This lecture is part of the 2023 Autumn Art Lecture series: 

Art and the City: Bristol at 650

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About the Autumn Art Lectures

The Autumn Art Lectures are here again and this year we are on the move. To coincide with Bristol 650, the year-long celebration that marks the anniversary of the 1373 royal charter, our new series will focus on some of the historical, cultural and conceptual spaces of Bristol. AAL2023 will be an opportunity not just to talk about Bristol and its (in)visible histories, but also to step into the city itself. Events will be hosted in venues that span Bristol – from the Cathedral at its heart on College Green, to Spike Island in the midst of the river that defines the city’s cosmopolitan past and present. Our speakers include curators, artists, and academics, who together will take us on a journey through both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of the city’s history, including its place in the wider world.  

For the full series listing and more information on each event, please follow this link.

The Autumn Art Lecture series is hosted by the University of Bristol's Faculty of Arts with support from the Centre for Black Humanities and Bristol Ideas.

About this event

Join us for a conversation around political art, allyship and the need for Black curators between Cleo Lake and the artist Oshii and to celebrate the launch of the exhibition The Art of Liberation: Before & After The Bristol Bus Boycott.

About the speakers

Cleo Lake is a community engagement professional, researcher, who has been involved within the arts and culture sector for over two decades and is the former Lord Mayor of Bristol (2018-2019). During her term as a Green Party Councillor (2016-2021), she was instrumental in getting a Reparations and Atonement motion passed at Bristol City Council for Bristol’s role in the Transatlantic Traffic in enslaved Afrikans.

Cleo is driven by the idea of utilising art, creativity, dance and expanded performance to aid civic engagement and to reframe storytelling as a resilience tool to embed cultural knowledge, empathy, understanding and cohesion.

Oshii is a multi-disciplinary artist from Bristol. He has exhibited work in a large number of spaces that include The Tate exchange Liverpool, multiple Bristol gallery spaces, & Trafalgar Square, London as part of 'The World Reimagined', Nationwide Project.

Through his creative practice, he explores history, our understanding of modern society and shares stories that are often overlooked or misrepresented in contemporary discourse. His work raises ideas that spark discussions, challenges social narratives & connects us to culture and our shared histories.

Tickets

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