CliP Open Session 2: Public Lecture with Dr Rita Issa - Rethinking Care

Rethinking Care: Health as Relationship and Resistance

This second open CLiP (Collective Learning in Practice) session invites the public to explore innovative approaches to health and care. As part of CLiP #7: The Garage of Prepping Otherwise, Dr Rita Issa, primary care doctor, researcher, and organiser, will deliver a public lecture, offering insights into health as both relationship and resistance. She will highlight visionary models, from community-led care to reimagined public systems, that expand what is possible in healthcare today, using short media and practical examples to make these ideas tangible and inspiring.

About Dr Rita Issa

Dr Rita Issa is a primary care doctor, researcher, and organiser. Her work moves between clinical practice in the UK and abroad, community spaces, and policy, with a focus on health(care), migrant rights, and climate and environmental justice. Through her practice, she explores innovative approaches to health, emphasising care as both relationship and resistance, and highlighting models that expand what is possible in communities and healthcare systems.

About CLiP #7: The Garage of Prepping Otherwise

CLiP (Collective Learning in Practice) is an educational program organized by Kunstinstituut Melly. For this edition, curated by the art-education collective The Garage School, young participants explore collective survival in times of global crisis. Over six months (October 2025–March 2026), participants develop skills and tools for collective survival through a mix of creative and practical methods, including discussion, movement, LARPing, food preservation, and mutual aid. They also produce monthly “letters to the future(s) we are preparing for” in any form: text, video, performance, or collage. Outcomes, such as exhibitions, radio shows, or public LARPs, are created collaboratively.

Monthly Open CLiP Sessions

There will be a free public event every month on a Friday, sharing the concepts and practices explored within Melly’s Collective Learning in Practice (CLiP) #7. The next open session will take place on 19 December 2025.

Location: Auditorium, first floor, Kunstinstituut Melly