BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6584@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210926T150000 DTSTAMP:20210910T125249Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/museum-of-liverpool-blackfest-fe stival-2021-diversity-dialogues-part-4/ SUMMARY:Museum Of Liverpool: Museum of Liverpool: BlackFest Festival 2021 - Diversity Dialogues Part 4 DESCRIPTION:Join Diversity Dialogues PART4 -continuing the conversation: in clusion and diversity with UK nationwide perspective with exciting panelli sts\n\nBOOK HERE\n\nJoin exciting panellists as we continue the dialogue o n inclusion and diversity from UK nationwide perspective with our amazing line up.\n\nZena Edwards\n\nA poet and performer who uses song\, movement and global influences as a jump-off for her words.\n\nZena has been involv ed in performance for 27 years – as a writer/poet performer\, facilitato r\, creative project developer and vocalist after graduating from Middlese x University. She studied storytelling and performance at The London Inter national School for Performing Arts and is published in several anthologie s including Margaret Busby's Daughters of Africa(Myriad Editions)\, Dance the Guns to Silence (Flippedeye publishing)\, and Nights Of Dispossessed: Riots Unbound (Columbia Books).\n\nZena has 20 years of mentoring experien ce with young and emerging artists in professional arts development and cr eative campaigning for social justice. She is a passionate advocate for cl imate and environmental justice\, decolonisation\, race and power and she is currently lead artist for diversity and inclusion for the Culture Decla res Emergency Movement.\n\nAs a multidisciplinary collaborator\, Zena has worked as consultant\, writer and poet with internationally acclaimed chor eographer and dancer Akram Khan (Xenos)\, Visual Artist – Theaster Gates (Soul Manufacturing Company) and radical Film Maker Fahim Alam\, (Riots R eframed)\, and The Last Poets.\n\nShe is founder and creative director of Verse in Dialog – an arts and engagement social enterprise that champion s arts that serve through decolonisation\, climate and environmental justi ce\, and personal and community well-being. . http://www.zenaedwards.com\n \nVictoria Evaristo is an Actor\, director and freelance drama tutor from Liverpool trained and based in London. Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and drama. She is an Actor\, director and freelance drama tutor Prev ious theatre includes: EXTRACT(Soho theatre) Where is my Vagina (Wow Festi val Queen Elizabeth Hall) Extract (Soho Theatre) Baring the Weight (New Di orama) The Rally (Stockwell playhouse)Big Bad world(Comedy Central) Ma Joy ce’s Tales from the Parlour( Oval House) Do you know where your daughter is? (Hackney Empire) Angel Point (New Peckham Varieties Theatre)\, Tell M e You Love Me\, (Landor)\, Sankofa\, (QEH) Belle (Southwark Playhouse)\, B ig Splash (Oily Cart) Treemonisha (BAC) Soul Sisters Melody (Everyman Live rpool) and numerous advert campaigns. Recent directing work includes In Se arch of a white Identity (Actors centre on demand festival) and directing a Summer school for British Youth Music Theatre.\n\n \;\n\nBuster Nuge nt\, 62\, from Toxteth began the demonstration last Sunday in the aftermat h of the horrific death of George Floyd in the US to highlight the traumat ic effects of racism. Buster\, who has stood outside the main park gates e very day for the past week holding the sign told the ECHO: "I am here just to say that ‘black men are not okay.’\n\nFinishing the panel off loca l Liverpool Michelle Walker Akoma Arts active community member and visual artist. She is a socially engaged artist\, activist and videographer. Her practice combines photography and design to create digital works on positi ve images of everyday life that take inspiration from people\, places and symbols within African History and Culture. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2021/09/diversity-dialogues.jpg LOCATION:Museum Of Liverpool\, Pier Head\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool \, L3 1DG\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406165;-2.995119 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Pier Head\, Liverpool Water front\, Liverpool\, L3 1DG\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100 ;X-TITLE=Museum Of Liverpool:geo:53.406165,-2.995119 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR