What customs do we carry across time and place? What practices are inherited? Is the maintenance of ideas and values over time always positive? Are there things we should let go of, and refuse to carry forward?

Through games, meditation, and the paper shredder, learners from Lalela’s after-school arts programme are invited to create rituals, share prompts for action with one another and participate in making instructional artworks. The exhibition Customs, curated by Sumayya Vally and Josh Ginsburg, offers an opportunity to learn about curatorial work and strategy. The days’ activities centre around the artworks in Customs. Learners, together with their facilitators from Lalela and A4’s team, discuss and discard harmful practices that are carried across time and place, preserve those inheritances that serve to nourish and inspire, and invent new traditions.