# The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA

The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Tuesday 17 November 2026, 18:00.

- Price: Free
- Venue: The Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand, WC2R 0RN London
- With: John Akomfrah, Dorothy Price
- Go to page: https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the-manton-centre-for-british-art-lecture-sir-john-akomfrah-cbe-ra/

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An annual lecture evening at The Courtauld, part of the Manton Centre for British Art, featuring the artist Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA in conversation with Professor Dorothy Price FBA. It is organised by Indie A. Choudhury and Professor Steve Edwards and supported by the Manton Foundation. Akomfrah is a pioneering artist filmmaker whose multi-screen installations explore memory, postcolonialism and time, often through the experience of global migrant diasporas, and he was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective.

## Dates

- Tuesday 17 November 18:00 — The Courtauld Institute of Art

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