A workshop considering the history of mixed-race British people, the mixed-race children of black GIs and the question of ‘mixed-race’ as a self-identity today. Speakers and performers include professor Lucy Bland; Chamion Caballero (author of Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century); performance poet and ‘brown baby’ Eugene Lange; Michelle Balach-Ali, teacher and writer.; Chantelle Lewis and Karis Campion, researchers.

The workshop with consider the history of mixed-race British people, the mixed-race children of black GIs and the question of ‘mixed-race’ as a self-identity today. Audience engagement will be central and the day will be recorded for archiving.

The talks to be followed by the official opening of the exhibition at 6pm.