The Cultural Frontline: Black Speculative Arts
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7digital Creative have produced a new episode of BBC World Service’s Cultural Frontline, the programme that explores the world we live in, through the work and voices of artists.
In it, presenter Sheree Renée Thomas celebrates the Black Speculative Arts Movement.
Speculative, Fantasy and Science Fiction art by black artists - traditionally on the fringes of the scene - have built towards a global moment, including Marvel’s Black Panther movies.
Sheree and scholar Susana Morris re-evaluate and recognise forgotten or underappreciated artists, without whom the BSA community could not be as successful as it is today.
7digital have produced hundreds of hours of factual and arts audio for BBC platforms. Recent commissions include:
Why Time Flies (And How to Slow It Down) with Armando Iannucci
Mother, Nature, Sons with Nell Frizell
Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons
Recall of the Rock with Helen Mort
Thought Pattern, Pattern Thought with Joanne Limburg
In The Child’s Best Interests with Fergus Walsh
So Many Books, So Little Time with Mark Hodkinson
Award-winning series Michael Morpurgo’s Folk Journeys