Zita Holbourne is an award winning, trade union, community & human rights campaigner and activist, sell-out author, visual artist, curator, poet, writer and vocalist. Zita has over 30 years of experience working in the arts including as a graphic designer, illustrator & make-up artist and exhibits at a range of cultural, community & political events. Outside of her creative pursuits Zita has worked in employment law and rights, industrial relations and has been a senior trade activist for 25 years and counting. Zita has curated political and cultural art exhibitions to challenge racism, wider discrimination, injustice and to promote equality, justice, rights and freedom.

She is the Co-Founder and National Chair of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) UK, a founding member of Movement Against Xenophobia, BME Lawyers for Grenfell and BAME Lawyers for Justice and has played a leading role in campaigning against the Windrush scandal.

In this interview with Zita we discuss a range of topics, including the arts and the role that the arts can play in activism, BARAC, the harsh reality of mass deportations by the UK, inequalites of treatment in Ukraine, the Grenfell Tower collapse and how we can create a fair and just society for all.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:39 - Upbringing

00:12:33 - Art as Activism

00:18:56 - Representation in the arts

00:25:34 - Thoughts on Black History Month

00:32:38 - Founding BARAC

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