Nadine White’s debut documentary, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, peels back the layered tales of the Caribbean youngsters who grew up away from their Windrush parents before migrating to join them in Britain.
Hailed as a “must watch” by Barbara Blake-Hannah, Britain’s first Black television newspaper reporter, Britain’s first Black woman MP Diane Abbott described the documentary as “a moving film about the young children that the Windrush migrants to the UK left behind and the effects of that involuntary separation”.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Samuel Nelson, who is featured in the documentary.
Opal22’s world premiere of Casta: The Origins of Caste examines the enduring legacy of Casta, one of the world’s earliest forms of pictorial human classification.
Discover the 150 year journey to provenance, and how these five newly rediscovered paintings encourage us to reckon with class and classification in contemporary society.
From curiosities used for restoration training, to being heralded as some of the oldest existent works of this genre by art historian Ilona Katzew. Follow the world’s most eminent professionals and historians as they uncover the hidden histories of Casta.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Tara Munroe.
Presented by Opal22 Arts and Edutainment in partnership with Phoenix.