In the summer of 2020, jazz musician and composer Xhosa Cole attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Birmingham city centre. The resulting experience left a profound mark, and inspired him to pen a monologue about his thoughts on his own personal experience of the occasion. Intertwining his own music into a recording of the monologue, he then collaborated with Birmingham-based animator Shiyi Li - the two of them then worked together to produce a beguiling, free-flowing, and absorbing short film which is both powerful and evocative.

 For this special event, presented by We Are Parable and Flatpack Projects (and part of "Who We Are", We Are Parable's long term nationwide season of Black Cinema), Xhosa will be in discussion with Anthony Andrews (co-founder of We Are Parable), and will delve into his experience making the work. After the film and the discussion, Xhosa will perform one of his own compositions on the saxophone.