Out Of Many, One People Festival is a year-long celebration of transnational Black cultural activism inspired by the life and legacy of Ghanaian playwright and Pan-African cultural activist, Efua Sutherland (1924-1996)
Care, Repair and Intersectional Re-Imaginations with Janine Francois
- Saturday, 13 July, 2024 | 2 pm – 5 pm
- Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD), PRFX+FF, Adenta Municipality, Accra, Ghana (map)
This workshop will explore storytelling as an intersectional tool to how we foreground invisible stories that have been erased due to colonial practices. We will use our radical imagination to collectively play with new ways of culture-making and presenting by decentering dominant modes of curating that situate care and community co-production. This will enact speculative practices of world building and Black futurity to embody liberators care both interpersonally and collectively.
This workshop is open to all but with specific focus on curators, researchers, cultural workers, knowledge producers/makers, archivists, and community activists.
Please bring:
- An object/artefact that represents your personality/heritage/cultural background
- A piece of writing that inspires you, this can be your own writing or something written by others (1 page only)
- Loose comfortable clothing as there will be some movement
About your workshop leader
Janine Francois (Ph.D) is a Black British feminist writer, academic and cultural producer. Janine’s research focuses on ethics of care, Black feminism, indigenous African cosmology and knowledge in relation to ecological thinking and artistic practices. Janine has curated work at Barbican, Lethaby Gllery, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Tate Britain and Autograph to name but a few. Janine was the Course Leader and Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and is now Associate Professor at University College of London. Janine is currently working on her debut book that explores the Atlantic Ocean as an ontological site between the African continent and its diaspora via climate injustice.
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