Music & Migration
Discussion
1 hour 8 mins
Pop-Kultur Festival
This talk was part of the Pop-Kultur 2021 programme.
Curator/Producer/Moderator
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Artists
Jumoke Adeyanju (Poetry Meets)
Natalie Greffel (Agogo Records)
Douniah (Melting Pot Music)
Networks of Pride: Creativity, Queerness, and Blackness
Discussion
1 hour 18 mins
To celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month this February 2021, we are hosting an online panel discussion focused on creativity and queerness. Join the discussion with special guest speakers filmmaker Campbell X, poet AJ Awak-Essien, curator Candice Nembhard (okcandice) and writer Paula Akpan, chaired by Dr Hannah Robbins, Director of Black Studies at University of Nottingham.
In Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde writes: "We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created." In this panel we will discuss the relationships between creativity, queerness, and Black-lived expression. We will explore issues of power and vitality as part of seeing many intersecting sides of queer Black creativity in Britain today.
Black Studies is the only programme of its kind in Europe and is steeped in interdisciplinary methods and critical reflection to investigate the roles, lives, cultures, politics, representations, activism, art, histories and movement of people of African descent.
Chair/Moderator
Dr. Hannah Robbins (University of Nottingham)
Panelists
Campbell X
AJ Awak-Essien
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Paula Akpan
Residing in the Borderlands
Discussion & Screening
54 mins
SAVVY Film Series: Take XI with Candice Nembhard
For TAKE IX of our year-long, monthly film series RESIDING IN THE BORDERLANDS, we are joined by Candice Nembhard (okcandice) for a conversation on the films they selected, which are a testament to the strength and community that has been built by black queer practitioners in Berlin, both Afro-German and other diasporas.
Monthly film series RESIDING IN THE BORDERLANDS intends to create a cartography of Berlin through diasporic perspectives. As part of our diasporic place-making, we explore different film worlds, considering both the visual and auditory. Through the cinematic experience, we aspire to reach another way of being present, thinking of film as a means of movement that can also propel us into previously unthought of futures. The film screenings are followed by a discussion in which the guest locates themself within the city and talks about points of intersection with the different communities to which they belong.
Curators
Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein
Eirini Fountedaki
Co-ordination
Jörg-Peter Schulze
Communication
Anna Jäger
Graphic Design
Ola Zielińska
Guest
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
FilmsAudre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992. Dir. Dagmar Schultz (2012)
Moxn. Dir. Poliana Baumgarten (2019)
Funded by
The Federal Agency for Civic Education
UK Germany Friendship Stories: Amanda & Candice
Film
3 mins
#UKGermany2018 is all about empowering the next generation of changemakers - just like Candice and Amanda. These inspiring young women use their platforms and poetry to address issues in society. In this beautiful short film they share what comes with having roots in more than one place.
Director/Editor
Poliana Baumgarten
Guests
Amanda (Babiche Papaya)
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
gal-dem: Creating Spaces for Women of Colour Online
Discussion & Presentation
1 hour 16 mins
gal-dem was a creative platform which enabled women of colour to talk about an array of issues. Against the expectations of the media, the collective opened a conversation around lots of different topics. Run by women of colour for all to explore.
In this talk and presentation, gal-dem's Editor in Chief Liv Little and Lifestyle Editor Niellah Arboine will discuss with Contemporary And's Deputy Editor Will Furtado and curator Candice Nembhard the importance and pitfalls of creating spaces exclusively for women of colour.
Curators/Moderators
Will Furtado (Contemporary &)
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Panelists
Liv Little
Niellah Arboine
Supported by
C&’s Center for Unfinished Business