Podcasts about Johny Pitts

In this special episode, historian Corinne Fowler joins EMPIRE LINES live with visual artist and researcher Ingrid Pollard, linking rural British landscapes, buildings, and houses, to global histories of transatlantic slavery, through their book, Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain (2024).Though integral to national identity in Britain, the countryside is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings together rural life and colonial rule, through ten country walks with various companions. These journeys combine local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton. They also highlight how the British Empire transformed rural lives, whether in Welsh sheep farms or Cornish copper mines, presenting both opportunity and exploitation.Corinne explains how the booming profits of overseas colonial activities directly contributed to enclosure, land clearances, and dispossession in England. They highlight how these histories, usually considered separately, persist in the lives of their descendants and our landscapes today. We explore the two-way flows of colonial plant cultures, as evident in WIlliam Wordsworth's 19th century poems about daffodils, as contemporary works of literature by Chinua Achebe and Grace Nichols.Contemporary artist - and walking companion - Ingrid Pollard shares their research into ferns, seeds, and magic, across Northumberland, the Lake District, and South West England, Ingrid details histories of lacemaking in Devon and Cornwall, and we explore representations of ‘African' and Caribbean flowers in art. Bringing together Ingrid and Corinne's works, installed at the exhibition, Invasion Ecology, at Southcombe Barn on Dartmoor, we also explore their previous collaborations including the project, Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reimagined. Plus, Corinne questions ‘cancel culture' in the British media and academia, drawing on their experiences as Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain by Corinne Fowler is published by Penguin, and available in all good bookshops and online. You can pre-order the paperback, released on 1 May 2025. This episode was recorded live as part of the programme for Invasion Ecology, co-curated by Jelena Sofronijevic for Radical Ecology, and Vashti Cassinelli at Southcombe Barn, an arts space and gardens on Dartmoor. The central group exhibition, featuring Ingrid Pollard, Iman Datoo, Hanna Tuulikki, Ashish Ghadiali, Fern Leigh Albert, and Ashanti Hare, ran from 1 June to 10 August 2024.The wider programme featured anti-colonial talks and workshops with exhibiting artists, writers, researchers, and gardeners, reimagining more empathic connections between humans, plants, animals, and landscapes. For more information, follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Radical Ecology⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Southcombe Barn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on social media, and visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠radicalecology.earth/events/invasion-ecology-exhibition⁠⁠⁠⁠.Watch the full video conversation online, via Radical Ecology: https://vimeo.com/995929731And find all the links in the first Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8cyHX2I28You can also listen to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology Spotify playlist⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, for episodes with Paul Gilroy, Lubaina Himid, Johny Pitts, and Imani Jacqueline Brown, plus partners from the University of Exeter, KARST, CAST, and the Eden Project in Cornwall.PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠And Twitter: ⁠twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936⁠Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/empirelines

InterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places' achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In our second episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the broadcaster, writer and photographer Johny Pitts. Johny is a Sheffield-native and has witnessed first-hand the huge social and architectural change the city has undergone since the early 1990s. Today, we use photographs from "After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024" a roving exhibition Johny has curated, to track the cities shifting identity from the so-called Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to a city where leisure and comfort are the new guiding principles. Subscribe to the Open City Podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud or iTunesThe Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects' Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this final edition of Open Book, Johny Pitts and Chris Power celebrate some of the outstanding novels from the last twenty six years.They are joined by Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018 for her novel Home Fire. Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, and one of this year's Booker Prize judges. Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre, and previous chair of the International Booker.Kamila, Sara and Ted pick out some of the books, including Wolf Hall, Lincoln in the Bardo and On Beauty, which have stood out for them: books they'd recommend to others, and re-read again and again.Producer: Kirsten LockeBooks List:Best of Friends – Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows – Kamila Shamsie Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins In the City by the Sea – Kamila Shamsie Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro Seasonal Quartet – Ali Smith The Bee Sting – Paul Murray Maps for Lost Lovers – Nadeem Aslam In Memoriam – Alice Winn On Beauty – Zadie Smith

Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts discuss AI and the novel.

Eddie speaks to Johny Pitts, photographer and author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. They dive into the Afropean diasporic experience as captured through the medium of the image, the growing exclusion of the working class from contemporary arts and media, and the technological heyday of photography in Japan from Johny and Eddie's experiences of working with the iconic Konica film.Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books, https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks

Graham Norton speaks to Johny Pitts about his new novel, Frankie.

Welcome back after our summer break ☀️ Please note: The episode switches to English from minute 1:00 onwards.This week, we're excited to bring you a special episode from the FRB Switzerland. Anja had the opportunity to meet Johny Pitts, an acclaimed artist, writer, and broadcaster, and we're thrilled to share this conversation with you.In this episode, we explore various perspectives on combating racism and discuss specific areas for action. The conversation features Jonny Pitts along with hosts Anja Glover.Topics covered include:​The concept of the B-side and its relevance to cultural narratives​The intersection of underground and mainstream culture​Jonny Pitts' experiences and insights from his book Afropian​Challenges and opportunities in addressing racism in Europe and beyondThank you for tuning in, and we hope you find this episode insightful and thought-provoking!Produced by kay wieoimmerIn cooperation with frb: https://www.edi.admin.ch/edi/de/home/fachstellen/frb.html

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Irenosen Okojie talks to Johny Pitts about her new book, Curandera.

Johny Pitts speaks to Garth Risk Hallberg about his new novel, The Second Coming.

Artist Hanna Tuulikki connects plantation landscapes in Finland, Scotland, and across the South West of England, making kin across species and with birds, via Avi-Alarm (2023). ⁠Invasion Ecology⁠ is co-curated by Jelena Sofronijevic for Radical Ecology, and Vashti Cassinelli at Southcombe Barn, an arts space and gardens on Dartmoor. The central group exhibition, featuring Ingrid Pollard, Iman Datoo, Hanna Tuulikki, Ashish Ghadiali, Fern Leigh Albert, and Ashanti Hare, runs from 1 June to 10 August 2024. The wider programme includes anti-colonial talks and workshops with exhibiting artists, writers, researchers, and gardeners, reimagining more empathic connections between humans, plants, animals, and landscapes. Ingrid will join EMPIRE LINES in conversation with Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Director of Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted, and author of ⁠Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain (2024)⁠, in July 2024. For more information, follow ⁠Radical Ecology⁠ and ⁠Southcombe Barn⁠ on social media. You can also listen to the ⁠EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology Spotify playlist⁠, for episodes with Paul Gilroy, Lubaina Himid, Johny Pitts, and Imani Jacqueline Brown, plus partners from the University of Exeter, KARST, CAST, and the Eden Project in Cornwall. IMAGES: Jassy Earl. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠ And Twitter: ⁠twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936⁠ Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/empirelines

Johny Pitts talks to Kevin Barry about his new novel, The Heart in Winter

In this special episode, EMPIRE LINES returns to Ingrid Pollard's 2022 exhibition, Carbon Slowly Turning, the first major survey of her career photographing Black experiences beyond the city and urban environments, in the English countryside. It marks the artist's participation in Invasion Ecology, a season of contemporary land art across South West England in summer 2024, questioning what we mean by ‘native' and what it means to belong. Since the 1980s, artist Ingrid Pollard has explored how Black and British identities are socially constructed, often through historical representations of the rural landscape. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Ingrid draws on English and Caribbean photographic archives, with works crossing the borders of printmaking, sculpture, audio, and video installations. Their practice confronts complex colonial histories, and their legacies in our contemporary lived experiences, especially concerning race, sexuality, and identity. Curated by the artist and Gilane Tawadros, Carbon Slowly Turning led to Pollard's shortlisting for the Turner Prize 2022. From its iteration at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Ingrid exposes the pre-Windrush propaganda films beneath works like Bow Down and Very Low -123 (2021), her plural influences from Maya Angelou to Muhammad Ali, and playing on popular culture with works in the Self Evident series (1992). As a Stuart Hall Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex, and with a PhD-by-publication, the artist discusses the role of research in her media-based practice. Finally, Ingrid opens her archive of depictions of African figures 'hidden in plain sight' in English towns and villages - from classical portraiture, to ‘Black Boy' pub signs. Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning ran at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, the Turner Contemporary in Margate, and Tate Liverpool, throughout 2022. The exhibition was supported by the Freelands Foundation and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the episode first released as part of EMPIRE LINES at 50. Invasion Ecology is co-curated by Jelena Sofronijevic for Radical Ecology, and Vashti Cassinelli at Southcombe Barn, an arts space and gardens on Dartmoor. The central group exhibition, featuring Ingrid Pollard, Iman Datoo, Hanna Tuulikki, Ashish Ghadiali, Fern Leigh Albert, and Ashanti Hare, runs from 1 June to 10 August 2024. The wider programme includes anti-colonial talks and workshops with exhibiting artists, writers, researchers, and gardeners, reimagining more empathic connections between humans, plants, animals, and landscapes. Ingrid will join EMPIRE LINES in conversation with Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Director of Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted, and author of Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain (2024), in July 2024. For more information, follow Radical Ecology and Southcombe Barn on social media. You can also listen to the EMPIRE LINES x Invasion Ecology Spotify playlist, for episodes with Paul Gilroy, Lubaina Himid, Johny Pitts, and Imani Jacqueline Brown, plus partners from the University of Exeter, KARST, CAST, and the Eden Project in Cornwall. Ingrid Pollard's Three Drops of Blood (2022), commissioned by talking on corners (Dr Ella S. Mills and Lorna Rose), also explores representations of ferns, botany, and folk traditions in Devon's historic lace-making industry. First exhibited at Thelma Hubert Gallery in Honiton, it is now part of the permanent collection of The Box in Plymouth, where it will be displayed from 19 October 2024. SOUNDS: no title, Ashish Ghadiali (2024). PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast And Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

W dwudziestym ósmym odcinku Podkastu Zamorskiego rozmawiamy o trynidadzkiej powieści "Kiedy byłyśmy ptakami" Ayanny Lloyd Banwo, która ukazała się w przekładzie Tomasza Wyżyńskiego nakładem Wydawnictwa Echa. Usłyszycie: Dlaczego "Kiedy byłyśmy ptakami" to wyjątkowy tytuł na polskim rynku książki Jaką muzykę można usłyszeć na cmentarzu Lapeyrouse w Port of Spain Dlaczego autorka obawiała się, czy zdoła wiernie oddać trynidadzkie realia w powieści O co chodzi ze wspięgą wężowatą i zielonymi figami Dlaczego rastafarianin Darwin mówi językiem katolickiej Biblii Kim jest sufferer (nie mylić z surferem) No i dlaczego trochę marudzimy (choć też zachęcamy) Będziemy wdzięczni, jeśli zasubskrybujecie i pozytywnie ocenicie Zamorski! Wspomniane w podkaście: "Kiedy byłyśmy ptakami" (Echa) "Postkolonialny wiersz miłosny" (Wydawnictwo Współbycie) Claire Adam: "I've always felt, ask me where I'm from!" ("Caribbean Beat") Johny Pitts rozmawia z Ayanną Lloyd Banwo (Open Book, BBC Radio 4, 2022) --- Rozmawiają Olga Godlewska i Bartosz Wójcik.  Podkast powstał przy Zamorskim Klubie Czytelniczym. Zapraszamy do naszej grupy dyskusyjnej na Facebooku: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/zamorskiklubczytelniczy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Znajdziesz nas na ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://zamorskie.pl/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ oraz na Instagramie: ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/podkast.zamorski

Michael Cunningham speaks to Johny Pitts about his new novel, Day.

Johny Pitts speaks to Janice Hallett about her new book, The Christmas Appeal.

Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts discuss AI and the novel.

Curator Dorothy Price outlines the figures of Claudette Johnson, a founder member of the Black British Art Movement (Blk Art Group), and one of the first ‘post-colonials' practicing in Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and the Midlands from the 1980s to now. Ever so-slightly-larger than-life, Claudette Johnson's drawings of Black figures reflect the status of their artist. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement or BLK Art Group in the 1980s, she was a leading figure in a politically-charged creative community - called the first ‘post-colonials' by Stuart Hall, for being born and raised in Britain. Johnson worked closely with fellow ‘post-Windrush' contemporaries include Eddie Chambers and Keith Piper, Ingrid Pollard and Maud Sulter, Marlene Smith and Lubaina Himid - but her work has been relatively underrepresented. As the artist's first public monographic exhibition opens in London, curator Dorothy Price talks about her practice in the Wolverhampton Young Black Artists Group - which predated the YBAs - and formative speech in the First National Black Arts Conference in 1982. Dorothy shares personal insights from the groundbreaking ICA exhibition, The Thin Black Line, and Claudette's complex position as a Black European artist of African and Caribbean descent. Drawing on the Courtauld's permanent collection, we see the artist's work with African masks, sculptures, and conventional representations of Black women, challenging the colonial foundations of Western European modernism, and reappropriating the ‘Primitivism' of the likes of Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin to state her place in art history. We also discuss her contemporary practice, and how the history of the Black British Arts Movement can decentre the contemporary ‘Brixtonisation' of the singular Black experience, drawing attention to cities in Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and the Midlands. Claudette Johnson: Presence runs at the Courtauld Gallery in London until 14 January 2023. For more, you can read my article. For more about Keith Piper, hear curators Jake Subryan Richards and Vicky Avery on Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) at the Fitzwilliam Museum on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/a5271ae2bc8c85116db581918412eda2 For more on Ingrid Pollard, hear the artist on Carbon Slowly Turning (2022) at the Turner Contemporary on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/e00996c8caff991ad6da78b4d73da7e4 For more about the ‘Brixtonisation' of the Black British experience, listen to artist Johny Pitts on Home is Not A Place (2021-Now) at The Photographers' Gallery on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/70fd7f9adfd2e5e30b91dc77ee811613 For more on Hurvin Anderson, hear Hepworth Wakefield curator Isabella Maidment on his Barbershop (2006-2023) series on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/5cfb7ddb525098a8e8da837fcace8068 Recommended reading: On Lubaina Himid: gowithyamo.com/blog/the-revolutionary-act-of-walking-in-the-city On Maud Sulter: gowithyamo.com/blog/reclaiming-visual-culture-black-venus-at-somerset-house On Sonia Boyce: gowithyamo.com/blog/feeling-her-way-sonia-boyces-noisy-exhibition On Life Between Islands at Tate Britain: artmag.co.uk/the-caribbean-condensed-life-between-islands-at-the-tate-britain/ WITH: Professor Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld, London. She is also Editor of Art History, journal of the Association for Art History, and founder of the Tate/Paul Mellon Centre's British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art. Dorothy is the co-curator of Presence. ART: ‘And I Have My Own Business in This Skin, Claudette Johnson (1982)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

A special edition for Black History Month celebrating the lives and music of black women. Michael Berkeley revisits some of the many inspiring guests from the last few years who chose music written or performed by black women, and who have made their own important contributions to black history: artists Helen Cammock and Theaster Gates, writers Kit de Waal, Nadifa Mohamed and Isabel Wilkerson, jazz saxophonist YolanDa Brown, broadcaster Johny Pitts, and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, mother of seven brilliant young musicians including 2023 BBC Proms stars cellist Sheku and pianist Isata. Their choices range from music by Florence Price to performances by Nina Simone and soprano Jessye Norman. Producer: Graham Rogers

Curator Eleanor Nairne traces the migrations of contemporary artist Julianknxx, as he travels between European port cities, and back to the Barbican in London, collaborating with Black choirs and musicians. Sierra Leonian artist Julianknxx challenges stereotypes around African art, history, and culture through the lens of his personal experiences. Crossing the boundaries between poetry and music, audio and visual art, his new multichannel installation at the Barbican is born out of a year of travelling over four thousand kilometres across Europe, from Berlin to Barcelona, in a process of collaboration and ‘active listening' with Black choirs and collectives. Curator Eleanor Nairne shares her experience of working with the artist, and how their interdisciplinary practice challenges the singular ‘Black experience'. We discuss the importance of water and migration, ‘shipwrecked' cities like Amsterdam, and how the language of historical reckonings is rooted in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. Drawing on academics like Édouard Glissant and Lorna McDaniel, we consider the role of songs as non-conventional sources, sites of community and the intergenerational transfer of knowledge. Plus, Eleanor details the importance of immersion in unsettling narratives - including online. Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight runs at the Barbican in London until 11 February 2024. The exhibition is also accessible online via WePresent, the global arts platform of WeTransfer. For more, you can read my article. For more about A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern, listen to curators Osei Bonsu, Jess Baxter, and Genevieve Barton on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/386dbf4fcb2704a632270e0471be8410 For more about Johny Pitts, hear the artist on Home is Not A Place (2021-Now) at The Photographers' Gallery on EMPIRE LINES: pod.link/1533637675/episode/70fd7f9adfd2e5e30b91dc77ee811613 Part of EMPIRE LINES at 90, exploring the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade through contemporary art. WITH: Eleanor Nairne, Senior Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London. She is the curator of Chorus in Rememory of Flight. ART: ‘Chorus in Rememory of Flight, Julianknxx (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Barbican)'. SOUNDS: Aron Kyne; THABO; Boras Choir. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.

Writer and photographer Johny Pitts captures everyday experiences from Black communities around the British coast, bringing together the sights, sounds, and sofas shared from Liverpool to London, in his touring installation, Home is Not a Place. In 2021, Johny Pitts and the poet Roger Robinson set off on a journey clockwise around the British coast, to answer the question: 'What is Black Britain?' Their collaboration, Home is Not is Place, captures contemporary, everyday experiences of Blackness between Edinburgh and Belfast, Liverpool and Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Setting out from London, the multidisciplinary artist challenges the ‘Brixtonisation' of Black experiences, and binary media representations of Black excellence, or criminality. Johny shares stories of migration, how Brexit and COVID changed his perceptions of local environments, and archive albums from his own childhood in multicultural, working-class Sheffield. Flicking through shots of Yorkshire puddings and Mount Fuji, we find his travels-past in 1980s bubble-era Japan. And in his Living Room, we sit down to discuss Afropean, inspirations like James Baldwin, Paul Gilroy, and Caryl Phillips, plus his sister Chantal's pirate radio playlists, and the role of family and community in his practice. Johny Pitts: Home is Not a Place runs at The Photographers' Gallery in London until 24 September 2023. Join the Gallery this Thursday (7 September), and next, for special exhibition tours and artist talks. For more, you can read my article in gowithYamo. For more about Autograph, hear artist Ingrid Pollard's EMPIRE LINES on Carbon Slowly Turning (2022): https://pod.link/1533637675/episode/e00996c8caff991ad6da78b4d73da7e4 WITH: Johny Pitts, photographer, writer, and broadcaster from Sheffield, England. He is the curator of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) award-winning Afropean.com, and the author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (2021). ART: ‘Home is Not a Place, Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson (2021-Now)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen speaks to Johny Pitts about her new book, The Wolf Hunt

Johny Pitts explores Birmingham's literary heritage and contemporary writing scene.

Johny Pitts speaks to Megan Nolan about her new novel, Ordinary Human Failings. The book explores the demonization of an Irish family and tabloid journalism in nineties London following a shocking tragedy. Plus what is the best crime fiction out there this summer? Vaseem Khan, incoming chair of the Crime Writers Association, and critic Laura Wilson give their tips, from hot new psychological thrillers to reissued classics. And Val McDermid chooses a very modern-feeling 1940s whodunit for her Book I'd Never Lend. Book List – Sunday 16 July and Thursday 20 July Ordinary Human Failing by Megan Nolan Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan Grave Expectations by Alice Bell The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames Alchemy by SJ Parris The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

What exactly is a portrait? As the National Portrait Gallery re-opens and Sheffield Documentary Festival begins, Shahidha Bari talks to the gallery's Chief Curator Alison Smith, film-makers Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown about their film Dalton's Dream, photographer Johny Pitts, whose project Home is Not a Place moves to the Photographers' Gallery in London and New Generation Thinker Ana Baeza Ruiz about an oral history project with 1970s feminist artists. Producer: Sofie Vilcins You can hear music relating to an image held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery every day on BBC Radio 3's Breakfast programme next week and an episode of the weekly curation of Words and Music inspired by portraits is broadcast on Sunday June 18th and then available on BBC Sounds for a month. On BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds a series called Close Encounters presented by Martha Kearney invites ten leading figures of today to the newly refurbished National Portrait Gallery to champion a favourite picture from the Gallery's collection. The NPG re-opens after refurbishment on June 22nd 2023. The NPG has linked up with Creative Southampton to open a show at Southampton City Art Gallery and Museums: which is a follow up to a project run by the NPG with Sheffield Galleries. Joshua Reynolds' birth on July 16th 1723 is being marked by an exhibition in the city of his birth at the Box Plymouth which runs until October 29th Johny Pitts' work has been on show in Sheffield, Edinburgh and is now opening at the Photographers Gallery London this June. The Sheffield Doc Festival runs June 14th to 19th premiering a host of films, tv and podcasts which will be coming your way soon. The screenings include Dalton's Dream on 15th June, by Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown, which tracks the journey of the first non-British and Black man to win X-Factor UK and the new life which follows Blood & Fire: Our Journey Through Vanley Burke's History runs at Soho House in Birmingham until Nov 4th 2023

W czternastym odcinku opowiadamy o pierwszej książce objętej oficjalnym matronatem Zamorskiego. „Otwarte wody” (ang. "Open Water", przeł. Mariusz Gądek) to debiutancka powieść brytyjsko-ghańskiego prozaika i fotografa Caleba Azumah Nelsona, która niebawem będzie miała premierę w wydawnictwie Drzazgi: https://drzazgi.com/produkt/otwarte-wody/. Usłyszycie: • Jak dr Carolyn Cooper podsumowała festiwal Calabash na Jamajce? • Jaką rolę pełni powieść Zadie Smith, "London NW", w "Otwartych wodach"? • Co wspólnego ma Caleb Azumah Nelson z Johnym Pittsem, autorem "Afropejczyków"? • Jaki element recenzenckiego binga odhaczamy w tym odcinku? • Dlaczego Nelson nie umieścił przypisów w swojej książce? • Jaką rolę w powieści odgrywa zakład barberski? • Czy "Otwarte wody" to romcom? • Skąd Kei Miller w powieści Nelsona? • Skąd w odcinku Eddie Murphy? • Jaki współczesny brytyjski film fabularny warto obejrzeć po przeczytaniu "Otwartych wód"? • Co wyrabia policja w powieściowym świecie przedstawionym? • I co redakcja Zamorskiego przygotowała na sam koniec* odcinka? * ostatnie 3:40 minuty Będziemy wdzięczni, jeśli zasubskrybujecie i pozytywnie ocenicie Zamorski! Wspomniane w podkaście: "Open Water" Official Playlist: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0JeZD3Jd67kGtSpVeXE488?si=d9c842e3e74c4a66 Festiwal Calabash (Jamajka): http://calabashfestival.org/ Carolyn Cooper, "Calabash Festival lit up Jamaica": https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20230611/carolyn-cooper-calabash-festival-lit-jamaica Kenneth Mohammed, "What's the Caribbean without its beaches? But the people are losing access to them": https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/06/caribbean-beaches-public-access-development-transparency-engagement Instagram Cindy Allman: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/bookofcinz/⁠ Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about "Open Water", his hotly anticipated debut: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yojaIpI2CdMBJr4A2Gjw1?si=HoaD3TrSQiu9PBGGYIKThw Serial "Desmond's" (lokalizacja: Peckham, południowy Londyn) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%27s Inua Ellams, "Barbershop Chronicles" (recenzja): https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/13/inua-ellams-barber-shop-chronicles-national-theatre-at-home ---  Rozmawiają Olga Godlewska i Bartosz Wójcik.  Podkast powstał przy Zamorskim Klubie Czytelniczym: ⁠⁠https://zamorskie.pl/zamorski-klub-czytelniczy/⁠⁠ Zapraszamy do naszej grupy dyskusyjnej na FB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/zamorskiklubczytelniczy⁠⁠ Znajdziesz nas na Instagramie: ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/olga_godlewska/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/bartosz__wojcik/⁠

Johny Pitts talks to Guy Gunaratne about their new novel Mister, Mister

The Jhalak Prize is an annual literary prize for British or British-Resident writers of colour, established in 2016. Previous winners include Reni Eddo-Lodge and Johny Pitts. Tom speaks to the winners of this year's Jhalak Prize and Jhalak Children's and Young Adult Prize, announced at the British Library this evening. This week Tate Britain revealed a complete rehang of its free collection displays - the first in ten years. There are over 800 works by over 350 artists, featuring much-loved favourites and recent discoveries, including 70 works which entered the collection in the past 5 years. The rehang intends to reflect revolutionary changes in art, culture and society, and present new work by some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists. Associate arts editor of The Times, Alice Jones, and TV and film critic Amon Warmann give their view. Plus The Little Mermaid. In their 100th year, Disney have reworked their 1989 Oscar winning animated musical classic into a live action version, starring Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King and Melissa McCarthy. Alice and Amon review. And the Cannes Film Festival - critic Jason Solomons offers his round up of this year's films. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Corinna Jones

Cześć! W tym odcinku udamy się w podróż przez Europę z Johnym Pittsem i razem z nim pochylimy się nad losem i historią czarnych mieszkańców tego kontynentu. To pięknie napisana książka pełna spotkań, pytań, nieoczekiwanych przystanków i fotografii. Zaraz potem przeniesiemy się do Stanów Zjednoczonych, które próbuje zrozumieć Eddie S. Glaude Jr., korzystając z twórczości Jamesa Baldwina. To częściowo biografia znanego pisarza, po części wspomnienia samego autora, a przede wszystkim wnikliwy komentarz na temat rasizmu w USA. Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Johny Pitts, „Afropejczycy. Zapiski z czarnej Europy”, tłum. Zofia Szachnowska-Olesiejuk, Szczeliny; Eddie S. Glaude Jr., „Begin Again. James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today”, Vintage. Strona Podkastu Zamorskiego, który serdecznie Wam polecamy: https://open.spotify.com/show/3oWM7khRobNa3gqxoENFWZ Mamy Patronite! Jeżeli chcesz dołączyć do naszego grona Matronek i Patronów, będziemy zaszczycone! Dla tych, którzy zdecydują się nas wspierać, mamy spersonalizowane książkowe rekomendacje, newslettery głosowe, podziękowania na stronie i wiele więcej! Szczegóły tutaj: https://patronite.pl/juztlumacze Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze i na Facebooku https://www.facebook.com/juz.tlumacze oraz na naszej stronie internetowej https://juztlumacze.pl/ Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

Johny Pitts talks to the debut novelist about The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

Johny Pitts explores the work of two writers who have combined comedy with tragedy

W szóstym odcinku rozmawiamy o pierwszej w naszym podkaście książce non-fiction. „Afropejczycy. Zapiski z czarnej Europy” ("Afropean. Notes from Black Europe", przeł. Zofia Szachnowska-Olesiejuk) to reportaż Johny'ego Pittsa, który miał polską premierę 22.02.2023 r. w Wydawnictwie Szczeliny. Jeśli chcecie się dowiedzieć:  • Czy Zamorski ma już swój upragniony jingiel? • Co to takiego Afropea? • Co łączy Davida Byrne'a, zespół Zap Mama i Audre Lorde z „Afropejczykami”? • Jaka książka jest do pewnego stopnia poprzedniczką reportażu Johny'ego Pittsa? • Jakie doświadczenia wojenne Frantza Fanona są opisane w "Afropejczykach"? • Jakie mity Johny Pitts burzy w swoim reportażu? • Co Pitts zobaczył w Królewskim Muzeum Afryki Środkowej? • Jak prawdziwi (sic!) dżentelmeni witają się w Afryce?  • Co mają „Przygody Tintina" do kolonializmu? ... słuchajcie Zamorskiego! Teraz nowy odcinek w środę co dwa tygodnie. Pamiętajcie, żeby wystawić nam ocenę i zasubskrybować podkast :) Wspomniane w podkaście: „Afropejczycy. Zapiski z czarnej Europy” (2023): https://www.szczeliny.pl/afropejczycy-zapiski-z-czarnej-europy Projekt Afropean: https://afropean.com/ Johny Pitts: https://www.johnypitts.com/info Zap Mama: https://www.zapmama.com/ Królewskie Muzeum Afryki Środkowej: https://www.africamuseum.be/ Henry Morton Stanley i David Livingstone (koloryzowane): https://tinyurl.com/4r5ydn7a --- Rozmawiają Olga Godlewska i Bartosz Wójcik. Podkast powstał przy Karaibskim Klubie Książkowym. Zapraszamy do naszej grupy dyskusyjnej: https://www.facebook.com/groups/karaibskiklubksiazkowy/ Znajdziesz nas na Instagramie:https://www.instagram.com/olga_godlewska/https://www.instagram.com/bartosz__wojcik/

Monica Heisey talks to Johny Pitts about her debut novel about divorce in your twenties

Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection to the festive season

From a farming family in Jamaica to travelling in Europe and Northern Africa, the writer Claude McKay became a key figure in the artistic movement of the 1920s dubbed The Harlem Renaissance. Publishing under a pseudonym, his poems including To the White Friends and If We Must Die explored racial prejudice. Johnny Pitts has written an essay about working class community, disability and queer culture explored in Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille, which was published for the first time in 2020. Pearl Cleage's play Blues for an Alabama Sky is set in 1930s New York. The African-American playwright is the daughter of a civil rights activist, and has worked as speechwriter for Alabama's first black mayor, founded and edited the literary magazine Catalyst, and published many novels, plays and essays. Nadifa Mohamed's novels include Black Mamba Boy and her most recent The Fortune Men (shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize). They talk to Shahidha Bari about Claude McKay and the flourishing of ideas and black pride that led to the Harlem Renaissance. Producer: Tim Bano Blues For an Alabama Sky runs at the National Theatre in London from September 20th to November 5th. Johny Pitts presents Open Book on Radio 4. His books include Afropean: Notes from Black Europe which you can hear him discussing on Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005sjw His collaboration with Roger Robinson Home Is Not A Place exploring Black Britishness in the 21st century is out this month. You can hear more from Nadifa talking about her latest novel The Fortune Men and comparing notes about the writing life with Irenosen Okojie in previous Free Thinking episodes available on our website in the prose and poetry playlist and from BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000x06v and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k8sz Alongside Verso's reissue of Home to Harlem they have 3 other books out: Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman, and Quicksand And Passing by Nella Larson. On BBC Sounds and in the Free Thinking archives you can find conversations about Black History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp and a Radio 3 Sunday Feature Harlem on Fire in which Afua Hirsch looks at the history of the literary magazine https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06s6z0b

Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes

Johny Pitts discusses time with three writers who have explored it in very different ways

Johny Pitts talks to author of Either/Or, sequel to the 2017 bestseller The Idiot

Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.

Onze recensent Nadia Bouras bespreekt de volgende historische boeken: -Mona L. Siegel, Vrede op onze voorwaarden. De wereldwijde strijd voor vrouwenrechten na de Eerste Wereldoorlog (Athenaeum). -Diederik Burgersdijk, Gymnasium. Geschiedenis van een eliteschool(Athenaeum). -Johny Pitts, Afropeaan. Notities uit Zwart Europa (De Geus). -Lea Ypi, Vrij. Opgroeien aan het einde van de geschiedenis (De Bezige Bij). Nadia kiest uit deze selectie ook haar favoriet, en OVT geeft weer twee exemplaren weg aan luisteraars! Hou na de bekendmaking in de uitzending onze sociale media in de gaten om kans te maken.

AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts' the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. In this episode I'm in conversation with author of Afropean and Guest Editor of The Eyes Journal, Johny Pitts.️The Eyes is an independent and bilingual journal (published in French and English) that explores cultural and societal issues through the prism of photographic creativity.For each issue The Eyes gives an artist "carte blanche" to curate a subjective and personal panorama on the special focus.Johny & I discuss his guest curation for Issue 12 titled B-side, a visual exploration of what it means to be Afropean.If you'd like to support this independent, award winning podcast through Patreon or Ko-fi I would be delighted! Thank you!Johny Pitts InstagramAfropean InstagramThe Eyes InstagramShade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou MensahMixing CA DavisMusic by Brian Jackson Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/shadepodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Johny Pitts is a multiple-award-winning writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist, originally from Sheffield, England. His first book, Afropean (2020), combines travel writing, photography, history, and slices of memoir into a nonfiction work that seeks to sketch the many lives lived by Black people in contemporary Europe. In this fascinating interview, he tells the story of how he moved from wandering the streets and record stores of his hometown, lost, to becoming the head of continent-wide network of Black writers committed to capturing their experiences in Europe – in all their beauty and challenge. 'Who are the members of the Black community living in a place like Frankfurt?' Craft is brought to you by Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing. Check out our website, www.wasafiri.org, for outtakes and a full transcript of this interview, and much more from writers all over the world.Craft is sponsored by Arts Council England, and Queen Mary University of London. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Blaðakonan Barbara Demick hefur ferðast um heiminn undanfarinn aldarfjórðung og fjallað um nokkur af lokuðustu samfélögum heims. Í nýjustu bók sinni fjallar hún um bæinn Ngaba í Tíbet sem er einn allra lokaðasti staður í Kína. Við ræddum við Barböru á bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík í síðustu viku, um starf erlenda fréttaritarans, um ofríki kínverja í Tíbet, og hvað gæti gerst eftir að andlegur leiðtogi Tíbeta, hinn áttræði Dalai Lama, fellur frá. Í október fer eitt stærsta rafíþróttamót heims fram í laugardagshöll þar sem stjörnur í heimi tölvuleiksins League of Legends takast á. Mótið er stærðarinnar skrautfjöður í hatt Rafíþróttasamtaka íslands sem einblína þó ekki á peningana, heldur setja heilsu og velferð ungs fólks í miðið í sinni vinnu. Og Steindór Grétar Jónsson flytur okkur pistil um bókina Afropean: Notes from Black Europe eftir Johny Pitts. Pitts þessi nýtir þetta hugtak, afrópean eða afrópskur, til að lýsa sjálfum sér og öðrum svörtum evrópumönnum í bókinni sem er allt í senn ferðabók og djúpköfun hvað það þýðir að vera svartur í Evrópu.

Diyora Shadijanova (https://twitter.com/thediyora) talks with Jhalak Prize winning author, Johny Pitts (https://twitter.com/johnypitts). They discuss his approach to journeying through Afropea via photography and writing, the books that shaped him as an adult and how hip hop influenced his love for words. In next month's book club we'll be discussing In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, and speaking to author of ‘Acts of Desperation' and one of the most exciting Irish writers of now - Megan Nolan. Get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com. Don't forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the #BroccoliBookClub. And if you liked what you heard, why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app?

Afropean sets out to explore “Black Europe from the street up.” The book is compiled of on-the ground reports detailing Jhalak Prize Winner and author Johny Pitts (https://twitter.com/johnypitts) incredible journey as he backpacks through Europe and meets people from different backgrounds and communities. Also a photographer, Johny also captures photographs to accompany the stories. Buy the book here (https://shorturl.at/rCVZ5). Politics editor at Gal Dem Magazine, Moya Lothian-Mclean (https://twitter.com/mlothianmclean) and Former CCO Tony Phillips (https://twitter.com/tonyphillips40) discuss how Afropean inspired them. Tony also reveals that he has personal connection to the author. In next month's book club we'll be discussing In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com Don't forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the #BroccoliBookClub. And if you liked what you heard why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app.

Diyora Shadijanova (@TheDiyora) talks with Dutch Historian and Author of Humankind: A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman (https://twitter.com/rcbregman). They dissect his theory that “most people, deep down, are pretty decent”, how perfectionism forced him to change his mind on parts of the book, and how he dealt with the backlash of recounting the story of ‘Real Lord of The Flies. Buy the book here (https://shorturl.at/fmGZ8). In next month's book club we'll be discussing Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com Don't forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the #BroccoliBookClub. And if you liked what you heard why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app.

Humankind: A Hopeful History pushes the revolutionary theory that “most people, deep down, are pretty decent”. Written by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman), he takes us through centuries of historical events and challenges the beliefs of Machiavelli, Freud and Dawkins, using plenty of research to prove his point – that humans aren't inherently selfish. Humankind gives an alternative understanding of history, and made me think that maybe, we need a new optimistic lens when looking at humanity... to give us hope for the future. Buy the book here (shorturl.at/jyFQW). Co-host of Literary Friction Octavia Bright (https://twitter.com/octaviabright_) and Producer at Broccoli Productions Bea Duncan (https://twitter.com/beaduncan_) join the host of Broccoli Book Club Diyora Shadijanova (https://twitter.com/thediyora) to discuss. In next month's book club we'll be discussing Afropean by Johny Pitts, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to voicenotes@broccolicontent.com Don't forget to share the podcast and join the conversation using the #BroccoliBookClub. And if you liked what you heard why not leave a review on your favourite podcast app.

This is a conversation with David Andress. He is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth and is the author of the book “Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History and Risks Losing Everything Else“ If you like what I do, please consider supporting this project with only 1$ a month on Patreon or on BuyMeACoffee.com. You can also do so directly on PayPal if you prefer. Patreon is for monthly, PayPal is for one-offs and BuyMeACoffee has both options. If you can't donate anything, you can still support this project by sharing with your friends and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts! Music by Tarabeat. Topics Discussed What is Cultural Dementia? And why use that term instead of Amnesia? Why focus on France, the UK and the US? The current crises in the three countries George Orwell's reflection on the relationship between imperialism/colonialism, the UK's welfare state and the white working class France's Trente Glorieuses Prospects of Le Pen and the far right winning in France The ‘Brexit spirit' Impact of Trumpism on US politics and what might come next What is neoliberalism and how is that term (mis)used? What is populism and how is that term (mis)used? Berlusconi, the five star movement and racist politics in Italy Canada, Australia and New Zealand's specific contexts with regards to immigration and racism Cambridge Analytica The delusion of ‘socialism in one country' The realities and delusions of Brexit (including example of CANZUK proposals and how India is excluded) Ladybird libertarians (term by Otto English) Isolationism within the British Labour Party Weaknesses within Left parties, especially Labour (Attlee, Wilson, Blair) The specificity of France and republicanism there How Melenchon and Le Pen agree on Vichy's status as ‘not France' Chauvinism on the Left in France The metaphor of the mansion The Rhodes Must Fall protests in the UK The ‘race question' and white supremacy in the US The specificity of the US constitution (and how it is outdated and embeds conservatism) How history is taught (I gave the example of Lebanon) Recommended Books Priya Satia, Time's Monster; History, Conscience and Britain's Empire (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2020) Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire; Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso, 2019) Olivette Otele, African Europeans (Hurst, 2020) I also added: The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts

Il arrive parfois dans la vie que le hasard favorise de belles rencontres et de grandes discussions. Ce nouvel épisode est le fruit de cette synchronicité.    Parce que c'est finalement Marseille où je vis actuellement, qui a été le lieu de rendez-vous de cet épisode. Johny Pitts que vous allez entendre, auteur du livre Afropean - Notes from Black Europe, originaire du Nord de l'Angleterre, est tombé amoureux de cette ville et a décidé de s'y installer. Coup de chance ou joli coup de pouce du destin, sûrement un peu des deux.     Parce que l'actualité m'a rattrapée. L'Afropéanité n'est pas un sujet très médiatique et pourtant ces dernières semaines, on a beaucoup parlé dans la presse de la place des personnes racisées dans notre société. Pour tout vous avouer, j'avais prévu de sortir cet épisode un peu plus tard dans l'été mais il m'a semblé qu'il faisait écho aux manifestations contre les violences policières, et surtout au débat entre mémoire et histoire.    Parce qu'en allant interroger Johny, Noro et Deborah sur la question de l'Afropéanité, c'est bien la mémoire de notre histoire européenne dont il est question : le colonialisme, l'esclavage, la lutte des droits civiques aux Etats-Unis et son impact en Europe, nos liens avec l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui. "Que tes parents, tes grands-parents, les parents de tes grands parents soient d'ici, ça ne compte pas. J'ai un enfant et son père est comme moi métisse. Je ne peux m'empêcher de me dire que quand il sera plus grand, on lui posera cette question “D'où tu viens” et il répondra “d'ici” et quand on lui demandera “Ok mes tes parents, d'où ils viennent ? d'ici.” Il va devoir expliquer tout son arbre généalogique pour justifier le fait d'être noir ici en Espagne." Deborah Ekoka, Fondatrice de la librairie United Minds Comment construit-on son identité européenne dans une Europe blanche quand on ne l'est pas ? Comment crée-t-on un sentiment d'appartenance lorsqu'on ne cesse de le remettre en question ? de vous renvoyer à de prétendues origines ? Cet épisode interroge la notion d'afropéanité ou qu'est-ce que cela veut dire aujourd'hui d'être afro et européen. J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer et de discuter de ce sujet avec trois afropéens, chacun avec leurs histoires, leurs parcours et un rapport à l'Europe particulier.  Dans ce 2ème épisode, vous allez entendre les témoignages et parcours de : Noro Issan Hamady, Cofondatrice du Collectif des Rosas et Membre du conseil d'administration de la Maison de l'Europe en Provence Deborah Ekoka, Fondatrice de la première librairie afro-centré à Valence (Espagne) United Minds, cofondatrice des festivals Black Barcelona et Conciencia Afro (Madrid).  Johny Pitts, écrivain et photographe, Cofondateur du média Afropean et Auteur d'Afropean, Notes from black Europe.  Extraits :
 L'assignation : les noirs n'existent pas, Tania de Montaigne, Grasset (2018) Mupepe de l'album Adventures in Afropea, Zap Mama (1993) Pour aller plus loin : Afropean, Notes from Black Europe de Johny Pitts, Penguin (2019) The European Tribe de Caryl Phillips, Vintage (1987), récit de voyage écrit à la fin des années 80 et qui a inspiré Johny dans son voyage à travers l'Europe noire.  Blues pour Elise de Léonora Miano, Plon (2010), roman qui raconte les parcours de quatre jeunes afropéennes.  Je vous invite à écouter l'album Adventures in Afropea de Zap Mama, dont vous entendez un extrait et qui a inspiré le terme d'afropéen et de regarder le documentaire passionnant d'Amandine Gay, Ouvrir la voix, sur les femmes noires issues de l'histoire coloniale européenne en Afrique et aux Antilles.   Vous pouvez aussi suivre la sortie des prochains épisodes en suivant la page Facebook et Linkedin du podcast. Crédits : Ce podcast a été écrit, réalisé et monté par Laetitia Chabannes. Lectures : Adélaide Cazali, Doublage : Lou Lefèvre et André Zollinger, Identité graphique : Aristote Truffaut (Oiseaux rares), Musique : Arnaud Paszkiewicz.

What happens when your Dad's an African-American soul star and your Mum's a music-loving girl from a Sheffield council estate in the north of England? Are your roots on the terraces at a Sheffield United Football match, or in the stylings of a Spike Lee film? For writer and photographer Johny Pitts, whose parents met in the heyday of Northern Soul on the dance floor of the legendary King Mojo club, how he navigates his black roots has always been an issue. Not being directly connected to the Caribbean or West African diaspora culture, all he was told at school was that his ancestors were slaves. In this programme, Johny heads off to the USA, to trace his father's musical migration and to tell an alternative story of Black British identity. From Pittsmore in Sheffield, to Bedford Stuyvesant in New York, and all the way down to South Carolina where his grandmother picked cotton, Johny Pitts makes a journey of self-discovery.