YARD TO ARCHIVE REPARATIVE ARCHIVE PROGRAM LAUNCH

YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR LAUNCH EVENT

OF OUR REPARATIVE ARCHIVE PROGRAM

FROM YARD TO ARCHIVE LAUNCH

COME AND REASON

VIBES THE MUSIC FROM LOVE EXPRESS (RASTA SOUNDSYSTEM D.J. DB)

TASTE THE FRESH FOOD

LEARN AND BE INSPIRED

VIEW THE DIGITAL EXHIBIT

Hood Futures Studio has partnered with Decolonising the Archive (DTA)to offer a 4 wk preparatory reparative archive course using contextual studies about an important aspect of Birmingham Black history and archiving. We will support the creating of access to reason and view the Rastafari movements in Birmingham (Birminstrong) as a framework for transporting identity and sustainable living structures.

Decolonising The Archive (DTA) has developed an entire course structure around Reparative Archiving and will be collaborating with Hood Futures Studio and the Community to facilitate phase 1.

This specific course has been developed to fill the gaps in our knowledge and documentation process around the dynamic history and perspectives surrounding the RASTAFARI MOVEMENT, so we may begin, or/and continue to tell our own stories, build legacies and protect our own knowledge system.

The course will allow a bilateral conversation around the tremendous history of the Pan African liberation movement and livity we have all come to know as RASTAFARI

You can find out more about the course and apply here, by 19th May. 2026

LAUNCH GROUNDINGS

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

MAMMA G,

RAS MOQAPI SELASSI,

RAS TREAD,

SHAWN NEPHTALI SOBERS

VANLEY BURKE

Before the course begins, we want to invite you to a special gathering at YARD on 13th June. The gathering will feature

special guests, music, food, exhibition

and more.

SPECIAL SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN TO RASTAFARIAN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE U.K. TO ATTEND OR TO ACCESS THE COURSE.

If the history of Birmingham’s Black communities matters to you,

then this is the place to be.

PHOTOS WILL BE TAKEN. ATTENDING GIVES PERMISSION UNLESS TOLD NOT TO DO SO (speak with photographer)