FINDING CEREMONY

Thursday 7pm-8pm 22/06/2023

NOMAD Stage Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival

At Glastonbury 2023, Christxpher Oliver and Dayna Edwin will play a selection of rhythms, poetry, testimonies and sound to trace sonic histories of rebellion and groove that explore post-colonial space in Britain.  

Rural areas have been less populated by people of African descent in Britain relative to metropolitan areas. However ancestral labour within former British colonies was intrinsic to the production of wealth used to construct British countryside estates now privately owned or under the care of the National Trust. Groups such as Coco Collective, the Blak Outside, Ubele initiative and Land in Our Name (LION) run projects researching histories relating to the use of and access to gardens, land and community assets. 

Decolonise fest is an annual London-based, volunteer-run, non-profit DIY punk festival collectively organised by and for punx of colour. Our collective is made up of activists, militant community organisers, musicians, and artists that came together to hold our first festival in 2017. 

The Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) was a collective of artists, writers and critics “from the newly independent English-speaking West Indies” who established spaces to gather and create a new Caribbean aesthetic in Britain between 1966 – 1972. 

How Memory Survives Pamphlet 2023 created by Christxpher Oliver, Véronique Belinga and Dr Michael McMillan  

Windrush Day 22 June 2023 - Contesting distorted narratives of Britain’s colonial relationship to the Caribbean 

Dub: Finding Ceremony - Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise