Black Country Roots – book reading and performance

EVENTS

Black Country Roots – book reading and performance

26th October 2016
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Sandwell Central Library
High Street
West Bromwich
B70 8DZ

To celebrate our new book about the African-Caribbean community of the Black Country we held a special event at Sandwell Central library. Councillor Jackie Taylor introduced the book, followed by readings and additional poetry by performance poets Emma Purshouse and Kurly McGeachie. There was also an exhibition of photos from the book.

OTHER EVENTS

Dreaming the Black Country: A Psychogeographical Writing Workshop

21st July
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
A link will be sent out to attendees.

How does a certain place make us feel? How can we explore it in a different way than we normally would?  Psychogeography is a growing practice that since the 1950s has sought to reimagine the city, and to playfully explore it in alternative ways. One of the traditional techniques employed by psychogeography – dérive – or drift – is […] READ MORE

Seeing in Isolation: audio description in photography and art.

8th July
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

This workshop is taking place via Zoom.
A link will be sent out to attendees.

Audio Description – a way that people who can’t see are offered a description of the visual elements they are missing. But who determines what is important to be described and what is not? Is this once-removed viewing experience, that is controlled by someone else, a satisfactory one? Mandy Redvers-Rowe Using Seeing in Isolation as a springboard for […] READ MORE

In Conversation with International Blind and Visually Impaired Photographers

30th June
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Zoom

Do you need to have sight to take photographs? This question will be explored at this event that brings together blind and visually impaired international photographers: Bruce Hall, Karren Visser, Mickel Smithen, Pete Eckert and Sonia Soberats to present their work and be in conversation with curator Douglas McCulloh of exhibition ‘Sight Unseen: International Photography […] READ MORE