A Relaxed Screening of this programme will take place simultaneously at Berwick Town Hall Council Chamber.
The screening will be followed by a response from Clodagh Assata Boyce.
Clodagh is a Trini-Irish anti-disciplinary practitioner based in Dublin. Clodagh’s practice is concerned with interdependence as a strategy of resistance and is influenced by the radical traditions of Black feminist thought. Clodagh’s programming has been recently featured at aemi, Dublin International Film Festival, PS² and Outburst Queer Arts Festival. Their devotion to memory and archives has lead them to develop work with Studio Museum in Harlem, The International Centre for the Image and Kunstverein Aughrim.
Black Nations / Queer Nations?
Documenting the landmark 1995 conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora, Shari Frilot’s seminal film captures a charged gathering of scholars, artists, and activists in dialogue. Through the voices of Essex Hemphill, Urvashi Vaid, Isaac Julien, and M. Jacqui Alexander and others, it crystallises a pivotal moment in diasporic queer history – interrogating Black and queer identity, media production, homophobia, and the contested terrain of Black nationalism.