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This is a reminder of the free research seminar on Monday at BFI Southbank. If you would like to reserve a place, please email [log in to unmask].
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Diasporic Film in Communities: A Research Seminar
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Part of the Connected Communities Programme
Monday 24 September 1:00 - 17:00 NFT2, BFI Southbank
Are you a film programmer in a cinema or a non-theatrical setting? Or perhaps you have an academic interest in Diasporic film culture? Or maybe you just enjoy the myriad possibilities that cinema offers us to connect with wider communities at home and abroad? If so, this free seminar may be of interest to you. It aims to critically explore the relationship between screen culture and communities and the unique opportunities and challenges involved in engaging communities in film. At a time when we see less and less world and independent cinema either on exhibition or broadcast, this project attempts to create awareness and an appreciation that such programming can be successful and of interest not just to ‘niche’ audiences but a much wider public. Furthermore it will celebrate and encourage its role in a much wider practice of cultural education.
The research seminar is part of an AHRC Connected Communities project in which Dr Sarita Malik (Sociology/Communications, Brunel University) has explored the work of David Somerset, Education Programmer for the BFI Southbank whose programming spans a range of diverse communities including South Asian, African Caribbean and Chinese. After introductions from Sarita Malik and David Somerset, participants in the collaborative Diaspora film programme at BFI will give an overview of their work that connects film screenings with wider communities. Featured speakers will be Tony Warner (Black History Walks), Lalit Mohan Joshi (South Asian Cinema Foundation) and Xiaoxiao Sun (Filming East). Wider contributors include seminar Chair, Colin Prescod, (Chair of the Institute of Race Relations), Richard Paterson, (Head of Scholarship and Research at the BFI) and Anna Kime, (Manager of Cultural Film Exhibition & Education Projects at Film London). The day will finish with an informal and open discussion with BFI and project speakers about what we do, why we do it and how we can do it better.
Dominika Widlak-Manka supports the public programme of cultural film events at the BFI. To book a place at this seminar, please contact [log in to unmask] to reserve a place.
Best wishes,
Sarita
Dr Sarita Malik
Sociology/Communications
School of Social Sciences
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1895 266874
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology/staff-profiles/sarita-malik
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