Icons!

A celebration of the LGBTTQIA+ & BIPOC community.

To coincide with Pride month and Black history month, Same Same but Black presents: ICONS! A socially- distanced online photography exhibition celebrating the black pioneers of the queer movement.

ICONS! will open on the 1st of February 2021 and run for 28 days. Part exhibition, part education, part conversation, part celebration; ICONS! is an online photography exhibition, podcast series, live-stream events and social media outreach. We will help the community bond and connect through weekly live stream events, daily emails and the hashtag #ICONS!2021.

POP-UP EXHIBITION will be our physical presence in the Henderson Massey Local Board, using the Proud Centres, Community Spaces or Libraries for a Pop-Up Exhibition. It will be a window static poster display with QR codes and #tags to get people to interact. The images will be up in 2 locations over the 28 days. All taking you back to the main event online.

We will help our people to develop a positive self-image and a positive outlook. We will help our community to develop strength and resilience through seeing positive images and hearing the stories of ICONS! Through our selection of individual ICONS! We will celebrate the diverse talents and skills of our community, and encourage greater acceptance by others.

ABOUT

Michelle is part of the Caribbean Society of New Zealand and Black Creatives Aotearoa. #SSBB was created in 2019 to try and make a difference. Michelle is a professional audio engineer with over 30yrs experience in sound, Radio Film and Television and Archiving. “With this Podcast series I hope to meet a demand to a audience with our community that is very rarely listened to unless there is a problem. My Aim is to move away from the negative and focus and celebrating our differences” – Michelle Mascoll, SSBB

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