Royal Museums Greenwich

Royal Museums Greenwich

by NMM Engagement Team

Arts Society & Culture Documentary

Seeing Ourselves 1 Ep3 - Christianity - Sharon Walters & Fiona Compton

The Seeing Ourselves podcast is part of a multi-disciplinary arts project conceived by London-based artist Sharon Walters AKA (@London_Artist1) on Instagram. Supported by the National Maritime Museum, through the Migration, Heritage and Belonging project, Sharon collaborates with historian Serena Lee (@Georgian Diaspora) and artist/historian Fiona Compton (@Know your Caribbean) to explore depictions of people of African descent in the museum collections. Their discussions are frank, open, and honest to offer a unique insight into how it feels to see ‘yourself’ represented and misrepresented in museum spaces.

Descendant Talks Ep2 - Making Britain Kinder

Discover the creative talents of Windrush generation descendants in this podcast series hosted by the Gen Z Collective. Descendant Talks is a series of podcast interviews celebrating the descendants of the Windrush Generation who are helping to shape Britain today. We explore their experiences of being Black and British and take a closer look at how they are changing the game through their respective creative platforms.

Seeing Ourselves 1 Ep2 - Victor Hughes Guillotine - Sharon Walters & Fiona Compton

The Seeing Ourselves podcast is part of a multi-disciplinary arts project conceived by London-based artist Sharon Walters AKA (@London_Artist1) on Instagram. Supported by the National Maritime Museum, through the Migration, Heritage and Belonging project, Sharon collaborates with historian Serena Lee (@Georgian Diaspora) and artist/historian Fiona Compton (@Know your Caribbean) to explore depictions of people of African descent in the museum collections. Their discussions are frank, open, and honest to offer a unique insight into how it feels to see ‘yourself’ represented and misrepresented in museum spaces.

Descendant Talks Ep1 - Threading Through My Past

Discover the creative talents of Windrush generation descendants in this podcast series hosted by the Gen Z Collective. Descendant Talks is a series of podcast interviews celebrating the descendants of the Windrush Generation who are helping to shape Britain today. We explore their experiences of being Black and British and take a closer look at how they are changing the game through their respective creative platforms.

Seeing Ourselves 1 Ep1 - Dance & Ritual - Sharon Walters & Serena Lee

The Seeing Ourselves podcast is part of a multi-disciplinary arts project conceived by London-based artist Sharon Walters AKA (@London_Artist1) on Instagram. Supported by the National Maritime Museum, through the Migration, Heritage and Belonging project, Sharon collaborates with historian Serena Lee (@Georgian Diaspora) and artist/historian Fiona Compton (@Know your Caribbean) to explore depictions of people of African descent in the museum collections. Their discussions are frank, open, and honest to offer a unique insight into how it feels to see ‘yourself’ represented and misrepresented in museum spaces.

Seeing Ourselves - Bonus Episode - Reclaiming Our Narrative

In this episode, artist and PhD researcher, Rudy Loewe, and artist, Sharon Walters, discuss a range of archives from the Royal Museums Greenwich collection that focus on the impacts of the colonial gaze in historic portraiture. Together, Rudy and Sharon explore the concept of critical fabulation, coined by Saidiya Hartman, to reclaim and reimagine the lives of historic Black people, mostly those who were enslaved. They discuss the violence of museum spaces and archives and how researchers can insert care into the archive as well as caring for themselves. This episode is a beautifully honest and open discussion into how creativity and queer research methods can provide access to and empower the histories of Black African and Caribbean communities.

Descendant Talks Ep3 - Chronicles of a Journalist

Discover the creative talents of Windrush generation descendants in this podcast series hosted by the Gen Z Collective. Descendant Talks is a series of podcast interviews celebrating the descendants of the Windrush Generation who are helping to shape Britain today. We explore their experiences of being Black and British and take a closer look at how they are changing the game through their respective creative platforms.

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