Ahead of our Boiler Room Southall broadcast , we're airing "Young Rebels - The Story of the Southall Youth Movement". This essential documentary film charts the experiences and responses of young people growing up in Southall in the 1970s and 1980s: and the racial attacks and discrimination facing them and their communities.

The film captures the activism and leadership of young people, particularly of Southall Youth Movement, covers major historical events in Southall including the racist murder of Sikh teenager Gurdeep Chagger in 1976, the murder of Blair Peach in demonstrations against the racist National Front in April 1979 and the burning of The Hambrough Tavern in 1981 through interviews with key local and national protagonists and archive TV footage of events.

Absolutely essential viewing to comprehend the importance of Southall as a site of anti-racist solidarity against institutional British racism.

Curated by Yung Singh as part of Boiler Room Southall

Haroon Mirza’s presentation for Liverpool Biennial 2021 comprises two elements: a three-part video work, Pathology in Three Parts (2021) and a new choral performance The Three /VV’s (2021).

Pathology in Three Parts (2021) follows Mirza’s “modular opera” structure, and features two scenes or “acts” from a previous iteration, Construction of an Act (2019), either side of this new performative element. As new acts join the repertoire, the narrative, based around a shaman who uses her voice to heal, unfolds exploring ideas of sound, medicine and mystical experience. Both works ask us to consider the sociological and physiological properties of the human voice, and explores Mirza’s interest in systems of belief, waveforms and patterns of movement.

Pathology in Three Parts (2021), features on Mirza’s album released in digital format on the TAKUROKU label as part of a collaboration with Café OTO on 21 May 2021.

Featuring material commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for the Melbourne International Festival (2019).

Pathology in Three Parts (2021) vocal performance by Sarah-Jane Lewis. The Three /VV’s  (2021) features performances by Anne Taft, Emma Bispham, Jennifer John, Steve Boyland and Tayo Aluko.

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, with support from Open Culture.

We’re live and direct from the Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park with a mesmerising performance by aga ujma.

Titled ‘sun was glazed in rainbow’, the piece is based on personal stories, poems, traditional Indonesian musical pieces, and compositions inspired by the Serpentine Pavilion and its character.

Conceived as a transformative movement across two chapters, the performance shifts from an intimate solo set written for sasando, an Indonesian 32-strings bamboo zither and harp, to a more expanded Javanese ensemble of intricate gamelan instruments, including bronze xylophones, gongs, rebab – a bowed fiddle – and other various traditional and non-traditional percussion instruments.