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:10601@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250516T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250516T190000 DTSTAMP:20250503T144721Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/victoria-gallery-museum-the-man- who-photobombed-de-gaulle-with-gary-younge/ SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Victoria Gallery & Museum: The Man who P hotobombed de Gaulle with Gary Younge DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end Second World War. Gary Younge\, renowned journalist\, author and broadcaster\, returns to WoWFEST to highlight how\, following the war\, despite the huge role t hat they played in WW11\, black people have been written out of the story. The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy between race-based mythologies around Blac k involvement in the Second World War. Revisiting a photographed moment fr om near the end of the second world war\, ‘through the eyes of the colon ised’\, Younge will ‘explore a range of mythologies about who fought a nd what they were fighting for’. and what that tells us about Europe a s a whole and how Black people’s presence here is misunderstood. He will also ‘unpick what that tells us about Europe as a whole and how black p eople’s presence here is misunderstood today’.\n\nGary asks how  con versations about responsibility\, patriotism\, immigration\, integration\, equality\, and justice would be understood if the contribution of black p eople was written back in rather than written out\, and their role fully a cknowledged?\n\nGary Younge is an award-winning author\, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a colu mnist at The Guardian\, he has written six books\, most recently Dispatche s From the Diaspora. Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism and th e 2025 Robert. B. Silvers Prize for Journalism\, he has written for the Ne w York Review of Books\, Granta\, GQ and The New Statesman\, among others\ , and made radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. His fifth book\, Another Day in the Death of America\ , won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize from Columbia School of Journalism and Ni eman Foundation.\n\nIn partnership with: Libraries\, Museums and Galleries University of Liverpool.\n\n\n \;\n\n\nWe encourage people to use pub lic transport to travel to events where possible.\n\nPublic Transport:\n\n Bus: From the city centre\, buses 14 and 79 go up Brownlow Hill around ev ery 5 minutes. The buses leave from the side of the Adelphi Hotel at the b ottom of Brownlow Hill and stop outside the Victoria Gallery &\; Museum at the top of Brownlow Hill\n\nNearest train station(s): Liverpool Centr al (Approx. 15 min walk)\, Liverpool Lime Street (Approx. 15 min walk)\n\n  \;\n\n*These are difficult times. We know some people may struggle to afford full price tickets. If you would like to attend this event but can ’t afford to\, please contact info@writingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treated in confidence.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBOOKING &\; INFO\n\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2025/05/WOWFEST-25-WebHead.jpeg CATEGORIES:Talks LOCATION:Victoria Gallery & Museum\, Ashton Street\, University of Liverpoo l\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406158;-2.966418 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Ashton Street\, University of Liverpool\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RA DIUS=100;X-TITLE=Victoria Gallery & Museum:geo:53.406158,-2.966418 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR