In November, Paint the Change hosted an art and poetry workshop at Oaklands School in Tower Hamlets, London, to encourage students from years 7 to 13 to explore themes of diversity and inclusion. Contemporary visual artist Pinky Tesfay and poet Tania Nwachukwu animated the sessions, helping students create their own visual representations of diversity through drawing and painting, and to write about their cultural and national heritage through poetry.

A brief inspired by the students’ work will be given to London-based street artist Zabou to paint a mural on the school building in January 2022.