Oumou Longley

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[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

an immersive installation of our audio piece about the life and remembering of local activist Olive Morris, using interviews conducted by @rememberolive @LambethArchives, is happening from 18th-26th June at Unit 14e, Brixton Market Row for @WindrushLambeth ⭐️@MakeItInBrixton

[Background Noise @bgnoiseuk]

Next month, @LSEGenderTweet will host a panel event with Jade Bentil, @ououmuo, Milo Miller, @lolaolufemi_ and @SM_Rodriguez77 to reflect on the legacies of the Brixton Black Women’s Group.

Find out more: https://t.co/ndHpfSImia

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

@hannahkateboast @Colette_lis @rememberolive @LambethArchives @WindrushLambeth @MakeItInBrixton hopefully! it’s also now on Soundcloud here: https://t.co/n5Xx3A7qIj

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

an immersive installation of our audio piece about the life and remembering of local activist Olive Morris, using interviews conducted by @rememberolive @LambethArchives, is happening from 18th-26th June at Unit 14e, Brixton Market Row for @WindrushLambeth ⭐️@MakeItInBrixton

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

@rememberolive @bbcarts thank you for the support 🧡

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

12 onwards at Unit 14e, Market Row, Brixton SW9 8LB ⭐️

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

Today would’ve been the 70th birthday of Black British activist, courageous friend and pioneer #OliveMorris. We will be celebrating at our Brixton sound installation that shares personal testimonies of those who knew her from @LambethArchives @rememberolive @MakeItInBrixton ⭐️

[Remember Olive Collective (R.O.C. 2.0) @rememberolive]

Today, we remember and celebrate Olive Elaine Morris (26 June 1952 – 12 July 1979) and her radical grassroots activism #OliveMorrisDay2022

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

@FallingTreeProd @bbcarts @rememberolive @WindrushLambeth @MakeItInBrixton Thank you! I did a scheme called New Creatives last year run by the ICA/BBC and got to make a version of it there ☺️

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

You can hear our @bbcarts audio doc that celebrates the life of Black British activist Olive Morris and the community who remember her @rememberolive in real life! As part of an installation for @WindrushLambeth @MakeItInBrixton 12-8pm until 26th June at 14e Market Row, Brixton

[BBC Arts @bbcarts]

You can listen to #NewCreatives artist @ououmuo’s documentary about activist Olive Morris in full on BBC Introducing Arts with @huwstephens. Stream on @BBCSounds now: https://t.co/Fycd4aZYsE

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

Really special to be sharing an installation of our audio doc about late Black British activist Olive Morris, around what would have been her 70th bday! 🎂 and as part of @WindrushLambeth for @MakeItInBrixton at Unit 14e Brixton Market Row, 18-26th June
@bbcarts @LambethArchives

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

Olive Morris: Voices of the Archive, was played on @bbcarts @BBC6Music last week! You can catch it online, or come to our real life installation celebrating her life and activism at Unit 14e, Market Row, Brixton SW9 8LB ⭐️

https://t.co/moxYvxwzld

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

@bizbertschinger Thanks Biz! Appreciate it 😁💚

[NUMBI @numbiarts]

If you are in London this coming week, 25th June - 2 July, make sure to not miss our #NumbiFest2022

We look forward to welcoming you.

Tickets for our event are live at:
https://t.co/9txD8fBDsy

BOOK NOW & Pls RT 🌻💛

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

really nice to experience these history makings take on their own life despite my own life being a bit limited at the moment! xxx

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

@ukhomeoffice stop mass deportation of British residents to Zimbabwe https://t.co/q18EeLSGgv

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

@bizbertschinger Thanks so much for sharing biz!💚💚

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

https://t.co/MecgAN1GJy

[Oumou Longley @ou_muo]

My audio piece Olive Morris: Voices of the archive is showing @ICALondon from 1st-6th Feb!!

Drop in to hear Olive’s story woven together from oral histories found in the Olive Morris Collection @rememberolive at @LambethArchives

[Feminist Review @FeministReview_]

'Speaking my worries to the archive, and posing my urgencies to Olive, I allowed the archive to talk back to me my transformation, in a radical revaluing of Black selfhood.'

- Oumou Longley (@ououmuo), 'Olive and me in the archive' #OliveMorris #FR129 #OA
https://t.co/ROdUwyP1mW