- Venue
- Everyman Theatre
- Starts
- Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Ends
- Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- Address
- 5 – 11 Hope St L1 9BH
- Location
- North West England
- Organiser
- Ean Flanders
The photographic exhibition is part of a wider exhibition and pays tribute to outstanding creatives, artists and activists of African and Caribbean heritage in Liverpool.
People from the African and Caribbean communities have shaped Liverpool since its early origins and have formed the UK’s oldest and longest established Black communities going back generations to the 1730s.
The contemporary portraits and the conversations that took place during the sittings rather than skirting around the mistreatment as documented around the Windrush Scandal offers a new perspective on those seen as part of the Windrush Generation and is keen to show people how they are and how they want to be seen.
Maleka Egeonu-Roby states ‘From listening to the history of the work of activists & change makers carried out decades before my time, it saddens me, as an adult to still be fighting the same systemic injustices I heard about from the past.
Especially with the current challenges at the local Caribbean Centre, which is a corner stone to the Black Community and a valued institution.
The Caribbean Centre was purpose built & opened in 1977, to address the community needing its own space, following a wave of compulsory purchases of Black Owned spaces across the area. Today in 2025, The Caribbean Centre is yet again under threat of being removed OR reduced from its site of nearly 50 years. Our cultural heritage spaces must remain for all future generations from all backgrounds to utilise & enjoy.
My hope is Black Communities voices are heard. The Art of the possible lies in empowering our voices to enable change.
My experience as a professional has shown me there are many opportunities to uplift Black communities and positively shift the dial on Black people’s experiences in Liverpool when the way forward is coproduced properly with the capability and talent within the Black community.‘
