Dig Where You Stand Biennial 2024
A new and ground-breaking arts exhibition sheds light on South Yorkshire’s hidden racial history.
Commissioned and curated by Dig Where You Stand, artworks will be displayed around Sheffield from Saturday 20th July to Sunday 18th August 2024.
Fourteen artists of colour, all based in South Yorkshire, have explored local archives and produced dynamic new work to reveal the unknown history of people of colour in the region.
Just as histories are written across a city, this multi venue exhibition will display artworks across a range of highly visible public spaces.
This includes Persistence Works, Sheffield Cathedral, Moor Market, Sheffield Central Library and Winter Gardens.
Make your way around Sheffield city centre and be moved by a stirring mixture of painting, poetry, puppetry, soundscapes, film, textiles, and live performance.
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Free
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This free exhibition grants access to stories that have been hidden deep within the archive and breathes life into people often reduced to bare facts, figures or silence.
In doing so it helps re-narrate the North, dispelling the myth of a pure white past glorified in mainstream historical accounts, while demonstrating how deeply rooted people of colour are in the region’s foundations.
As well as the exhibition there will also be a series of free events, including live performances, a creative workshop, an Open Studio, live procession and panel discussion.
For full programme details visit the DWYS website.
There has not been anything like this done in South Yorkshire before, not at this scale.
The Biennial is more than an arts exhibition, it is a reclamation.
An act of memory recovery and a re-narration of the region’s racial history.