The Word, South Tyneside, National Centre for the Written Word Market Place, South Shields, NE33 1JF
Thursday 17 July, 9.30am-5.30pm
Find us in the Round, on the top floor
**BOOK YOUR PLACE (free but limited spaces)**
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contested-desires-conference-tickets-1426976397819
As part of the CONTESTED DESIRES exhibition and wider conversation addressing decolonisation, we invite you to a day of thought-provoking discussions and connections around contemporary art, heritage and community.
This is an inclusive event that will appeal to anyone seeking, enacting and advocating decolonial actions and ways of being across their day-to-day creative and professional lives.
Guest speakers, including Padma Rao, Director Sangini; Malavika Anderson, Museum Manager, Great North Museum: Hancock, and Leona Vaughn, Contested Desires External Evaluation Expert and academic working across the fields of equality and human rights, will join the exhibiting artists Rafael Guendelman Hales (Chile), Elisabeth Efua Sutherland (Ghana), Isaac Nana Opoku (Ghana), Andreas Mallouris (Cyprus), Maria Luigia Gioffre (Italy), Patrick Ziza (UK) and Paul Nataraj (UK).
Image: Isaac Nana Opoku, Dreamer 0013, 2023
Together we will unpack and question what we mean by decolonisation. Our aim is to build a shared understanding of it in the contexts of contemporary art, heritage and community, and the actions we can take to change the lens and narratives to foster the contested and untold truths.
Find the agenda and programme here -
https://www.d6culture.org/contested-desires-the-word-agenda.html
Also check out other Arts events in South Shields, Fine Arts events in South Shields, Exhibitions in South Shields.
