Book now: BLOC Events Update - April/May

Here's a quick update with new events coming very soon that have just gone on sale for booking. Most are free and open to all.

Tuesday 29 April 2025

9.30am-5pm - Free - Open to All

Data-Driven Decolonisation? AI and Metadata in the AV Archive

The workshop explores how artificial intelligence can both challenge and perpetuate colonial structures within audiovisual archives. By interrogating the role of metadata—often a silent but powerful force in shaping access, representation and memory—panelists and participants will discuss experiments with AI-driven tools to reimagine archival practices. In recentering marginalized narratives and erased histories, these institutional and creative interventions attempt to dismantle colonial hierarchies embedded in archival systems and propose new frameworks for ethical and inclusive metadata practices.

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Tuesday 6 May 2025

6.30pm - Free - Open to All

In conversation with Muhsin Mahmud

Muhsin Mahmud is an award-winning British journalist from London, recognised for telling underreported stories. His work has been featured on national media. As Deputy Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Muhsin championed opportunities for young people. He directed a short film on knife crime in collaboration with the Mayor of London and was behind acclaimed podcasts earning him recognition as an “Emerging Voice” on Apple Podcasts. Muhsin has also anchored newscasts in the U.S. and recently received a Hollywood nomination from the Television Academy Foundation for his documentary on the UNC-Chapel Hill school shooting.

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Tuesday 13 May 2025

6.30pm - Free - Open to All

Working with Words: Exploring Careers in Publishing, Writing & Storytelling

• John Baker, Literary Agent at Bell Lomax Moreton Agency

• Cal Kenny, Senior Commissioning Editor at Sphere (Hachette)

• Hope Ndaba, Senior Publicity Manager at Bonnier Books UK

• Dr Rachael Allen, BA (Goldsmiths), PhD (Hull)