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SUMMARY:Women's Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the voices of Black Women through poetry. \nInspire your creativity\, self-expression and connection through the power of words. Join us for a special poetry writing workshop for women. \nThis workshop is a gentle and supportive space for women from all backgrounds to explore personal stories\, celebrate identity and build confidence through poetry. Whether you are completely new to writing or already keep a notebook of poems\, you are warmly welcome. As we celebrate Black History Month\, we want to connect with our artistic selves through poetry. Join us and have fun. \nDate: Saturday 1 November 2025 \nTime: 11.00am – 12.30pm \nVenue: Curve Theatre \nTickets: Adults £10 | Under 16s free entry \nPre-booking is required. Please register by email at editor.sanroopublishing@gmail.com or book via Curve Theatre. \nJoin us afterwards for the second part of the Women’s Poetry Competition which is free entry.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/womens-poetry-workshop/
LOCATION:Curve\, 60 Rutland Street\, Leicester\, LE1 1SB
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round
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SUMMARY:Women's Poetry Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to take part in the Annual Women’s Poetry Competition in celebration of the poetic voice of Black women in recognition of Black History Month. \nThis year\, the title of the competition is “Women Standing Firm in Power and Pride”. \nSubmission and competition rules \nYour poem should be: \n\nFocused on the theme\n30 lines or less\nInclude the title\, the author’s name and contact details\n\nClosing date for submissions: Saturday 11 October 2025 at midnight. \nSubmit you poem in a Word document format to editor.sanroopublishing@gmail.com \nShortlisted authors will be invited to read their poems at our Women’s Poetry Competition Presentation event on Saturday 1 November 2025. Poems will be scored on how your poem reads on the page as well as in spoken word.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/womens-poetry-competition-2025/
LOCATION:Curve\, 60 Rutland Street\, Leicester\, LE1 1SB
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round
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SUMMARY:Digital BlackCentric Week
DESCRIPTION:Digital BlackCentric Week is an annual online event that provides the opportunity to take part in cutting-edge conversations\, development and innovative work that utilises technology as a creative tool. \nThis programme is at the forefront of exploring how new work\, thoughts and experiences are redefining what is possible and how it is rapidly transforming industries\, education and everyday life.  By challenging existing barriers\, it creates space to explore both traditional and contemporary concepts while forging a new language and occupying new realms for Black creatives\, technologists\, researchers and academics. \nDigital BlackCentric Week continues to build stronger relationships and networks across organisations in the UK and the international dance sector\, whilst establishing a living legacy for Black dance. \n  \nPayment Plans \nSerendipity is providing the option to spread the cost of the conference ticket through interest-free payment plans. \nYou can choose from: \n\n\nFour interest-free payments via Clearpay.\nThree interest-free payments via Klarna.\n\nThe  interest-free payment options can be selected at checkout.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/digital-blackcentric-week-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round,Digital BlackCentric Week,On Now,Serendipity Online,Year Round Programme
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ORGANIZER;CN="Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage":MAILTO:info@serendipity-uk.com
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch - Writers\, Artists and Practitioners within the Creative Sector
DESCRIPTION:The book\, Being Black and British: Before\, During and After Drama School\, is about being Black\, being British and being an actor before\, during and after training. \nAs a part of Digital BlackCentric Week\, the online book launch features the editor of the book\, Dermot Daly\, alongside the contributors to the book.  This special book launch is for writers\, artists and practitioners within the creative sector to come together discuss the themes in the book as well as answering questions from the audience around Black British(ness)\, actor training and performance. \nWritten by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries\, Being Black and British: Before\, During and After Drama School offers practical and theoretical tools to take into the classroom\, studio\, rehearsal room\, mind\, body and heart\, focalised unapologetically through being Black in Britain.  Structured across three acts\, it covers themes present on the road to drama school such as youth theatre\, the texts studied and early experiences in theatre spaces; drama school training with practical suggestions to encourage and embolden Black actors and the world of the profession\, ensuring that mental health\, making work and a sense of what can be offered by Black actors is made clear. \nThis book is a call to action and a challenge to all those who teach\, lecture\, direct\, parent\, produce\, cast and/or train\, Black performers in Britain – and those performers themselves\, to listen more\, ask more\, feel more and be more. \nThe book can be pre-ordered from your favourite book shop or from the publisher’s website. \nThe online book launch is included in the Digital BlackCentric Week standard ticket at £35 or it is £10 for a ticket for the book launch only. \nThe Zoom link for the online book launch will be sent to attendees the day before the event. \nImage credit: Designed cover image Dermot Daly.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/online-book-launch-being-black-and-british-before-during-and-after-drama-school/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round,Coming Soon,Digital BlackCentric Week,Serendipity Online,Year Round Programme
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch - Educators from Secondary Schools\, Colleges\, Universities and Conservatoires
DESCRIPTION:The book\, Being Black and British: Before\, During and After Drama School\, is about being Black\, being British and being an actor before\, during and after training. \nAs a part of Digital BlackCentric Week\, the online book launch features the editor of the book\, Dermot Daly\, alongside the contributors to the book.  This special book launch is for educators from secondary schools\, colleges\, universities and conservatoires to come together discuss the themes in the book as well as answering questions from the audience around Black British(ness)\, actor training and performance. \nWritten by Black writers working in and around the British performative industries\, Being Black and British: Before\, During and After Drama School offers practical and theoretical tools to take into the classroom\, studio\, rehearsal room\, mind\, body and heart\, focalised unapologetically through being Black in Britain.  Structured across three acts\, it covers themes present on the road to drama school such as youth theatre\, the texts studied and early experiences in theatre spaces; drama school training with practical suggestions to encourage and embolden Black actors and the world of the profession\, ensuring that mental health\, making work and a sense of what can be offered by Black actors is made clear. \nThis book is a call to action and a challenge to all those who teach\, lecture\, direct\, parent\, produce\, cast and/or train\, Black performers in Britain – and those performers themselves\, to listen more\, ask more\, feel more and be more. \nThe book can be pre-ordered from your favourite book shop or from the publisher’s website. \nThe online book launch is included in the Digital BlackCentric Week standard ticket at £35 or it is £10 for a ticket for the book launch only. \nThe Zoom link for the online book launch will be sent to attendees the day before the event. \nImage credit: Designed cover image Dermot Daly.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/online-book-launch-educators-from-secondary-schools-colleges-universities-and-conservatoires/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round,Coming Soon,Digital BlackCentric Week,Serendipity Online,Year Round Programme
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SUMMARY:Black Threads: Short Films in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of film and dialogue that weaves together histories\, memories\, and the legacies of Black and Diasporic creativity. \nThe programme features three short films: two that are within the Moving Image Collection at iniva and one film that was commissioned as part of the BFI National Archive project ‘Our Screen Heritage’. \nStill Life – Green Textile\,  \nDir. Grace Ndritu\, UK\, 2007\, 5 minutes\nStill Life: Green Textiles is one of the four videos that use West African textiles in a sensual and\, at times\, unnerving physical performance by the artist to camera. Ndiritu wraps\, conceals and reveals her body\, creating and controlling tensions within the fabric to provoke different emotional responses. \nLegacy by Campbell X \nDir. Campbell X\, UK\, 2006\, 17 minutes\nLegacy is a film about memories\, ghosts and ancestors. It questions the lasting effects 400 years of slavery has had on the traditions and intimate relationships of people of African descent in the Americas. This personal film focuses on the relationship Inge Blackman\, the filmmaker\, has with her mother and the challenging issues that they have confronted privately together\, now projected into a public space. \nThreads of Memory  \nDir. Juliana Kasumu\, UK 2025\, 17 minutes\nUnravelling the enduring influence of West African and Caribbean cultural memory on Black British fashion\, Threads of Memory explores how migration\, identity and resilience alongside an ever-expanding style and social exchange via moving image\, shaped the evolution of a fashion movement that redefines authenticity and challenges stereotypes. \nFollowing the screenings\, Juliana Kasumu will be in conversation with Pawlet Brookes\, offering insights into the creative process\, the politics of cultural memory\, and the power of visual storytelling to connect past and present. \nIf you have purchased a standard ticket for Digital BlackCentric Week\, this event is free. \nDoors open at 6pm.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/black-threads-short-films-in-dialogue/
LOCATION:Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage\, 8 Bowling Green Street\, Leicester\, LE1 6AT
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round,Coming Soon,Digital BlackCentric Week,Serendipity Online,Year Round Programme
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SUMMARY:Black Heritage Voices 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Importance of Black Archives in Preserving Historical Memory \nLimited tickets available \nBlack Heritage Voices is a conference dedicated to uniting professionals working across various roles within the heritage sector\, who work with or are interested in Black archives.  This includes archivists\, researchers\, audience engagement specialists\, community artists and activists\, heritage programmers (Black History Month) and those in leadership positions. \nThe event fosters dialogue and exploration around creativity\, digital innovation and reframing narratives\, with a focus on broadening perspectives within the heritage field and ultimately changing the gaze. \n  \nThe conference will feature esteemed national and international voices: \nKeynote speaker: Carlos Correa Angulo\, Curator at Museo Afro de Colombia \nMichelle Charters\, Head of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool \nPeggy Brunache\, Lecturer in the history of Atlantic slavery at the University of Glasgow \nCheryl Finley\, Inaugural Director of the Art and Visual Culture Faculty at Spelman College \nFrancesca Sobande\, Reader in Digital Media Studies at Cardiff University \nDeborah Willis\, Professor of Photography and Imaging\, Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University \nMark Sealy\, Curator\, Historian\, Professor of Photography – Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London and Executive Director of Autograph ABP \nAngelina Osborne\, Historian and co-author of “100 Great Black Britons” \nPayment Plans \nSerendipity is providing the option to spread the cost of the conference ticket through interest-free payment plans. \nYou can choose from: \n\n\nFour interest-free payments of £33.75 via Clearpay.\nThree interest-free payments of £45.00 via Klarna.\n\nThe  interest-free payment options can be selected at checkout. \nPlease select the number of tickets you require before selecting “Get Tickets”.
URL:https://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/black-heritage-voices/
LOCATION:Jewry Wall Museum\, St Nicholas Circle\, Leicester\, LE1 4LB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BHM Year Round,Coming Soon,Heritage
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