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Subira Joy 'Radical Remembering'

Part of Brighton Festival 2024 and University of Sussex Festival of Ideas

Join Brighton-based spoken-word performer and activist Subira Joy and special guests for an evening rooted in histories of resistance, through a lens of creativity and performance.

Combining spoken word, discussions, writing, and more to explore queer and Black activism, archival research and radical lineages, Radical Remembering invites you to challenge how and why we hold our histories.

Speakers/performers: Subira Joy, Miz Lexia, Nat Arias, Baby Blue, CASH

Organised by University of Sussex in partnership with The Stuart Hall Foundation

Part of The Sussex Festival of Ideas, a programme of talks, events and activities, from the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at University of Sussex. The Festival of Ideas harnesses the transformative power of the arts and humanities to fashion new ways of thinking about the past, present and future.

Please note - this event takes place in ACCA café bar

The Gardner Tower room (on the right as you enter the building) will be open for all attendees to use during the event as a quiet space between 7pm and 8.30pm. Attendees are welcome to come and go from the performance area to the quiet space as they wish.

Following the sharings in the ACCA café there will be a meditation / workshop session for POC which will take place in the quiet space from 9pm - 10pm, led by artists/facilitators Baby Blue and Cash.

The ACCA café bar will be open until 10pm, and all attendees are welcome to stay and mingle.

Image by Jamie Boyt