See it! Hear it! Experience it! Exhibition • Narrative drama • Discussions • Workshops

OVERVIEW

EVERYONE JOIN US!! For a fantastic event, as never before

DAY 1: Knowledge Exhibition: Textiles-Pottery-Calabashes

A unique opportunity to explore and experience ancestral artistic skills and knowledge of African women.

Community Dialogue:

Initial discussions forum to highlight colonial history of African women’s ancestral Art treasures in British Museums archives.

African Women’s Creative Workshops:

The Hands that Weave, Shape and Create

DAY 2: Ancestors & Living Archive:

Aguda Odyssey Narrative Drama is Journey of “Omowale” - return, memory and identity through the Reis family’s story. It reveals a complex and lesser known history of intertwined legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition - from Lagos to Brazil, back to Lagos and onward toStockport.

Experiences & Voices: The Living Archive

The Over 50’s Stockport African-Black Women, younger generations, mixed-race marriages, mixed-race heritage families’ stories are voices carrying us forward.

Organized by: AWADGLOBAL

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