Description
"Before she was grandma, she was mum; before that she was…"
How can you really love someone if you only start knowing them from when you were born?
Likkle Rum with Grandma is a journey over a generational bridge. This emotive piece of storytelling fuses poetry, performance and a Jamaican grandmother’s voice to dissect issues of migration, displacement in diaspora communities and the waviness of rum.
Both the solo show and the participatory digital archive project around it sees SugarJ use verbatim audio and verse to explore the importance of intergenerational discourse against a Caribbean cultural backdrop, while touching on the mortality of loved ones, the sense of belonging versus foreboding loneliness, and ultimately opening up a dialogue between various age groups about what Black Britishness is today.
Project managed by producer Malakaï Sargeant, the Summer 2019 phase of research and development (R&D) brings together an intergenerational cohort of Black British creatives to further dissect these themes before the digital archive launches in late Autumn 2019 – followed by a nationwide tour of the show throughout Spring 2020.
Join us for one of four intergenerational workshops in Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds and London to creatively dissect migration through a cross-generational, Black British lens. We'll be using photography, verbatim audio and poetry writing prompts to help us share stories with each other and deepen empathy and understanding across generations within the Black British community.
NOTE TO PARTICIPANTS: Please reserve your FREE space for you (and your elder) by booking a ticket here. Workshops are open to all aged 14 and above but is catered towards Black people of African, the Caribbean or Latinx descent. For the workshop, please bring a photograph of yourself or a family member from years gone by...
This workshop is delivered by Jeremiah Brown and Kareem Parkins-Brownin association with Museumand.