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Special edition from Shade at South London Gallery ‘Making Sense’ - a new digital resource that assembles people around ideas for structural change through creative practice.

In this episode Lou Mensah speaks to Dr. Aminul Hoque about inclusive education and how our local community can support educators in achieving it.

Dr. Aminul Hoque is a lecturer in the Educational Studies Department at Goldsmiths College London.

Aminul's work focuses on issues of multicultural Britain, identity, social justice, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism. With over 24 years of experience in the youth, community and voluntary sector, Aminul is a recognised expert in young people and cultural identity.

Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Episode supported by South London Gallery

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Author of British-Islamic Identity: Third generation Bangladeshis from East London

Presenter: A Very British History: British Bangladeshis, BBC4, Feb 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RosoCezTQ_o

Presenter: Searching for Secrets: London, Smithsonian Channel, June 2021



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Welcome to our third and final episode in this special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, where we will be exploring ‘Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling’. 

Released throughout this summer, the series provides a collaborative platform for diverse perspectives investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history. 

Today my guest is Thomas J Price.

Born in London in 1981, Thomas studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He works across disciplines, predominantly in sculpture, but also in film and photography. His large-scale sculptures depict imagined subjects, whose features are an amalgamation of sources, observed individuals and stereotypes represented in the media are mixed with references to ancient, classical and neoclassical sculptures. These works serve as psychological portraits of the viewer by revealing socially learned attitudes and understandings as they project identities on to the depicted characters.

Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

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SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021

Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.

This second episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth is with art historian Michael Ohajuru.

Based in London, Michael Ohajuru is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies where he leads the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History’ workshops, fostering a creative dialogue between researchers, educators, archivists, curators, and policy makers. He speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe at the National Gallery, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum, highlighting the overt and covert Black presence in national art collections. His new book coauthored with With S. I. Martin, ‘The Guide to Black London,’ is forthcoming from September Publishing.

‘Frank Bowling. London / New York’ is on view Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 5 May and Hauser & Wirth London from 21 May 2021

Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

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SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021

Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.

This first episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, is with Silas Munro—LA-based critic, writer and partner of graphic design studio Polymode.

Silas Munro’s past collaborations include the City of LA Mayor’s Office, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, and MoMA. Munro’s writing appears in the book, ‘W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America’ published by Princeton Architectural Press. He has been a visiting critic at MICA, RISD, and Yale. Munro is Founding Faculty and Chair Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

Founded in 2014, Polymode is a studio that leads the edge of contemporary graphic design through poetic research, learning experiences, and making cool shit for clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations.

‘Frank Bowling. London / New York’ is on view Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 5 May and Hauser & Wirth London from 21 May 2021. 

Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

Series supported by Hauser & Wirth

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SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021

Welcome to the final episode of the four-part series of conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery 

In this episode Lou Mensah is in conversation with Axel Kacoutié. Axel is is a multi-award-winning audio artist and poet. His work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4, NOWNESS and the Barbican. He is also the Sound Designer and theme composer for The Guardian daily news podcast, Today in Focus.

'How to Remember' by Axel Kacoutié. Award winning production in the 2019 Audio Production Awards for Best New Producer

Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

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SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021

Welcome to the third episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery 

Season Butler is a writer, performance artist and teacher. Season's debut novel 'Cynet' was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the U.S. Season & Lou discuss Race, Character and The Racial Empathy Gap in storytelling.

Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Editing and sound design by CA Davis

Music by Brian Jackson

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Art futures & BLM

in conversation with The White Pube

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of art critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They return as guests to talk about the positive changes they saw and those they hope for in the Arts, as a result of the BLM uprisings.

@tate_united 

@riotgames 

@mark.leckey 

@swarzymacaly 

@thewagaduchronicles 

@theresnosignal

@creativedebuts 

@cubitt_gallery 

@languidhands

I also share my thoughts on the season and our shared Shade community

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

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Mixing & sound design CA Davis

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In this episode I take you through the origins and manifestations of the raised fist salute, which has more recently been associated with the BLM movement. We move on to my conversation with Nicola Green, the artist behind the work ‘In Seven Days’ - a series created from her unprecedented artistic access to Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign trial.

Nicola Green is renowned for gaining access to iconic personalities from the worlds of politics, religion, and culture, including collaborations with Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. In 2008 Nicola Green gained artistic access to Obama’s Presidential campaign. She had a front row seat to historic events: from Obama’s DNC nomination speech to Inauguration, Nicola was behind-the-scenes taking photographs, making sketches, and having conversations with press, staff and citizens. I spoke with Nicola about the process of creating this series, and she shares how her own multi race and faith family influences her work.

Inspired by her own mixed-heritage and multi-faith family, she creates and preserves religious, social, and cultural heritage for future generations. Recording these events as they happen, and investing thousands of hours of academic and artistic research, she builds and curates substantial archives. In Seven Days is in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery - The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington D.C; and in both the International Slavery Museum and The Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool

Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

Please support this work by becoming a Shade Patron

Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson

Mixing & sound design CA Davis

Thank you Kloris for supporting Shade Podcast Season Four

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Welcome to the second episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence. This episode is part of the South London Gallery's Convergence Community Film Festival on Saturday 20th February 2021. Our guest today is Courttia Newland.

Courttia wrote the screenplays for Steve McQueen's BBC Small Axe 'Lover's Rock' & 'Red, White & Blue' films. Courttia grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in the inner city. Since then he’s written seven more books and eight plays, winning numerous awards for his work. In 2000, he co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. In 2021 Courttia's novel A River Called Time was published by Canongate

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With Guest Photographer Andre D Wagner

Gordon Parks’ work was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests, perhaps to share comfort, solace and act as a collective creative marker acknowledging that our civil justice work continues. My guest Andre shares the impact of Parks’ work on his own photography, his experiences of the protests, plus his working practice & life as a street photographer 

It's such a beautiful episode. Thank you Andre for the conversation

Andre D. Wagner is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He explores and chronicles the poetic and lyrical nuances of daily life, using city streets, neighborhoods, parades, public transportation and the youth of the twenty first century as his visual language. His work and practice fits into the lineage of street photography that investigates the American social landscape, often focusing his lens on themes of race, class, cultural identity and community. He develops his own black and white negatives and makes silver gelatin prints in his personal darkroom. 

His photographs have been commissioned by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Cut, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WSJ, Time Magazine and Vogue, among other publications. For the movie Queen & Slim Andre photographed the key art and the campaigns leading images. His photographs have appeared in a number of solo exhibitions and group shows in Los Angeles, New York and North Carolina. His first monograph, Here For the Ride, was published by Creative Future in 2017. He is currently editing a 7-year-old body of work titled New City, Old Blues, to be published soon

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Shade is produced and hosted by Lou Mensah

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