Join us for an afternoon study day exploring Black and Global Majority-led arts and activist periodicals, many of which are held in BCA’s collections. The event brings together researchers and activists working on these magazines and newsletters to highlight the intersections between artistic practice and anti-racist, feminist, and queer activism within British Global Majority print culture.
The event invites you to learn more about publications such as Artrage, Bazaar, Black Liberator, Black Phoenix, FOWAAD!, Mukti, Polareyes, Race Today & Race Today Review, Speak Out!, Ten.8, Third Text, Wasafiri, and Wickers & Bullers.
After a relaxed, informal lunch (provided), the day opens with a show-and-tell featuring highlights from our archives, followed by two panel discussions with ample time for open conversation and audience participation. We conclude with a guided introduction to the current exhibition on Race Today magazine, the seminal Brixton-based campaigning anti-racist publication.
All welcome. Please note that this is an in-person event and spaces are limited.
Speakers:
Dr Taous Dahmani – Polareyes: A /journal by and about Black Women Working in Photography
Vartika Rastogi – Mukti: Asian Women’s Journal
Dr Jade Bentil – Speak Out! (Brixton Black Women’s Group) / Fowaad! Newsletter of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent
Dr Alina Khakoo – Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine
Pelumi Odubanjo – Ten.8 (and Black representation)
Dr Lola Olufemi – This is a temporal landscape, you will find no direction here
Schedule:
13:00–14:00 – Arrival, registration, lunch (provided)
14:00–14:20 – Welcome to BCA and introduction
14:20–15:00 – Archive show & tell with Q&A
15:00–16:15 – Panel 1
16:15–16:35 – Break
16:35–17:50 – Panel 2
17:50–18:00 – Closing remarks
18:00–18:30 – Introduction to Race Today: Black History is British History exhibition led by Hannah John
This study day is produced in partnership with the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) at University of the Arts London and is intended to foster further collaboration and network building.
The event is convened by Nick Brown (PhD candidate at UAL) and Harlynn Homan (Archives Manager, BCA).
Whilst the event is free, donations are welcome. All proceeds go to BCA, allowing us to further our impact in the communities we serve.