VIDEO TUTORIAL – Learn the dance at home!

In this video tutorial, Latisha Cesar and Cleo Lake take you through the new memorial folk dance created as part of the Decolonising Memory: Digital Bodies in Movement project. The video also has some explanation of the key significance and meaning of the movements which were developed through a series of open workshops held between November 2021 and May 2022.

Vlog: What is a ‘site of memory’?

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.

What is a ‘site of memory’?