BGC Virtual2020

Monday 2nd-Sunday 8th November

We’ve switched things up this year due to Covid, so we'll be offering a virtual convention full of creative workshops, talks, panels and experiences!

BOOKINGS

General Admission Tickets for all Zoom events bookable on Eventbrite. 

No booking required for Instagram live events

All events are FREE!

Dr Mena Fombo

Dr Mena Fombo aka SOMINA is founder and creative director of Black Girl Convention. She is Co founder of Bristol African Caribbean Culture Space - a new black arts venue located on a barge in Bristol harbour and  co founder of Blak Wave Productions - one of the only black owned tv production companies in the South West. She is a writer, director and producer of tv and film, passionate about telling stories and exploring issues centred on powerful characters around identity, sport and culture, with her latest short film BBC Arts short Home Carnival Queen. She holds an honorary doctorate for gender and racial equalities work awarded from the University West of England and In 2019 she was voted Bristol woman of the year by Bristol 24/7.

Chanté Joesph

Chanté is a freelance writer, digital content producer and host of Reform The Funk’s Talk and Play & Channel 4’s How Not To Be Racist. After completing her degree at the University of Bristol in 2018, she edited and curated Bristol’s first-ever BME Powerlist. The BME Powerlist had over 500 nominations and 100 award recipients. She frequently writes for platforms including Complex, The Guardian, The I Paper, Noisey, VICE, Munchies, Gal-dem, Crack Magazine, Soho House and more. In 2018, she wrote her first-ever cover story for Wonderland Magazine interviewing Beyoncé’s very own Chloe and Halle. She is also writing her first book A Quick Ting On: The Black British Power Movement.

Aggie Nonsizi

Aggie Nonsizi is a Professional Dancer who, after 3 years of full-time training has been travelling the world performing since 2018. She recently finished a World Tour with the band, Bring Me The Horizon and in the process, has graced the stages of Glastonbury Festival, BBC Radio 1's Big Weekender, Voodoo Music + Arts Festival in New Orleans and Lollapalooza in Chicago. She is passionate about what she does and loves being able to give back and bring joy to people through movement.

Tanisha Barrett

Tanisha is a mental health nurse and clinical supervisor, she delivers therapy, runs a private practice and also teaches on diversity and difference. Tanisha is also a published poet and writes about mental health, sexuality, race and body acceptance.

Lydia K.M.

I am a 29 year old talk show host, commercial model and actress. I am Kenyan born, British bread, single girl navigating through Nairobi. I love health and wellness, self help content, family, fashion, hair and make up. I am passionate about owing my power and helping others do so by authentically documenting my life.

Mama D Ujuaje

Mama D is a great-granddaughter of the Earth and thus one who remembers historical narratives; a descendant of those who authored what it means to be resilient and thus one who guides recovery through work in partnership with the elements and agencies of natural recovery, repair and restitution. She works as an independent researcher and learning facilitator in decolonial food and nourishment. Having developed interactive processes of learning and exploration around the constitution and wielding of power at different social scales and geographies she explores and examines privilege and inclusion as modernity’s constructs and diversity as a lens, through which we negotiate our working and living relationships at different levels of organisation. She also works at a genuine grassroots level supporting a network of community organisations: Just Space. Within the collective of Community Centred Knowledge Mama D has both founded and continues to curate the multi-sensory Food Journey©and other interactive and immersive workshops to contribute to our shared healing.

Josephine Gyasi

Josie is spoken word artist, an everyday activist and creative in many other forms; designer, maker and thinker. Josephine strives to ensure equality, inclusion and diversity is implemented at the heart of everything she does. She is the Project Coordinator for Black Girl Convention virtual 2020, a Creative Producer at Knowle West Media Centre and is Head of Event Production for Club Djembe.

Tanya Compas

Tanya Compas is an award winning youth worker, community organiser and founder of Exist Loudly. Exist Loudly is a community based organisation set up to provide spaces of joy and community for queer Black young people. Tanya utilises her social media platforms speak on her experiences as a queer mixed Black woman and speaks often around topics such as body positivity, mental health, understanding queerness, finding community and most importantly, joy!

Travis Alabanza

Travis Alabanza is an award winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their theatre show Burgerz had a sold out international tour including Southbank Centre, Traverse Theatre, HAU Berlin and Sao Paulo Brazil - winning the total theatre award at edinburgh fringe. Alabanza work has been featured in BBC, The Guardian, Dazed, Gal-Dem and more, with Alabanza's voice on LGBT+ issues having them listed on the Dazed 100, Gay Times Future Fighters award , Bristol's LGBT Ingluential List and The Evening Standard Influential list. 

Amara, the Lesbian

Amara, the Lesbian is a storyteller, writer and activist. Amara uses storytelling to vlogg and document her life, centred around coming out as queer, and living openly gay in Nigeria. 

"I’m like the ocean, I’m constantly on my path and if you come for me. I’ll swallow you whole." Amara, the lesbian