Groundings on a Black Planet - An evening of sound, gathering and reasoning
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What might it mean to ground on a Black planet? This evening invites audiences into a shared space of sound, archive and reasoning, exploring memory, relation and diasporic connection.
Groundings on a Black Planet is a live, participatory evening curated by HOUSE OF DREAD, engaging themes of archive, ritual, nationhood and Black life across geographies. Drawing on the work of Walter Rodney, “groundings” is approached as a method of gathering, listening and reasoning together.
For one night, the Conservatory shifts into a space of encounter. Through sound, moving image and live interventions, the evening moves between silences, fragments and archival material, inviting audiences to sit within a shared process rather than observe from a distance.
The work stays with questions of memory, land and inheritance, and how these continue to shape lived experience. The evening creates space to think collectively about relation - how we come together, what we carry, and what remains unresolved.
Guests to be announced.
Project a Black Planet: Events & Gatherings: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/series/project-a-black-planet-events-gatherings
Groundings on a Black Planet is a live, participatory evening curated by HOUSE OF DREAD, engaging themes of archive, ritual, nationhood and Black life across geographies. Drawing on the work of Walter Rodney, “groundings” is approached as a method of gathering, listening and reasoning together.
For one night, the Conservatory shifts into a space of encounter. Through sound, moving image and live interventions, the evening moves between silences, fragments and archival material, inviting audiences to sit within a shared process rather than observe from a distance.
The work stays with questions of memory, land and inheritance, and how these continue to shape lived experience. The evening creates space to think collectively about relation - how we come together, what we carry, and what remains unresolved.
Guests to be announced.
Project a Black Planet: Events & Gatherings: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/series/project-a-black-planet-events-gatherings
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Where is it happening?
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London, United Kingdom, The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
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