Black History Month at Warwick
Find out about the events, lectures and activities happening across the University to mark Black History Month, as well as useful resources available all year-round.
Design a T-shirt at the Students' Union
- Date: 28 October, 14:00 - 16:00
- Location: Copper Room 2
As part of the celebrations of this year’s Black History Month theme, Standing Firm in Power and Pride, students are invited to a special T-shirt design workshop. This will be a creative space that will offer the chance to design unique T-shirts that showcase resilience, heritage, and pride. Enjoy music and sweet treats as we come together to honour Black excellence - past, present, and future.
The Library Collections
To celebrate this year’s Black History Month theme, The Library has curated a display in The Library Floor 1 Display Cabinet. The display features information, resources, and books from the Library's Ethnicity and Migration collection, which brings together collections from the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) and the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). The IRR collection was developed by A. Sivanandan, one of the foremost theorists of race and race relations in the UK. This display also features a table of books, which allows students to explore Black History Month more deeply.
Term 1 at Warwick Student Cinema
This term Warwick Student Cinema are showing films across the whole of Term 1 to celebrate Black History Month. In October you can view:
In the Heat of the Night
- Date: 21 October, 19:30
- Location: L3 - Science Concourse
5th Black Arts Showcase
- Date: 21 October, 18:00
- Location: WLS Student Hub
Join us for a special edition of the Black Arts Showcase organised by BASE Law, [black] untitled, and Warwick Law School. For the fifth year, we're coming together as a community to celebrate Black History Month. This event showcases creativity in all of its forms—whether you’re a musician, a painter, a photographer, a writer, or an enjoyer of all these things—this space is to celebrate you and we would love to have you there!
Blogs, videos, books, podcasts and resources
To promote and celebrate Black history, we've created a list of blogs, videos, books, podcasts, resources, and events that we hope will get you thinking, help you learn more, and start conversations.
Even when it's no longer Black History Month, it’s important to remember that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated for only one month of the year, which is why we have this information available all year round.
Please find below all of the content we have collated, so you can read/watch/listen to the materials in October and beyond.