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THIS WED catch the end of our #Bristol collab w/ @rtbspokenword at the Conversations with Baldwin Open Mic🎤
Incredible artists are hopping on the mic to bring you poetry, music & restorative wordsmithery🤍
🗓️WED 16 OCT, 19:30 @ Easton Community Centre
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Now more than ever we need to resist how media manufactures consent for injustice across the world.
Our small role in this is to re-open our mentorship scheme for under-represented, unpublished writers looking to gain journalism experience.
Details below ⬇️ Deadline 21st Oct
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We’re delighted to announce #LondonWritersAwards is back!
Open to unagented, unpublished London-based writers of literary, commercial and YA/children’s fiction, the programme runs for 10 months and is completely free.
Apps run 25 Sep-31 Oct.
More info: spreadtheword.org.uk/project…
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We are back in ONE week (Oct 16th) with the final installment of Conversations with Baldwin, an open mic event at Easton Community Centre with featured guests Edson Burton and iAM13e.
Ticket link and open mic sign-up form: linktr.ee/rtbspokenword
In collab with @WordsofColour
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Simon Albury MBE was a giant in the industry. Much loved and feared by many. In 2017 he was the catalyst for a photo & video exhibition and book of some of the UK's leading off-screen Black and Brown talent. His i/v in 4 parts. 1st time showing. #BlackHistoryMonth
Catch the end of our #Bristol collab w/ @rtbspokenword at the Conversations with Baldwin Open Mic NEXT WED! 🎤
Featuring @EdsonBurton & @Iam13E, this is a chance for YOU to share your poetry, flash fic, music + all round wordsmithery - only 6 spots left!
hdfst.uk/e110623
We are back in ONE week (Oct 16th) with the final installment of Conversations with Baldwin, an open mic event at Easton Community Centre with featured guests Edson Burton and iAM13e.
Ticket link and open mic sign-up form: linktr.ee/rtbspokenword
In collab with @WordsofColour
We are excited to be working with these 2 brilliant curator interns in #Leeds on the Remembering What's Forgotten programme with co-founder @LeedsSynergi. Their knowledge and passion for centring lived experience narratives has been inspiring. #RWF2024
More introductions... Mosopefoluwa Abiodun-Ade, 18, and Maria Sharif, 22, are our talented Remembering What's Forgotten Curator Interns. Passionate about #mentalhealth and #heritage, they represent their communities’ lived experience through #curation.
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More introductions... Mosopefoluwa Abiodun-Ade, 18, and Maria Sharif, 22, are our talented Remembering What's Forgotten Curator Interns. Passionate about #mentalhealth and #heritage, they represent their communities’ lived experience through #curation.
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Leeds's last surviving Caribbean WW2 veteran & Windrush passenger, Alford Gardner has passed at 98. A proud Jamaican, and part of a generation who helped to rebuild postwar Leeds and Britain we owe him more than a tweet can say. Thank you Mr Gardner. For everything. 🖤💛💚💔
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BFI to axe 17 years of Black Film : conta.cc/4dop6Bn
How many more axes are going to keep chopping Black cultural heritage in Britain's institutions? All within a year....@HackneyAbbott @museum_detox @WordsofColour @BlackStudiesUK @garyyounge @DavidOlusoga
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As part of Conversations with Baldwin with @WordsofColour, we're excited to screen three short films that present an intimate portrait of James Baldwin in London, Paris, and Istanbul at the turn of the 1970s.
💬Followed by a Q&A with Dr Churnjeet Mahn
🎟️bit.ly/GFT_BaldwinShorts
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I'll be in a position to share more next week about this incredible opportunity. Please reply to the original post if you're interested and I'll send you the details!
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This!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💜💜 so deserved. One of my fave humans in the world.
We are so excited to share that this year's winner of Best Creative West End Debut at The Stage #DebutAwards is Daniel Bailey for the direction of Red Pitch @sohoplacelondon 🤩
Category sponsor: @TrafalgarEnt
Headline sponsor: @ATGTICKETS
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Introducing the Writers’ Card…
Completely FREE to join, the Writers’ Card is a radical invitation for playwrights – a renewed promise of support and community, founded on the artistic values that have always driven the Royal Court's mission.
royalcourttheatre.com/playwr…
"The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it."
Watch James Baldwin in Sedat Pekay's luminous short film From Another Place - presented with @glasgowfilm for #ConversationswithBaldwin
🗓️Sat 28 Sep, 2.30pm
🎟️bit.ly/CWBBaldwinonFilm
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Join us in Glasgow 🏴 for Conversations with Baldwin: #JamesBaldwin on Film, 26 - Sat 28 Sep @glasgowfilm
Watch Baldwin in Europe at the turn of the 1970s in rarely seen footage and Barry Jenkins' sensuous adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk.
🎟️bit.ly/CWBBaldwinonFilm
