Exhibition Open! Activating Newham

By Charlotte

On Saturday we welcomed our first visitors to the Activating Newham exhibition at Old Manor Park Library, where we also premiered Ayo Akingbade's latest film, So They Say. The exhibition has been curated by young Londoners and responds to a summer of talks, workshops and training that have explored the history and legacy of activism in Newham.

Over the summer, the group met weekly for a programme of public talks, events and oral history training sessions that began to situate their own insights and experiences of racism and activism in the context of this history. They heard from 20 speakers, spanning 30 years of activism in Newham - including Dr Gerry Gable of Searchlight magazine, Newham Monitoring Project members, @lowlamichelle of @sistersuncut, housing campaigners FocusE15 and John Pandit of Asian Dub Foundation.

The exhibition is open every Saturday and Sunday until the 24th November (10am-4pm). This Saturday, @daikon.zine and @rabbitsroadpress will host a drop-in risograph and wheatpaste workshop (10am-2pm). Make your own collage posters using archival materials from the Institute of Race Relations, and memorialise alternative histories with DIY blue plaques. You can also try your hand at wheatpasting your work up on boards.

We've worked on this project with the Institute of Race Relations and @rabbitsroadpress. Please do join us at the exhibition this month (Old Manor Park Library, 835 Romford Road, Manor Park, E12 5JY). Thank you to @heritagefunduk for supporting this project and @aceagrams for supporting Ayo's film.
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