Remember Oluwale - The David Oluwale Memorial Association

Remember Oluwale - The David Oluwale Memorial Association Promoting knowledge and understanding of the life and death of David Oluwale and his relevance today Full information at rememberoluwale.org

The David Oluwale Memorial Association is a company limited by guarantee with a Board of Directors and a panel of advisers and patrons. It is working towards a Memorial Garden in the name of David Oluwale, which will serve as a focus for those who want to understand the full meaning of David’s life and its lessons for the city of Leeds. Our flagship project is the David Oluwale Memory Garden in Ai

re Park, Leeds City Centre. This will feature an iconic piece of sculpture, specially made by Yinka Shonibare CBE, the world-famous artist. This will be installed in 2023, as part of the Leeds 2023 festival of culture.

Listen or watch "Writing Hope on the Threshold", a live radio broadcast hosted by Emily Zobel Marshall and Peter Spaffor...
01/05/2026

Listen or watch "Writing Hope on the Threshold", a live radio broadcast hosted by Emily Zobel Marshall and Peter Spafford, which we were delighted to produce with Chapel FM Arts Centre.

Listen: https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/archive/2026/04/writing-hope-on-the-threshold/

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuirAoHyp_8

The show explored the theme of thresholds and the story of David Oluwale, and followed a creative writing workshop earlier in the day led by Emily Zobel Marshall and Abdullah Adekola. During the workshop, participants shared wonderful stories and created poetry.

For this project, we were fortunate to be supported by a group of students from Leeds Beckett School of Humanities and Social Sciences, who helped design, market and deliver the events. You can hear some of them speaking about their experiences on the show. As part of the project, three of the students also created poems about David Oluwale, which were performed live.

We also heard some of the freshly written pieces created during the workshop - very inspiring.

Thank you to Peter and the team at Chapel FM for hosting us so well, to our student group who were amazing to work with, to Inder Hunjan for the delicious food, and of course to our wonderful participants, both those who came to the workshop and those who shared such powerful work.

Emily Zobel Marshall Inder Hunjan Peter Spafford Chapel FM Arts Centre

Thank you to everyone who came to the "Writing Hope on the Threshold" creative writing workshop at Chapel FM Arts Centre...
01/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the "Writing Hope on the Threshold" creative writing workshop at Chapel FM Arts Centre last weekend. There was some wonderful stories shared and some inspiring work created.

Writing Hope on the Threshold: a broadcast about creative writing inspired by David Oluwale.We’ll be live on air at 6.30...
25/04/2026

Writing Hope on the Threshold: a broadcast about creative writing inspired by David Oluwale.

We’ll be live on air at 6.30 today

Join us via the Chapel FM website chapelfm.org.uk

SOLD OUT: Writing Hope on the Threshold Creative Writing Workshop Please do join the wait list – https://www.eventbrite....
20/04/2026

SOLD OUT: Writing Hope on the Threshold Creative Writing Workshop
Please do join the wait list – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-hope-on-the-threshold-a-remember-oluwale-creative-writing-workshop-tickets-1984614875517?aff=ebdiglgoogleliveevents

TICKETS AVAILABLE for the live radio broadcast at 6.30 pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-radio-show-writing-hope-on-the-threshold-inspired-by-david-oluwale-tickets-1985578878877?aff=erellivmlt

📍 Chapel FM, LS14 6JB
📅 Sat 25 April 2026

2.00: Workshop
5.15: Meal
6.30–7.30: Live broadcast

🎟️ Booking essential – https://bit.ly/oluwalethresholds

Tickets still available 👉🏽 Writing Hope on the Threshold: a Remember Oluwale & Chapel FM Creative Writing Workshop + Liv...
08/04/2026

Tickets still available 👉🏽 Writing Hope on the Threshold: a Remember Oluwale & Chapel FM Creative Writing Workshop + Live Radio Broadcast with Emily Zobel Marshall & Abdullah Adekola. Supported by Leeds Beckett Uni.

Free - Sat 25th April

Come with us on a writing journey and learn about David Oluwale, a Nigerian migrant living in Leeds in the 60s whose story still asks questions about belonging and justice. Linking with this year’s Writing on Air theme of thresholds we’ll explore poetry and creative writing rooted in liminal spaces, identities and states of being and consider how transformation and hope can emerge from the in-between.

Join us for the 2nd part of the event in the evening when words cross the threshold from page to airwaves in live radio broadcast, where participants can join the studio audience or share their work.

📍 Chapel FM, LS14 6JB
📅 Sat 25 April 2026

2.00: Workshop
5.15: Meal
6.30–7.30: Live broadcast

🎟️ Booking essential – https://bit.ly/oluwalethresholds

Writing Hope on the ThresholdA Remember Oluwale & Chapel FM Creative Writing Workshop + Live Radio Broadcast with Emily ...
26/03/2026

Writing Hope on the Threshold

A Remember Oluwale & Chapel FM Creative Writing Workshop + Live Radio Broadcast with Emily Zobel Marshall and Abdullah Adekola. Supported by Leeds Beckett University.

Bookings now open https://bit.ly/oluwalethresholds

We invite you to join us on a unique writing journey. Bring your ideas, pens and an open heart to a poetry workshop facilitated by the Remember Oluwale anti-racist charity and Chapel FM community radio and arts centre and supported by Leeds Beckett University.

The theme for the Chapel FM Writing on Air festival this year was thresholds. David Oluwale, a Nigerian migrant who was hounded to his death by two Leeds police officers in 1969, lived his life on the threshold.

A stowaway who crossed the ocean to live in Leeds, David was rejected by the city’s gatekeepers. He slept in doorways, existing both inside and outside society, until his tragic end.

In this dynamic poetry workshop, we focus on writing about lives and moments on thresholds – between continents, states of being and belonging, the uncanny (unheimlich), doors, portals, liminal spaces, the in-between and passing places.

We unpick and respond to moments of change and transition, for it is also in the liminal, in the betwixt and between, that great transformation can occur. A stunning 10-meter sculpture of a ‘Hibiscus Rising’ was erected in Leeds in 2023, challenging the narrative of despair often associated with Oluwale’s life and pointing us towards a more hopeful future. We ask how much room there is for hope in our contemporary Northern cities – how much do we dare to dream?

As part of this event, participants will cross another threshold: from page to airwaves. The workshop will culminate in a live broadcast from Chapel FM’s beautiful radio theatre, where writers can join the studio audience or share work created during the session, alongside other pieces that respond to the theme. In carrying words from private reflection into collective listening, we open a space where stories of transition, resistance and hope can be heard across the city.

📅 Saturday 25th April 2026
📍 Chapel FM, Old Seacroft Chapel, 1081 York Road, Leeds, LS14 6JB

2.00: creative writing workshop
5.15: share a light meal with us
6.30-7.30: live studio broadcast

🎟️Booking essential – https://bit.ly/oluwalethresholds

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