Finding space in Sheffield to put on events has become increasingly difficult. Uni’s hoover up a lot. It’s grating as a WOC, a Black woman to watch mostly white men take up that space, get their demands met then get the funding to do it. Time to move? Are other cities like this?

A scholarship (tuition fees & stipend) for Black Britons has been set up at Edinburgh University in the name of my late, great friend, the novelist Andrea Levy. Please share. Good luck. 1/2

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Get ready for this celebration featuring the best of Sheffield's new and emerging vocal talent! Pattern + Push and Slambarz are teaming up to drop a BIG night of new music in rap, drill, RnB, spoken word, afrobeats and more 👀

If you want to know what the elite really think of the arts, then look at how Eton pitches it to parents. They know the arts can change and make lives, that’s why they invest in it so heavily for their own children

It's been a privilege to work with people most affected by health inequalities over past six months to develop our Community Manifesto for Health Justice. The five priorities and many recommendations are a direct result of those community experts. IHE (Marmot Review) Health Equals

This. Remember this moment so well. Articulated what so many of us felt and still feel about the British honours system and the legacies of empire.

Such sad news about Benjamin Zephaniah’s passing. In 2008 I filmed him performing his poem Imagine Nation. At the time he would only film in one location - Newham Bookshop ! Here's some extracts + quote from Refugee Boy & portrait by Adrian Pope Commissioned by A New Direction

#RagingGrace the first British film ever to win SXSW Grand Jury Award is out in US tomorrow!!! 🔥 Support indie films and watch it at your local cinemas 🙏❤️
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We are pleased to announce our online host for the ESEA Artists’ Futures Town Hall, Trixiebella Suen!

To make the event a truly hybrid experience, ensuring online delegates feel included, we have appointed a dedicated online host.
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Introducing ESEA Artists’ Futures motions on
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VISION
This motion was developed from the Northwest roundtable.

CURATORIAL
This motion was developed from the Welsh roundtable.

More info on our Insta post, instagram.com/esea_artists/

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Super excited to be bringing this in to the world...

Our Sheffield art picks for October. Paper art inspired by celestial bodies. A makers’ market. Camera gaming fun. An artist’s exploration of learning and drumming. A look into the creative ideas of John Ruskin, William Morris and the Bauhaus. And more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/art-…

Truly beautiful installation from
Eelyn Lee and collaborators Bloc Projects exploring being East & SE Asian in UK. Utterly absorbing, immersive experience. Hard to do justice in words. Closes this Sat.

Good morning all, along with The Racial Justice Network, UoS Centre for Equity & Inclusion, we are delighted to bring you the livestream of 'Decolonisation with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o' at the University of Sheffield. Join us on YouTube and tweet about it using #NgugiWaThiongo youtube.com/watch?v=OM6fTp…

Panni Poh Yoke Loh Eelyn Lee Bloc Projects And join Eelyn Lee, martial arts and film scholar Dr Wayne Wong and Bloc Projects's Co-Director Dr Sunshine Wong next Thursday for a discussion at Soft Ground on The Moor. On Supernatural beings: collective mythmaking and martial arts films > blocprojects.co.uk/exhibitions-ev…

A 'dreamlike space' of 'light and dark, night and day, the experience of being within and outside of East Asian culture, history and folklore.' Read Panni Poh Yoke Loh's review of the exhibition Four Quadrants of the Sky by Eelyn Lee & more, on now at Bloc Projects > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/four-…

Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 by Eelyn Lee⁩ and collaborators exploring what it means to be East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) in the UK today is ⁦Bloc Projects⁩ Sheffield until Oct 14th ENTRANCE FREE blocprojects.co.uk/exhibitions-ev…