2024
Trauma Informed Practice for Participatory Artists: Training
Although it’s very important to maintain the distinction between art and therapy, participatory artists are often in positions where they need to support their participants’ mental health. This training is specifically for artists and facilitators and takes a person-centred approach to understanding trauma and incorporating this understanding into your creative practice. This training will: –...
BlackFest 2024: Fashion Fest Finale – Closing Ceremony
BlackFest Fashion Fest Finale features various local and UK national designers, models, poets and musicians. It is the first time we are collaborating with FutureYard an award-winning music venue in Birkenhead. We are going over the water to bring BlackFest to the Wirral. Featuring Bluboy, Kingfast, Lu, Angela, Shak, Betty Salvan, Conduit, D Rebal, John,...
BlackFest 2024: Sustainable Cooking – Land and Cultivation
Join BlackFest for another sustainable cooking workshop with Michelle Odwyer – Bay Tree Cooking. Explore our roots and tap into ancestral wisdom during this eco-friendly cooking workshop. Featured in the Liverpool Echo, Michelle Odwyer was originally inspired by her grandmother to become a chef and offer budget healthy cooking classes. Michelle Odwyer set up Bay...
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshop – Cara Walker
Cara Walker is a visual artist dedicated to cultural liberation and the advocacy of creativity, with a particular focus on amplifying the Black voice. Her workshop – The Clean slate – her exhibition will be discussion led looking at portraiture and the exhibition developed from a 3 month artist residency at the Wales Millennium Centre....
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshops – Ridwa Horreh
Join Ridwa Horreh for a workshop in Reclaiming Black Femininity: An Exploration of Identity, Beauty, and Empowerment. Ridwa is a student at the University of Nottingham’s Cultural, Media, and Visual Studies Department. As a passionate photographer, Ridwa has collaborated with social media influencers, an experience that sparked her interest in exploring identity and representation. Ridwa’s...
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshop – Kassessa Gandara
Join Kassessa Gandara a self-taught visual artist from Angola. He creates different concepts and translates them into different artistic expressions, through live events, stages, exhibitions, digital prints, sculpture and painted mediums. He will be sharing his practice part discussion led on your creative identity, processes in he diaspora, inspiration. With an arts workshop.
BlackFest 2024: Endless Crescendo with Heather Tomlinson
“Endless Crescendo” is a poignant exploration of identity, acceptance, and the complexities of navigating the intersectionality of race and heritage. Through the lens of a mixed heritage girl’s journey, this one-woman and choir show, delves deep into the struggles of never quite fitting into societal moulds. Heather Tomlinson is a Liverpool artist, skilled in theatre,...
BlackFest 2024: Race, Religion, Riots
Join us and award-winning Malik Al Nasir is an author, poet and academic from Liverpool. Being Black Muslim & experiencing intersectional racism Malik will go through his lived experience living in the UK Liverpool. Malik traced his ancestry through his father Reginald Watsons line back to the sugar cane fields of Demerara in British Guiana....
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Exhibition Programme Launch
Four visual artists will display their work on exhibition at the Smithdown social arts hub. Meet the line up: Cara Walker – A visual artist dedicated to cultural liberation and the advocacy of creativity, with a particular focus on amplifying the Black voice. Ridwa Horreh – An aspiring artist and PhD student passionately focused on...
BlackFest 2024: Riddims Night
Join us in another rendition of our iconic Riddims Night 2024 celebrating local artists CopDat, Immidish, Nazeem and ManlikeMally with DJ PAPU RAF Founder of Choplife and Finite band. With panel– discussion followed our our lit artists of 24. Finite is an innovative music collective: Duo Terhile and Rub CopDat is rap artist from Liverpool...