A free, conversational study day with poetry, filmmaking and activism responding to Baff Akoto's exhibition Collateral Echoes on memory, grief and justice.
QUAD is hosting What Remains?, a study day on Sunday 29 November, running from 12:00 to 18:00. It's built around Collateral Echoes, Baff Akoto's solo exhibition that opened at the gallery on 26 September. The show combines XR, moving image and immersive sound, bringing together first-person testimonies, archival imagery and performance to look at memory, grief, justice and the lives of Black and immigrant Britons who have died following police contact since 1969.
The day is a response to that work, and it's kept conversational rather than academic. The idea is to bring different forms of Black knowledge and experience into the same room: lived experience, poetry, filmmaking, community organising, activism, cultural practice, family knowledge and scholarship. It's framed around the phrase 'WHAT REMAINS?' as an invitation rather than a question with one definitive answer.
The line-up brings together a wide range of voices. There's Casey Bailey, the Birmingham poet and former Birmingham Poet Laureate (2020-2022), and John Bernard, Coventry Poet Laureate (2023-2025). They're joined by artist Carol Leeming, poet and founder of the Nottingham Black Archive Panya Banjoko, and community activist Tippa Naphtali. Organisations including INQUEST and the United Families and Friends Campaign will also be involved.
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It's a free event, though donations are encouraged. It runs from 12:00 to 18:00 at QUAD in Derby.
