Socially Engaged Practice with Joselle Ntumba

In this workshop cultural programmer Joselle Ntumba will share her approach to socially engaged practice through the digital repository and migrant memory project Éireann and I, which Ntumba co-runs with curator and researcher Beulah Ezeugo. This will include a presentation where Ntumba will share her recent projects and how she works with communities ethically to co-produce deeply relevant and considered projects together. 

This will be followed by a practical session where Ntumba will lead participants through designing their own socially engaged project, identifying key stakeholders, their concerns, and the ethics and methodologies required to produce socially engaged projects effectively.

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About the artist

Joselle Ntumba is a black cultural programmer. Her work centres on autonomous modes of black cultural production, community learning, and research. Informed by black feminist thought, her work seeks to create sites of rupture that allow for generative possibilities of seeing and subverting systems of enclosure that permeate her ways of being. She is currently working on Eireann and I, an archive of black migrant life and Sistren Space, an educational hub and curatorial platform.

Éireann and I is a digital repository which documents the lives of Black migrants in Ireland. Éireann and I is also a migrant memory project, programming events and discussions about community archives, memory work, and agency and autonomy within the public record. It is co-developed by curator and researcher, Beulah Ezeugo and cultural programmer Joselle Ntumba.

Galway Arts Centre Artist Development Workshops

This series of artist development workshops by Galway Arts Centre are organised by curator and writer Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. They were developed around the artistic concerns of artists living across Galway and the West. Hosted by leading artists, curators and cultural programmers they will focus on access, social engagement and creative grant writing and are designed to provide the skills necessary to making accomplished work today and to avail of vital opportunities. The workshops are for artists at every stage of their career and across visual art disciplines.

These development workshops are funded by Galway Culture Company.