The Funnest Room in the House : Kitchen Table Talk

This event has been programmed alongside Anna Maria Nabirye's immersive installation, The Funnest Room in the House.

Join artist Anna Maria Nabirye and Rebecca Adams to share an evening of conversation and food as they discuss the importance of recording and archiving the many stories from the African and Caribbean diaspora and the creative ways such memories can be shared. Rebecca draws on her wide-ranging experience as archivist responsible for the Stuart Hall Archive Collection and her particular interest in decolonising archives, archival representation, community archives and access.

You can find out more about the past and future of the project and read Anna Maria's blog on The Funnest Room in the House project page.

Rebecca Adams is an Archivist at the University of Birmingham responsible for the Stuart Hall Archive Collection and works alongside Patricia Noxolo, Nick Beech and Rebecca Roach on the Stuart Hall Archive Project.

She previously worked at The London Archives where she was the project archivist responsible for the Africa Centre Collection and the Mollie Hunte Collection. She was also a part of the International Council on Archives (ICA) New Professional Programme 2022-2023.

Rebecca’s key interests stem from her African-Caribbean background which include decolonising archives, community archives, archival representation, access, and the work of black archivists in the UK. Rebecca has also provided a chapter in New Histories of African and Caribbean People in Britain ed. by Hakim and published in 2023.

Fiction Forming Fact – films on food
9 June, 7.00pm
Towner Cinema
Free, booking required

Can fiction film & television give us clues to what Black British kitchens of the past looked like?