Webinar: Mixed Identity and the Arts

Posted in Arts, Identity Development/Psychology, Live Events, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2011-06-28 04:18Z by Steven

Webinar: Mixed Identity and the Arts

Runnymede Trust
2011-07-05, 10:30-12:30Z

Runnymede Trust is hosting an online seminar (webinar) discussing mixed identity and the arts. The webinar will take the form of a live-streamed discussion between the photographer and visual artist Mark Sealy, the arts consultant and creative producer Samina Zahir and playwright Roy Williams. Their discussion will last about an hour, with the second half devoted to answering questions from participants who have pre-registered for the event.

Panellists will discuss the idea of mixed and migrant identity in art. Whether it is possible to have art that addresses a mixed race or a migrant audience as it can a Black audience? If not why not? Is it possible to have art that does not come from a mixed background? Are any minority groups well represented in the Art world? Is it important that they should be? In what sense have discussions about art and race moved forward in the past two decades? What can be done to encourage this process?

The arts and mixedness project is a collaboration between the Arts Council and the Runnymede Trust. The RunnymedeTrust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank. The project was designed to examine the extent to which mixed race people are catered for by and in the arts in the UK. It was also intended to examine the ways that arts can address the issue of mixed race identity. This next stage of the project has begun to focus more directly upon audiences for works of art. It has broadened the focus of the project to examine how migrants relate to mixed identity and how art can address issues of migration.

The webinar will start at 11:30 am [BST] and will last approximately 2 hours. If you would like to participate in this event or for further information please email Kamaljeet Gill at kam@runnymedetrust.org.

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