BRITAIN ON TRIAL: Young Voices Speak Out!
This event on 29th October 2011 at 11:30 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: platformshake@gmail.com
As the re-trial for justice for Stephen Lawrence begins, we ask "where are we now?" through a day of workshops and an evening performance to expose Britain's injustices.
Concerned about how young people are being treated?
Get the feeling that justice is becoming more and more hard to find?
That institutional racism is alive and kicking the next generation?
Deaths in police custody... Increased surveillance... Fortress Britain... Cuts in education... Protests, 'riots' and looting...
Young people from Leeds Young Authors and Shake! alongside community activists, academics, and artists ask what does the present and future hold?
Participate in the discussion. Take part in creative workshops to find another way. Celebrate the struggle against injustice with two landmark films.
11.30am Registration and LUNCH (free)
12.30 THE CHARGE - welcome by Esther Stanford-Xosei
Mini-lectures by young people and activists/academics on
> Racism, young people and the police
> Consumer Capitalism, advertising, and young people; Media portrayal of youth
> History of displacement; contemporary refugee/asylum seeker realities
with: Samia Aziz, Dr Stuart Hodkinson, Dr Carl Hylton, Paris Kaur, Kadish Morris, Sai Murai, Germain Naruhana, Selina Nwulu, Zodwa Nyoni, Rotimi Skyers
Followed by discussion
2.30pm BREAK & refreshments
3.00pm THE TESTIMONY - creative workshops based on morning's discussions
i) Drama/Movement workshop with Khadijah Ibrahiim
ii) Poetry/spoken work/creative writing workshop with Zena Edwards/ Selina Nwulu
iii) Subverting the media with Sai Murai
4.30pm BREAK & refreshments
5.00pm - 7pm THE VERDICT - bringing it all together
Share work done in creative workshops; spoken-word showcase and a rare chance to see short films 'Blood ah Go Run' (1982) commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the original Black Peoples Day of Action, and 'Step Forward Youth' (1977) with Leeds Black Film Club
Entry: FREE
Time: 11:30am
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