Harsh Light: Désirée Reynolds & Eelyn Lee

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Writer Désirée Reynolds and artist Eelyn Lee discuss their socially committed practices and how to tell 'impossible stories' with archives

<h2>Harsh Light: Désirée Reynolds &amp; Eelyn Lee</h2>Wednesday 16 February, 7 – 8:30pmOnline (via Zoom)Free &amp; open to all<h3>Accompanied by BSL interpretation</h3>For our first Harsh Light of 2022, we are inviting Sheffield-based Eelyn Lee and Désirée Reynolds, who will discuss their collaborative as well as individual work as an artist and writer respectively. As socially committed storytellers, their practices amplify forgotten and silenced narratives at the margins. The speakers will talk about the development of their film project, which is based on Désirée’s haunting short story ‘Born on Sunday, Silent’. Tying it to their shared interest in ‘retrieval’, they will explore what it means to look for traces in physical objects like photographs, documents and registries that make up a place like the Sheffield Archives. What is it like to encounter such fragments? And following cultural historian Saidiya Hartman’s lead, how might one attend to the ‘unsaid […] without committing further violence in my own act of narration?’ In other words, how does one tell impossible stories?--Eelyn LeeEelyn Lee is an award-winning artist and filmmaker based in Sheffield. She has exhibited at Barbican, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery as well as internationally in Paris, Berlin, Bogotá and Toronto. Eelyn’s practice combines collective research, devised theatre and filmmaking to create frameworks for ensembles of collaborators to work together. In 2016 she co-founded Social Art Network, an artist-led network, building agency in the field of art and social practice. In 2020 she was commissioned to make Casting Fu Manchu, a film exploring ‘yellow peril’ in response to the rise of COVID related ‘Asian hate’. Eelyn is currently developing her first narrative feature film.Désirée ReynoldsDésirée Reynolds is a writer, editor and creative writing workshop facilitator living in Sheffield. She started her writing career as a freelance journalist for the Jamaica Gleaner and the Village Voice. Her stories are in numerous anthologies and her first novel “Seduce” was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2013 to much acclaim. Committed to anti-racism and intersectionality, she draws on her experiences of these to make creative work. In 2020, she published two short stories with Dead Ink and Bloomsbury and Arachne Press. Désirée was the guest curator of the Black Women Write Now strand of 2020’s Off The Shelf Festival of Words and was longlisted for the BBC short story prize 2021. The webinar will be recorded and available to view via our website following the event. <h2>This event is free but booking is essential.</h2>A link to attend the online event will be sent via email following registration.This series of events have been generously supported by The Arts Council England.

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