Thahmina Begum, artist and trainee art psychotherapist, asks: ‘how can art aid healing from racial trauma?’. The Colour Palette is a Community Research Project that aims through art making to give voices to Bangladeshi groups and their lived experiences of racism.
This project explores the contentious, complex and personal issue of racial trauma through nine Creative Laboratories with three different generational groups in Beeston.
The Creative Labs explore what racial trauma is, through art making and discussion. The project shows how art making can support individual and collective healing through discussion and reflection.
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Content warning
The content and discussion emerging from these Creative Labs concerns lived experiences of racism and racial trauma. Much of the content may be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with.
Content warnings: racism and racial slurs, hateful language directed at religious groups (Islamophobia), violence, death or dying, oppressive language, mental ill health, blood and swearing.
