Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

Yeah, so my name is Alia and I come from a theatre background, but actually my arts practice has moved around a bunch and ended up in all different areas.

I studied theatre and then have worked in a lot of spaces that I guess are works that in some ways share real stories.

And I had the honour and privilege of going to Palestine to study I work with a theatre company there, Ashtar Theatre, and I visited the Freedom Theatre and have friends and connections in the Freedom Theatre where the inspiration quote for this panel has come from.

I was struggling to work out what to talk about today, but I thought I'd frame a little bit some of these ideas of what I have learnt in terms of where and how arts practice can become and be embedded in the in our political movements and in our lives and in revolutionary change.

And a lot of this, I'll talk about some different areas.

So drawing on