Projects
Our projects seek to build on Stuart Hall’s ideas on politics, culture and the arts through curated public events and screenings, artists’ residencies and commissions, and academic research supported and facilitated by the Foundation.
Catastrophe and Emergence
Our first full-length annual programme invites artists, academics and organisers to examine the current conjuncture, trace the histories constituting it, and consider the political and creative possibilities that might emerge from what was.
Read moreThe Stuart Hall Essay Prize
Inviting new writing that impacts broad public discourse, and stimulating a new generation of thinkers who offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued.
Read moreLiving Archives Podcast: Intergenerational Conversations Between Artists
An oral histories project made up of six intergenerational conversations, each considering an alternative history of contemporary Britain through testimonies shared by UK-based diasporic artists working between the 1980s and the present-day.
Read moreLocating Legacies Podcast in Partnership with Pluto Press
A podcast series tracing the reverberations of history to contextualise present-day politics, deepen our understanding of some of the crucial issues of our time, and draw connections between past struggles and our daily lives.
Read moreRacial Inequality in Times of Crises Conference 2022
A week-long online conference inviting researchers and practitioners to explore the impact of present-day crises on ethnic minority people in the UK, with a focus on education and policing, activism, housing, and healthcare.
Read moreThe Conversation Continues: We Are Still Listening
An immersive soundscape from artist Trevor Mathison, offering a re-examination of the lives and histories of those laid to rest at Highgate Cemetery in the context of contemporary anti-racism movements.
Read moreThe Contextualising Climate Crisis Series
A series of interventions contextualising climate change within a history of colonisation, foreign policy, global economic disparities, and racialised injustices.
Read more#ReconstructionWork
A series of online public conversations inviting writers, artists and activists to critically consider how we can build a more just society in response to the Covid-19 crisis and the Black Lives Matter protests worldwide.
Read moreStuart Hall Library Artist Residency
Building on the connections between the Stuart Hall Foundation and iniva, this residency offers a visual artist the opportunity to develop their practice by excavating ideas from the Stuart Hall Library and iniva archives, taking the writings of Stuart Hall as a starting point.
Read moreThe Imagined Futures Series
A space for artists, writers and thinkers to nurture the language of possibility, forging a collection of thoughtful articles that speak to the conditions of the contemporary moment in order to assert that other worlds are possible.
Read moreRacial Inequality in a Time of Crisis Conference 2021
A week-long conference exploring the impact of Covid-19 on ethnic minority people in the UK, with researcher and practitioner-led discussions and presentations based around policing, health and well-being, employment, young people, culture and cultural activism.
Read moreSHF Race Report
A review, written by Stephen D. Ashe, summarising the findings of previous cross-governmental inquiries into discrimination against ethnic minority people in education, health and criminal justice, intending to ensure new inquiries build on previously established ground.
Read moreSHF x Cultural Studies Award
Established in 2017 as a collaboration between the Stuart Hall Foundation and the journal Cultural Studies, this award recognises articles by early career scholars that strongly contribute to cultural studies as envisaged by Stuart Hall.
Read moreBlack Cultural Activism Map
The BLK ACT MAP emerged from a series of intergenerational conversations with artists, cultural practitioners and activists, organised by the Foundation with aim to support and promote the visibility of black and brown diaspora resistance through research and commissions.
Read moreLet Our Statues Speak
An ongoing series of partnerships and artistic collaborations creating workshops, residencies, commissions and publications to spark a wide-ranging investigation into public space, and to generate conversation around the commemorative statures found in civic spaces.
Read moreElaine Mitchener’s SWEET TOOTH
A cross-disciplinary music theatre piece using text, improvisation and movement to stage a dramatic engagement with the brutal realities of slavery, as revealed by the historical records of the sugar industry, and to reveal its contemporary echoes.
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