On June 10, the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R) and the Department of American and Canadian Studies (ACS) joined with Nottingham's Mt. Zion Millenium City Church to celebrate the winner of our Black History Exhibition Competition, in a reception funded as part of the 2015-16 British Academy Rising Star Engagement project on Race and Rights. Eight year old Elisse Williams won the competition with her piece about Nanny of the Maroons, a Jamaican heroine, and received a certificate, book prize, special C3R bear, a workshop at Lakeside and this reception in her honour. We also honoured the runners-up, siblings Kamiya and Natijah Lothian. The competition itself was open to children aged 4-11 years old, and asked entrants to choose an inspirational person from black history, create an artwork about them, write a paragraph about what that person achieved, and then also write four things that they would do to make the world a better place. It ran during Black History Month 2014. C3R and ACS were delighted to welcome 40 members of Mt. Zion and Elisse's family and friends to the gathering in Highfield House, and look forward to partnering with Mt. Zion on more educational and artistic collaborations in the future. You can see more photographs of the ceremony at our new Flickr account.
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