Public Programme - Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference

International Curators Forum (ICF) was founded by artists and curators in 2007 to offer a dynamic and evolving programme that responds to the conditions and contexts impacting creative practitioners through commissions, exhibitions, projects, publications and events. We provide tools and platforms for professional development and facilitate an open peer-to-peer network inviting participants to be part of a generative system of skills and knowledge transfer. Across all of our work, both critically and practically, we aim to challenge the barriers to equality and inclusivity within our industry.Through all aspects of our programme we engage with diaspora as a critical framework through which we can address and complicate public discussion, test and explore new innovative curatorial models, and create space for artistic and discursive interventions into historical narratives and systems of representation. Based in London, ICF has conceived and produced projects with artists, curators and thinkers who engage with diaspora across the UK, Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.ICF is a National Portfolio Organisation supported by Arts Council England.

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Take part in ICF's Curator Talk and/or our weekly Reading Group as part of our Shifting the Centre Grenada as Reference exhibition.

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As part of our <a href="https://www.internationalcuratorsforum.org/event/shifting-the-centre-grenada/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shifting the Centre: Grenada as Reference</a> exhibition, ICF invites you to our in-person Curator Talk and our weekly in-person Reading Group at Black Cultural Archives. <h2>C﻿urator Talk - Thursday 27th April @ 6:30-8pm </h2><h2></h2>J﻿oin us for an open and informal conversation between yourselves and Shifting the Centre&#x27;s Curator, Orsod Malik. We&#x27;ll discuss the exhibition, curating &#x27;the archive&#x27;, and how anti-colonial thought might be applied to artistic, teaching, and organising work today.<h2>Reading group - Tuesday 9th, 16th, 23rd May @ 6:30-8pm </h2><h2></h2>We will also be hosting a weekly reading group to discuss the following written and audio visual texts...<ul><li>﻿Session 1, Tuesday 9th May:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-AxNFx88o&amp;t=1029s&amp;ab_channel=AfroMarxist" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">&#x27;Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us&#x27;</a> by Directors Carmen Ashhurst, John Douglas and Samori Marksman (1983) and <a href="https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/802359/reflections-on-a-revolution-in-conversation-with-selwyn-strachan" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">&#x27;Reflections on a revolution: In conversation with Selwyn Strachan&#x27; </a> by Peter Clegg (2015) </li></ul><ul><li>Session 2, Tuesday 16th May: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfoAwGcw5tQ&amp;t=14s&amp;ab_channel=TalkYourTalkTV" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">&#x27;Maurice Bishop&#x27;s Hunter College Speech&#x27; </a> (1983) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfLGDxnRH-Q&amp;t=831s&amp;ab_channel=ReaganFoundation" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">&#x27;Lebanon and Grenada: President Reagans Address on Events in Lebanon and Grenada&#x27; </a>(1983)</li></ul><ul><li>Session 3, T﻿uesday 23rd May: &#x27;Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report&#x27; by Audre Lorde (1984) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwxI_l84dc&amp;ab_channel=C-SPAN" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">&#x27;President Bush announces start of the Iraq War&#x27; </a>(2003) </li></ul>A﻿ll texts are currently available online but we will be sending out written transcripts to go along with all audio-visual material a week in advance of each session. * ﻿Spaces are limited for each session, please be mindful when registering*Shifting the Centre forms part of ICF’s multi-season <a href="https://www.internationalcuratorsforum.org/project/systems-reclaimed/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Systems Reclaimed Project</a>.Cover image: ‘Maurice with his people’ written on the back of the image, date unknown, CREFT/1/6 [Box 1] / Please get in contact if this is your image.

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