4:00pm-6:30pm on Saturday 14 March
Times shown are in GMT (UTC +0) up to the 26th March. For events on or after 27th March times are in BST (UTC +1).
Alison Richard Building, Room SG1, Sidgwick Site 7 West Road, CB3 9DP
The event will be a celebration of live and digital multi-disciplinary art, activism and affective abolitionist affinities in community partnerships. The film screening will be accompanied by live performances and conversation with guest artists, speakers and youth poets including: CEO of Poetic Unity, Ryan J. Matthews-Robinson aka Ragz-CV, Afro-futurist poet, artist and filmaker, Princess Arinola Adegbite aka PA Bitez, the Homerton College BME officer and poet, Zain Kakooza and more.
The film screening will be followed by a panel with the speakers, chaired by Adèle Oliver, scholar, artist and activist part of the UK campaign Art not Evidence.
The film screening will present original short films from Poetic Unity, a London-based charity founded by Ryan J. Matthews-Robinson and championed by George the Poet. Poetic Unity has harnessed poetry as protest and worldbuilding at the intersections of racial, environmental and social justice, nurturing the talent of thousands of Black and marginalised young people across areas of education, mental health and employment.
Founded in 2015, Poetic Unity has provided hundreds of programmes and events every year for the community with 1,141 services provided to 40,000+ young people to date.
