Jackie Kay 'Outside'

We are delighted that Jackie Kay is our first woman guest curator and the theme she has chosen is ‘outside’. Jackie’s guests explore this theme through writing, photography and film. All events take place at Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1. Special ticket price £5 which includes entry to all events listed below.

Ingrid Pollard 2–3pm

Ingrid Pollard is an artist and photographer whose series Pastoral Interlude, portraits of black people in the English countryside, was exhibited at the V&A. Ingrid will be showing some of her astonishing portraits and talking about them with Jackie Kay. Ingrid Pollard is a member of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers.

Bernardine Evaristo and Zaffar Kunial 3–4pm

Bernardine Evaristo is the author of three novels which fuse fiction with poetry - Lara, The Emperor’s Babe and Soul Tourists and Blonde Roots, her first prose novel. Her new book Mr Loverman is a tragicomic tale of homosexual love, a ground-breaking exploration of Britain’s older Caribbean community, set in contemporary London with the unique exuberance of Evaristo’s voice. Zaffar Kunial lives in Yorksire. His poem Hill Speak won third prize in the National Poetry Competition 2011 and he read as Jackie Kay’s ‘Poetry Double’ at the Bridlington Poetry Festival earlier this year.

Crossing Borders – 4.15–5.45pm

Jackie Kay recently read poems to Scottish Parliament about refugee women – an issue close to her heart. At this event refugee women, three from Scotland, three from Sheffield will be speaking out. From Sheffield they are Violet Dickenson, Christine Chirambo, Nacera Harkati reading from the book Different Cultures, One World; Women’s Voices from South Yorkshire produced by the DEWA Project (Development and Empowerment for Women’s Advancement). From Scotland there will be three women supported by Scottish Refugee Council and other organisations working with refugee women across Glasgow.

Matthew Kay 6pm–6.30pm

Matthew Kay is a documentary filmmaker. His first hour-length documentary is Over The Wall and he was selected for ‘Doc Future’ with Sheffield International Documentary Festival and is part of 18, BFI’s Doc Next Lab. Matthew made Whitehall Cleaners, a film about the London living wage campaign and the lives of the people who struggle to achieve it. He will be showing his film Hair and Now which won second prize for the Guardian Young film maker's competition.

Please note that the £5 ticket does not include admittance to the Jackie Kay event at the Crucible Studio at 8pm. Tickets for this event can be purchased via the Arena Ticket Shop