Letter To A Black Girl: Getting In “Good Trouble” brings you their podcast live in an event filled with empowering conversations and insights, live performances from local talent and the space to network and make new connections.
As heard on BBC History for the BBC 100 celebrations, Letter To A Black Girl comes to Streatham Space Project for a live podcast recording! Podcast founder and host, actress Gloria Onitiri will be joined by guests Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Dawn Estefan; multidisciplinary artist and cultural curator, Danny Bailey; and founder of Eleven Eleven Wellbeing, Louise Mensah. In traditional Letter To A Black Girl style, they will bring their letters to their younger selves and roundtable about what it really means to get in 'good trouble'.
There will be an abundance of incredible live music and poetry as well as the space to network and make new connections.
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Date: Friday 13th October 2023
Time: 7.30pm - 10pm
Duration: 2.5 hours including interval
Age Guidance: 16+
Please e-mail us ahead of the day to ensure we are aware of and can facilitate any access needs.
Guests
Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE DL
A dynamic leader with a wealth of experience in the communications industry, Dr. Thompson is a highly respected change-maker, advocate for small businesses, and champion of diversity and inclusion in the UK. She authored the Amazon bestseller, “7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards” and also produced her Senior Women Leaders Programme.
This year, she celebrates the 25th anniversary of the WinTradeGlobal Women In Business Network Summit and Awards, which she founded. Dr. Thompson leads a powerful network that supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for greater gender and race equality and equity.
Dr Thompson was the only woman on the board of radio station Choice FM, and worked with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), BEIS, supporting small business ministers across several administrations, and Ofcom on equality and diversity. Dr. Thompson's most recent chairing appointments include OKRE.org and The Black Cultural Archives. She recently stepped down from the Parker Review after five years.
Along with her CBE, two honorary doctorates, and honorary four fellowships for her work in the EDI arena, Dr Thompson was recently appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant in Greater London.
Dawn Estefan, Psychoanalytic Psychologist
Award Winning Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and trauma specialist Dawn Estefan has a passion for using Psychoanalytic Theory as a way of making sense of our lives and the world we live in. As a Psychotherapist, Dawn is best known for her work with black and brown communities and as a Mental Health Activist. Her private practice fondly known as the “The Black Girl Clinic” (although she now also works with Black and Brown Men) focuses on the importance of understanding cultural nuance and intersectional identities when navigating Wellness.
In her work at “Organisation in the Mind” (a Business Psych platform), Dawn uses Psychoanalytic ideas, conversation, and storytelling to help her clients understand the significance of the unconscious on behaviour, creativity cultures and development in the workplace
With over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Dawn introduced a platform called “Creative Minds” as part of her general practice, which focuses on the unique needs of those in the creative industries. Dawn has worked on several plays and documentaries in Latin America and the UK providing on and off-set clinical advice on how to support staff, writers and cast in their work and performance.
Danny Bailey,
Multidisciplinary Artist and Cultural Curator.
Originally from Hackney, Danny uses his Afro-Caribbean background as a creative vocabulary to challenge issues regarding race, sexuality, gender, faith and politics, through Playwriting, Performance, Filmmaking, Digital Art and Community Building. He is also the founder of The Palace of the Dogs, a multi-disciplinary arts collective, where he aims to put B(L)ACK Art into the centre of society.
Louise Mensah
Louise Mensah is a menstrual, fertility coach, teacher, journalist and wellbeing expert. She helps women to reverse symptoms associated with conditions such as PCOS, fibroids and period pain through making holistic lifestyle changes. She has bylines at various notable organisations including BBC3, Channel 4, Heat Magazine, and Pride Magazine.
She’s also the founder of a brand called elevenelevenwellbeing - a brand created to support women on their journey to hormone balance. A key mission of her work is to raise more awareness on the interconnectedness of menstrual and mental health.
About LTABG Podcast:
The show comes to us from its founder and host, actor Gloria Onitiri. With production by Chloe Williams, Makee Ogbon and music by Tasha Taylor Johnson.
Letter To A Black Girl is a podcast that celebrates the best of Black British Women. Gloria gets each guest to write and read aloud a letter to their younger selves, followed by an in-depth discussion about the themes that arise from them alongside the topic of the week.
Inspired by a series of poems Gloria wrote based on her experiences/feelings as a young black girl in the UK and now embracing her womanhood, she is offering something positive and refreshing as a gift to the current climate. The one thing Gloria always felt was missing whilst growing up was having the ability to listen to the plethora of talented black women in the UK talk directly to each other about their successes, lives, loves and how they got to where they are. In this podcast, Gloria roundtables with influential and successful Black British women from multiple professions about their life endeavours.
Letter To A Black Girl forms a conversational, witty and healing exploration of adversity in both the professional and personal spheres, as well as discussing more intimate topics like sex, family and love from their unique viewpoint. Infused with original poetry and music, the podcast places the Black British experience in the centre of a very public conversation, creating a platform for a highly accessible meditation on issues that need this room outside of the academic or more highly politicised spaces.
LTABG have also currently collaborated with BBC History as part of a research project for the BBC centenary.
Listen to Letter To A Black Girl on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and all other relevant platforms.
In Season One and Season Two of Letter to A Black Girl, Gloria is joined in conversation by:
MP Dawn Butler, UK Black Pride’s Lady Phyll, Acne Activist Afia Kufuor, Brand Image Stylist Alexandra Agboke, Actress Lorna Gayle, Saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, Radio DJ Kaylee Golding, Actress and Founder of Blacktress Cherelle Skeete, Screen Writer Grace Ofori-Attah, Author Lola Adebayo, Artist Amber Shanice, Educator Kimberley Aparisio, Psychotherapist Dawn Estefan, Activist/Spiritual Mentor Chia Phoenix, Actress Rakie Ayola, Composer/ Singer songwriter and Actress Anoushka Lucas, Founder of Chineke! Orchestra Chi-Chi Nwanoku OBE, Award winning Filmmaker and Producer Sheila Nortley, Presenter/Host Terri Martin Ajala, Founder CEO Shoobs Louise Broni Mensah, Choreographer/ Dancer Dollie Henry, Barrister Elaine Banton, British Business Leader Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE, FRSA, Olympian and Founder of LIHA Beauty Abi Oyepitan, Self Shooting Director Liana Stewart, Award winning Actress Sharon D Clarke MBE, Founder House of Kato Haula, Founder Nubian Skin Ade Hassan MBE, Curator, Producer, Educator & Journalist Karina Maynard, Film Producer Ama Ampadu and girls from the African & Caribbean Society at Bedford Girls School.