"I firmly believe Black British history is not just for the enlightened few; it is for everyone. It is part of the UK's wider collective memory."

"Playing mas truly made me feel comfortable in my identity. I felt at home. Especially knowing just how important carnival is to my ancestors."

"The little black history taught to us at school is usually from the perspective of our American cousins, and very rarely about the women who were and remain the backbone and driving force for these movements."

"Entitled 'Black Flowers', we gathered the black community, mainly womxn, to come and express themselves within the space. To perform freeing and expressive dances whilst, frame-by-frame, making small essential actions responding to the space."

"History has long been written from a ‘pale, male and stale’ perspective, which deemed the histories of people of colour – and what they suffered at the hands of white Europeans – as unimportant."