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The Write to Work Bootcamp will take place at The Women’s Organisation, 54 St James St, Liverpool L1 0AB on Wednesday 27 September 2023. Space limited. Don’t miss this opportunity!
National Museums Liverpool have commissioned Writing on the Wall to deliver a Creative Heritage Programme working with the archive of lifelong Black British activist Dorothy Kuya (1933-2013).
The Dorothy Kuya Walking Tour
Dorothy Kuya was born in 1933 into Liverpool’s Black community, one of the oldest in Europe. She grew up during a time of monumental upheaval and global change. She began her life of activism after joining the Young Communist League at age 13 and was an early member of the Movement for Colonial Freedom (now Liberation). The Dorothy Kuya walking tour will take you on a journey through three stages of Dorothy’s life and activism:
Early Years
During this part of the tour, we will be exploring the effect of Pan-Africanism, Communism and trade-unionism on the post-war political activities of Liverpool’s Black Community.
Community Relations
In 1970 Dorothy became the first Community Relations Officer for the newly established Liverpool Community Relations Council. As CRO, during this period she also began her research into racism in education and children’s books.
Granby Resident
In 1993 Dorothy was a founding member of the Granby Residents Association, set up in response to plans to demolish many houses in the area. She was also integral in advising National Museums Liverpool on what would eventually become the International Slavery Museum.
Come along for this rare opportunity to learn more about this radical Black British figure. As part of Black History Month 23 we present: Ms. Dorothy Kuya.
1919 Race Riots Walking Tour
The highly popular 1919 Race riots walking tour returns for Black History Month, exploring the murder of Charles Wotton and the social and political backdrop of these tragic events.
The race riots of 1919 were a watershed moment for Liverpool’s longstanding black community. On the night of 6th June 1919 unprecedented racial violence erupted in the modern-day Chinatown area that would continue for days as gangs of people, reportedly in the thousands, hunted out “any black man they could find … severely beating and stabbing” them. Black homes and businesses were looted and wrecked as over 700 members of the black community were housed in bridewells for their own protection.
During 1919 such racial violence was mirrored in other port towns and cities across mainland Britain including Glasgow, Cardiff and others. Across the Atlantic Ku Klux Klan activity was at its height and Chicago witnessed race riots in what came to be termed as ‘The Red Summer.’
Using official reports from the time the 1919 walking tour traces the events of the 6th of June 1919 visiting the residences of those involved as well as trailing the tragic last movements of Charles Wootton, a 24-year-old Bermudan sailor and victim of the 1919 riots, who was chased by a mob into the Queens Dock where he was pelted with rocks until he drowned. Not a single person was charged in connection with his death and the coroner’s ruling was ‘death be drowning’. We finish the tour at the site of the murder of Charles Wotton.
Inspired by the hugely successful Great War to Race Riots Archive project and ‘Black Lives and Legacies 1919’ project, our volunteers have researched and mapped a history yet to be recognised in mainstream accounts of our city’s well documented past.
For almost a century, liberals viewed racism as rooted in extremist individual beliefs. Figures like Magnus Hirschfeld and Ruth Benedict advocated education to reduce prejudice, birthing today’s liberal anti-racism seen in diversity training and Hollywood activism.
Simultaneously, a radical anti-racism emerged in the Global South, linking racism to colonialism and capitalism. Thinkers like C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, and Frantz Fanon illuminated these connections, a perspective adopted by Martin Luther King.
Today, despite white liberals confronting their whiteness, structural oppression persists, as Arun Kundnani’s work highlights.
This narrative history dissects these anti-racism strands. Neoliberalism’s rise revealed that combating racism necessitates challenging its capitalist roots.
Arun Kundnani has been active in antiracist movements in Britain and the United States for three decades. He is a former editor of the journal Race & Class and was a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain’s best political writers.” He is the author of What is Antiracism?, The Muslims are Coming!, and The End of Tolerance. He lives in Philadelphia.
This is 80s’ Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance.
Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find the jobs, avoid the ‘sniffers’ and see if you can have a laugh along the way.
40 years after Alan Bleasdale’s ground-breaking television series was essential viewing, Liverpool’s Royal Court and Stockroom Productions are delighted to present an unmissable, powerful new adaptation by James Graham, writer of the hit BBC series Sherwood.
Cast confirmed: Dominic Carter, George Caple, Helen Carter, Aron Julius, Oliver Mawdsley, Nathan McMullen, Lauren O’Neil, Andrew Schofield, Barry Sloane and Mark Womack
Join the Mystery Theatre Club for a monthly archived screening of unique, world-class theatre shows. Embrace experimental and contemporary works from exciting theatre makers.
Their second screening will be at Kitty’s Laundrette in Anfield. This event will be Pay What You Can to help pay for Kitty’s opening up their space.
Tickets sold out quickly last time so don’t delay and book today!
Each screening you’ll recieve a free zine. These will be limited.
An ancient monolith stands sentinel in a Cornish field for millennia. Part provocation, part meditation, part invocation, documentarian Christopher Morris’s A YEAR IN A FIELD is a record of their brief interaction.
Morris invites us to slow down, as he films for a year in a West Cornwall field; to immerse ourselves in this quiet, direct-action of stillness, to take a breath and reflect on the planetary impacts of our brief human existence, under the watchful gaze of the Longstone, a 4,000-year-old standing stone that predominates this elemental landscape.
From Winter Solstice 2020 to Winter Solstice 2021, a string of unprecedented worldwide climate disasters, met by weak global political resolve, are revealed as just fleeting moments, under the ever-present unflinching granite gaze of the Longstone.
As the wheel of the year turns, Morris’s ecosophical polemic unearths a mythic reality buried just below the furrowed soil of our consumerist age, suggesting, perhaps, that whilst time may feel like it’s running away at an ever-increasing rate, it’s not too late to pause, reflect, and change.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.
From museums and football clubs to government and training organisations, find out more about the many roles available at National Museums Liverpool’s annual job fair.
Friday 8 September
10am to 2pm
African Caribbean Centre L8 1YJ
(Corner of Mulgrave and Parliament Street)
This year’s theme is ‘breaking barriers to social mobility’ and guest speaker, Laura Pye, director of National Museums Liverpool will give insight into her pathway to success. The Women’s Organisation will also deliver a half-hour workshop ‘Path to Progress: an empowerment session with The WO’.
Meet recruiters from National Museums Liverpool, The Women’s Organisation, Agent Academy, the Bluecoat, The Department for Work and Pensions, Everton F.C., Liverpool F.C., Liverpool Philharmonic and more.
Advisors from Back on Track Education will also be on hand to help with CVs and how to fill in an application form.
Find out more liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/jobs
How can we create an open atmosphere that builds power within and between excluded groups?
Much of participatory arts aims to work with communities who are seen as marginalised, using the arts and culture to redress inequality. Often these communities are talked about as ‘hard to reach’ or ‘excluded’ from the mainstream, however the networks within them make them strong and resilient to change.
This event will open with provocations from guest speakers based on their experiences of building and maintaining meaningful relationships within and across communities.
Following the provocations and Q&A, attendees will be invited to reflect on these themes and what these ideas mean for their communities, arts practice and the participatory art sector more widely.
Guest Speakers
Akil Morgan
Akil Morgan is a Liverpool-born community artist and Director of Capoeira for All CIC. His work and projects have led him to connect with communities all over the world. Locally, Akil has set up and ran grassroots projects across the city for over 10 years.
Emily Gee
Emily Gee’s work has variously been categorised as producer, curator, coordinator, manager but could also be described as accomplice, facilitator, caretaker, convener, she’s currently Senior Producer at Heart of Glass. Emily is interested in how we live otherwise, in the cracks and gaps where we can find each other and in the processes of sharing the worlds we live through and the ones we might move towards.
Ticket Cost: £5.00
They also have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk
Access: This event will use live transcription. If you require any other access support please get in touch before the event
Unity, Everyman & Playhouse and Alex Ferguson are collaborating to set up a monthly Producers’ Get Together across the city of Liverpool, for producers to network, share and support each other.
This is an open informal space to get to know each other, ask questions, share advice and build a support network of fellow producers. We will look to have broad themes for discussion, and occasional short talks by artists and producers.
This is for producers (and anyone who defines as such) at ALL levels and types, from those just starting out and assistant producing, to freelancer producers and self-producing artists, to senior producers in big organisations.
