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Interpretations of Beauty and African Images Workshop

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Museum of London in Docklands and the ASAUK

Venue: Museum in Docklands

London

Saturday 25 April 2009



9h30: Registration & Welcome Coffee & Tea in Quayside Room

10h00: Welcome and Introductions

Director Museum of London Docklands, David Spence

Jennette Arnold, Trustee Museum of London, Chair London Assembly

William Beinart ASAUK President

Wangui wa goro, Royal Africa Society Member


10h20: Session 1

Chair: Tunde Zack-Williams, ASAUK

Charmaine Nelson, McGill University (Race and Representation and the Visual Culture of Slavery; the representation of black female subjects)

Hakim Adi, Middlesex University (the African Presence in London project, linking photograph images in an exhibition in Nigeria).

20 minute Q & A

11h30: Session 2

Chair: David Spence, Museum of London

Leslie Ikomi Braine (A community art collector’s interpretation of black images found in private homes in England)

Tony Warner, 100 Black Men (working with black images in film; black community responses in London to beauty: what are they saying?)

20 minute Q & A

12h40: Lunch & tour of LSS gallery

Entertainment by Plan Be (African Caribbean Rap Artist)

13h25: Message in Quayside Room from Makeda Coaston, MCAAH


13h35: Session 3 A

Chair: William Beinart, ASAUK

Shihan de Silva, Institute for Commonwealth Studies (Afro-Asians: From Invisibility to Visibility)

Peter Davis, Filmmaker and writer of « Darkest Hollywood » (The making of the first all-black feature film in South Africa, and what became of the images?)

Darren Newbury, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (A history of photography in South Africa during the apartheid period)

20 minute Q & A

*** (Short 10 minute break – tea and refreshments)

15h20: Session 3 B

Chair: Corrine Bougaard, Artistic Director Union Dance

Helene Kringelbach, Oxford University (Competing notions of female beauty in urban Senegal)

Kristin Loftsdottir, University of Iceland (The Beautiful People: WoDaaBe Agency and Images)

20 minute Q & A


16h30: Plenary & wrap up

Reflections on the key messages towards the making of an exhibition

Chair: Esther Stanford, Voice of Africa Radio

Panel lead discussants: Wangui Wo Goro, Shaheera Asante, Franklyn Rodgers Harry Cumberbatch, Vandana Patel


17h15: Closure and Thanks

Rapporteur for delivery of report: June Bam-Hutchison, Honorary Secretary ASAUK
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