The Arts & Culture Diversity Forum for Somerset

image: Susan Kamara

Join the Somerset arts community to meet artists Alice Kettle and Susan Kamara in conversation at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury.

Friday 22 October 2021
2pm to 5pm

Susan and Alice will shine a light on how art and creativity can be used to explore, create a deeper understanding of, and promote cultural diversity. Susan will describe how she has used creativity to meet the challenges of migration and express the richness of her Ugandan identity. They will discuss how the arts can harness individuality, express diversity and the wider debate on who culture is for and can be accessed.

Programme
2.00pm Arrivals, refreshments and opportunity to see the exhibition for those attending in person.
2.30pm Conversation with Susan and Alice, leading into wider discussion for everyone – in person and on zoom.
4.15pm further opportunity to see the exhibition for those attending in person.
5.00pm Finish

The event will also be presented ‘live’ online: please request the link if you would prefer to attend
via zoom.
For bookings/ access support/ further information
Contact Emily: [email protected]
FREE but booking essential, places are limited.
Booking deadline 15 October.

Somerset Rural Life Museum Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 8DB
srlm.org.uk

Alice Kettle’s Thread Bearing Witness explores themes of cultural heritage and displacement through the contributions of migrants and Pakistani women’s groups. The works on display use stitched textiles as a powerful metaphor for our shared humanity.
https://somersetartworks.org.uk/what-we-do/projects/thread-bearing-witness/

Susan Kamara has worked with Alice over various events in relation to the project. Since fleeing her country in the face of persecution and an arduous battle to gain refugee status, Susan is now fulfilling her artistic ambitions as well as working for the NHS. She considers herself like a tree with many branches; her artwork reflecting diversity and unity.

The Arts & Culture Diversity Forum Somerset champions diversity and equality in the arts in Somerset. Facilitated by Take Art, Somerset Art Works and Somerset Film, it represents a safe space for us all to talk honestly, share experiences and best practice, challenge perceptions, and provoke individual and collective action.

Hear more from Alice and Susan in this conversation filmed earlier this year by Hannah Earl