Voices for Freedom
15 October 2020
Voices for Freedom
The online film screening, Voices for Freedom, will include unique performances of original and existing work presented by family members of the Manchester-based Pan African Congress 1945 delegates.
A fusion of oral history, dance, acapella and poetry, with extracts from writers including W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Merle Collins and SuAndi. The screening includes new commissioned pieces by Ronald Samm, tenor, and Kevin.E.Turner, Company Chameleon, with musical score by Kevin Davy.
Readers: Xenia McKenzie, Stan Finni, ‘SAF -S2E’, Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Barrie Olkachookwu George, Ann Rufai (Sarge), Angela Lawrence, and Alima Sonne.
Voices for Freedom has been curated by Manchester poet SuAndi of Black Arts Alliance and developed in collaboration with Manchester Poetry Library.
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Biographies
SuAndi
SuAndi is the freelance Cultural Director of National Black Arts Alliance and an internationally recognised Poet and Performance Artist. Her one-woman show The Story of M is now on the “A” Level syllabus. A popular conference speaker on the positioning of Black lives and culture she believes in representing. Her libretto for Mary Seacole the opera was seen by a sell-out audience over seven days at Convent Garden. In recent years, as the freelance Cultural Director of National Black Arts Alliance, SuAndi has worked to preserve the history of the pre- and post-war African and Caribbean communities in Manchester UK. The moving memories and histories of these families have been collected into the works Afro Solo UK and Strength of our Mothers.
In 1999 SuAndi was awarded an OBE for her contribution to the Black Arts Sector. She has also received honorary degrees from Lancaster University and Manchester Metropolitan University for her work in the literature and the arts in general.
Manchester Poetry Library
Manchester Poetry Library is a public poetry library that welcomes all. As part of Manchester Metropolitan University we host a year-round programme of events, and will be opening on Oxford Road early 2021.
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