Liverpool Black Archive Hub
Liverpool Black Archive Hub (LBAH) is an online domain for signposting links, for films showing various aspects of Liverpool's Black Experience. It’s a webpage with links to categories and films. This is a pilot project, which is a stepping stone in creating an official Archive project.
The formation of a Liverpool Black Archive Hub is a starting point for creating a North West Black Archive centre (based in Liverpool).
Currently seeking partners and collaborators on the project, to develop the Liverpool Black Archive, and widen the North West Archive Hub!
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LADFN - Liverpool Afrikan Diasporic Filmmakers Network is up and running.
Co-founded by me and Khaleb Brooks. Creatives meet monthy at Metal Liverpool coupled with a monthy newsletter.
The Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network is a collective of filmmakers from the African Diaspora, that centre black identity in their work. Liverpool with a history of diversity, protest, slavery and incredible cultural production acts as a point of departure to engage the many facets of our identities. With the support of Metal Culture we intend to offer educational support to Black Liverpool filmmakers through workshops, discussions, hands on filmmaking experience, opportunities to show work throughout the city and nationally, feedback on work and collectivity that provides foundational support to cultivate ideas and imaginings.
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Palm House Kulture Day Screening Sunday 25th September.
Akoma Arts & LADFN Film Screening 6.00pm - 8.30pm at Palm House. Liverpool
Meet me at the Spring (MMATS)
An observational documentary style film about the conversations that happen as people collect water and visit the natural spring at St James Gardens in Liverpool to highlight the characters and exchange of ideas, histories, experiences and positive energy within this vital community space and the ways Liverpool communities have been able to remain connected and resilient in the face of Covid 19.
Premieres at the Palm House
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Yore Lens on L8 (YLOL8)
Yore Lens on L8’ is a video film screening project, sharing a series of short documentary films that celebrate decades of creativity in L8 – Arts, Community and History. Films include A Time for Healing, SLAF 1998 (South Liverpool Arts Festival), and Dr. Geri Augusto’s residency 2018 and TRACE – Travellers to the Pool 1999 and Maxine Brown 40 yrs of Dance.
The films are a retrospective reinterpretation of archive footage, reconnecting past and present, exploring Black Life in L8 through the film. They show the hub of grassroots creativity that exists in L8, bringing visibility and a voice to a marginalised community.
Also, featuring our very own Akomarts’s “Yore Lens on L8 (YLOL8),” which showcases clips from Liverpool 8 in the late 1990’s. YLOL8 exposes the need for a centralised online space, with links to a range of archive films, clips and photographs showing Black life. It’s self-empowering to create and present your own narratives.
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Tune in to the podcasts:
'The Everyday Podcast - Episode 4' Akoma Arts representing...http://bit.ly/ECPodcastEp4MichellePeterkinWalker
http://www.metalculture.com/event/liverpool-black-culture-archive-yore-lens-on-l8-michelle-peterkin-walker
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AFRIKAN VILLAGE MARKET WILL RETURN IN 2023!!!
AVM aims to unite, educate and promote Afrikan Fashion, Culture, Business and Arts in the North West. Its a unique platform which showcases Afrika's/Diaspora's valuable, unique and distinctive heritage, whilst instilling a sense of Afrikan pride.
AVM is a Cultural market which features vendor stalls, networking, raffles, 'children's art corner', performances, film screenings and music. It's a fantastic sales and marketing opportunity for your products, generating direct and/or future sales and promotions.
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