Curator, writer, and educator Moroti George joins our host Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar. Moroti is the curator at The Black Arts Centre in Surrey, BC and the Director/Curator of Gallery Gachet in downtown Vancouver. Together, they chat about how Moroti became interested in the arts, their experience working in two different art spaces, and their approach to curating in Greater Vancouver.
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Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/237-moroti-george.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/237-moroti-george.html

Resources:
Gallery Gachet: https://gachet.org/
Gallery Gachet’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gallerygachet/
The Black Arts Centre: https://theblackartscentre.ca/
The Black Arts Centre’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblackartscentre/ 
See How We Run! Art as Agency, Autonomy and Community — with Demi London and Moroti George: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/see-how-we-run/229-art-as-agency-autonomy-and-community.html

Bio:
Olumoroti (MorotiI) Soji-George (he/they) is a curator, writer and educator based in Vancouver, BC. He is the curator at the Black Arts Centre in Surrey, BC and the Director/Curator of Gallery Gachet in downtown Vancouver. 

Olumoroti's curatorial practice primarily involves unravelling and demystifying the ways Blackness is embodied and codified in our shared milieu and conceptualizing the works of Black Contemporary artists and their contributions to the Black cultural lexicon and our understanding of the state of  Blackness.  His research and curatorial practice also involve envisioning accessible and community-centred art spaces and highlighting the stories of individuals and communities who construct new ways of being that challenge the Western status quo. At the core of his practice is the belief that space could be used to reflect the agency and lived experiences of individuals whose bodies and identities are not typically valued, respected and represented in traditional art and academic settings.

Through an exploration of language, the archive, lens-based works, history and cultural theory, Olumoroti's curatorial practice is grounded in a passion for non-hierarchical epistemological production that could contribute to the creation of a pathway where new approaches to cultural production and the politics that fuel the ways different bodies perceive and understand the world could emerge.


Cite this episode:
Chicago Style

Johal, Am. “Community-Centred Curating — with Moroti George .” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 12, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/237-moroti-george.html.

Community-Centred Curating — with Moroti George

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Ciggy Blacc - BIPOLAR

Wavy Flakes with Richiihavinn

Check out this tropical jazz house remix of Wake Me Up by Avicii ft. Aloe Blac

Wake Me Up - Avicii ft. Aloe Blac (Eos Rework)

Throughout the duration of the 2019 exhibition, Hewitt invited friends, colleagues and thought partners to activate the space in a series of semi-public gestures in response to the notion of a collective archiving. The series included historian/writer Sharifa Rhodes Pitts, Saturday, October 5 at 12pm; curator/writer Omar Berrada, Thursday, October 10; musician Tariq
Trotter/Black Thought, Monday, October 21; cinematographer Bradford Young, Thursday, October 24; and DJ/collagist Ayana Contreras, Saturday, October 26.

Featuring archival audio interviews from Jean Carne, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, various radio stations and much more, The Black Radio Talk delved into the story that Black radio tells about our history, collectively and as Black people specifically, because it was one of the first free mass media forms that told our story uncut, and in real time. 


Black Radio Talk, Perrotin Gallery (in conjunction with Leslie HEWITT Reading Room, 2019)

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A dark and cinematic Afro House rework of “Dashnia” — this remix dives into a deep, hypnotic groove with tribal percussion, emotional tension, and bass-heavy finesse. KRIB and BLAC join forces to transform the original into a raw, dancefloor-ready journey rooted in rhythm and feeling. From haunting textures to pulsating drums and atmospheric synths, it’s a powerful flip with that signature KRIB touch.

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📷: https://www.instagram.com/miri__med/
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Prodbydavii ft MED & Krib, BLAC - Dashnia  [Radio Edit]

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Amplifying ideas that fly below the radar. We talk environmental and social justice, arts, culture, community-building and urban issues with featured guests.

This podcast is produced by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement as a part of our Knowledge Democracy Project @ 312 Main — encouraging the meaningful exchange of ideas and information across communities.

Hosted and currently produced by:
Am Johal
Joey Malbon
Julia Aoki
Kathy Feng
Samantha Walters

Visit our website for archived audio and video recordings of our public events: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/library.html

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🎧 Los Bandoleros (Afro House RMX w/ @uncle-ritmo)
🎧 Midas by Maribou State (@mariboustate) ft. Holly Walker (House RMX)
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🎧 Into My Eyes song by SELFOS (@selfosando) (Official Slap House RMX)

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to listen to selected full Reclaimed Soul Podcasts visit: https://www.mixcloud.com/vocaloradio/playlists/reclaimed-soul/

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