Do you have treasured photographs or family mementos that you would like to safeguard for future generations? Join expert conservators for a workshop focusing on how to build and preserve personal and family histories. The workshop also offers an opportunity to discuss how best to preserve a range of different personal memorabilia.

This intergenerational event offers the opportunity for the elders within the Black community to take centre stage. Offering an opportunity to share stories of the past as an inspirational and point of learning for the future. With a number of key provocations to get things started, this reminiscences session aims to motivate the next generation.

Interested in recording your family stories? Join us for an oral history workshop which will explore best practice and offer practical tools and examples on how to record oral histories with family members and preserve these recordings for the future. Members of the Serendipity team will also be present to talk about Unearthed: Forgotten Histories…

Saturday 29 April 7.00pm Mercure Leicester – The Grand Hotel £18 | £16 Concession Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2023 returns with another unique launch event to celebrate International Dance Day (29 April) and International Jazz Day (30 April) and embracing this year’s theme Uncovering the Dance Within: Origins and Authenticity. Commissioned by Serendipity Institute for…

Sunday 30 April 11.00am – 12.00noon Dialogue Box Monday 1 May 10.00am – 3.00pm Dupont Dance Stage School Wednesday 3 May 10.00am – 12.00noon Curve RR2 Thursday 4 May 10.00am – 2.00pm Dialogue Box Friday 5 May 10.00am – 11.00am Curve RR2 Saturday 6 May 10.00am – 3.00pm Curve RR2 £150 Student Bundle (All Classes)…

Wednesday 3 May 1.00pm – 3.00pm Curve RR2 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM Danse Montreal. Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for 7 years, under the artistic direction of…

Wednesday 3 May 3.30pm – 5.30pm Curve RR2 This encounter will be the opportunity of a co-creative instant inviting all knowledge, artistry and aesthetic, creating a safe space where non-discriminatory learning and giving can be exercise. During guided practices Freddy Houndekindo will introduce his primary improvisation and composition tools, based on two concepts: the dramatic-performative…

This roundtable discussion will explore the history and evolution of movement and performance as a sketch of gender, identity, and orientation. It will evolve into an interactive forum that explores the effort and shape of the body to communicate one's embodied & "divine feminine energy."; It will approach the C-word through the LGBTQ+ ballroom perspective…

Aimed at promoters, programmers and producers, this in-conversation is an opportunity to hear more from the artists participating in the Black British Dance Platform. In collaboration with Fabric.