Join us to celebrate International Clash Day 2020 with a panel discussion where our speakers will discuss topics surrounding anti-racism, social inclusion and the problems faced in the 1970s/80s and how those issues are still prevalent today in the Punk scene.
We will be joined by the barrier breaking organisers of Decolonise Fest – an annual London-based festival created by people of colour in the punk scene. Decolonise Fest celebrates people of colour who are creating in the scene right now, acknowledges elders and the doors they opened, and are making room for more punks of colour to take centre stage.
Speakers include:
Stephanie Philips – London-based arts and culture journalist, specialising in music, race, pop culture, and feminism. She is part of the organising team behind Decolonise Fest, a festival created by and for punks of colour, and is the guitarist and singer in the black feminist punk band Big Joanie.
Celeste Bell & Zoe Howe – Celeste is the daughter of Punk legend Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex and Zoë Howe is a writer, musician and visual artist. Best known as a rock biographer, her most recent book is the acclaimed Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story, collated in collaboration Celeste. The pair are also collaborating on a documentary about Styrene, titled ‘I Am A Cliché’, with director Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain.)
Syd Shelton – Syd Shelton is a photographer and graphic designer. In the early 1970s he began his photography practice and worked as a freelance photojournalist. Syd become one of the key activists in the Rock Against Racism movement (RAR). He was a photographer and one of the designers of the RAR magazine Temporary Hoarding (1976 to 1981).
The talk will be followed by an opportunity to see The Clash: London Calling display.