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Rise Up Listening Salon

Tue 15 April 2025

Fitzwilliam Museum

Take a deep dive into the themes of our Rise Up exhibition at our series of listening salons co-facilitated by guests from London creative space Ruby Cruel. These sessions explore ideas of resistance against the wider backdrop of everyday lived experiences, the continuing legacy of transatlantic enslavement today, and our relationship to the ‘Black Atlantic’ – the creation and transmission of cultures by people of the African diaspora in response to empire, colonialism and the slave trade.

Ruby Cruel is a non-profit creative space in Hackney, London whose mix of exhibitions, talks and residencies focus on artists and thinkers from the Caribbean and its diaspora. These active, participatory sessions invite you to explore ideas of resistance through the notion of a Black Atlantic – a conceptual space for limitless imagination, transmission and exchange. All welcome.

Cost: Free