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Off the Shelf: On Community, Solidarity and Burnout - Preeti Dhillon, Tawseef Khan, Evie Muir chaired by Jake Hall

Tue 21 October 2025 , 6pm-7pm

Millennium Gallery

Explore important issues of solidarity, activism and burnout with a panel of  outstanding writers.

 

Preeti Dhillon is a researcher and writer of The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom. Tawseef Khan is an immigration solicitor, human rights activist and writer. He is author of Muslim, Actually and debut novel Determination. Evie Muir is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour. Her debut book is Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures. Jake Hall is a freelance journalist and author of Shoulder to Shoulder. 

Guest curator Jake Hall 

 

This event is part of Off the Shelf: Festival of Words from the University of Sheffield. The full festival programme is available here: https://offtheshelf.org.uk/events/ 

 

The event is organised by the Off the Shelf Festival. Views expressed at this event do not reflect those of Sheffield Museums. 

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