Saturday 2 May 2026
ANOTHER SKY : Workshop with Olivia Melkonian ՕԼԻՎԻԱ ՄԵԼՔՈՆԵԱՆ & Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش
Pink, Stockport GB
Workshop with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան & Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش
An interactive workshop designed to empower participants to harness the power of art as a form of resistance.
A participatory workshop exploring how creative practitioners sustain their work while navigating institutions, independence and personal values. Drawing on their backgrounds in publishing and audio production/archiving, Sherif Dhaimish and Olivia Melkonian invite participants to reflect on compromise, autonomy and what success looks like on their own terms. Through discussion, live polling and group exercises, the session will explore how creative careers are built across both independent and institutional contexts.
This event is supported by the OUTLANDS Network.
https://outlands.network
Olivia Melkonian is a producer, DJ and sound artist who has worked across radio, record labels, film production and the cultural sector. Invested in projects of cultural preservation, Olivia archives dialect, ritual and collective memory with a focus on family and the home. In her work, Olivia interrogates the endangered Western Armenian experience, which remains under threat of erasure. Through her practice, she presents memory as a tool of resistance and recording as an act of revolution.
Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش is a publisher, writer and champion of local stories. As director of Pendle Press, he has collaborated with publishers such as Manchester University Press and New Dimension to produce an eclectic range of books. With degrees from the University of Leeds and King's College London, his writing has appeared in Left Cultures, New Lines and nb. Magazine. He is the co-author of How You Make Me Feel: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Intalex (Velocity Press, 2024).
