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Here To Stay! Here To Fight

Here To Stay! Here To Fight

9 March 2019 – 9 March 2019

Screening & Talk

Two and a half thousand people marched with veteran Birmingham activist and campaigner Muhammad Idrish through Handsworth to Birmingham City Centre on 8th October 1983. Their simple slogan : ‘Muhammad Idrish Must Stay – Stop the Deportation!’

Vivid Projects and BM&AG present To Stay! Here To Fight!, a screening of anti-deportation films made for the NALGO led Anti-Deportation Campaign in the West Midlands, produced by TURC Video. The screening is initiated by artist Adam Lewis Jacob as part of their residency with Vivid Projects for WORK. WORK involves four artists working in the West and East Midlands to explore  the realities of what ‘work’ means for the ways we live today, engaging directly with the experiences of contemporary working lives. with Muhammad Idrish.

Event discussion chaired by Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Director of Vivid Projects and featuring Muhammad Idrish, Adam Lewis Jacob and Diletta Lauro. 

Venue: AV Room, Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH.

Black and white image of a protest march with placards reading "Muhammad must stay! nalga"
Here To Stay, Idrish/ TURC

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