GOLDEN GOLDSMITHS…. WHAT A WAY TO INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE!
Prof Frances Marie Corner (née Agnew), Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Screen shot of Monalisa Chukwuma’s “Portrait of an Unknown Woman”.
Ms Miranda Baldwin, Headteacher of St. Matthew Academy.
When I got an invite recently from my sister and friend, Ms Monalisa Chukwuma, a Doctoral research student at Goldsmiths, University of London to attend the screening of her great film entitled: Portrait of an Unknown Woman, little did I know that I would be pleasantly surprised to find the ubiquitous presence of young people moving up and down on its campus at Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom.
On seeing the pervasive presence of the students of St. Matthew Academy, Lewisham, after having been directed by a gentle man to the main building of the university, I became confused and began to ask myself if I was in the right place as that day, the 12th of June was indeed, my first time of visiting the campus of Goldsmiths, University of London.
As I made my way from the Reception to the Curzon Cinema Hall, my confusion was the more evident at the sight of more students whom I was to learn later were students of St. Matthew Academy, Lewisham, England United Kingdom as I made my way thereto.
Before I was corrected, I had initially thought both St. Matthew Academy and Goldsmiths shared the same campus or that the Academy is adjacent to the University.
As I kept missing my way and being re-directed here and there by the kind-hearted students I had met along the longish hallway, I stopped and asked a group of these youngsters, and they were very kind and polite in pointing me in the direction of the Curzon Cinema on the campus of Goldsmiths.
In fact, I had thought they too were invited by Ms Chukwuma to attend the screening of her film under referenced, but the girls in their school uniform merely showed me the door leading to the cinema hall and proceeded on their journey within the campus, very well behaved.
Later, I was to be called back on the phone by Monalisa to make my way therefrom to the Exhibition Hall as the filmed she said was scheduled to be shown at 18:00.
After I had been called back from the Curzon Cinema Hall to the venue of the Exhibition by Ms Chukwuma, I went round viewing the handwritten views of her interviewees whom she had featured in her film: PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, including their portraits, I was expecting the youngsters to join us later, especially having not seen anyone of them yet during this time inside the Exhibition Hall.
I then made my way back to join Ms Chukwuma and her lecturers to whom she had introduced me. And it was after the exchange of pleasantries with
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