Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Schedule
Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 07:30 pm
Location
All Saints Church Penarth, Penarth, CF64 3EL | Penarth, WA
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What does it mean – and how does it feel – to grow up as a Black artist today?One of our most memorable online events during lockdown was with the inspirational Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, for her memoir House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons. We are absolutely delighted to be able to welcome Kadiatu to Penarth in person to talk about her essential new book, To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a moving, powerful exploration of racism in classical music – and how it can be fought.
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason is a former lecturer in English at Birmingham University. Her memoir, House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons, won both the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Storytelling Award and the 2022 Indie Book Award for non-fiction. Kadiatu has seven children, all of whom are world-class classical musicians, who have performed both together and solo at major concert halls around the world.
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Wednesday 25 June
7.30 pm (doors open 7.00 pm)
All Saints Church, Victoria Square, Penarth
Tickets: £10.00 event only / £20.00 including a signed hardback copy of To Be Young, Gifted and Black (RRP: £16.99)* / £5.00 inclusive ticket / £5.00 student ticket
*Any book not collected at the event will be held in Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.
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