Racist Tones: Writing Flashbacks
This event will centre how we discuss, hear, write and amplify the very tones and frequencies in which racism has been lived and resisted.
Image: Paul Chokran
Book online in advance via the links below | Free
Designed for age 11+
Deploying the technique of collectively remembering flashbacks of racism from the seventies and eighties in Coventry, this will be a participative book workshop and discussion with the authors of Racist Tones, who recall the racist everyday encounters and violence that formed the backdrop to the 2-Tone record label in Coventry.
Connecting with the Turner Prize installations, they raise the issue of how we collaborate, listen in and amplify the harmful effects of racist tones.
Hear how they compiled the book from stories that alter how we imagine places across time in Coventry. Responding to specific prompts, such as ‘When I saw a skinhead...’ they foreground the everyday situations of those at the receiving end of a hostile racist environment. This event is organised with Goldsmiths, University of London.
