For Black History month we are thrilled to invite you to join us for a night of celebration, resilience and community empowerment. We have a special takeover of our terrace area featuring a showreel of films celebrating stories from the Afro-diaspora, boyhood exploration, womanhood, communities and activism. Join us as we explore the beauty in our everyday contexts.
A specially curated evening with live DJ set ( featuring soul fusion, reggaton and breakbeat).
Rebirth - Us Man Dere
Us man dere is a collective of ambitious cultural tastemakers who aspire to be agents of change for the next generation of creatives in London.
Wandering between innocence and reality, REBIRTH explores the emotions, passion and pressure that can arise in communities like ours and where they take us.
We watch on as our Heroes find their resilience, as something new and ethereal arrives and as REBIRTH begins to take place.
A Month of Sundays - Comfort Adeneye & Emmanuel Adeneye:
Comfort is a practicing filmmaker with a vested interest in working-class journeys inspired by her lived experiences in South London and West Nottingham. Her muse is perceptions of masculinity in the genre of social realism drama.
Emmanuel is a creative producer with a vested interest in film as a mode of communication for perspective and preservation of narratives past, present, and future.
A short analog film drama that honors social realism and slow cinema styles. With experimental use of montage as a narrative form and sound design, the audience is presented with a passionate and emotionally dense story of boyhood exploration.
Formosa - Jucelyne Nhanro & Henrique J. Paris
The short film reflects onsustainable luxury fashion brandJÚ MORANSA'S Autumn/Winter 2023 collection that emerged through discussions about diasporic identity, integrity and contemporary African philosophies. In the process of finding harmony between motherhood experience and design practice, gauged an interest in thinking movement, quotidian tensions faced and what these notions mean to African diasporic contexts.
Directed by the brand's creative director Jucelyne Nhanro and fellow artist Henrique J. Paris, following through the construction of an archive; Jucelyne made a trip to Guinea-Bissau, ‘Formosa’ island in Bissagos archipelago; this trip inspired the designs and visual storytelling of the collection. The narrative engenders registers beyond fashion that engage subjects across materiality, art and culture.
From 9-11pm Live DJ set with KUNTEAA
You can expect club sounds that span the entire globe, selections from the hottest underground queer and/or black artists and producers! Kunteaa shows intend to centre their community, highlighting the impact black queer culture has on dance music.
KUNTEAA asks you come with open ears as they will be moving through the breadth of dance music, from ballroom, techno, femme rap to dancehall, breaks, afrohouse and everything in between at least (if not all) of the tracklist will be made up of said artists.
More filmmakers to be announced and activities programmed throughout the evening.
Supported by Landsec and EC BID.
Please note: this event is not wheelchair accessible. An exhibiton in association with the screenings will be held at ground floor.