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Zita Holbourne

Award Winning Human Rights & Equality campaigner
Author, Artist, Curator, National Chairperson of BARAC UK
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United Kingdom
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London
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English
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Bio

Zita is an award winning, trade union, community & human rights campaigner and activist, an author, visual artist, curator, poet, vocalist and writer.

Zita is the Co-Founder and National Chair of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) UK.

Zita campaigns against racism and other discrimination in the arts and culture sector.

She is part of the ACTSA (successor to the Anti-Apartheid Movement) board and co- curated tours of the Mandela Centenary exhibition at the South Bank Centre.

She is a former member of the board of advisors for International organisation; Initiative for Equality.

Zita is a founding member of BMELawyers4Grenfell and BAME Lawyers for Justice.

Zita is a proud and committed trade union activist and is the National Vice President of the PCS Union and Joint National Chair of Artist's Union England.

She is elected to the TUC Race Relations Committee and the TUC Women’s Committee, she represents AUE on the General Federation of Trade Unions National Executive. She is a representative on the European Public Services Union National and European Administration Committee and is a coordinator of the EPSU BAME network. She is a member of Public Services International Education and Culture group.

She also campaigns around the links between climate change, migration & refugees & spoke at COP21 in Paris.

She has advised the European Commission on gender equality and social inclusion in the culture sector and is the co-editor of Gender Equality: Gender Balance in the Creative and Culture Sectors.

Her campaigning and creative work has been recognised internationally, including by the United Nations. She is part of the UNESCO Coalition of Artists for the General history of Africa.

Her work has featured in exhibitions at Tate Modern, V&A, Stratford Picture House, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Goldsmiths Women's Library amongst many other venues both nationally and internationally.

Zita is the founder and curator of the Roots, Culture and Identity art exhibition.

Zita is a spoken word artist and a performance and published poet. She has performed at a diverse range of events and venues from festivals to theatres, conferences to rallies, including the National Diversity Awards, Glastonbury, The Houses of Parliament and had the honour of writing a tribute poem and performing this at the official UK Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela & in UK Parliament to mark the Nelson Mandela centenary.

She is the author of the book, Striving for Equality, Freedom and Justice.

Zita won the positive role model for race award at the National Diversity Awards in 2012, was listed as one of the top 10 African & Caribbean Women of the Year in 2013 and was a finalist and one of 5 people's choice poets in the Manorlogz Xtreme Spoken Word Contest in 2013. She received a lifetime achievement award for Equality Champion in 2019.

She is one of 13 British women campaigners featured in award winning book Here We Stand; Women Changing the World

Current position (3)

Award Winning Human Rights & Equality campaigner

Author, Artist, Curator, National Chairperson of BARAC UK

Author and Poet

Striving for Equality Freedom and Justice

National Vice President/National Chair

PCS Union/ Artists Union England

Achievements (1)
Key Note Lecture

International Slavery Museum Annual Slavery Remembrance lecture 2020

Degrees (2)
Graphic design and animation
Watford School of Art
1985 to 1987
Graphic design and printing
London College of Printing
1987 to 1989

Presentations

Presentations (2)
International Slavery Museum, Slavery Remembrance lecture 2020

Keynote lecture on equality, black lives matter, reparations and the themes of healing and remembrance

How cuts and austerity impact on minorities the most

Speech by Zita Holbourne on the equality impacts of austerity and cuts at an event organised by the Centre for Pan African Thought

https://www.panafricanthought.com/video-series-author/zita-holbourne/

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Image: Zita Holbourne & her painting Rise Up, photographer, Elizabeth Dalziel, courtesy of Women Activists exhibition
Image: Zita Holbourne & her painting Rise Up, photographer, Elizabeth Dalziel, courtesy of Women Activists exhibition
Chair and host of BARAC Ten Year Anniversary online event
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Books & Articles (5)

Striving for Equality Freedom and Justice
Hansib Publications ,
2018
News feature written by Zita in the Guardian Newspaper - How Can 50 people be snatched
Interview with Zita Holbourne , Guardian newspaper
Coronavirus impacts
Zita on equality and diversity

Expertise (45)

Social & Political
Entertainment & Art
Leadership
Education
Design
Criminal Justice Human Civil Rights Equality and Diversity Arts and Culture Immigration climate justice black lives matter Gender equality Black History Black History Month trade unions employment rights anti-Black racism Racism Literature Poetry Spoken Word Artist Workers Rights black communities BAME communities Multiculturalism Humanitarian Aid art curation Art Exhibitions global rights trades unions industrial relations Negotiation Skills training and education performance poetry Motivational speaker Poetic Motivational Speaker Inspirational Speaker Leadership Speaker Keynote Speaker workshop facilitator Compere Chairing facilitating Community Engagement

Clients

Logicor
International Slavery Museum
National Diversity Awards
European Commission
European Trade Union Institution
Voices of Culture
Tampere City Council, Finland
European Cultural Centres Network
BLAM Charity
Glastonbury Festival
Tate Britain
CARFAC, Canadian Artists Union
COP21
University of Bristol
Canterbury Christ Church University
Women's Art Library, Goldsmiths University

Awards & certifications (2)

Winner; positive role model for race
National Diversity Awards
2012
Lifetime achievement award
Legacy Awards
2019
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