ISSUE 2 OCTOBER 2021
BUNDLEHOUSE: WORLDWIDE SOON COME? Nyugen E Smith LIMINAL LIFE Mark Sealy BLACK GOLD DUST Roshini Kempadoo
LAUNCHPAD
ARTISTS FORGING NEW CREATIVE LANDSCAPES Kat Anderson Charlie Evaristo-Boyce Isaac Ouro-Gnao
BlackInk Issue Two, October 2021 Published by Serendipity Serendipity 21 Bowling Green Street Leicester LE1 6AS
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Editor’s Welcome — Pawlet Brookes
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Insight: Black British Dance
On The Shoulders of Giants — Chester Morrison Navigating and Propelling a Vision — Sharon Watson Children Only Know What They See — Stacey Green Fractured: Diversity and the North East — Martin Hylton
24 AfroManifesto
Representing: Black Women Are Beautiful — Maya Brookes AWO… is Leadership — Kweku Aacht Black Gold Dust — Roshini Kempadoo Kedji’s Identity is: Emancipated — Freddy Houndekindo A Performance in Stillness: Critical Reading Strategies for Archives of Blackness — Mutsa Mhende
48 Launchpad
Untitled (Running Series) — Kat Anderson Emergency? — Charlie Evaristo-Boyce Intergenerational Trauma — Isaac Ouro-Gnao
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Arts and Culture
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Activism and Identity
When The Ugliness Reared its Head — Amanda Parker In my Opinion: The Black British Film Renaissance — Pierre Godson-Amamoo Making the Invisible, Visible — Peter Adjaye Liminal Life — Mark Sealy Gatekeepers and Thieves: A Case on Restitution — Mistura Allison Bundlehouse: Worldwide Soon Come? — Nyugen E Smith
Parallel Lives and Intertwined Belongings — Kwame Nimako A Brief History of Key Moments and Issues in the Black British Civil Rights Movement — Beverley Bryan Backyard Stories as a Strategy for Survival: Eat Little and Live Long — Makeda Thomas What Are We Talking About? — Jean-François Manicom
130 New Writing
Learning Sleazy — Ioney Smallhorne Unfinished Business — Carol Wallace
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2021 In Numbers
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Coming Soon 2022
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Calendar Highlights
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Spotlight - Blaxploitation: Films that Defined an Era
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The Interview — Philip Herbert
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“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds” Bob Marley
ISSN Number: 2634-4289