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Evening screening with BSL interpretation of Naeem Mohaiemen THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY

Book your free ticket for an evening screening with live BSL interpretation of THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY, a new three-channel film by Turner Prize nominated artist Naeem Mohaiemen. The film explores memorialisation, protest, and political violence through the lens of events in May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state violence. Doors: 6.15 pmFilm screening: 6.30 – 8 pm (approx) Please note this film contains historic content featuring racialised language, images and graphic descriptions of violence, including death and acts of war. It may not be suitable for viewers under 16 years of age. Parental discretion advised. About the filmAs the Vietnam War came to its bloody end, for the American media, the memory of four American students shot dead at Kent State University was sometimes as emotionally charged as the millions of deaths in Vietnam. In the decades that followed, a memorial community has formed around the ‘four dead in Ohio’. Yet while the deaths of students Alison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder at Kent State, Ohio, are remembered, not many recall Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two students killed ten days later by police officers at Jackson State College, Mississippi, a Historically Black College. By choreographing the relationship between archival footage and contemporary ceremonies memorialising the dead, THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY explores the role of memorials as...

Wed 15 Apr18:15Bonington Gallery

via Bonington Gallery

Arts & CultureTalks & Lectures

Linda Kemp & Andrew Taylor Poetry Book Launch with Leafe Press

Book your free ticket for this special poetry book launch with NTU’s Linda Kemp and Andrew Taylor. Join us for the launch of two new poetry books — The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun by Linda Kemp (Research Fellow at NTU) and State Honey by Andrew Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at NTU),  both published by Leafe Press. We’ll have complimentary coffee and pastries available. Leafe Press will present a dedicated stall featuring poetry books from their own publishing catalogue. This event is also an opportunity to catch Bonington Gallery’s exhibitions by Naeem Mohaiemen and John Dean which conclude on the same day. About Linda Kemp Linda Kemp’s poetry books are: The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun (Leafe Press, 2025), Annunciation Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), Stitch (Contraband, 2020), and Lease Prise Redux (Materials, 2016). About Andrew Taylor Andrew Taylor has published four collections of poetry with Shearsman Books. He’s published a collection and two pamphlets with Leafe Press. He’s written critical books on the poets Adrian Henri and Peter Finch. About Leafe Press Leafe Press was launched 26 years ago at a reading in Nottingham Central library. Leafe Press has published two pamphlets by Lee Harwood who has now gone on to have a monumental Collected and is regarded as a major figure in 1960s and 70s poetry. Leafe has published several debut collections, including Carrie Etter’s debut UK collection, Whether.

Sat 9 May11:00Bonington Gallery

via Bonington Gallery

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