New festival celebrates Bath s connection to Ethiopian royalty
New festival celebrates Bath s connection to Ethiopian royalty
Issue date: 19 April 2021
A new festival has been launched this month celebrating the legacy and impact of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I on the city of Bath.
The Freedom in the City festival runs from April until the end of October with a series of online and in-person events exploring Ethiopian and Rastafari culture which are open to the public.
The project is the brainchild of UWE Bristol Associate Professor Dr Shawn Sobers and is being funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of their EDI Engagement Fellowships which supports researchers whose work focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion.
Work on £8,000 Colston statue museum display begins
The first clues about when, and how, the infamous statue will be put back on public display
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The statue of Edward Colston is to be housed in an £8,000 display which will include a barrier, when it is eventually shown to the public later this year.
Work has begun on constructing the display that will house the statue, along with the Black Lives Matter placards and signs that were left around the plinth on the day in June 2020 when it was toppled and dumped in the Floating Harbour.
âHistory is madeâ as Bristol passes slavery reparations motion
By Ellie Pipe, Wednesday Mar 3, 2021
It has been hailed a moment of international significance, but Bristolâs call for reparatory justice is also the first milestone in an ongoing journey.
The motion passed at an extraordinary council meeting will galvanise support for a reparations and atonement plan, led by grassroots organisations, to address the cityâs role in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans and its enduring impact.
Bristol is also calling for the government to set up an all-party parliamentary commission of inquiry to look at how reparations might be delivered.
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Miniclick is a monthly series of curated photographer talks, normally with free beer and networking, but temporarily online via Zoom. It is curated by Sadie Catt and hosted by the RPS.
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Francheska Melendez will be discussing their collaborative work, recently published by Here Press.
Shawn Sobers is an Associate Professor of Cultural Interdisciplinary Practice at the University of the West of England, Bristol. While teaching photography, filmmaking, Research Methods, MRes and PhD; he positions his own work primarily within the discourses of Anthropology.
These three practitioners will be coming together to discuss ‘
Amuleto’ as a conversation between image and text that draws parallels between the pandemic, immigrant experience, and the global human rights movement. Ben Roberts made the photographs in an area that borders the Guadarrama Mountains, 50km north of Madrid, while Francheska Melendez assembled a text based on her own words and f
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Four people charged with criminal damage over the toppling of the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol have opted to be tried before a judge and jury.
The four, aged 21-36, appeared at Bristol magistrates court amid tight security after police warned demonstrators would be breaching lockdown restrictions if they gathered outside the court.
A handful of people were detained outside or spoken to by police while scores of other supporters of the “Colston Four” took part in a virtual protest, which was disrupted when someone “hijacked” the feed and digitally scrawled the N-word across a speaker’s face.