MELAN8 2025 | FESTIVAL | SATURDAY 29 MARCH
MELAN8 is a celebration of Black Arts and Culture, focused on themes and intersections of Common/Unity & Community.
This year, the festival took place at St Mary's Guildhall from 11am until 7pm on Saturday 29 March 2025, celebrating, exploring and engaging with Black culture and community through articulated thought and artistic expression including panels, keynotes, live music, dance, poetry and book readings, comedy, an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony, workshops on creative writing, theatrical direction and publishing, tours and audio tours, arts and crafts, face painting and more.
Watch the MELAN8 Showreel below for a flavour of the Festival in just 15 minutes.
THE OG | THE ONLINE GATHERING | SATURDAY 8 MARCH
This International Women’s Day’s theme was #AccelerateAction
We offered, instead, a provocation centred on self-care and well-being
for everyone... specifically women and especially women of Black heritage.
Our free online retreat, THE OG | Online Gathering, ran from 9.30am
until 1.30pm on Saturday 8 March 2025, with a morning of yoga,
mindfulness, somatic movement and sound healing, intersected
with moments of reflection, poetry and interviews.
