Welcome Walkthrough: Dr Anna Ball and Manjit Sahota
Join us in welcoming our latest exhibitions with this special guided walkthrough, featuring dialogue between two beloved members of Nottingham City’s community, Dr Anna Ball and Manjit Sahota, alongside one of our treasured Gallery Assistants and local artist, Millie Quick.
This walkthrough will be approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes of Q&A time at the end.
Please do join us after in the café for a more informal chat.
About
Everyone is welcome, though this event is designed for visitors who are new to the galleries and/or have not visited the current exhibition.
This is a light overview and conversation style event; you do not need any specific level of knowledge about art or the exhibitions.
Free; booking is required due to limited capacity.
Walking around the galleries is slow paced and kept to a minimum; seats/stools are provided.
The event is one hour (excluding any additional time spent in the café)
Please gather at Front of House (reception) for the start time.
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Access
This event will take place in our galleries.
Our building being wheelchair accessible with lift access to all floors.
If you have any questions around access, have specific access requirements or require a wheelchair space, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750 so we can ensure we are ready to welcome you on the day.
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Anna Ball is a story maker for social change, working at the cusp of socially engaged creative practice, research and cultural advocacy. Working across literary, visual and curatorial practice, Anna’s interest lies in how community-led co-creation can shift mainstream narratives within hostile sociopolitical environments, creating space for dialogue and encounter. Anna is Co-Director of Hostile Environment Art-Fuelled Learning (HEAL) Collective: a Nottingham based migration arts learning collective, and is currently an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded StoryArcs Fellow at the University of Nottingham, leading community engagement work at Nottingham City Galleries and Museums. Previously an Associate Professor in Postcolonial Feminisms, Literatures and Cultures at NTU, Anna has published widely on intersectional social justice contexts, including gender discourse in Palestinian literature, film and visual art; and on transcultural feminist solidarities across immigration and asylum systems worldwide. Anna is also longstanding organiser of Nottingham Refugee Week.
Manjit Sahota is the co-founder of Poets Against Racism (PAR) and a local poet, performing locally and nationally since 2016. Manjit has delivered workshops for several Nottingham based schools, universities and organisations, sharing his spoken word poetry to encourage others to write, read and perform poetry. Manjit has delivered several workshops for the National Literacy Trust, Nottingham Trent University, National Justice Museum and Refugee Week. In 2016, Manjit formed PAR to rally poets, spoken word artist and rappers to use their poetry to challenge the rise in racism and spread the word of unity, humanity and Love. ‘Poetry for me is the memory of our history, struggle and resistance’ Manjit