Here To Stay! Here To Fight
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 proudly presented Here 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 with Muhammad Idrish.
The screening was initiated by artist Adam Lewis Jacob, who worked with Vivid Projects as part of a national artist film project, WORK, during 2019. It involved four artists working in the West and East Midlands exploring the realities of what ‘work’ means for the ways we live today, engaging directly with the experiences of contemporary working lives.
We invited an audience to watch the films and join the post screening discussion chaired by Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Director of Vivid Projects and featuring Muhammad Idrish, Adam Lewis Jacob and Diletta Lauro. Diletta Lauro was completing her doctorate on the politics of deportation and the historical evolution of anti-deportation activism in Post-World War II Britain at the University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre at the time. She has been supporting people held in immigration detention at Campsfield House, volunteered with an NGO promoting access to legal advice for refugees, and has helped organise community events on refugee and migrant related issues in Oxford.
Adam Lewis Jacob has been commissioned by Animate Projects and Vivid Projects with support from Arts Council England National Lottery Projects and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
Venue: AV Room, Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH.
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