Celebrating achievements and resilience through storytelling, poetry, etc.

The walks take participants on a historical tour of Glasgow’s connections to tobacco, slavery and abolition. Walks start at the David Livingstone Memorial Statue and end at the Gallery of Modern Art. Led by Amy Rich and Lucien Staddon Foster.

Join Medieval and Renaissance Art Curator Ed Johnson for a free, short object talk, exploring Black representation in The Burrell Collection medieval stained-glass window, ‘The Tree of Jesse’.

After the screening of Secret Lives: The Untold Story of British Hip Hop (p.21) Glasgow Film Theatre and CRER invite you to celebrate the end of the 2024 Black History Month programme at Third Eye Bar. We will be joined by Junglehussi who will be bringing you a Hip Hop infused DJ set.

Documentary Secret Lives: The Untold Story of British Hip Hop highlights pioneers of the unknown underground UK rap scene. A transformative approach from the popular focus on purely commercial talent, the film presents an inimitable perspective on why, in the present day, the founders of the genre have been written out of history. The film focuses on the impact of the evolution of technology and the role of accents to an artist's success. Directed and produced by emerging film maker Eunice Olumide MBE, who will be joining us at the screening for a post-film Q&A. This screening is brought to the GFT by Doc n’ Roll Festival.

Join us for a series of screenings throughout October in collaboration between CRER and the Glasgow Film Theatre.

Curator for Scottish History, Tony Lewis, will review the significance of portraits of Georgian Glasgow’s businesspeople and their links to transatlantic slavery and the colonial plantation economy.

Join curators Emily Malcolm and Isobel McDonald to look at the 'lascar plaque' from Glasgow Museums' collections and to hear about the results of a two year community-led research programme into South Asian sailors (lascars) and their connection to Glasgow and the Clyde.

Black Is… an amazing 18+ halloween themed cabaret show run by Mx. Arrow Jackson.

Mx. Arrow Jackson is a Black and Indigenous Drag King borne out of Chicago, IL residing in Glasgow, Scotland.

This show seeks to celebrate what it means to be BLACK. <3 If you didn't catch our show last year, don't worry. This Black History Month 2024 is going to be even more spectacular than last year. With songs by Aderayo, drag by Mx. Arrow Jackson, art by The African Arts Centre, and more, there will be nothing like this event.

The walks take participants on a historical tour of Glasgow’s connections to tobacco, slavery and abolition. Walks start at the David Livingstone Memorial Statue and end at the Gallery of Modern Art. Led by Amy Rich and Lucien Staddon Foster.

Bringing the community women together to celebrate and showcase our heritage, assets and skills as African women.

Join us for an afternoon celebrating our College’s historic and contemporary connections with South Asian medics and communities.

As part of the event, you will be able to see the beautiful new portrait of our first female Fellow, Jamini Sen, who was born in Bengal (now West Bengal) in 1871. She gained her medical license from Calcutta Medical College in 1897and practiced in Nepal from 1899 until 1909 before receiving a scholarship from the Dufferin Foundation in 1911. This allowed her to travel widely to expand her skills as a surgeon, studying in Dublin, Glasgow, England and Germany, before returning to India in 1924 to work in women’s health, later remarking:

"I have a lot of responsibilities towards my sisters in my country."

Painted by Grace Payne-Kumar, the portrait of Jamini Sen is the first painting of a woman to be on display in our College Hall.

We will tell Jamini’s story and explore the history of medical migration from South Asia to Scotland from the late 1800s to today.

Draw from the African Art Collection. Compile your sketches and notes in the museum and express yourself in the education suite, using print, collage & mix media.

The event will be organized by the Staff members of the project, existing members, volunteers and community. There will be different foods, drinks and different music to celebrate Black History Month.

Brand new tour of Paxton House developed following extensive research exploring the colonial connections with Virginia and the Caribbean, particularly Grenada, from 1715 to 1850. Explore the transatlantic slavery history through food, paintings, furniture, costume, archives, and individuals who were enslaved and their enslavers. This tour will last around 1.5 hours and is led by our experienced guides. Suitable for ages 14 plus.

Radio Awaz dedicated BHM show every Saturday in October, 10am - 12pm.

Various segments throughout the week during various shows.

Listen on-air Awaz FM 107.2 and DAB across Glasgow and Edinburgh or online www.awazfm.co.uk.

Discuss challenges and obstacles facing the South Asian cohort in progressing through pathway to performance, identify areas to address these and take inspiration from recent success stories.

This talk will provide an overview of the work being conducted by the Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG) to investigate the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of slavery, colonialism and the development of racial thought, and find reparatory recommendations to address structural racism today.

Translation historian of South Asia, Dr Hephzibah Israel, will present on how ideas on reform underpinned many cultural exchanges between Scotland and British India in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She will link setting up of schools by Scottish educationists in the ‘Black towns’ of key Indian cities, such as Bombay and Madras, to ‘re-form’ young natives with the wider circulation of languages, texts and objects through their writings.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Glasgow had scores of record shops, but few specialised in African, Asian or Caribbean music. This talk will highlight the ones that did and celebrate how they often helped galvanise their communities and beyond, promoting concerts, events and more. It will also appeal for your memories of key contributors still to be acknowledged.

Bring your community group to a special pre-opening of John Akomfrah’s powerful film - Mimesis: African Soldier. Originally commissioned as part of 14-18 NOW to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, it is now in Glasgow Museums’ collection (jointly owned with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery). It’s the first time it is shown in Scotland. Don't miss it!

African Textile Exhibition from JOM Charity for Black History Month 2024 celebrations

CRER's Black History trip to Liverpool to visit the International Slavery Museum. Adapted from the award winning Transatlantic Slavery Gallery, the International Slavery Museum is located in Liverpool’s Albert Dock, at the centre of a World Heritage site and only yards away from the dry docks where 18th century slavery trading ships were repaired and fitted out. Join us for a curator led tour of the museum. The International Slavery Museum will close in early 2025 for a major development which will see its displays refreshed and spaces expanded, so this could be your last chance to see the Museum in its current form before it reopens. Please sign up by 13th October.

This event emerges from an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project exploring the challenges involved in embedding anti-racism and Black history within Scottish heritage institutions. It will feature a discussion with former French football star, Lilian Thuram, whose anti-racism foundation has collaborated with Kelvingrove Museum to design educational materials to support their new, permanent exhibition, ‘Glasgow, City of Empire’.

FJSS Group, in partnership with Heriot-Watt University, will host a special Black History Month programme to celebrate the Black African-Caribbean community in Scotland. The event will showcase the vibrant and innovative contributions of this community, as well as highlight Heriot-Watt University’s collaborative work with us, the rest of the UK, and globally. We’ll also be recognizing 100 outstanding Black African-Caribbean individuals who have inspired, mentored, and led within our community in Scotland.

A keynote public lecture by Dr Henghameh Saroukhani (Assistant Professor in Black British Literature, Durham University)

The Right to Undocument: Paperwork, Imperial Power and the Windrush Scandal.

Trinity House is home to a treasure trove of fascinating maritime memorabilia. Today visitors can explore an eclectic mix of artworks, navigational equipment, and curiosities collected by Leith sailors throughout the centuries and from all corners of the globe. We will bring objects and stories from Trinity House to your school/place of learning for pupils to discover the stories that link our collections and maritime Leith with Black history. Sessions are adapted to suit levels and are most appropriate for P5 upwards, including to Senior Secondary pupils and FE/HE students.

We will be screening two films from the award winning director Pratibha Parmar and there will be a discussion at the end. Pratibha Parmar first feature film Nina’s Heavenly Delights is an upbeat, queer romantic comedy. It tells the story of Nina, a young South Asian Scottish woman who returns home to Glasgow after the death of her father to run the family restaurant. There she meets Lisa who her father sold 50% of the business to. Will they save the restaurant and get closer along the way? Plus Bhangra Jig (1990): A young Asian woman walks through the city of Glasgow, once the second largest city of the British Empire. Bhangra Jig disrupts dominant notions of European culture and offers new meanings of what constitutes national cultures and identities and of what it means to be Asian, British and European.

Join us for a series of screenings throughout October in collaboration between CRER and the Glasgow Film Theatre.

Kinz Luiz Comedy and Mixer Night

The walks take participants on a historical tour of Glasgow’s connections to tobacco, slavery and abolition. Walks start at the David Livingstone Memorial Statue and end at the Gallery of Modern Art. Led by Amy Rich and Lucien Staddon Foster.

This walking tour of Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum examines the entanglements between museums and empire. We'll discuss Kelvingrove’s links with chattel slavery, colonialism and imperialism; recognise the ways this history continues to shape it today; and think about how museums can be spaces for having meaningful conversations about empire and its legacies.