Archiving the Inner City: How is Brixton remembered?

Schedule of events

11am to 11.30am

Coffee and welcome accompanied by photography exhibition:

• Thabo Jaiyesimi (London)
• Monique Perry (Philadelphia)
• Eddy Anael (Paris)

11.30am to 1pm

Session one: How can we archive a city? How is the city an archive?

• Sam Burgum (Birmingham City University)
• John Newman (Lambeth archives)
• Rhoda Boateng (Black Cultural Archives)
• London Unseen (Vanessa Ansa and/or Damali Ibreck)

1pm to 2pm

• Lunch

1.50pm to 3pm

• Walking tour of Brixton

3pm to 3.15pm

• Tea and coffee break (accompanied by photography exhibition)

3.15pm to 4.45pm

Session two: How is Brixton being remembered?

Four speakers and Q&A:

• Sireita Mullings-Lawrence (University of Bedfordshire)
• Nile Thomas (Historian, 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance)
• Miranda Armstrong (Archiving the Inner City, University of York)
• Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Artist, Aswarm)

4.45pm to 5pm

• Tea and coffee break (accompanied by photography exhibition)

5pm to 6.30pm

Session three: Archiving the Inner City: What is preserved and what is lost?

• Stella Dadzie (Educationalist, activist, historian)
• London Unseen (Vanessa Ansa and/or Damali Ibreck)
• Decolonising the Archive (speaker TBC)
• Binki Taylor (The Brixton Project)

7pm to 8pm

• Drinks

8pm onwards

• Dinner at Danclair’s Kitchen, Brixton Village

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