Archive for the ‘What’s On’ Category
The BHM Debate planned for 29th Oct is postponed – watch this space for new date
The debate on Education Uptake in the African Caribbean Community has been postponed – Watch this space!
Black History Month at the Harris
What’s On – contact Kyra Milnes, 01772 258248
Oct 21st Adult Workshop: Precious Goods
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2.00 – 4.30pm Discover Preston gallery, Harris Museum & Art Gallery – Drop in, FREE,
Come along and work with artists Pamela Eze and Heather Mae Lancaster to create a container to protect your own priceless object. All materials provided
Nov 11th Your Black History Stories
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2.00 – 4.00pm Discover Preston gallery, Harris Museum & Art Gallery
Another chance to chat to our experts. Bring along objects that tell a story about your life – perhaps you have a favourite toy, a cooking pot or even a handwritten letter? All items will be photographed and some chosen for the exhibition Black History Connections – New ways to tell old stories exhibition
Exhibition: Black History Connections – New ways to tell old stories
Until 5 March 2016 Discover Preston gallery, Harris Museum & Art Gallery
Part of a project led by Kitchen Sink Arts to develop, collect and preserve a positive black historical narrative for Preston and Lancashire.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Preston City Council.
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston PR1 2PP
www.harrismuseum.org.uk
T. 01772 258248
Black to the Future 2015
PBHG’s Black History month event for 2015, Black to the Future, will build on the success of last year’s event to bring an even more fascinating perspective on Black achievers and achievement. Don’t miss it!
LEGACIES OF BRITISH SLAVE-OWNERSHIP: Day workshop in Manchester
LEGACIES OF BRITISH SLAVE-OWNERSHIP
Saturday 24th October, 2015
Central Library, St Peters Square, Manchester M2 5PD
This free workshop will explore the legacies of British slave-ownership in the north of England. It will showcase exciting new research that can be used to explore the local links between the north of England and the business of slavery. Featuring talks by artists, academics and independent historians it will consider the different ways in which slavery has impacted on the social, cultural and economic landscape of the north of England.
There will be time for open discussion and we warmly welcome those interested in the
issues raised by the subject to participate with their own ideas and research.
Artist Lubaina Himid will be showcasing some of her artwork entitled ‘Cotton.Com’ formerly displayed at the Whitworth Gallery for the Cotton: Global Threads exhibition (2012).
This workshop has been organised by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London in partnership with the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire, the University of Leeds and the University of
Manchester.
The workshop is free but places are limited. Tickets available from 24 August, 2015. For more information visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
DAY TRIP TO THE RUM STORY
Preston Black History Group are organizing a day out to visit the Rum Story in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
Thursday 27th August 2015
Leaving Jalgos Sports & Social Club @ 09..30
Returning approx 17.30
Cost £12—To include travel & services of the guide
Deposit £5 non returnable, payable to Clinton Smith (07583343866).
Seats are booked on a first come first served basis, and are limited
The Rum Story shows the link between Whitehaven & The Caribbean, and how Whitehaven made it’s fortune trading mainly rum and tobacco
An enjoyable and interesting day out.
IBAR Newsletter August 2015
Check out this newsletter form IBAR – there’s so much been happening! It makes really interesting reading.
IBAR Caribbean Research Seminar in the North
Friday 11 September 12.30 – 5.30pm
Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR)
University of Central Lancashire
Media Innovation Studio, Media Factory, 4th Floor, Kirkham Road, Preston, PR1 2XY
PROGRAMME
12.30-13:30 Arrival and lunch
13:30-14:20 ‘Gothic Politics of the Haitian Revolution in Derek Walcott’s
Haitian Trilogy and Edouard Glissant’s Monsieur Toussaint.’
Raphael Hoermann (University of Central Lancashire, Preston)
14:20-15:10 ‘The Voodoo Doll in Popular Culture and Historical Memory.’
Natalie Armitage (University of Manchester)
15:10-15:40 Tea and coffee break
15:40-16:30 ‘Remembrance and Repression: The Memorialisation of Slavery
in Bermuda’ (provisional title)
Dyana Saad (University of Central Lancashire, Preston)
16:30-17:20 ‘Modernity, Melancholy and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The
Story of the Slave Ship, Le Rodeur (1819)’
Anita Rupprecht (University of Brighton)
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For details about IBAR, see http://ibaruclan.com/
Campus Maps are available at
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/visit/how_to_find_us.php
Registration is free but compulsory. To register your attendance, please visit
Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1OO8xye
For all other queries please email Dr. Raphael Hoermann
(rhoermann@uclan.ac.uk) with CRSN as subject.
A reservation will be made at a reasonably-priced local restaurant for those
wishing to attend dinner after the seminar. Please contact
rhoermann@uclan.ac.uk for booking, and with any other enquiries, including
dietary requirements.
Lost Children Symposium – free public programme
A unique opportunity to be part of the Lost Children event at IBAR UCLan – don’t miss it.
Lost Children: The Black Atlantic and Northern Britain – An Interdisciplinary Symposium April 30-May 1 2015
IBAR in association with the Bronte Parsonage Museum Haworth Present
Lost Children: The Black Atlantic and Northern Britain – An Interdisciplinary Symposium April 30-May 1 2015
The Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston is proud to announce that it will host a symposium to tie in with the launch of Caryl Phillips new novel The Lost Child, a prequel to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. It will echo the historical context and themes of the work discussing black presences across generations in the North from the 1770s to the present. It will be an interdisciplinary symposium which will bring together historians, visual artists, cultural critics and writers. It will discuss The Lost Child in its widest black Atlantic and Northern British context and highlight links and contexts that enable a variety of other writers and artists including the Brontes to be discussed. This will create dynamic new interpretations of British culture in this rarely heard context of the North and the Black Atlantic. It will include two readings from Caryl Phillips at UCLAN and at the Bronte Parsonage Museum Haworth. The symposium will spend the second afternoon in Haworth and there will be an opportunity to explore Bronte Country with a guided tour from our own Victorian expert Dr.Theresa Saxon.
Our two keynote presenters are Dr. Jessica Moody (University of Portsmouth) an expert on Liverpool and its memory of slavery and Dr. Fionnghuala Sweeney (Newcastle University) an expert on Ireland, Britain and the Black Atlantic.
Visual Artists presenting their work include IBAR’s own Professor Lubaina Himid, Manchester-based Kuljit Chuhan and Scarborough-born Jade Montserrat.
New York film-maker Sikay Tang will present her film Toby’s Paradise about the sojourn from Liverpool to Shanghai of a Nigerian-born sailor.
Joe Williams from Heritage Corner in Leeds will perform his show about the Northern, Black British Victorian circus performer, Pablo Fanque (http://heritagecornerleeds.wix.com/heritage-corner ).
Other contributors include:
Professor Bènèdict Ledent (University of Liege)
Professor Evelyn O’Callagham (University of the West Indies)
Professor John McLeod (University of Leeds)
Professor Brian Ward (Northumbria University)
To book, please visit
lostchildren@ticketsource.ac.uk
For queries, please contact Lyndsay Cambridge
– E – lcambridge@uclan.ac.uk
T – 01772 894240
Academic organisers :
Professor Alan Rice arice@uclan.ac.uk & Andre Sillis andreasillis@hotmail.co.uk
IBAR Website: http://ibaruclan.com/
