Greetings One and All,
For the past few months I have been recommending that you save the date for#EXPRESSYOURSELF and now thisFREE event is almost here – Friday 21 November 2014, 18.30 – 21.45,so I hope you have it embellished in your diaries and that you and others can join us for an amazing evening that’s all aboutself-expression!
Explore art and performance as tools for social and cultural exchange, identity and self-expression. Why not release your inner activist, your agent provocateur, and #GETINVOLVED and help to create our DJs soundtrack by posting your tune(s) on the Facebook link below. Don’t miss the 3 minutes mental health Flash mob; make your own up-cycled jewellery; here a miniTEDtalk about a new social justice organisation and campaign; view films about real people’s activism; listen to talks about the power of dress, and music, as forms of how we express ourselves; be prepared to be transported through storytelling; and open your ears to two forms of live protest music genres – hoping this will move you into doing something yourself that will make a change!
LOOK AT THE LINE UP WE HAVE FOR YOU ON FRIDAY NIGHT 21 NOVEMBER TO CELEBRATE THE EXIBITION ‘DISOBEDIENT OBJECTS’http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects/
1. The DJ Set in the Grand Entrance with Femi YD, Barrie Sharpye & Tighten Up’s Mistah Brown
#GETINVOLVED: Providing the soundtrack to self-empowerment on the night will be Big Stuff collaborators Femi YD Fem & Barrie Sharpeye alongside Tighten Up's Mistah Brown - spinning an eclectic live mixtape inspired by you!
Post your #EXPRESSYOURSELF / #GETINVOLVED soundtrack suggestions here on the FB event, argue/debate the pros and cons of your selections (and ours!) and see what makes it onto the final playlist!
What could possibly go wrong?!? #GETINVOLVED! FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1726189317605520/
2. Hands-on up-cycling jewellery workshop with artist Jackie Mwanza in the Learning Centre - use tin cans to make Jewellery inspired by those in the ‘Disobedient Objects’ exhibition made by the Black Panthers whilst in solitary confinement for over 40 years
3. Film Screening 1 We Are Born to Survive, (the story of activist Kath Lock) dir: Paul Okojie & Paul Henley
4. Sing for Social Justice with folk singer songwriter Bethany Elen - "A voice for change"
5. TEDTalk with Carrie Supple– A voluntary organization, Journey to Justice (JtoJ) aims to inspire people, through learning from past and present human rights struggles to take action for social justice http://journeytojustice.org.uk/
6. FlashMoB on Mental Health with CoolTan Artshttp://www.cooltanarts.org.uk/ - blink and you will miss it!
7. Dr Christine Checinska talking about Tams, Grams, ‘Rudeness’ and Ting: Material Culture and the African Diasporas
8. Dr Michael McMillan talking aboutRaving and Ravers: spaces and places of black social dance in 1970s London
9. Film Screening 2 The Legacy of the Black Panthers dir: Shaun Dey
10. ‘Voicing Our Inner Journeys’ - Performance storytelling with Eli Anderson
11. Call and Response Calypso for Social Change with Alexander D. Great
IMPORTANT - ON ARRIVAL PLEASE ENTER THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE ON CROMWELL ROAD SW7 2RL, AND GO TO THE CIRCULAR RECEPTION DESK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALL AND ASK MY COLLEAGUES FOR AN EVENT PROGRAMME FOR THE #EXPRESSYOURSELF EVENT.
This is the last Black Heritage and Culture event for 2014 at the V&A, so if you have always been meaning to come down but never actually made it, well here’s your chance. And if you come to them anyway, well you know why!
See you on Friday!
SAVE THESE DATES FOR FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT THE V&A IN 2015
Art and Existence: African and Asian Diaspora Explored
An informal series of talks led by external practitioners and specialists in their field, who through art, design, media and technology, unpack the cultural and social landscape, exploring race and representation, often provocative, sometime challenging assumptions and perceptions of Africans and Asians and their Diaspora. This series is inspired by the displays Staying Power and In Black & White.
All six talks are free, booking essential. Booking information will be on-line from 8 December 2014.
Recent Developments in Contemporary Art in Barbados
Thursday 8 January, 14.00 – 15.30
Dr Allison Thompson, Lecturer in Art History at Barbados Community College
4 CORNERS: Designers from the African Diaspora (Africa, Caribbean, Europe & USA)
Thursday 22 January, 14.30 – 16.00
Jon Daniel, Independent Creative Director
The Rise and Development of Black Print Culture
Thursday 12 March, 14.30 – 16.00
Patrick Vernon OBE, Founder of Every Generation Media
Tartan’s Journey Through the African Diaspora
Thursday 12 February, 14.30 – 16.00
Teleica Kirkland, Founder of Costume Institute of the African Diaspora (CIAD)
The Seamstress, Designer and the Model
Thursday 5 March, 14.30 – 16.00
Avril Horsford, Independent Art and Cultural Animator & former Head of Academic Diversity, Univ. of the Arts, LCF
Calypso and the Black British Experience 1950s and 60s
Thursday 19 March, 14.30 – 16.00
Alexander D Great, Musician and Educator
YOU MAY ALSO WISH TO CHECK OUT UP AND COMING EVENTS AT BLACK CULTURAL ARCHIVE (BCA) – the new black heritage center in Brixton, serving the UK:
Len Garrison Memorial Lecture with keynote by Baroness Floella Benjamin
Thursday 20 November, 19.00 – 22.00
£20, £15 concessions (includes light refreshments)
Lyrical Sista – at the heart of the womanist word
Thursday 27 November, 19.00 – 22.00
£12, £9 concessions
Heroines of Opera: Award Winning Composer Dr Shirley J. Thompson takes a look at some of our historical women icons
Friday 28 November, 13.00 (45 min)
£5, £3 concessions
Benin Nights – a celebration of all things Nigerian
Thursday 11 December, 19.00 – 22.00
£12, £9 concessions
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Janet Browne
Programme Manager Black Heritage and Culture
Learning Department
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell road
London
SW7 2RL
Direct Line: 020 7942 2184
Email:j.browne@vam.ac.uk
Please note that I work part-time at the V&A and my usual days are Wed PM, all day Thursday and Friday.
Constable: The Making of a Master
20 September 2014 - 11 January 2015 at V&A South Kensington
Book now on www.vam.ac.uk/constable
See the exhibition for free if you join as a V&A Member www.vam.ac.uk/members
Coming soon
Small Stories: At Home in a Doll's House
13 December 2014 – 6 September 2015 at V&A Museum of Childhood
Admission free
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