Still taken from Oh Adelaide (2010). © Sonia Boyce, courtesy the artist.
Sonia Boyce: Scat
Next Thursday, July 4th, we will be open until 20:00 to celebrate Iniva’s current exhibition, Scat: Sound and Collaboration, by Sonia Boyce. Come and visit our section of the exhibition which includes books, films, magazines and other items from Sonia Boyce’s archive.
Cover girls is a spread of popular magazines with Black British female music artists. There are also articles relating to Sonia Boyce’s long-term archive collection project, Devotional.
Find books on pop music culture amongst the artists’ books, group exhibition catalogues and critical theory volumes on the Library shelves.
Films and documentaries will be available to watch with headphones:
An Audience with Shirley Bassey: ‘50 minutes of showbiz magic’
Top of the Pops, 40th Anniversary, 1964-2004
The Story of Lover’s Rock, Melenik Shabazz’s documentary on British ‘romantic reggae’
International Zine Month
We also invite you to celebrate International Zine Month in the Stuart Hall Library. On the evening of July 4th we’ll display a selection of some of our favourite zines, so please drop by and have a browse, and feel free to donate your zines!
Photo by Sheena Balkwill