The Sleepers: Study Day

The Sleepers: Study Day invites you to an afternoon of talks and conversation around rest, sleep and creative expression.

Bringing together writers and academics, this event explores how we might reimagine rest not as a luxury, but as a radical and necessary form of resistance. Through the perspectives of three powerful speakers — Evie Muir, Akshi Singh, and a third speaker to be confirmed — we will reflect on how race, disability, activism and creativity intersect in everyday life and cultural work.

This event forms part of our wider programme for the exhibition The Sleepers, offering a space to pause, listen and collectively consider how rest can be protected and celebrated.

This event warmly welcomes members of the general public as well as students, researchers and academics.

Speakers

Evie Muir
Author of Radical Rest (2024), Muir centres Black and Abolitionist Feminist approaches to healing from activist burnout. She is the founder of Peaks of Colour, a nature-for-healing group in the Peak District for people of colour.
Learn more about Evie Muir →

Akshi Singh
Author of In Defense of Leisure (2025), Singh is a writer, editor, and trainee psychoanalyst. Her work explores leisure, rest, and psychoanalysis through a radical lens, with a focus on how these intersect with literature and daily life.
Learn more about Akshi Singh →

Event Schedule

• 1:00–2:00 PM — Curator Tour of The Sleepers
• 2:05–2:30 PM — Talk by Evie Muir
• 2:30–2:50 PM — Refreshment break
• 2:50–3:15 PM — Talk by Akshi Singh
• 3:15–3:40 PM — Final talk to be confirmed
• 3:45–4:15 PM — Speaker Q&A and Group Discussion

Access Information

• British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation will be provided if requested when booking.
• The room for the talks and the exhibition is wheelchair accessible.
• There are folding stools, benches and a large print guide in the exhibition.
• Refreshments will include a variety of dietary options.

Read our Access page to find out more about our spaces. Please get in touch if you have any further queries or requirements: womensart@murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk or call the Porter’s Lodge at +44 (0)1223 762100.