1525: Food For Thought
Come along to our casual and comfy reading group hosted by movement practitioner Natifah White.
Food for thought is a relaxed ‘reading’ space - a place to snack, chat and learn together.
We use the term ‘reading’ in an expansive way; the subject we might be studying can include books, videos, podcasts and sound.
You will encounter the subject matter during the session so there is no need to read ahead.
If you would like to attend this session and have any concerns, please get in touch with Chan, our youth programmer via email cfagan@nottinghamcontemporary.org.
Where possible we’ll do our best to support you and your needs/requirements.
This event is aimed at 15-25 year olds and has been organised by our 1525 Collective.
Access
Find information about getting here and our building access and facilities here.
Free for all. This event is aimed at 15-25 year olds. Booking is required.
This event is held in The Studio which is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.
Natifah White is a Nottingham-based artist applying movement principles from her dance practice to reimagine archive and library systems. Training at London Contemporary Dance School (2019) shaped her cross-disciplinary way of working.
Her performance experience includes work with Grace Nicol (2020), Seke Chimutengwende (2020-24), Florence Peake (2021-23), and SERAFINE1369 (2022-). She was also part of House dance collective Indahouse UK's mentorship programme (2019-24). Her research into 'the body as an archive' has been supported through opportunities with FABRIC (2020), The Mighty Creatives (2021), Kinship Workshop (2022), Wainsgate Dances (2023), and Dance Umbrella/ Anthea Lewis (2024). Natifah has a digi-practice called 'thisishappening' (2023-) that explores archiving and dancing, developing the hyphen in dancer-archivist and exploring where dance can go. It functions as an 'amplifying practice' (borrowing term from Archival Textures) using crediting, repeating, and sharing as 'strategies of solidarity'. This digi-practice gathers content shaping her neuro-spicy brain and artistic thinking, including cross-over research with visual art practitioners and curators.
Most recently, through 'Hip Hop One Style' at Åsa Folkhögskola, Sweden (2024-25), Natifah (re)connected with her Hip Hop dance practice and developed 'Library Tellers' (aka origami-fortune-tellers-turned-library-guides) that reimagine access to Hip Hop librarianship. Each Teller contains questions and optional reading suggestions to support personal understandings of Hip Hop through three themes: Sonic Cultures, Bodily Archives, and Kin-structures/Kinships.
Inspired by Philippa Driest and KIOSK Rotterdam's 'leaky press' concept (centering maintenance, community, and re-distribution), Natifah is also interested in dance archival and library dialogue seeping into unexpected and embodied spaces (including ourselves!) broadening what counts as archival practice and technology.