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SPRC Curatorial Praxis Series: Uprooting Landscapes of Change
20 March 2024, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
The Sarah Parker Remond Centre welcomes writer and consultant medical psychotherapist Marchelle Farrell.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation
Location
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Common Ground, G11Gower Street, South WingLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
What is a garden and who belongs in it? By exploring this seemingly simple question through everyday gardens in the Caribbean and the UK, we come to see the colonial ties still growing between the plants and people within these highly curated domestic spaces. But the roots spread through the wider landscape when we begin to consider our relationship to place, and the vital importance this relationship plays in the interconnected crises that we experience today. Might the garden and what we curate within it be at the root of things?
About the Speaker
Marchelle Farrell
Writer, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Amateur Gardener
Marchelle Farrell is a writer, consultant medical psychotherapist, and amateur gardener, born in Trinidad and Tobago, but having spent over 20 years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. She is curious about the relationship between our external and internal landscapes, the patterns we reenact in relation to the land, and how they might be changed. Her debut book, Uprooting, won the Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing and is published by Canongate.
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