Graphic Novels: Publishing,Black History and movies

1960s comics are now being used to creat 21st century, billion dolar movies like X Men, Captain America and Superman. This special presentation will look at how African/Caribbean-centred graphic novels and modern technology are re-telling amazing true stories and setting up their own Black-centred universes to be transposed into exciting visual media. We will cover :

• Six graphic novels that cover real Black history
• Two historical/fantasy books en route to the Hollywood treatment
• Black British Comicbook Legends
• Caribbean designed spaceraft
• Ancient African civilisations
• Black publishers and their fight for equality: Twenty in 2020
• How to suppress Black films, the African Odysseys story
• Plus Q&A with special guest Terry Jervis , Hollywood producer and creator of Spirit of the Pharoahs. Check out his incredible CV Here

• African Odysseys: How to Fight Racism at the BFI, British Film Institute
• African Odysseys: Ismahil Blagrove season London gun crime and Cuban revolution
• 50 years of Struggle Professor Gus John
• Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
• Frantz Fanon film and talk Weekender
• Black Women and Film Exhibition
• Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
• Mayfair, Hackney,Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
• African Women Spirituality @Fulham Palace
• Deleting Black History in Institutions
• Groundings @Fulham Palace
• Kumba drumming @Fulham Palace.
• I fought the law and I won, a Black judge of 60 years of Equality legislation
• Champion Black Bowers and businessmen in 1800s London: African Odysseys

About African Odysseys . Previously at the BFI Southbank for 18 years, African Odysseys is now hosting films across London due to systemic racism at the BFI which ignored a17,500 strong petition and cancelled the popular,monthly programme there. Full details HERE

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