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. The event is held on the second floor. The exhibition is on both the first and second floor of the gallery.
Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
Alcoholic drinks will be served. Non alcoholic refreshments available.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]
Toilets
The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.
Interpretation
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides. If you require alternative formats for material in exhibitions please email or ask our Guides.
About the exhibition
Compassionate Rebels in Action, is an exhibition and event programme by Grace Ndiritu.
It is the fifth iteration of Cooper Gallery's programme, The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation.
Visit
10 October – 13 December 2025
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5pm
Image credit
Healing Justice, 2019. Workshop documentation, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, CA.
Photo by Grace Ndiritu
Funding support
The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #5 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Cooper Gallery
[email protected]