October 2025
Thanks to support received from Taith, Sheba is currently hosting Australian filmmaker Leela Verghese. Leela is co-writer and co-director of Lesbian Space Princess which is being screened thanks to additional support from Film Hub Wales as part of the BFI's Melodrama Too Much programme. The film is showing in Cardiff as part of Iris LGBTQ Film Festival and on 18th October at Aberystwyth Arts Centre and 19th October at Pontio in Bangor. In addition, Leela will be supporting a Black women's scriptwriting initiative.
Leela Verghese at iris Film Festival Cardiff, accompanied by Sheba Soul Ensemble director Akulah Agbami.
Education section
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Sheba has had a busy few months working on a BFI Audience Research Programme which has unfolded in Derby, Cardigan and Bristol. FLY! festival of Black Women's Films has been brought to Derby West Indian Centre, the Small Theatre in Cardigan and Full Circle in Bristol. In addition, we have facilitated an exciting intensive Film Education programme in Aberystwyth, working with secondary students.
We are undertaking a film audience research project investigating serving the Black community in Wales better. And, last but not least, we are awakening creativity in primary students across Sedgemoor in Somerset, with photography, dance, theatre, poetry, song workshops all with an environmental theme. All of which will keep us very busy until end of July 2023 when, no doubt, we will start limbering up for Black History Month.
Black History Month is on our horizon. Thanks to a brilliant award from the BFI, we will be delivering in-person FLY! Festival of Black Women's Film at Derby Quad and Swansea Cinema and Co as well as an online version opening our programme to our followers across the UK and beyond. We are planning a riveting programme with lots of innovative add-on activities.
Sheba Soul Ensemble, as part of FLY! Festival of Black Women’s Film, welcomes Oscar-nominated documentary director Professor Florence Ayisi, for a screening of a mini-retrospective of her work followed by a Q & A
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