Reflections on the workshop series. By Jessica Moody (Senior Lecturer in Public History, University of Bristol)
Alas, we have come to the end of our workshop series for the Decolonising Memory: Digital Bodies in Movement project! As this marks the end of the first phase of our project, I thought I’d share some personal reflections on the workshops we held over the last 7 months. We first advertised for participants in October 2021 through this website, social media, press releases, local publications, local radio and word of mouth and held an online information event. Our first workshop was November 6th 2021 and these ran every first Saturday of the month thereafter until May 7th. We held these workshops hybrid (both online and offline) – at the Malcolm X Centre in St Paul’s, and online via zoom for those who couldn’t join in person (with all participants being able to hear and see each other). We also held monthly online ‘mid-point’ meetings on zoom where we carried on the conversations from the workshops and undertook other exercises and activities to develop ideas.
Dr Jessica Moody discusses what a ‘site of memory’ is, and how the Decolonising Memory project seeks to counter, challenge and create new memorial interventions. Filmed at the Malcolm X Centre, itself a site of memory, memorialising Black History through its name and mission.
If you’ve read around this website and our social media and are keen to join us on this journey, you can register via this form: https://forms.office.com/r/7BWLDeet8r
A word document version of this form is available on request, please email decolonisingmemory@gmail.com for a copy and for any other questions.
Want to find out more about the project and ask the team questions in an informal setting? Join us on Zoom at 7:30pm Monday 25th October for a chat. Register using the link below!
Get involved and be part of the Decolonising Memory project, researching and countering Bristol’s memory of enslavement through historical research, creative methods and dance. Join us in creating new dance-based memorials for the city.
