Q&A
Host:
Weyland McKenzie-Witter is an audio artist, creative producer, writer, founder of Nello and archivist in-training. Weyland’s work focuses on utilising existing, adding to, and creating new archival collections through storytelling and oral history. Nello sits at the intersection of heritage and cultural production, specialising in creating archival collections, audio visual productions, exhibitions, educational workshops and more. Weyland’s current audio projects includes the Stephen Lawerence Research Centre Podcast, executive producing professor Kehinde Andrews Make It Plain podcast and an upcoming collaboration with Deanna Lyncook from The History Hotline.
Panellists:
Arlen Harris, co-director, is an award-winning programme maker with over 30 years’ experience in print, TV and radio, working mainly for British television for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV on World in Action, Panorama and Dispatches. His reporting on racial segregation in the army for the Observer helped end the colour bar in the elite regiments guarding the Queen. He has made a film on Guiness, the beer and the family. He has filmed with pirates in the South China seas, in Beirut and in Sri Lanka during the civil war and made films about the Iraq War.
Daniyal Harris-Vajda,co-director, works as a Development Producer / Director at a London based production company Ratchet Productions. In the last three years he has independently made a feature length documentary and shot and directed a series of films in Latin America. Documentaries he part filmed and helped produce for Noah Media Group have been shown on ITV, Netflix, France’s Canal Plus, Amazon Prime and ‘Arsene Wenger: Invincible’ had a cinematic release. The three-part series ‘South of the River’ about why South London is producing so much football talent in the face of twelve years of austerity was highly commended at the Broadcast Sports Awards in 2022 and won a bronze at the Sport Journalism Awards.
Anne Braithwaite
was a beneficiary of Walter Rodney's exceptional ability to analyse and synthesize centuries of history to illuminate issues of the day. Guyana's recent independence, the Black Power movement and Africa liberation struggles of the1960s/1970s formed the political and cultural backdrops to her search for understanding Guyana's turbulence, while living in the British political ferment of the 1970s and 1980s. She was a founding member of Guyana's Working People's Alliance (which Rodney co-led) UK Support Group.