MELAN8 2025
MELAN8 2025
MELAN8 Festival is a celebration of Black Arts and Culture, focused on the themes and intersections of Common/Unity and Community, taking place at St Mary’s Guildhall from 11am until 7pm on Saturday 29 March 2025.
Whatever your heritage, this is your invitation to join in a joyful celebration of melanation!
MELANATION means
‘of skin; highly pigmented; containing melanin in high concentrations;
of, relating to, or being a person of colour and especially a Black person’
MELAN8 Festival is all about sharing Black arts, culture and creativity and features more than 50 Black heritage influencers and leaders including:
CASEY BAILEY | COREY CAMPBELL | DOREEN FOSTER | MARCIA M SPENCE | ALLYSON WILLIAMS MBE | REUBEN COTTRELL | G3NNA | TEEDEMBA | LETITIA GEORGE | ROMANAH BUCHANAN | KAYFARAWAY | SMASH HESSON | GILROY BROWN |ANNETTE FAGON | ELIZABETH LAWAL | LAURA NYAHUYE | ERROL DRUMMOND | TONIA DALEY-CAMPBELL | EMMANUELLE COTTRELL | LATHAN FORRESTER| & MORE!
For just £5 entry, you can join in this day-long jam-packed Festival, featuring:
LIVE MUSIC | LIVE SINGING | DANCE PERFORMANCES | PANELS | TALKS | STAND-UP COMEDY | BOOK READINGS | CHILDREN’S ARTS & CRAFTS | FACE PAINTING & GLITTER TATTOOS | FILM | WORKSHOPS ON CREATIVE WRITING, THEATRICAL DIRECTION AND PUBLISHING | KIZOMBA DANCE CLASS | TOURS | AUDIO TOURS | & AN ETHIOPIAN COFFEE CEREMONY
Find out more: https://www.weusi.org.uk/melan82025