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🥾 image: Taken on the foyer map @blackfriarssettlement A walk exploring the working class, global majority and queer history of London's Bankside and Southbank – recounting known and unknown histories next door to the City Wall.  🎵 Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) Jay-Z ‧ 1998 Features a vocal and pitch-modified instrumental from the song "It's the Hard Knock Life" from the 1977 musical Annie 🎵 🎵 "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" Manic Street Preachers 1998 The song's theme is inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of Welsh volunteers who joined the left-wing International Brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic against Francisco Franco's military rebels. 🎶 The Symphony No. 104 in D major Joseph Haydn 1795 Known as the ‘London Symphony’ composed while Haydn was living in London, and premiered there at the King's Theatre on 4 May 1795 #OpenHouseFestival #OpenHouse2026 #WalkingTour #WorkingClassHeroes #SocialHistory taken in Southbank, London by @blak_outside
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Life and Debt in Southwark https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/13724 Link in Bio Step inside Bankside with Golden Key Academy tour guide Carole Wright (@blak_outside ) — where prison grounds became peaceful parks and Victorian philanthropists reinvented social housing. Hear about local nurses who fearlessly fought fascism in Spain. Pay respects at a burial ground for women of the night, uncover centuries of queer history hidden in plain sight, and celebrate three hundred years of West African creativity woven into the soul of this remarkable riverside neighbourhood. A walk exploring the working class, global majority and queer history of London's Bankside and Southbank - recounting known and unknown histories next door to the City Wall. From the 12th-20th September there will be free open houses, guided tours, activities, exhibitions and more for you to discover. Events bookable 19 August, 12pm. Check out the program now on the @opencity_uk festival website. 📸 Practice walk @blak_outside @oooretha @peabodyldn historian Ignatius Sancho mural @dreph_ @theafricacentre Africa Centre building retrofit @freehausdesign #OpenHouseFestival #WalkingTour #WorkingClassHeroes #SocialHistory #Southwark taken in Bankside by @blak_outside
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Life and Debt in Southwark September 19th 11am-1pm walk/tour A walk exploring the working class, global majority and queer history of London’s Bankside and Southbank – recounting known and unknown histories next door to the City Wall. Life and Debt in Southwark Link https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/13724 From the 12th-20th September there will be free open houses, guided tours, activities, exhibitions and more for you to discover.⁠ Events bookable 19 August, 12pm. Check out the program now on the @opencity_uk festival website. #OpenHouseFestival #WalkingTour #WorkingClassHeroes #SocialHistory #Southwark taken in Bankside by @blak_outside
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Meet the women behind our #InternationalWomensDay panel ✨ We’re excited to introduce the brilliant artists, thinkers and makers joining us for a warm, welcoming conversation about representation, visibility and what a gallery for and by women could look like. 🎙️ Chair: Deborah Smith Curator and former Director of the Arts Council Collection. 🌱 Carole Wright Artist, elder and founder of Blak_Outside. Carole weaves art, land and community care, championing QTIBIPOC and social‑housing communities. 🎨 Dr Alana Jelinek Artist and writer exploring the role and value of art in society, moving between site‑specific work and layered, political painting. 🧵 Raksha Patel Painter, curator, writer and Senior Lecturer at Camberwell @unioftheartslondon. Raksha’s practice draws on British South‑Asian histories, archives and identity. @Rakshabattersea 🕊️ Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark Digital sculptor, writer and researcher reframing monuments and public sculpture to centre overlooked figures of colour. @Rayvenndclark_art 🧩 B Atherton Croydon‑raised co‑director and founding member of @turfprojects, championing hyperlocal creativity, accessibility and lived experience. We’re so grateful to bring these voices together with @idle_women for an open, accessible, community‑centred conversation. 🌿 Warm drinks provided 🧘 Quiet Room + Prayer Space available Follow the link in our bio to find out more and book your free space. #IWD2026 #PanelDiscussion #WomenArtists #Croydon #artiststudio ✏Illustration by Goblin Purwin by @blak_outside
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Blak Outside starts the community led transformation of Brookwood Triangle garden from June 2023 - April 2024. We invite the local Southbank, south London residents, our wider art/activist family, friends and complete strangers to join us on this journey. We’ve held space at two greenspaces as sanctuaries for the working classes, queers, and those who are held in the grip of poverty in this heavily gentrified part of historic London. Other workshops to follow next month with @cherrelledouglas.herbalist on herbalism and @tensstudio natural dye For every community workshop we deliver one in the school opposite, Friars Foundation Primary. The school teachers, children and their families have supported the garden since it’s creation as part of Fritz Haeg’s Global Cities @tate commission for their 2007 exhibition so Brookwood became garden no.4 for his Edible Estates project Fritz Haeg @fritz_____ ‘Edible Estates’ https://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/london.html Brookwood Workshop Links will be posted in our bio. #blakoutside2023 #inclusive #community #events taken in South Bank London by @blak_outside
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Blak Outside x Soundcamp Walk Date: Saturday 30th April Start: 1pm Where: William Bligh tomb Garden Museum Lambeth Palace Road
London, SE1 7LB You don’t have to do the whole six miles or climb the 56 steps of this dockland rubble hill at the end. Do as little or as much of this walk which will be live streamed. See some of you this Saturday! Route wheelchair accessible with DDA compliant toilets. Start: 1pm Where: William Bligh tomb Garden Museum Ends: 3.30pm - 4pm Where: SHED TCV Stave Hill Ecological Park Behind Bacons College
Timber Pond Road in Rotherhithe
London, SE16 6AX Book on @soundcamp https://sc9.eventbrite.co.uk #blakoutside2022 #soundcamp #reveil2022 #reveil9 #acousticommons taken in Stave Hill by @blak_outside
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No Monuments To Black Women in Belize   Katie Numi Usher says in the ‘Black Women Creating Audio Resistance’ audio documentary about her experience of seeing the Monument to Cécile Nobrega in Stockwell and contrasting that with her experience of not seeing the same representation in Belize. Link in @fourcornerse2 bio Bronze Woman Statue Location: Stockwell Green, South London Unveiled: 10/08/2008 This was the first statue of a black woman to be on permanent display anywhere in England. 3m high, based on a poem, written in about 1960, of the same name by Guyana-born Cecile Nobrega, who lived in Stockwell and campaigned for 10 years for this statue. Ian Walters died after making the model for the statue. Aleix Barbat finished the work. The installation marked both the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship and the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. {On front of plinth:}
Bronze Woman {On plaque on right face of plinth:}
"Find me a place
In the sun
In the sea
On a rock
Near an Isle
In the Caribee;
There I will set her,
Honoured, Free ..." In honour and praise of all Caribbean women inspired by the poem Bronze Woman by Cecile Nobrega.
Sculptor - Aleix Barbat
London, 8 October 2008 {Beside the ring of stars of the EU flag:}
This monument was made possible by the Presentation Group.
Presentation
Project Part-Financed by the European Union
European Regional Development Fund Source: londonmembers.com #cecilenobrega #cecilenobregapoem #bronzewomansculpture #blackwomencreatingaudioresistance #slday2022 taken in Stockwell, Lambeth by @blak_outside
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@fourcornerse2 A 1993 monochrome image of Stephen Lawrence's family and friends, standing at the bus stop on Well Hall Road in mourning, taken by Carole Wright. Today is 29 years since the murder of Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence, in a racially motivated attack. We're marking the day by sharing a reflective audio piece 'Black Women Creating Audio Resistance', which is available via our blog. The piece is a collaboration between photographer @blak_outside and @katienumi and produced by @fatumakhaireh . It emerges from discussions around consent, power and permission-giving, and takes us on a journey through the London streets and monuments resonant to Stephen's story as well as broader anti-racist activist histories, including Cecile Nobrega's Bronze Woman statue, and to sites of resistance and liberation in Belize. In their own words Carole Wright: "I was inspired to record my piece in response to my 1993 monochrome image of Stephen Lawrence's family and friends standing at the bus stop on Well Hall Road being exhibited in the Four Corners gallery without my consent. I gave consent to the image being shown in the exhibition after conversations with Four Corners and discussing the issues raised. This led me to wanting to turn a negative into a positive producing an audio piece as a response" Katie Numi Usher: "This invitation to join this audio for Stephen Lawrence Day, may the spirit of our young brother forever rest in peace, even though his life was shook out from him in such a violent way, as we continue to think about how our sons, daughters, mothers and fathers are still being persecuted by white supremacy, was one i simply could not afford not to accept." For the full audio and words from Carole and Katie, head to our blog #StephenLawrenceDay #StephenLawrenceDay2022 #blackwomencreatingaudioresistance #fourcornersgallery taken in Eltham South, London by @blak_outside
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Black Women Creating Audio Resistance is a collaboration between Carole Wright, Katie Numi Usher and Fatuma Khaireh Carole Wright Carole Wright is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes managing two community gardens, Peabody Blackfriars and Brookwood Triangle both in Southwark, London. In 2020 Carole initiated the three day festival and collective ‘Blak Outside’ as a form of resistance against heavy policing with residents on her social housing estate in South London. Blak Outside is a grassroots led, intergenerational, supportive of social housing residents, QTIBIPOC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, indigenous people of colour). It builds on existing work, particularly the thirty two years of community work of Carole to provide a long term legacy within the communities where she lives and works. Instagram/Twitter: @blak_outside Website: https://blakoutside.org Katie Numi Usher After studying the sciences in high school and various subjects in sixth form I decided to change my studies to art. I went to Mérida, Yucatán, México and studied at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán. From 2014 to 2017, I was part of the editorial team, the culture e-magazine BAFFU, an electronic magazine which offered a scan of the Belizean contemporary visual art and literature. I contributed poetry, art commentary, and visual art to thirteen issues. I organized the LAB, which was a collaborative effort with the Image Factory Art Foundation, an experimental space for creators to present work/proposals in a rapid fire style. Instagram: @katienumi Twitter: @kat_ush_kin Fatuma Khaireh Fatuma Khaireh is a Creative Producer working in Audio she is interested in stories from the Black diaspora Instagram/Twitter: @fatumakhaireh Black Women Creating Audio Resistance SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ArVVSLfeFDvApLqj7 #slday2022 #doreenlawrence #cecilenobriega taken in Eltham South, London by @blak_outside
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August Blak Outside Festival: Saturday 14 August 11am - 3pm Where: Parsloes Park Parsloes Ave Dagenham RM9 5QP Jigsaw piece = Jaden Syre Smith @c.syresmith (1988 – ) For the White House residency on the Becontree, Dagenham, Essex we’ve chosen the very resilient actor, singer and environmental activist, Jaden Syre Smith, native of Malibu, California. Why? Because we will be looking at the nearby Hainault Woods, the country parks, local parks and the wildflowers which can be found on Becontree estate in it’s 100 year of it’s existence and what the environment means in a celebrity driven age. . . #becontree100 #creativeresilience #blakoutside2021 taken in Parsloes Park by @blak_outside
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We are honoured and humbled to be amongst the inaugural set of fellows. We’re now buckled in for this new journey! #creativeresilience #blakoutside2021 @serpentineuk Introducing the inaugural recipients of 'Support Structures for Support Structures': Barby Asante @barby_as Beverley Bennett Jacob V Joyce @jacobvjoyce Abbas Zahedi @abbzah Blak Outside @blak_outside Ferarts Collective @ferarts Nawi Collective @nawicollective Other Cinemas @othercinemas Skin Deep @skindeepmag RESOLVE Collective @resolvecollective 'Support Structures for Support Structures' is a new fellowship programme supporting artists working at the intersection of art, spatial politics and community practice. Announced on the occasion of the 20th Serpentine Pavilion designed by @_counterspace, this initiative creates a legacy for this unique commission and builds on Serpentine’s history of working with artists in communities across London as part of its Civic Projects programmes. Find out more about the recipients at the link in @serpentineuk bio. @amalandaplan @sumi_v taken in South Bank London by @blak_outside
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Stephen Lawrence Day Walk THURSDAY 22 APRIL 2021 Time: 10: 30 - 12:30 BST Website: https://blakoutside.org Twitter/Insta : @blak_outside https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-lawrence-day-walk-tickets-147684094101 . . . #ALegacyOfChange #SLDay21 #StephenLawrenceDay #BlakOutside2021 #CreativeResilience taken in London Borough of Lewisham by @blak_outside
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