- Venue
- Online, The Hall
- Date
- Thursday, November 24, 2022
06:00 PM - Address
- https://upprojects.com/the-rush-me-talk-show
- Location
- Worldwide
- Organiser
- UP Projects
Join the host, Jamz Supernova, artist Sonia E Barrett and award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician, Anthony Joseph for the celebratory launch event of Barrett’s latest digital commission, Rush Me.
This online talk show highlights how the skills, lived experiences and creativity of people from the Caribbean have influenced and shaped British culture today. Devised to be listened to or watched, the event will welcome live participation from the audience, broadcasting British-West Indian music, poetry and visual art nationally and internationally.
This event launches Rush Me a new digital experience by Sonia E Barrett curated and commissioned by UP Projects for This is Public Space. Rush Me investigates narratives including migration, belonging, identity and hybridity and builds greater empathy with the Windrush Generation by contextualising the British Government’s invitation in the 1940’s to come and help the “motherland” in new ways. It takes a long view of the myriad ways people of Caribbean descent have moved and been moved to serve British interests. Recontextualising “Windrush” in terms of both historical and contemporary movement, “rush me” is a meditation on help, need, peril and service.
Interested in watching the event?
Join us via online from a laptop in UP Projects digital participation space, The Hall and engage with our host and speakers verbally or creatively through our custom-built participatory platform.
Interested in listening in?
We will share a free dial in code prior to the event allowing you to call in and listen in from wherever you are in the world.
Accessibility
We strive to make UP Projects’ events accessible and inclusive to all, if you have a particular access request please email [email protected] prior to the event and a member of the team will assist you. We will provide a recording with closed captions available on our YouTube following the event and can also provide transcripts upon request.
