Our Picks – October 2023

• Join Olivette Otele at Museum of London Docklands for a special in-conversation with Renée Landell highlighting the role of Black women in resistance, abolition and anti-colonial movements across the globe.
• Woodland Trust want to make sure everybody in the UK has the chance to plant a tree. So they’re giving away hundreds of thousands of trees to schools and communities.
• Learn more about Syrian booza in London: a Damascene ice cream made with soul.
• Are you a young person aged 16-21, interested in creating short films, music videos or other visual content but not sure where to start? Sign up for New Creates: Film with Rich Mix where they are hosting  weekly workshops, exploring ways to create your own DIY short films – from pre-production and planning, to getting out and filming.

  Image: Queen Nzinga Mbande By Achille Devéria, 1830s. via Wikimedia Commons