Themed activation: me.me con, by Fatima Raza and Desirée Barreto

The activation begins at 4pm and participants are welcome to drop by and enjoy the activities until 8pm.

Step into an intimate, mildly unhinged world where memes meet the biopsychosocial. me.me con is part art therapy session, part social experiment, part performance – and entirely unserious about being taken too seriously. Featuring drop-in stations for meme art therapy, meme tarot card readings and temporary (but transformative) meme tattoos, this convention invites you to explore the depths of your digital psyche through humor, absurdity and collective play. 

Facilitators will be in full character, committed to the bit, and ready to guide you through a therapeutic spiral of sketching, laughing and self-discovery. No prior meme fluency required, but trace amounts of brainrot may be required. 

This programme is organised by the Assembly 2024-2025 member Desirée Barreto as part of the 2025 Youth Takeover.

Fatima Raza is an artist and educator whose practice explores the quiet intersections of nature, nostalgia and everyday magic. Influenced by characters like Miss Honey from Matilda and Amélie, her work embraces softness and storytelling through both making and teaching. With five years of freelance art experience and two years teaching across camps and classrooms, Fatima guides both children and adults in creative expression.

Desirée Barreto a multidisciplinary creative and writer by trade, delicately toys with satirical forms to produce zeitgeist-critical work. Creating and externalising through a multimedia, omnichannel approach, their craft examines the construction of the digital self, the accumulation of taste, cultural value production and post-irony through an intersectional lens.

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