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The first-ever late night rave was held at the Birmingham City Council House’s prestigious banqueting suite last night, as part of the Festival of Audacity. Intent of being creatively audacious and daring, youth organisation Free Radical ensured the city’s Council House allowed young people to hold a music and dance filled extravaganza at the historic…
The Festival of Audacity, a free three-day extravaganza from Free Radical, has seen a myriad of creatives and artists occupy unusual spaces across Birmingham these last few days. Described by organisers as a “multidisciplinary festival of activist art making all of Birmingham its stage”, the showcase aims to take art out of its comfort zone, and boy, has it…
Journalist Vimal Korpal chats to Bernie Wilcox, one of the founders of the Northern Carnival Against the Nazis in 1978, on the 40th anniversary of the anti-racism event; and ahead of a new public exhibition in Manchester showcasing photographs and posters from the carnival. A defining moment in establishing anti-racism movements in the city and…
I happened to be in Manchester and stumbled upon Bernie Wilcox, who was one of the main organisers of the Northern Carnival Against the Nazis, which took place 40 years ago. A defining moment in establishing anti-racism movements in the city and beyond, the gathering was supported by music bands including Birmingham’s reggae group Steel Pulse…
There’s a lot of drums being beaten in the West Midlands right now, and none louder than in Birmingham, where hashtagged calls for Channel 4 to make the city its new home have become almost deafening. Between the Government pretty much forcing the iconic state-backed broadcaster to move out of the capital, and West Midlands…
Birmingham sisters Janet and Paulinah Eboh-Sampson used their creative platforms to set up the DoNation UK Project, a charitable initiative that would address the issue of donor shortages within the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Community (BAME). Inspired by the experience of their childhood friend Charlene Nelson, who underwent a kidney transplant at the age…