Black History Month 2022

Black History Month is celebrated throughout October both nationally throughout Scotland and the United Kingdom to raise awareness of historical black contributions made to Scottish and British history.

This October in Inverclyde, there will be a series of events taking place (event listings with relevant links will be updated in due course):

#theafrowegian presents… What’s Watt gotta do with it?

Saturday, 1st of October, 2022

#theafrowegian presents…Mixed Race and Scottish (Part One)

Saturday, 8th of October, 2022

Tawona Sitholé Author Visit (Adults)

Monday, 10th of October, 2022

#theafrowegian presents…Mixed Race and Scottish (Part Two)

Saturday, 15th of October, 2022

Tawona Sitholé Author Visit (Children)

Tuesday, 18th of October, 2022

African Bibliotherapy—using African Music for Wellbeing and Happiness by Chief Chebe

Thursday, 20th of October, 2022

#theafrowegian presents…Southern Fried

Saturday, 22nd of October, 2022

Living Histories of Sugar

Thursday, 27th of October, 2022

Sugar Mobilities: Legacies of Transnational Trade in Victorian Greenock: Prof Emma Bond, University of Oxford

Friday, 28th of October, 2022

#theafrowegian presents… ‘A black gaze on Galoshans’

28th, 29th and 30th of October, 2022

Geographies of Sweetness and Power in Scotland: Dr Marisa Wilson, University of Edinburgh

Monday, 31st of October, 2022