I’m delighted to be performing alongside poets and storytellers Jay Bernard, Jasmine Mans, and Tawona Sitholé in October! Plus we will also be in conversation with Lecturer in Black British & African Diasporic Studies, Dr Malica S Willie. And there’s food 🙂
Blackness as Resistance
Wednesday, 16th October 2024
6:00 – 8:00pm
Jim’s Bar, Queen Margaret Union
22 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QN
Free – book Blackness as Resistance tickets
Queen Margaret Union accessibility information
Performances from and conversation with Jay Bernard, Jasmine Mans, Tawona Sitholé, and Jeda Pearl, organised by Dr Malica S Willie.
Delicious food from MILK Cafe will also be served.
Exploring black cultures, identities and experiences from different geographical spaces and perspectives through poetry and conversation, the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, the School of Critical Studies, and Thinking Culture present ‘Blackness as Resistance,’ a spoken word event at Jim’s Bar in Queen Margaret’s Union.
Funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.
I’m participating in another Black History Month this year on the 3rd October: Co-Curating with Care: Exhibiting Caribbean Experiences of Edinburgh – the Respect! Exhibition
