Tag: Black British History
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5000 Miles and 70 Years: Vanley Burke’s Windrush-inspired installation at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
A new site-specific installation ‘5000 Miles and 70 Years’ by the internationally renowned photographer Vanley Burke was launched at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Birmingham on Friday 4 May 2018. The installation featured a collage of archival materials and photographs from the artist’s extensive portfolio of images relating to the lived experiences of African and…
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Navigating the Dreams of an Icon: The Cy Grant Archives at the LMA – a new heritage initiative for 2016/17
The Cy Grant Trust – working in partnership with the education charity Windrush Foundation and London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) – recently received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to catalogue the archives of the writer, actor, musician, barrister and equalities campaigner, Cy Grant (1919-2010). Cyril Ewart Lionel Grant (known as ‘Cy’) was born in Guyana…
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Activism and Scholarship: Achieving the “Plenitude of Blackness”
The Black Studies Association conference – “Blackness in Britain 2015: ‘The Black Special Relationship’” (held at Birmingham City University, 30-31 October 2015) – explored the nature of black activism within and beyond the UK higher education sector, with a particular focus on the historical and contemporary impacts of African-American scholarship on black intellectual life in Britain. Established and early career researchers from a range of…
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“At Home with Vanley Burke”: an immersive installation at the Ikon Gallery
When curators of the recently opened exhibition at the Ikon Gallery invited audiences to feel “At Home with Vanley Burke“ (22 July – 27 September 2015) I was quite cautious about whether a mainstream British art gallery could create a welcoming space that centralised black British social, political and cultural narratives. However, I immediately overcame my initial skepticism as soon…
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A review of the Tate Britain symposium, “The Black Subject: Ancient to Modern”
On 20th and 21st February 2015 Tate Britain hosted a two-day event to explore a number of themes about representations of African and Asian people and their diasporic descendents within European art history. The symposium was scheduled to complement the display ‘Spaces of Black Modernism: London 1919–39’ – co-curated by Dr Caroline Bressey and Dr Gemma Romain (The Equiano Centre,…
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