Dear friends and music/art lovers,
I hope this email finds you all well, and ready for better days!
All over Europe, we can feel that spring is almost here and I hope it is as inspiring where you are as where I find myself, back in Bristol, after a couple of weeks in Paris...
Here are the newest links to my writing and collaborations, which I thought might interest you.
Remember that all of my articles and productions are free to read / listen to. My goal is mostly to spread and share ideas.
More focus on the role of the media this season and on post-colonial / multicultural cultures and ideas.
TMR - Issue 7 !
The Markaz Review is busy working on its 8th issue! After six months of existence.
Thank you everyone for your support.
Here are our latest pieces and highlights:
> Issue 7 - on the issue of 'Truth?'
Here's the editorial: https://themarkaz.
There are also contributions on endangered literacy (Marcus Gilroy-Ware), natural-born liars (Preeta Samarasan), and the truth about Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, where assassinations of journalists are the new form of national censorship.
> Condemnation of threats against so-called "Islamo-Leftists" in France by Pinar Selek and other academics
> Issue 6 - As we comment on the 10 years of the "Arab Springs", a piece on Revolutions through History
Next: All Eyes on Marseille! And especially its Music Scene through 30 years of hip hop... Out mid-April.
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Music/Book: Bristol & Massive Attack - 30 years of Blues Lines
Speaking of music... In the very same timeframe, the Bristol Sound is also reaching a milestone: MAssive Attack's first album, 'Blue Lines' was released 30 years ago in April 1991...
More on 'Unfinished Sympathy', 'Blue Lines' and 'Daydreaming' in my article in the Reader's Digest.
My book, which came out two years ago, is now available on UK Bookshop: 'Out of the Comfort Zone'.
For the 'Francophones', here I am on France Inter discussing more in Pop'n'Co with Rebecca Manzoni: Pop N Co for more than half an hour !
And there'll still be more to say...
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Film: 'Exterminate All the Brutes' - Docu series on HBO
Meanwhile, a project I worked on for years is about to come out on television! First in the US, then in the UK and in Europe.
PREMIERES APRIL 7, AT 9PM ET, ON HBO
Exterminate All the Brutes, by acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, HBO’s Sometimes in April), is a four-part hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
Based on works by three authors and scholars — Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate All the Brutes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past— Exterminate All the Brutes revisits and reframes the profound impact of the Native American genocide and American slavery as it fundamentally informs the present.
I was the main researcher on this project, from 2017 to 2019, and orientated the project on its American angle.
Do watch and let me know what you think!
PREMIERES APRIL 7, AT 9PM ET, ON HBO
> Link for American viewers: https://www.hbo.com/
> Viewings to come for UK and Europe
> More details on the film here: http://melissa-on-the-
I'd love to organise a screening/talk/debate in Bristol to discuss some of these ideas. Three years ago, a debate was organised at the Watershed around I Am Not Your Negro and I literally forced Raoul Peck to come!
Do get in touch if you feel you'd come and see the film, online or maybe in a cinema later in the spring... when they reopen.
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Arnolfini Art Book > Release postponed to September 2021
We're waiting for the coming reopening of Arnolfini's Archives in Bristol to perfect the visuals.
And by waiting for September we have a chance of organising a real event in the art centre's auditorium.
More on this soon...
See here for my previous texts for Arnolfini:
and here for more on the book:
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PODCAST: The Quarantini @ 1 year
And finally in the 33rd episode of our Quarantini Podcast we have some Somali stories and Algerian music:
We started the podcast almost a year ago in April 2020. Unfortunately, Covid-life is still here and positive responses are more useful than ever.
Get in touch if you think you want to be featured as a guest.
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Many thanks for your attention for now.
Do get in touch if you're interested in my writing, joining efforts for an online talk or event on these issues, or if you want to commission any writing on related topics.
With my very best wishes, and a delightful long-awaited spring!
melissa
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Melissa Chemam
Writer, Cultural Journalist, Reporter
Writer-in-residence @ Arnolfini Gallery
Associate Lecturer in journalism @ UWE Bristol
Email: mchemam@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
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