The AREVA Writers’ Room II
A 6‑part, 3‑month programme helping organisations examine institutional language, reduce bias, and create vocabularies of equity and care.
The AREVA Writers’ Room is a 6 part (over 3 months) writing programme for organisations wanting to evaluate the institutional language they use and to create new vocabularies of equity and care. The Writers’ Room will enable organisations to identify language or communications that create unwitting bias. Then using creative writing and textual analysis approaches, the programme will help participants invent new language for their organisations. Part of CVAN London’s equality programme, the Writers’ Room aims to address one systemic cause of inequality—the use of language—in the London and wider visual arts sector.
Led by artist Jack Ky Tan, the Writers’ Room comprises a series of monthly meetings between January to March 2026:
3 creative writing online workshops to develop critical reading and writing skills.
1 peer support meeting,
1 sharing event, and
1 evaluation catch up meeting
Participant organisations will learn:
creative approaches to reading and writing policy;
how to align their language and vocabulary to their values and mission;
to develop tactics to prevent ‘inequitable creep’, i.e. the tendency to return to inequitable ways of thinking and doing;
seek collective help and reliance in developing an ongoing practice of equitable organisational writing.
CVAN London invites art organisations to register their interest in participating. All sessions will be held online, except for one in-person/hybrid session (see timetable below). Please send expressions of interest to Jack: contactjack121@gmail.com