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10/02/2026

Home is where the heart is. But wouldn't it be great to still have a home to come back to?

Our communities are being torn down and rebuilt for people who don't know us, don't look like us, and don't care about us. If nobody's going to listen to what we have to say, then we have to create rooms where our voices can be heard.

WHO STILL CARES ABOUT THE ENDS is a community link-up where we come together, speak up, and start taking back what's ours. No lectures. No experience needed. Just bring yourself and your ideas.

đź—“ Saturday 28th February
🕑 2pm – 5pm
đź“Ť Soho House Museum, Handsworth, Birmingham, B18 5LB
🎟 Registration required – https://luma.com/gknpnkbk
🍲 Hot food provided

Guest speakers. Open discussion. Arts & activities. And a community that actually wants to hear from you.

09/09/2025

▪️We’re hiring: Head of Communications▪️

Hood Futures Studio is looking for a storyteller who can think sharp, speak true, and lead how we share our work with the world. Someone who can make sure everything we put out carries our values and our purpose.

This is a rare chance to help a movement built from and for the ends tell its story with care, clarity, and impact.

As Head of Communications, you’ll set the tone for how we communicate, rooted in honesty, culture, and real relationships with our communities. You’ll help our people speak in ways that travel beyond the block, lift ideas up, and always keep culture in the hands of the creators.

đź”— Full details & to apply: https://bit.ly/46aZHtb

📸 Paul Stringer



🗓️ **Deadline:** 29 September 2025, 9am

MAIA Weekender: Curating the CultureDAY 3: CelebrationPop-up Studio by .jeffersjeffers + analogue camera + celluloid fil...
23/04/2025

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture

DAY 3: Celebration

Pop-up Studio by .jeffers
jeffers + analogue camera + celluloid film = magic.

Inspired by the Handsworth Self Portrait project of 1979, we invited guests to step into Myah’s pop-up studio in their Sunday Best to be captured in all their glory. What followed was a moment of stillness, pride, and presence — a powerful reminder that we are worthy of being witnessed.

Myah has a gift for making people feel at ease, seen, and celebrated. Her lens is intimate, intentional, and steeped in care. It was more than a photoshoot — it was a moment of legacy.

Swipe through for a glimpse of Black joy, dignity and quiet power, frozen in time on film.

MAIA Weekender: Curating the CultureDAY 1: Black Cultural ArchivingWe were honoured to welcome the brilliant for a keyn...
19/04/2025

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture

DAY 1: Black Cultural Archiving

We were honoured to welcome the brilliant for a keynote speech titled 'Archiving the Unseen', followed by a powerful Q&A hosted by our Weekender curator,

Christopher’s work shines a light on stories too often left in the shadows. As a Black disabled artist, his practice is rooted in identity and disability politics, offering deeply personal and politically urgent reflections on representation, access, and the right to be seen. From intricate ink drawings to immersive installations, his work demands that cultural spaces confront who is missing from the archive — and who decides what gets remembered.

Thank you, Christopher, for showing us that archiving is not just about preservation but about power, care, and visibility. You left us with so much to carry forward.

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MAIA Weekender: Curating the CultureDAY 1: Black Cultural ArchivingWe were deeply honoured to welcome Ibrahim Hirsi .1 t...
18/04/2025

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture

DAY 1: Black Cultural Archiving

We were deeply honoured to welcome Ibrahim Hirsi .1 to the MAIA Weekender, where he performed his powerful piece 'Between Preservation and Construction: Verse and Archival Imaginaries and joined us for an intimate Q&A alongside and chaired by the brilliant .

A writer, archivist, and editor at Journal Gobanimo, Ibrahim’s work is rooted in deep care for memory, language, and legacy. As co-founder of Koor Archives and an active voice in the literary world, his practice weaves poetry and archival inquiry to challenge erasure and construct new pathways of cultural knowledge.

From The Poetry Review to Modern Poetry in Translation, his words have travelled far — and at the Weekender, they landed right where they needed to: in the hearts and minds of our community.

Thank you, Ibrahim, for reminding us that archiving isn’t just about looking back — it’s a radical act of imagining forward.

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture DAY 1: Black Cultural Archiving Through bold digital prints on textiles, responds ...
18/04/2025

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture

DAY 1: Black Cultural Archiving

Through bold digital prints on textiles, responds to archival images that document the resistance of Black communities — weaving history, memory, and imagination into fabric that speaks.

Rudy Loewe (b. London, 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing and sculpture to examine the tangled threads of socio-political systems. Their practice brings to life narratives uncovered through archival research and conversation, making visible what has long been buried or overlooked.

These exhibited pieces explore: how do we support each other through crisis? What if moments of rupture could birth radical reimagining?

Rather than retreating into fear and individualism, Loewe’s work calls us to move toward collective care, to reframe crisis as a portal — not just for survival, but for transformation. Because our liberation is bound up in one another’s.

In 2025, Rudy will become the ninth artist to take on the 'Art on the Underground' Brixton Mural — honouring Brixton’s legacy as a powerful site of gathering, resistance and community for Black Londoners.

We were honoured to hold space for their work at MAIAWeekender.

MAIA Weekender: Curating the CultureDAY 1: Black Cultural ArchivingIn our panel History In Our Hands, chair was joined ...
17/04/2025

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture
DAY 1: Black Cultural Archiving

In our panel History In Our Hands, chair was joined by , , and for a powerful conversation exploring:

What does it mean to bear our stories, unaltered?
How do we collect and cultivate our legacies?
How can Black history—told through art, design, and lived experience—remain protected, honoured, and accessible for generations to come?

This conversation held so many deep insights about cultural memory, resistance, and responsibility.

Watch the full replay now on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/9UUDlX_FdOM

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🎥 Live streaming and Ben Smith from What About Media

MAIA Weekender: Curating the CultureDay 1: Black Cultural Archiving Honoured to Welcome Seed Archives to MAIA Weekender ...
11/04/2025

MAIA Weekender: Curating the Culture

Day 1: Black Cultural Archiving

Honoured to Welcome Seed Archives to MAIA Weekender ✨

It was a privilege to have exhibiting with us as part of Day 1 of MAIA Weekender. A living library and cultural space, Seed Archives is dedicated to celebrating African and Caribbean heritage through art, design, and material culture. More than just an archive, it’s a space for cultural reconnection, learning, and dialogue—a perfect complement to our explorations of Black cultural archiving this weekend.

The exhibition, beautifully curated by founder , showcased a stunning collection of historical and contemporary pieces, connecting our diasporic communities with their histories. Some of the objects included:

1 - Iron Horse Figure, Dogon, Mali
2 - Clay Vase Low-fired decorative vessel by lgbo potter Rebecca Arum. Umuabin Enugu, Ngeria
3- Manilla Metal Aloy, Ngor Island, Senegal and Ogene Double-Cong Steel, Nike Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
4 - TwinFigures (bej), Yoruba, Nigeria
5 - Bronze Comb, Made by Zoë Chinonse Ene, cast from 3D print and woven wire, 2017
6 - Fertility Doll(Akua'ba) Ashanti, Ghana

Each piece carried a story, a lineage, and a powerful reminder of the ways our histories continue to shape our present.

We are so grateful to for bringing this collection to MAIA Weekender and for their commitment to preserving and sharing Black cultural knowledge.

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