Watch Us Lead: In Conversation with Christopher Samuel
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Watch Us Lead: In Conversation with Christopher Samuel

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Saturday, 13 June 2026 at 12:00

Sarehole Mill

Cole Bank Rd, Birmingham, B13 0BD

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12:00

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Join us at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery while artist Christopher Samuel shines a light on unseen members of our communities, revealing the hidden experiences of Black and disabled people whose lives have gone unrecorded and successes uncelebrated, both historically and now.This conversation reunites Christopher with Rebekah Mall, who took part in his Watch Us Lead project at Birmingham Museums. They talk with Dr Ian Sergeant, Senior Curator (Global Majority Collections), about their lived experience as disabled people of colour, and how Christopher‘s new work for Birmingham’s collection addresses a significant gap in representation and reveals hidden stories.

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