Omega Rising Women of Rastafari, dir. D. Elmina Davis, UK, 1988. Credit: Monika Baker.
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To celebrate the end of ICA Creatives: Youth Collective, the group has curated an evening of screening and discussion focusing on film workers from the Global Majority.
The evening marks the end of the six-month programme developed in collaboration with iniva and June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive. Over six months, the collective explored archival theory and practice, histories of Black British and Pan-African filmmaking, and the ways moving images circulate beyond the screen through print, design and curatorial contexts.
The event features special one-off screenings of Ngozi Onwurah's The Body Beautiful (1990), Charles Burnett's Several Friends (1969), and Safi Faye's Selbe: One Among Many (1982). Alongside the screenings, there will be an opportunity to engage with archival materials related to the programme and hear from the collective about why and how they selected the films. The collective will also launch their calendar with JGPACA.
Special thanks to Youth Collective members Ade Bakare, Asma Hamdi, Femilola O’Brien-Dele, Isaac Bokoko, Shai Mitchell and Solademi Oduyoye.
More about ICA Creatives: Youth Collective.
The evening marks the end of the six-month programme developed in collaboration with iniva and June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive. Over six months, the collective explored archival theory and practice, histories of Black British and Pan-African filmmaking, and the ways moving images circulate beyond the screen through print, design and curatorial contexts.
The event features special one-off screenings of Ngozi Onwurah's The Body Beautiful (1990), Charles Burnett's Several Friends (1969), and Safi Faye's Selbe: One Among Many (1982). Alongside the screenings, there will be an opportunity to engage with archival materials related to the programme and hear from the collective about why and how they selected the films. The collective will also launch their calendar with JGPACA.
Special thanks to Youth Collective members Ade Bakare, Asma Hamdi, Femilola O’Brien-Dele, Isaac Bokoko, Shai Mitchell and Solademi Oduyoye.
More about ICA Creatives: Youth Collective.
Bios
The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique collection of artefacts and archival material, with a core focus on PanAfrican cinema and its relationship to Black British cinema and culture. Through its events and projects, JGPACA reveals histories and ideas in African and African diasporic film, bringing together the work of filmmakers, artists, and writers across a wide range of themes, debates, and interests. As a “living archive,” it aims to make these valuable resources—films, audio recordings, photographs, scripts, posters, documents, publications, and memorabilia—accessible and to provide a nurturing environment for their exploration by scholars, cultural activists, and the wider community. The archive, located at the MayDay Rooms, provides a welcoming space for the exploration of these materials. JGPACA runs a programme of regular events, including free film screenings, public debates, and community-based projects, with a mission to safeguard marginalised histories expressed through the moving image and related materials, and to re-activate them in contemporary contexts.
JGPACA is based on the collections of Dr June Givanni, a BAFTA Award-winning international film curator with over 30 years of experience in film and broadcasting. Dr Givanni has been involved in key developments in Black British and PanAfrican cinema, including London’s Festival of Third World Cinema, the African Caribbean Film Unit, Black Film Bulletin, and programming Planet Africa at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her motivation for the archive is to make this rich heritage widely accessible and ensure the continued recognition of PanAfrican cinema globally.
The archive is directed by Dr June Givanni, Imruh Bakari, and Dr Emma Sandon and supported by a dedicated staff team: Benjin, Damilola Lemomu, and Phoebe Beckett Chingono.
Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit organisation to address the new internationalism of the visual arts in the United Kingdom and the broad and multi-cultural artistic communities contributing to the cultural landscape. Today our work primarily focuses on centring the voices of an emerging generation of artists while maintaining a dialogue with artists who are now seen as more established. Nurturing, supporting and developing artists through building networks that build communities of practice where ideas from altering perspectives is still at the heart of our work. We do this through maintaining a library and archive collection as well as organising programmes for artists and communities.
Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit organisation to address the new internationalism of the visual arts in the United Kingdom and the broad and multi-cultural artistic communities contributing to the cultural landscape. Today our work primarily focuses on centring the voices of an emerging generation of artists while maintaining a dialogue with artists who are now seen as more established. Nurturing, supporting and developing artists through building networks that build communities of practice where ideas from altering perspectives is still at the heart of our work. We do this through maintaining a library and archive collection as well as organising programmes for artists and communities.
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Tue, 14 Jul 2026
Cinema 2
06:30 pm
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Cinema 2
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
for the following requirements:
- We have a removable seat to create a wheelchair allocated space, please contact to organise this prior to the date and time of the screening
- We have unassigned seating. If you require a specific seat, please reserve this in advance
- Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email
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The Body Beautiful (1990) by Ngozi Onwurah.
Several Friends (1968) By Charles Burnett.
Black film bulletin volume 2, issue 2 (1994).
