🚨 You can hear John talking about La Biennale di Venezia and the GB Pavilion on BBC Front Row now and can catch up on BBC Sounds later 🚨

You all know the news by now the brilliant John Akomfrah in Venice 2024 will enlighten the British Pavilion with his lifelong team! Wow! Smoking Dogs Films Lisson Gallery British Council Arts

Our third visual arts recipient is Trevor Mathison. An artist, musician, composer, sound designer and recordist, Mathison integrates archival material into his sonic practice to create haunting aural landscapes.

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Please spread the word! Honoured to be screening Still We Thrive my short film about Black joy and resilience at tt film festival which stars Martina Laird @mzzkimberley @don_warrington & Michelle Tiwo produced by Ashitey Akomfrah for Smoking Dogs Films.

Join Tina Campt & Deana Lawson in conversation with #filmmaker John Akomfrah (Smoking Dogs Films) who will screen films The Call of Mist & Handsworth Songs at James Stewart Theater Princeton University 3/29 @ 6PM! All are welcome: bit.ly/3L9M81e
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We're bringing The Films of John Akomfrah to Rio Cinema ... 🎟️ 20/03 at 3pm

Join us as we celebrate one of the most innovative and influential Black artist-filmmakers

📽️ 3 Films + Drinks reception / for more info + to book tickets, see link in bio 🙌🏿 Smoking Dogs Films

My short film is in BFI Flare 💎 produced by Ashitey Akomfrah of Smoking Dogs Films and featuring Martina Laird @mzzkimberley Don warrington and Michelle Tiwo. #bfiflare #LGBTHM22 whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/d…

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Honoured to join with the Hirshhorn to make Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree For Washington DC. In Yoko’s words “Make a wish. Write it down in a piece of paper.... Ask your friends to do the same. Keep wishing.” Hirshhorn #hirshhorn #wishtreedc #yokoono #ContemporaryArt

This has been up online for a little while now, but lovely to receive copies in the post today! Our essay 'Reclaiming Arctic Space' discussing #johnakomfrah work 'The Nine Muses' Smoking Dogs Films Lisson Gallery in Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art PMC Notes latest edition - bit.ly/3t36CiX

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Pls RT/ Share/Donate to Ajamu X archive project. Ajamu is a Black queer British photographer whose work is important and beautiful around transgender and cisgender men's bodies. His work questions gender, race and masculinity. kickstarter.com/projects/ajamu…

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Tomorrow could well be one of the most important days in the Grenfell Tower inquiry since it began two and a half years ago.

I appreciate minds are firmly elsewhere, but here's a quick thread of what's happening and why it matters:

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Thank you, new follows; thanks all for your comments (even the nasty ones. Means you were awake!!)
I really only watch history& science docs; art tv; Poirot; vintage films;/ US politics,😧, so didn't know new format of #QuestionTime or heard the news until last minute.