About this Event
OVERVIEW
EVERYONE JOIN US!! For a fantastic event, as never before
DAY 1: Knowledge Exhibition: Textiles-Pottery-Calabashes
A unique opportunity to explore and experience ancestral artistic skills and knowledge of African women.
Community Dialogue:
Initial discussions forum to highlight colonial history of African women’s ancestral Art treasures in British Museums archives.
African Women’s Creative Workshops:
The Hands that Weave, Shape and Create
DAY 2: Ancestors & Living Archive:
Aguda Odyssey Narrative Drama is Journey of “Omowale” - return, memory and identity through the Reis family’s story. It reveals a complex and lesser known history of intertwined legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition - from Lagos to Brazil, back to Lagos and onward toStockport.
Experiences & Voices: The Living Archive
The Over 50’s Stockport African-Black Women, younger generations, mixed-race marriages, mixed-race heritage families’ stories are voices carrying us forward.
Organized by: AWADGLOBAL
Event venue & nearby stays
Hat Works, Wellington Mill, Wellington Road South, Stockport, United Kingdom
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