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🌱 C is for Carole!

Our Black History Month AlphaBeds series continues! 👀

Meet Carole Wright, a South London community gardener, beekeeper and co-founder of Blak Outside, championing access to green spaces for Black and marginalised communities.

From transforming neglected spaces into thriving gardens to bringing communities closer to nature, Carole is proof that a little green space can make a BIG difference! 💚🌱

#BlackHistoryMonthUK #BlackAgriculture #BlackGrowthCIC

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Join us on September 24th for a full day of conversations and celebration with some amazing people.

The morning session will follow an “un-conference” style in Senate House, Bloomsbury, where you can bring your experiences and ideas, and hear from others.

The afternoon sessions will start with a tour of the Scarlett Westbrook Garden, followed by a conversation on Student Net-gain back at Senate House: “how can students and other communities be empowered to take action?”

After that, a celebration in the garden at 5pm!!

See eventbrite for more details.

https://bit.ly/4zIqWtk

With:
Andy Phillips, Ecologist, @ecology_threecubes
Carole Wright, urban activist, @blak_outside , Brookwood Community Gardener
Susanna Grant, gardener and garden designer, @carenotcapital, @hellotherelinda, @arnold_circus
John Little, biodiverse public realm innovator, @grassroofco Hilldrop, @carenotcapital
Steve Packman, @thenurturegroup
Liz Morley, Wilding Campuses at Nottingham College, @you_dig_gardens
Lucy Walker, Manchester Metropolitan University's Nature-based
Living Lab
Evan Landy, UCL sustainability manager (ESMS & Biodiversity), @sustainableucl
Blanche Cameron, ecological designer and associate professor of environmental design UCL, @blanche.cameron
Natalie Isaac, associate director of sustainability UoL
Emilia Mizielinska, UCL graduate, consultant at Greengage
Environmental Ltd
ResourceTwelve, CIC advocating for circular @resourcetwelve

Photo 1 by @blanche.cameron from a green roof tour on the Greening Cities Module, @bartlett.ais

Photo 2 from planting workshop at the Scarlett Westbrook Garden run by @blak_outside , @hellotherelinda , @blanche.cameron , @resourcetwelve

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Lecture by Dr Shantella Sherman, full talk on our Youtube channel
Black women's bodies have been systematically examined, exploited, and hypersexualized throughout history, from plantations to urban homes. Their presence was seen as a problem, leading to trauma and separation from families. This continues as even their reproductive rights are targeted. #BlackHistory #SystemicRacism #WomensRights #SocialJustice

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South London legend, the historian Carole Wright, a.k.a. Blak Outside, in front of the Ignatius Sancho mural on the Africa Centre, Southwark.

@blak_outside

Yesterday I was privileged to attend a dress rehearsal for Carole’s walk, ‘Life and Debt in Southwark’: a perambulation through the uniquely storied borough, weaving together many historical threads, from Dickens and Marshalsea Prison, to the Crossbones cemetery, social housing, Sokari Douglas Camp, the Spanish Civil War, Octavia Hill, and much more.

The walk will take place on September 19th 11am-1pm, as part of Open House, ‘exploring the working class, global majority and queer history of London’s Bankside and South Bank – recounting known and unknown histories next door to the City Wall.’

Hit the link: https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/13724

Ignatius Sancho mural by Dreph @dreph_
And big shout out to @omolaraherbal

#octaviahill #londonwalk #londonhistory #dickens #southwark

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African Odysseys was set up in 2007 by Black community activists who were already showing films at various London venues. The idea was to give a singular home to those films, advise and help the BFI show African diaspora content and bring an underserved Black audience to the venue. The African Odysseys Steering Committee, a voluntary group, researches and suggests films/themes, advises on guests/scheduling, develops audiences and uses their community networks to advertise and promote Black films at the Southbank.

The programme was co-founded by Tony Warner from Black History Walks and David Somerset of the BFI. It has been a phenomenal success, bringing tens of thousands of new people to the BFI and greatly improved its reputation amongst the Black community. Before then brilliant directors like Menelik Shabbaz had problems getting his films shown there and many Black people did not know where the BFI Southbank was.

The programme runs at least once a month but often has multiple screenings/seasons like Ousmane Sembene, Horace Ove, Raoul Peck and Black and Banned. It also hosts talks and workshops on topics like Black Cowboys, the Harlem Renaissance, deaths in custody, African Spirituality, Aboriginal civil rights, Kenyan concentration camps and classical composers. In association with US film studio owner Tim Reid, the programme offered subsidised training for young filmmakers.

AO is a unique grassroots and institutional collaboration that screens educational and anti-racist films. There is nothing like it in Europe. It has a fantastic almost 20-year track record of great events, informative Q&A and packed houses of up to 450 people.

However, in June 2024 the Steering Committee learned that the Education/Film Programmer, Adult Community role held by Somerset, who has curated and championed the AO programme for 17 years, would be made redundant. The BFI’s sudden decision to delete the post would end the programme.

This was a surprise because on 29 August 2023 the Steering Committee had met with senior management who agreed, amongst other things, to start planning for the 20-year anniversary of African Odysseys in 2026

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Really looking forward to Urban Nature-based Solutions Sessions on Thursday 24th September, co-hosted by @unioflondon and @sustainableucl at Senate House and in the #ScarlettWestbrookGarden and Gordon Street.

Ecologists, gardeners, designers and makers explore how we can make cities greener and wilder for more liveable, equitable places in the climate and ecology crisis.

Contributors include ecologist, Andy Phillips @ecology_threecubes, urban activist and community gardener Carole Wright blak_outside, biodiversity designers, gardeners and trainers #Hilldrop John Little @grassroofco and Susanna Grant @hellotherelinda, #CareNotCapital, @nottmcollege Wilding Campuses gardener and educator Liz Morley @you_dig_gardens, @manmetuni's Lucy Walker on MMU's living lab, UoL's Sustainability Associate Director Natalie Isaac @nat_isaac and living lab makers @harangseo_ , @mariusidaravicius and Hannah Simon @hannah.ems of @resourcetwelve and #EmiliaMizielinska on UoL's living lab, @sustainableucl's Evan Landy and myself on UCL and UoL's living labs - and climate activist and Teach the Future co-founder Dr Scarlett Westbrook herself!

Free, limited places - info and booking here and in my bio, see you there!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-nature-based-solutions-sessions-sept-2026-tickets-1994966026087

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Queues out the door and full house for Judge Peter Herbert's talk 'I Fought the Law and I Won' @bcaheritage on 19th August 2026. Watch out for the next BCA event with Professor Gus John's talk and film '60 years of Black British Civil Rights and African Odysseys' on Wednesday 26th August . Tickets on Eventbrite or visit www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

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Donation of tools and equipment from Brookwood Community Garden received with love.

Thank you! @blak_outside For your support always 💚

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What a joy to celebrate International Women’s Day alongside such an inspiring group of practitioners, sharing and unravelling some of my recent public art commissions.

One piece that really resonated during the panel was my most recent commission ‘Mother Vérité’ in collaboration with @fridamom - a reflection of the idea we kept returning to - that ‘A Women are Artists’. We create, cultivate, and nurture, often all at once.

That conversation feels especially timely as I continue to work on my upcoming public artwork in Croydon, launching later this year. ‘Voices of Croydon: Echoes of Passage’ will explore the borough’s cultural and creative evolution, working closely with the community to celebrate the vibrant voices that make Croydon such a powerful cultural melting pot, offering local residents the opportunity to be included as part of the artwork.

Huge thanks to @idle_women and @culturecroydon for the invitation and the space to share 🙏🏾

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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

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This International Women’s Day, something rather special is happening in Croydon.

@idle_women – an arts and social justice collaboration – are bringing a weekend of creativity, conversation, and celebration to Braithwaite Hall.

From an informal panel exploring what an international gallery of women’s work could look like, to a day of collective making, food, music and connection, these are spaces created with and for women.

We spoke to Idle Women about Croydon, creativity, and why “all women are artists”… 🖼️

👉 Takes place on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 March.

Read more on @croydonist
🔗 Link in bio

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #CroydonEvents #WomenInArt #IdleWomen

✏️ Illustration by Goblin Purwin

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