rise up AT THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
Sharon has directed a short film, in collaboration with Leah Kharibian, Mat Sunderland and Graham Tobias, featuring the brilliant Alistair Nwachukwu reciting passages from Othello as the actor, Ira Aldridge. She also worked with the talented actor, Jyuddah James, for some audio works from two early writers on transatlantic enslavement and abolition.
Rise Up- Resistance's Revolution, Abolition is outstanding and places historic objects and artworks alongside works of contemporary artists, exploring the battle to abolish the British slace trade and end enslavement between 1750 and 1850, as well as the aftermath, its legacies and the ongoing struggle for equality and social justice today.