Black History Month 2022

Season

Please note : this season finished in Oct 2022

At Watershed we champion and celebrate diversity within our creative communities and our cultural programmes all year round. October is Black History Month in the UK, an opportunity to further celebrate, explore and reflect on the history, achievements and contributions of Black people. Here's just a few of the confirmed highlights which are coming up over the month...

Confirmed highlights include Somali love story The Gravedigger's Wife (plus a Q&A with writer/director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed), the epic The Woman King, starring Viola Davis as a general in charge of a unit of all-female warriors in West Africa, and a free Lunchtime Talk on CARGO Movement, a creative company dedicated to developing the understanding of African and African diaspora history.

More events and screenings will be confirmed soon - keep checking this space.

Previous screenings & events in this season

Preview: Neptune Frost

15 Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film

The directorial debut of multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman is an exhilarating Afrofuturist anti-capitalist sci-fi-punk-musical about a cosmic romance between an intersex hacker and a coltan miner which seeds a revolution.

Good Hair Screening + We Don't Need Permission Talk

12A Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film + Talk

Join us for a film screening and talk with Eric Collins, host of the award-winning Channel 4 Show The Money Maker, on Black business and entrepreneurship.

Sidney Poitier: The Defiant One Talk + Sidney Documentary Screening

12A Black History Month

Sidney Poitier: The Defiant One Talk + Sidney Screening

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film + Talk

A talk from Dr Roger Griffith MBE on the late great actor and activist Sidney Poitier, followed by a screening of a new documentary on his life and legacy.

The Gravedigger's Wife

12A Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film

With his heartfelt and critically acclaimed feature debut, writer/director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed follows a man as he desperately tries to seek help for his ailing wife.

Deaf Conversations About Cinema: The Woman King

Black History Month

Please note: This event took place in Oct 2022

Talk

Join us at the 17:40 screening of The Woman King on Mon 17 Oct which will feature Descriptive Subtitles and an introduction by Akulah Agbami from the Sheba Soul Ensemble. This will be followed at 19:45 by a post-screening discussion in the Café & Bar with Akulah. The evening will be hosted by Deaf artist, performer and filmmaker David Ellington and will feature BSL interpretation throughout.

Sheba Soul Ensemble Presents

18 Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film

For Black History Month, Sheba Soul Ensemble take a backwards, forwards and sideways look at how racism affects communities and family lives with a series of short film screenings, Q&As and a creative writing workshop.

The Woman King

15 Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film

A new historical epic telling the remarkable story of the Agojie: the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Preview: The Woman King

15 Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film

A preview of the new historical epic telling the remarkable story of the Agojie: the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Encounters Presents: Inna Wi Carnival: Reflections of a Generation

CTBA Black History Month

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2022

Film

To celebrate the start of Black History Month Encounters Film Festival partner with St Paul's Carnival to present a screening of new documentary Inna Wi Carnival.

Previous screenings & events in this season

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