Writer of YA detective hist fic (agents, hit me up) Visual Artist - 'Fugitives in the Archive' (2024) Creative Producer #ConversationswithBaldwin
Bristol, England
Joined June 2016
- Tweets1.5K
- Following1.5K
- Followers936
- Likes3.4K
Pinned Tweet
How do we tell stories about subversive pasts when archives only have a fragment of the picture?
This is something I explore in FUGITIVES IN THE ARCHIVE - a short film that invites you into a dreamspace to meditate on the past and present lives of undocumented freedom-seekers.
Oh, what a special night this was - the way the acts bounced and sang off each other and spoke to the emotions in the room💛 a great crew to celebrate #JamesBaldwin's centenary
Big shout out to our collaborators @rtbspokenword on this one, to all the artists who brought fire artistry to the stage, and to YOU our audience who turned out in force to celebrate #JamesBaldwin's 100th birthday with us!✨
Catch up on more of the festival at our website🎭
Heather Marks retweeted
Just announced 📣
We're excited bring you Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film with @WordsofColour — a season celebrating the centenary of the writer and civil rights activist.
Featuring underseen shorts + IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
🎟️bit.ly/GFT_BaldwinonFilm
Just got back from Scotland, but I can't wait to come back in September for this special film season I've co-curated with the fab @glasgowfilm and Liz Chege for #ConversationswithBaldwin✨
I meant it when I said I wanted this festival to go across the UK! #notjustlondon🤪
#ConversationswithBaldwin is back from summer hols and our first stop this autumn is... GLASGOW!🏴
Watch under-seen shorts, rare Baldwin footage, and the gorgeous Beale Street at 'Conversations with Baldwin: James Baldwin on Film'
- with @glasgowfilm🍿
🎟️tinyurl.com/cwbjamesbaldwino…
It was beautiful watching the footage back of @Deepyraah when editing 'Fugitives in the Archive'. The expressiveness, the place he goes to when moving, the sensitivity to other dancers. Absolutely beautiful.
Did you know that @BristolLibrary has a reading room reassembled from the city's original 18th century library built in 1738-40?
This scene was shot on location in that room and here you can see 18th century newspaper Felix Farley's Bristol Journal.
#twitterstorians
But I realised this is the invitation:
To consider fugitivity not just as a state of being, but as a technology through which to disturb the archive and the despair of crisis, through which new cosmoses can emerge from the chaos.
Today is the last day you can watch FUGITIVES IN THE ARCHIVE on Spike Island's website.
It's an assemblage of found footage, movement, and archive material.
Take 15 minutes today to watch it - I'd love to hear what you think (be gentle, it's my 1st!).
spikeisland.org.uk/programme…
And to close out the show.. it's ROGER ROBINSON *klaxon horns*
@rrobinson72 is an award-winning writer, dub musician, and one of THE writers influencing Black British canon right now.
He brings the🔥every time, so you know what to do👇🏽
🎟️bristolbeacon.org/whats-on/c…
ALT A man with a beard wearing round glasses and a black jacket.
Chatting with @MuniPilgrim is always a vibe so I'm looking forward to this!
Why are we celebrating James Baldwin's 100th birthday? Conversations with Baldwin producer @iamheathermarks will be talking about this and more with Muneera Pilgrim on @Ujimaradio this afternoon - tune in! #JamesBaldwin
📻 ujimaradio.com/show/the-proc…
Heather Marks retweeted
When Another Country appeared in 1962 it caused a literary sensation: among the storm of reviews the Sunday Times said 'Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land.'
What’s your favourite #Baldwin book and why? #ConversationswithBaldwin
This MA was such an important education for me, a complete refreshing of my imaginative landscape. I'll always credit the Historicising the Field module by Professor Deirdre Osborne for setting me on the course of writing historical fiction!
Why study for an MA in BlackBritishLiterature? youtu.be/5PVqaAIEhe0?feature… via @YouTube
Denise and Tigest tell you why! @GoldsmithsUoL @WordsofColour @iamheathermarks @UoLondon @ukblm @BernardineEvari @RSLiterature @JackieKayPoet @STWevents
LEAVING SOON: Fugitives in the Archive (2024)
ONLY 8 DAYS LEFT to watch my debut short film 'Fugitives in the Archive' on Spike Island's website.
A meditation on runaway enslaved persons in Britain and fugitivity, find out more about the film here👇🏽
instagram.com/p/C9xMWE2M4cj/…
Stepping into my artist bag in 2024 ✨
Like Toni Morrison I want to fill in the blanks left by history, and I can't wait for you all to see it in July! Thank you Spike Island for this commission 🙌🏽
spikeisland.org.uk/news/heat…
#ShortFilm #SpikeIsland #VisualArtist #Film
Heather Marks retweeted
Calling all disabled producers 📣
✨ Got a passion for supporting new work?
🤝 Love creating connections?
😍 Strangely obsessed with all things admin?
We’re hiring a Development Producer to join the team in 2024.
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yus982am
ALT A lime green vertical banner to the left hand side, which reads '2024 Development Producer, Apply Now!'. Above this text are the CRIPtic Arts & Arts Council England Logos. The background is black, with slanting turquoise hollow text reading 'CRIPtic 2024' which repeats again and again.
📣History buffs and book lovers!
Time travel with me on 2 Dec to 17th century Costa Rica and 18th century Britain in this author talk with Dr Natasha Gordon-Chipembere.
Tickets are a lemon-squeezy £3 and we're on just before #Strictly😉🕺
#historicalfiction
✨EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
Unravelling Histories with Prof Natasha Gordon-Chipembere @ladypcoq & @iamheathermarks
Travel in time to 17th century Costa Rica and 18th century Britain📚 #historicalfiction
🎟️ £3
🌐Online
🕔Dec 2, 12PM CST / 2PM AST / 6PM GMT
bit.ly/unravellinghistories
Heather Marks retweeted
We’re blown away to have raised over £5000 for @MedicalAidPal in just two days.
Just… thank you.
Please keep sharing —
🇵🇸 Poets for Palestine
🇵🇸 online fundraiser: all proceeds go to @MedicalAidPal
🇵🇸 Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK
eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-for…
ALT Flyer for Poets for Palestine Monday 30 October 7-10pm UK, an evening of poetry raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Hosted by Sarona Abuaker. Reader Lineup: Anthony Anaxagorou, Low-key, Chen Chen, Omar Sakr, Mira Mattar, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Leone Ross, Zaffar Kunial, Natalie Shapero, Zeina Hashem Beck, Joelle Taylor, Jay Bernard, Yousif M Qasmiyeh, lisa luxx, Shareefa Energy, Alycia Pirmohamed, Rebecca Tamás, Nuar Alsadir, Sanah Ahsan, Maryam Hessavi, Azad Ashim Sharma, Sandeep Parmar, AK Blakemore, Juana Adcock, So Mayer, Inua Ellams, Adam Kammerling, Eve Esfandiari-Denney.