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EVENT POSTPONED: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lawrence Hoo is no longer able to make this event so we are postponing it. If you are a ticket holder, Box Office will be in touch with you by email. Thank you.
Poet, educator, activist and entrepreneur Lawrence Hoo showed his first film in Watershed in October 2006 – twenty years ago this month.
As we re-screen Inner City Tales (2006), a documentary exploring the social conditions, community concerns and realities of St Paul’s and Easton, the event will also feature Lawrence reading his poetry and sharing stories from his work.
Inner City Tales was created whilst Lawrence was artist in residence at Kuumba. Lawrence exhibited HOOSTORY at Centrespace Gallery in 2007 and published the collection in 2011 with a book launch and exhibition at Wider St Street Gallery. He joined Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio in 2016. In 2019 with Chaz Golding, he set up CARGO – changing the way that people across the world acknowledge and teach African and African Diaspora contributions to history. CARGO has gone on to produce installations, a book, an online learning platform, a BBC documentary and loads more.
Sharing our many creative collaborations with Lawrence, the event will be chaired by Clare Reddington, Watershed CEO, and will celebrate the enormous contribution that Lawrence has made to art, equality and talent development in Bristol and beyond.
We will also be joined by poets Malizah and Keyanne who will perform poetry on the night
as well in the bar afterwards by DJs Ray Mighty (Smith & Mighty), Wayne Irie, Selecta Watson and Rob Morris - handpicked by Lawrence to complete the event.