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Call for participants – Afro hair project
Frizzy hair, curly hair, low cuts and hi-tops, afros and cornrows, braids, twists and dreadlocks, mad hairdos with no name, Afrohairstylers of all ages… Join us for free photo sessions by London-based Angolan photographer Alice Marcelino as part of OPEN SOURCE Festival on Gillett Square, Sat 28 May. OPEN SOURCE is a multidisciplinary arts festival…
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We do Black hair
We do Black hair proposes to bring together the local African and Caribbean communities as part of OPEN SOURCE Festival through an afro hair event addressing ongoing questions of aesthetic canons, identity politics, and visual representations in the media. This project is informed by the all-too-common experience of the random “Can I touch your hair?”…
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Curating (in) the City: Christine Eyene
Pavilion and the School of Fine Art History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, welcome Christine Eyene for a talk on her curatorial and research practice. This event takes place as part of an on-going series of activities exploring what it means to curate, commission and produce contemporary art in urban cultural centres.…
