SEE MY WORLD: Pac 80th Anniversary

SEE MY WORLD in partnership with the Black and Global Majority Cultural Creative Network, Manchester Met University, and Oxford Road Corridor presents The Pan-African Congress 80th Anniversary event on Saturday 18 October 2025 at Manchester Metropolitan University Grosvenor East building (formerly Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall), where the 1945 Panafrican Congress took place.

In commemoration of 80 years since the Fifth Pan-African Congress (15-21 October 1945), SEE MY WORLD brings together Pan-African led and global majority groups from across the North West to reflect, connect, and strategise for the liberation of their communities. This moment will explore what liberation, self-realisation, and self-determination looks like for communities today, and how the enduring legacy of the Pan-African Congress can inform collective action and cultural leadership in the region.

This get together will provide a chance to network in solidarity, fostering connection among Manchester's Pan-African and wider communities, offering a space to break bread, reason, and flaunt our shared histories, surrounded by Food, Art and Love.

Attendees will engage in roundtable discussions around resilience, reclaiming narratives, and identify tangible pathways for community consciousness, connecting the historic vision of 1945 with contemporary efforts for justice, solidarity, and development.

The event will be a note of collective ambition, encouraging attendees to take the insights back into their communities. It is a blessing to honour our past, recognise our present, all whilst imagining the futures we are building together, reinforcing that Pan-Africanism, creativity and unity continue to thrive across the North West and the world.

Please arrive on time for networking and refreshements.

Please contact yemaya@bigpeoplemusic.co.uk if you have any access needs or would like to join the roundtable discussions with formal recommendations.

This is a Big People Music & Big People Community CIC production, In partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, The Black and Global Majority Cultural Creative Network and The Oxford Rd Corridor.

Funded by Arts Council England, The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Heritage Community Fund.