Retrospective screening of Lawrence Hoo's documentary Inner City Tales, with poetry readings and live music, chaired by Clare Reddington.
Lawrence Hoo returns to Watershed on Tuesday 20 October, two decades after he first showed a film there in October 2006. The evening is a retrospective screening of his documentary Inner City Tales, which he made while artist in residence at Kuumba. It looks at the social conditions and realities of St Paul's and Easton, two of Bristol's most distinct neighbourhoods.
The screening is more than just a trip back to the film. Hoo will be there reading his poetry and sharing stories from Inner City Tales, with the conversation chaired by Watershed CEO Clare Reddington and joined by poets Malizah and Keyanne. Once the talking is done, the night shifts to the dancefloor: DJs Ray Mighty (of Smith & Mighty), Wayne Irie, Selecta Watson and Rob Morris take over.
It's a good moment to see where Hoo has been since that first screening. After Inner City Tales, he exhibited HOOSTORY at Centrespace Gallery in 2007, published the collection in 2011 with a launch and exhibition at Wider St Street Gallery, and joined Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio in 2016. In 2019, he and Chaz Golding set up CARGO to reframe how African and African Diaspora contributions to history are acknowledged and taught, producing installations, a book, an online learning platform and a BBC documentary. The whole evening sits within Watershed's Black History Month 2026 programme, 'Honouring Our Communities'.
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It starts at 18:00 at Watershed, so you've got the film, the poetry and the conversation first, then the DJs to keep it going into the night.
