The Second Annual Maud Sulter Lecture with Pratibha Parmar

The Annual Maud Sulter Lecture with Pratibha Parmar

Friday 31 October, 4.30 - 6pm

Glasgow School of Art, Reid Building

🎟 Free, open to all

Filmmaker and activist Pratibha Parmar reflects on her friendship with Maud Sulter and the vibrant Black women’s arts movement of the 1980s. Through painting, photography, and moving image, these artists contested erasure and mapped visions for a different kind of world. Parmar will revisit these foundational moments in dialogue with Sulter’s work and consider their reverberations today.

The Annual Maud Sulter Lecture aims to amplify the legacy of artist Maud Sulter, her roots in Scotland, and the internationalism of her practice as an artist, photographer, writer, poet, curator, and organiser.

Pratibha Parmar’s films have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades. From experimental shorts to activist documentaries and feature-length works, Parmar’s cinematic language operates as an act of visual justice. Her practice engages the image as a site of struggle—challenging the power relations that determine who is seen, how they are represented, and what forms of visual expression are made possible. Her films are a site of narrative transformation, where memory, activism, and artistic expression converge to resist erasure and imagine new futures.

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