Culture Art Society (CAS)

📌Delighted to announce our founder Awa Konaté is the 2023 curator for South by South. She’ll present an expansive programme, in line with CAS‘s work that connects and makes accessible the transnational artistic registers of Black artists. 🔗Find out more: ow.ly/tL2m50Olkay

WOMAN SITTING ON HER BED WITH A FRIEND, Ruth Motau, 1991

Coming next week! 📽️Join us on 12 July for a screening event of 3 short films that explore memory, experience and Black subjectivity. Each film experiments with slowness and ‘errantry’, a state of wandering or travelling. Book now: southlondongallery.org/events/south-b…

Tomorrow! 2pm @closeupcentre 'Working together: Making History': A special screening of Regrouping (Lizzie Borden) & Sweet Sugar Rage (Sistren Theatre Collective) followed by a discussion on historicising and supporting collaborative work. Free! Book: shorturl.at/djuz2

📽️Un/Seen Spectres, 12 Jul 2023. A screening of travel-centred shorts including one that situates us within the conditions of patriarchy in Senegal, and another that brings us on adventures through West African cities. Read more & book: 🎟️:barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/… @BarbicanCentre

The first screening of our South by South programme is coming to South London Gallery! on Wed, 12 July. To read more ⏬

@BarbicanCentre Det osynliga folket (1972) also by Diakité, offers a biting and uncompromising political treatise on the conditions of African migrants in Sweden laying bare the haunting malaises of colonialism (as well as being the foundational framework for contemporary Swedish society).

Don't miss the UK debut of For Personal Reasons (1972) — the international debut by Afro-Swedish filmmaker Madubuko Diakité in which experimental jazz, Black revolt, and radical activism drawing on the Black Panthers collide through the tense heights of a 1970 protest.

📌Coming to @BarbicanCentre on 5—Wed 12 Jul 2023 'Un/Seen Spectres'— two programmes of shorts by Afro-Swedish filmmakers that seek to demonstrate the ways in which these artists weave tapestries of migration, memory, and myth. Read more & book tickets🎟️: barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/…

The panel has been recorded and will be shared on Raven Row’s website shortly. In the meantime don’t miss the two final events, a panel discussion reflecting on FESPACO and a rare screening of Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori’s ‘La femme au couteau’ 🔗: ravenrow.org/current/perank…

Thanks to everyone who joined us for ‘Between Accessibility and Art Criticism: African/Diasporic Film Culture Today’!✨A special thanks to our speakers for their generous thoughts and the audience for your engagement! 🖤 📌The exhibition ‘PerAnkh’ at Raven Row ends on 4 June 2023

Don't miss the final screening of 'PerAnkh': 'La femme au couteau [The Woman with the Knife]' & 'Selbé et tant d'autres [Selbé: One Among Many]' Saturday 3 June, 6.30pm Introduction to both films by critic and distributor Claire Diao Info & book: ravenrow.org/events/la_femm…

👉 Are you aged 16-21 and living, working or studying in south London? Join our youth collective, the Art Assassins! Take part in artist workshops, network, explore your own practice and get experience working with an art gallery. Find out more: southlondongallery.org/projects/join-…

You can hear from our Rōgan Graham speaking on Between Accessibility & Art Criticism - a panel discussion as part of the free series of events for 'PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive' @Raven__Row on Friday: Read more and grab your free ticket 👇

Liverpool Biennial, Open Calls from Jo'burg and Douala - mailchi.mp/90e4ac38edbd/l…

The discussion will be chaired by our founder Awa Konaté with the speakers Anthony Badu, Abiba Coulibaly, Liz Chege, and Rōgan Graham.

📌Event: Between Accessibility and Art Criticism, Fri 26 May, 7pm @Raven__Row. Please join us for a panel discussion exploring the role of writing about and curating African/diasporic films and institution building in the contemporary moment. To book: buff.ly/439UX3V

Honoured to contribute to "per ankh", a presentation of june givanni's pan african cinema archive at raven row in ldn - sis' june has been listening, collecting n circulating black images for 50 years. since then, still here: struggler, keep bubbling on! we give thanks

📌Our former collaborator @circa__art with @bcaheritage are inviting audiences connected to the Windrush Generation to share their stories of 'Arrival' which will be presented on Piccadilly Lights at 8pm on Windrush Day, 22 June 2023. To learn more: circa.art/arrival/