The first event in the public programme focuses upon the critical roles played by women such as Amy Ashwood Garvey, the revolutionary Pan-Africanist whose life and work provides the starting point for Carrying Yours and Standing Between You, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s new installation at The Showrooom.

Marika Sherwood will conduct a personal tour of the Ashwood Garvey archive created by Wolukau-Wanambwa’s Carrying Yours and Standing Between You for The Showroom. In conversation with Wolukau-Wanambwa, Sherwood will discuss her research into Ashwood Garvey’s pioneering Pan-Africanism and will draw connections with some of the many women whose political interventions constitute an underacknowledged geography of struggles for emancipation.