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May 2023
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Emma Dabiri (Live at Dulwich Picture Gal...

RUSSELL TOVEY AND ROBERT DIAMENT
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Bonus Live Episode!!! We meet Emma Dabiri, Irish author, academic, and broadcaster live at Dulwich Picture Gallery in South London to discuss Talk Art Book 2!


Emma's debut book, Don't Touch My Hair, was published in 2019, followed by the Sunday Times Best Seller What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition in 2021. Her new book Disobedient Bodies will be published in Autumn.


Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and advisor to the British Council's Arts and Creative Economy board, the Wellcome Trust's Anti-Racism Expert Advisory Group and is a Trustee of Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries 'Journeys into Afro-futurism' and 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces'.


Follow @EmmaDabiri on Instagram. Follow @DulwichGallery to visit the Dulwich Picture Gallery.


Buy signed copies of Talk Art Book 2 at Waterstones nationwide and The Margate Bookshop.


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