Oxfam team up with the Manchester Art Gallery to bring West African Food Justice to Manchester
Article published: Wednesday, July 4th 2012
Oxfam will hold a one-off event at the Manchester Art Gallery this Thursday evening to give thanks to their supporters and draw attention to the food crisis in the West African Sahel.
Attendees will have the opportunity to visit the ground breaking We Face Forward exhibition, a celebration of West African art, music and culture and meet the exhibition curator along with one of the contributing artists and development workers from the region.
Speaking at the event will be Ruby Wright, a Mancunian Oxfam worker who has recently returned from the Sahel. Wright will discuss her time in West Africa and the ever-changing situation for the people of the area, while talking through photos and testimonies collected during her time there.
Natasha Howes, gallery curator, will present the We Face Forward exhibition, described as “the verve and excitement of West Africa coming to Manchester” by the Guardian. Internationally acclaimed author Rotimi Babatunde also promises to bring the soul of West Africa to the heart of Manchester and will be discussing his work and experiences in his home country of Nigeria.
Food justice for West Africa- a special evening in Manchester will be held on Thursday 5th July, 6:30pm to start at 7pm at Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL. Go to Oxfam North England’s blog for more information or follow them on Twitter @OxfamNorthEng
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A really enjoyable evening, only “blessed” by rain cycling home and not being able to be in several places at once talking to people, looking at the gallery and hearing an African writer. The speaker was moving and the Skype hook-up with an Oxfam guy in W.Africa WORKED!!!
Comment by Steph. Pennells on July 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Although (understandably) emergency aid featured largely there was an awareness that people’s predicament wouldn’t be happening so frequently but for climate change, false “Green Solutions” (commercial biofuels) and other issues.
Links were made and remade between organisations and this will be important with the resurrection of Make Poverty History next year so that we can not only have food security for people but also push on to food sovereignty and addressing the bigger issues corporations and governments may not be quite so comfortable with. As a step towards that people would be very welcome to come to the UNISON hosted session next Friday night entitled “beyond Charity towards Justice” (see http://groups.wdm.org.uk/manchester/ with a cuppa before hand which got missed off our notice!)
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