Dates:
27 Apr 2023 - 23 May 2023
People:
Location:
Black Cultural Archive, 1 Windrush Square, London SW2 1EF
Project:
As part of our Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference exhibition, ICF invites you to our in-person Curator Talk and our weekly in-person Reading Group at Black Cultural Archives.
Curator Talk – Thursday 27 April, 6:30-8pm
Join us for an open and informal conversation between yourselves and Shifting the Centre’s Curator, Orsod Malik. We’ll discuss the exhibition, curating ‘the archive’, and how anti-colonial thought might be applied to artistic, teaching, and organising work today.
Reading Group – Tuesday 9, 16, 23 May, 6:30-8pm
We will also be hosting a weekly reading group to discuss the following written and audio-visual texts…
- Session 1, Tuesday 9th May:‘Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us’ by Directors Carmen Ashhurst, John Douglas and Samori Marksman (1983) and ‘Reflections on a revolution: In conversation with Selwyn Strachan’ by Peter Clegg (2015)
- Session 2, Tuesday 16th May: ‘Maurice Bishop’s Hunter College Speech’ (1983) and ‘Lebanon and Grenada: President Reagans Address on Events in Lebanon and Grenada’ (1983)
- Session 3, Tuesday 23rd May: ‘Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report’ by Audre Lorde (1984) and ‘President Bush announces start of the Iraq War’ (2003)
All texts are currently available online but we will be sending out written transcripts to go along with all audio-visual material a week in advance of each session.
Curators’ Tour – Thursday 25 May, 4-6pm
Join ICF Curators Jessica Taylor and Orsod Malik for a walking tour of our concurrent Brixton exhibitions Diaspora Pavilion 2: London (at Block 336) and Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference (at Black Cultural Archives). The tour will begin at Block 336 at 4pm and end at Black Cultural Archives at 6pm.
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Shifting the Centre forms part of ICF’s multi-season Systems Reclaimed Project.
Cover image: ‘Maurice with his people’ written on the back of the image, date unknown,CREFT/1/6 [Box 1] / Please get in contact if this is your image.
People:
Project:
As part of our Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference exhibition, ICF invites you to our in-person Curator Talk and our weekly in-person Reading Group at Black Cultural Archives.
Curator Talk – Thursday 27 April, 6:30-8pm
Join us for an open and informal conversation between yourselves and Shifting the Centre’s Curator, Orsod Malik. We’ll discuss the exhibition, curating ‘the archive’, and how anti-colonial thought might be applied to artistic, teaching, and organising work today.
Reading Group – Tuesday 9, 16, 23 May, 6:30-8pm
We will also be hosting a weekly reading group to discuss the following written and audio-visual texts…
- Session 1, Tuesday 9th May:‘Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us’ by Directors Carmen Ashhurst, John Douglas and Samori Marksman (1983) and ‘Reflections on a revolution: In conversation with Selwyn Strachan’ by Peter Clegg (2015)
- Session 2, Tuesday 16th May: ‘Maurice Bishop’s Hunter College Speech’ (1983) and ‘Lebanon and Grenada: President Reagans Address on Events in Lebanon and Grenada’ (1983)
- Session 3, Tuesday 23rd May: ‘Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report’ by Audre Lorde (1984) and ‘President Bush announces start of the Iraq War’ (2003)
All texts are currently available online but we will be sending out written transcripts to go along with all audio-visual material a week in advance of each session.
Curators’ Tour – Thursday 25 May, 4-6pm
Join ICF Curators Jessica Taylor and Orsod Malik for a walking tour of our concurrent Brixton exhibitions Diaspora Pavilion 2: London (at Block 336) and Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference (at Black Cultural Archives). The tour will begin at Block 336 at 4pm and end at Black Cultural Archives at 6pm.
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Shifting the Centre forms part of ICF’s multi-season Systems Reclaimed Project.
Cover image: ‘Maurice with his people’ written on the back of the image, date unknown,CREFT/1/6 [Box 1] / Please get in contact if this is your image.
Dates:
27 Apr 2023 - 23 May 2023
Location:
Black Cultural Archive, 1 Windrush Square, London SW2 1EF
