About this Event
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We are excited to announce that liberation freedom fighter Stella Dadzie will be this years Keynote speaker and pumped to introduce our Youth Steering Group, who are in charge of the Young Leader To Watch award which is an award led by young people and their independent steering group. With two awards being given this year - an award in the name of Olive Morris highlighting Black women across the UK doing pro active work in their community, the second being the Young Leader To Watch Award, we are confident that the intergenerational exchange, knowledge building and communal dining, carefully curated by a group of young adults will make this day insanely fun and transformative!
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE WINNERS FOR 2024
Kelechi Okafor
Binta Yaade
Zita Holbourne
Rebecca Ihiekwe
These winners are actively building the African Heritage community, defending and bringing justice rights to our awareness and preparing us in resilience skills, whilst we tackle oppression and epistemicide in the U.K.
The Olive Morris Awards program was inherited by Decolonising the Archive in 2022 and it was asked of us to do our best to keep the program running and to make the community aware of the work/legacy of the Women's liberation and freedom fighter Olive Morris and others like her who are lived experience scholars. As such we need YOU the community to support us in keeping this ambitious fire alive as we self fund the initiative this year. Support us by buying a ticket for you and a friend and a raffle ticket if you are able to. All proceeds go towards the overheads required to sustain this initiative. To evidence our Action Not A Bag A Mouth policy peruse our track record here Remembering Olive Morris — DTA (Decolonising the Archive)
Since mounting the program we have learnt how imperative it is to invoke the work and methods of Olive Morris as a framework we may borrow from to protect us, especially within the context of the increased suicide figures, depression, homelessness, food bank dependency and school exclusions occurring in African heritage communities.
Kelechi Okafor
Whether it’s through her podcasts or books as well as informative video essays - Kelechi explores and challenges what it means to navigate modern society based on what we remember of our histories. Her brave and bold authenticity on speaking out to the media on behalf of the African heritage community is priceless!
The spiritual is political and this is why Kelechi’s Tarot, astrology Yoruba cosmology offerings are instrumental to her understanding of liberation, on an individual and collective level.
Binta Yade
is a Senegalese-Italian-Australian community organiser, poet and lawyer living in South London. She is the co-founder of the Aada Collective, a Pan-African collective dedicated to reviving and reimagining Pan-African school of thought through afro-centric community engagement and decolonial education, with a wider aim of providing humanitarian aid on the African continent and beyond. She is also the cultural programmer for The Black State, a community organisation championing radical thought and action among Black youth. Beyond this, she plays an active role in several organisations namely educational charity Thinking Black and so much more!
Zita Holbourne
is a human rights and equality campaigner / activist, trade union leader, and multidisciplinary artist - visual artist, poet, author, writer and vocalist.founding member of African Caribbean and Asian Lawyers for Justice and BME Lawyers for Grenfell and former Vice President of PCS Union. She was curator of the TUC Roots Culture Identity Art Exhibition 2013 to 2023.
She is the author of the book, Striving for Equality, Freedom and Justice, a collection of poetry, published by Hansib, co-author of the book Roots and Rebellion (JK Publishers, February 2024), a contributor to New Daughters of Africa and one of 17 British women featured in the award winning
book Here We Stand Women Changing the World. She has contributed to over forty books.
Meet this amazing woman in person!
Rebecca Ihiekwe
Rebecca Ihiekwe is a 26-year-old British-Nigerian marketing executive from Liverpool, passionate about racial justice and black empowerment. She chairs her firm & #39;s Diversity Committee, leads impactful projects like the nationally recognised ‘The Colonial Legacies of the Liverpool Sandbach
Family’ de-colonisation display at the Walker Art Gallery, and was featured on Northern Power Women’s 2023 Future List, recognising her as a trailblazer.
Recently appointed as the youngest ever Associate Trustee at National Museums Liverpool, Rebecca also consults for the Anthony Walker Foundation, delivering anti-racism training to Merseyside Police. She is a dynamic advocate for diversity and inclusion, driving change within her community.
PROGRAM
Drum Call Hosted by Kesensa’aakhut Mordi
Short Film Screenings
Keynote Address - Stella Dadzie
Round Table Talk: "Black, Britain, Women - A Trifecta" + Q&A (guest speakers)
BOUNTI FUL TASTY CUISINE / LUNCEHON
Olive Morris Award Winners + SHARING
Young Leader To Watch Winner + SHARING
RAFFLE WINNERS Announcement
Short Films Screening highlighting young Black women filmmakers
Poetry Refreshments and much more....
SUPPORT US BY GETTING A RAFFLE TICKET AND WIN LIMITED EDITION ITEMS ( FROM SELECTED ARCHIVES AROUND THE WORLD) AND GET YOUR GEEK ON! RAFFLE TICKETS ARE IN THE TICKET SECTION.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Karibueducationcentre, 7 Gresham Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.30 to GBP 18.00