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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies present Professor Iyiola Solanke. Two viruses – COVID-19 and racial discrimination – are currently killing in the UK (Solanke 2020), especially within BAME families and communities who are hardest hit. Survivors face ongoing damage to well-being and resilience, in terms of physical and mental health as well as social,...
For International Women’s Month, the FLY! Festival of Black* Women’s Film will screen a mini retrospective of works by Co-POWeR's Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, Professor Florence Ayisi. Sunday 20 March - Sheba Soul Ensemble present: Sisters in Law Monday 21 March - The Parrett Women's Poetry Fiesta presents FLY! into Poetry Friday 25 March - Zanzibar...
Professor Claudia Bernard, Dr Teresa Peres, and Dr Anita Sharma join Goldsmiths Research Café to discuss their research on the impact of COVID-19 to children from Black and Minority Ethnic Families and Communities (BAME FC). For Black and Asian children already experiencing the adverse effects of structural inequalities, the pandemic has added further challenges in...
Professor Ayisi's film The Bronze Men of Cameroon will be shown as part of the Afrika Eye 2021 film festival, in November. The documentary is an intimate portrait of a community of bronze artisans in Foumban, the 'City of Arts' in Cameroon. Bronze casting is a valued cultural heritage of the Bamum People in the...
Join us online to share your views and/or experiences of policing under COVID-19 and for a chance to win one of two £20 vouchers. This online event is led by Co-POWeR, a research project and consortium formed by the Universities of Leeds, Sussex, Goldsmiths, UEL, Southampton, South Wales, Royal Holloway, UCL and Warwick. We are...
Join Co-POWeR's Professor Florence Ayisi at Cardiff Campus, for a screening of her award-winning film 'The Bronze Men of Cameroon', followed by a Q&A hosted by Dr Palash Kamruzzaman. Synopsis The Bronze Men of Cameroon’ is an intimate portrait of a community of bronze artisans in Foumban, the ‘City of Arts’. Bronze casting is a...
Organised by our Southampton, Sussex, and South Wales friends as part of Black History Month 2021, an inspirational session of creative activities on minority ethnic families and communities during the pandemic. Free event but please register to receive joining instructions. Our personal lives, loved ones, communities, the food we eat, the way we work, and...
Sohaya Visions and Mukul & Ghetto Tigers present: BODIES Writer - Co-POWeR's Professor Raminder Kaur When one in two people are likely to get cancer over their lifetime, knowing what to do and how to deal with it becomes all the more important. BODIES is an experimental, multi-media psychodrama that combines tragedy with comedy, weaving...
FLY! Hopefully Festival of Black Women's Film Six events to spin your understanding of the world and set you on creative new pathways - including screenings by Co-POWeR's Professor Ayisi. With support from the BFI fund Film Feels Hopeful, Sheba Soul Ensemble is delighted to present a festival involving women film-makers from Cameroon, New Zealand...
This event will provide the opportunity for BAME families and communities to share their views and experiences of the policing of emergency powers (e.g. mandatory face masks, restrictions for outdoor gatherings, etc). The event will run from 2 pm to 5.30 pm, but you can join at any time to share your testimony/opinions, and to...