The Assembling - podcast

Since the pandemic the act of coming together, to connect - with family, in making change happen or simply to experience a live event – has never felt more important.

My name is Sarah Wishart and I’m a film maker and writer. Most recently I’ve been working on coproduction film projects where affected communities are the people to talk about the issues that impact them. I’ve talked a lot to people over the last few years about ideas around connection, coproduction and change and wanted to start capturing some of these conversations in a podcast. This is that podcast – and its called the Assembling.

I’ll be talking to a range of people about their thoughts and experiences of change-making, of communities, temporary or otherwise, of the importance of connection…. basically about the moments of coming together around events like friendship, protest, activism or death.

For our first pilot episode, I talked to the incredible Martha Awojobi. Martha is CEO of JMB consulting and curator of #BAMEOnline. They dream of a world free of oppression and are working towards that dream alongside their incredible collaborators all over the world.

We started off talking about her anti-racism work in the charity sector, and ended up bouncing of a bunch of ideas including thinking about activism as radical love, romance, friendship and issues of consent in the idea of community.