Who will be speaking tomorrow at UKBP?
Award-winning UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest not-for-profit event for African, Arab, Asian and Caribbean-heritage Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people – is thrilled to announce our line-up for our 2018 festival, which takes place on Sunday 8 July in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
History set your stage. Keep the noise up at #UKBlackPride 2018, Sun 8 July. https://t.co/zzFa8UdRir
Directed by Nadira Amrani.
Music by Shamir. pic.twitter.com/VxlE2PQ3jl
— UK BLACK PRIDE (@ukblackpride) 26 June 2018
Recruited from across the diasporas we represent, the UK Black Pride team has curated performances by performers that represent the ever-growing and influential creativity and innovation that keeps Black LGBT+ people at the forefront of music, dance, and art.
As a Black LGBT+ community we understand that lodged in our body is a collective trauma, from daily microaggressions, marginalisation to historical erasure that we carry with us, on our shoulders and faces. So, for Black LGBT+ artists, the UK Black Pride stage is hallowed ground. Here, we not only have an opportunity to relieve the tension of survival, but to realise the potential of our bodies, too.
Leading the UK Black Pride entertainment team is Mwice-Margaret Kavindele, founder of Cocoa Butter Club, and a vocal performance powerhouse in her own right. Mwice-Margaret said:
“I have undertaken the task of curating the UK Black Pride stage personally and seriously because it is an opportunity for us all to see what bodies of colour are capable of and, in the current climate, understanding that we can be what we want is really cemented within us when we do this for ourselves.
When an organisation as groundbreaking and important as UK Black Pride curates performances for the community it matters.
"The line-up has been chosen not only because each performer is talented, inspiring and captivating, but also because each reveals to us who we can be.”
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