Throughout October, Black Country Healthcare's Equality Network for Racial Inclusion and Cultural Heritage will be hosting a series of virtual workshops to mark Black History Month.
Wednesday 5th October 2022 at 12pm
What Traditional African Folk Tales Mean Today
In our first event we will be celebrating traditional African storytelling.
Dr Isi Agboaye is a Nigerian playwright, poet and storyteller who earned his doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton. In this session he will both explain the enduring importance of traditional African stories, and tell several traditional stories in special storytelling performances.
For more information and to register onto the event please visit the event page.
Thursday 13th October 2022 at 1pm
Improving Services for Black Women
In our second event we will be exploring how we as healthcare providers can be better empower Black women through learning from our speaker's lived experience as both a patient and practitioner.
Farisai Dzemwa, who is a Zimbabwean mental health nurse, a certified NLP practitioner, and a motivational speaker In this session she will take you along on her journey of her lived experiences as a domestic abuse survivor, a mental health practitioner and a Black Woman and talk about how medical practitioners and employers/colleagues can better support Black women.
For more information and to register onto the event please visit the event page.
Thursday 20th October at 12pm
Black History for Beginners: Ancients to the Present
In our third and final event we will be looking to learn more about Black History with a very special lecture from an acclaimed expert in the field
Paul Crooks is an African Caribbean family historian, a published author and trailblazing genealogist with a specialist interest in Black ancestry. In this session Paul will take you on a journey through the most enlightening periods of Black British history from the ancient to the modern era.
For more information and to register onto the event please visit the event page.