Event overview
'Aspiration and Representation: Looking Back to Travel Forwards’, identifies the power of identity, inspiration and legacy in three stunning events on the 19th January 2017.
Commencing at 12.30, the first ever exhibition of paintings by artist and former student Keith Church is on display at Goldsmiths and you are welcome to drop in and explore this captivating body of work.
The third series of Renegade Raconteurs follows, with a lecture by Professor Kurt Barling (Middlesex University, London) and a respondent panel and audience Q&A with Afua Hirsch (Sky Arts), Dr Clea Bourne and Prof. Claudia Bernard (Goldsmiths).
In his lecture 'The Rhetoric of Race', Kurt Barling unflinchingly challenges how we might re-imagine 'race' thinking beyond the trap of an inherited language restricted by notions of 'blackness' and 'whiteness'. The evening event, 'Performing Mothers' explores the dramatisation of these ideas through feminist performance focussing on mixed-ness and motherhood. A contextual discussion, between Prof. Elaine Aston (Lancaster University), Dr Chamion Caballero (London School of Economics), the playwright Winsome Pinnock and Dr Deirdre Osborne (Goldsmiths) looks at SuAndi's internationally acclaimed monodrama 'The Story of M'. The day concludes with a rare performance by SuAndi of her 'The Story of M' in The George Wood Theatre.
"The Story of M is SuAndi's moving tribute to the life and death of her white mother who raised her mixed-race children in the face of frequent racism in the 1960s, but never let them forget they were of African descent and to be proud of their heritages."
– blackplaysarchive.org.uk
Prior to the performance, Oberon Books launch a new, single edition of 'The Story of M'. This play is included on the EdExcel Examination Board's newly revised A-levels English Literature syllabus with a Black British literature list (Revised by Deirdre Osborne) published by Pearson.
Image: SuAndi, © Robert Taylor
This event is related to the MA Black British Writing: http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-black-british-writing/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2017 | 12:30pm - 9:00pm |
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