Colin Prescod

"Has over four decades, been an academic, a documentary film and theatre maker, and TV commissioning editor. He served as a member and Vice-Chair of the (London) Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage, 2003-2005; and as a member of the Greater London Authority’s Heritage Diversity Taskforce, 2008-9. He was advisor to the development of two ‘permanent’ galleries launched in November 2007 – London, Sugar and Slavery, Museum in Docklands, London, and Atlantic Worlds, National Maritime Museum, London. As co-Director of the cultural animation company, Manifesta, he has devised a series of creative video workshop projects for young people –Video ART – Anti-Racist Trails, in London (2007); Belonging, in Paris/Lisbon/London (2008/9); Breaking Into The Museum, in Paris/London (2010/11), in partnership with the Museum of London and the Musee Carnavalet. Has also made four films for the IRR, Struggles for Black Community, at the beginning of the 1980s, that chart the milestones in Black people’s fight for justice – ‘race riots’ in Cardiff in post-war 1919, Notting Hill in 1958, Powell and the numbers game, the strike at Imperial Typewriters, the death of anti-fascist Blair Peach".

Affiliations

• Chair, Institute of Race Relations
• International Network for Education for Democracy, Human Rights, and Tolerance