Carmen: Screening and Q&A with artist Sonia Boyce & Paulette Randall
Join us for a special screening of 'Carmen' (2025), a new film artwork by Dame Sonia Boyce OBE RA, made with support from Wandsworth Council as part of the Mayor of London’s London Borough of Culture initiative.
In ‘Carmen’ (2025), Sonia Boyce delves into the life and career of trailblazing Guyanese British actress Carmen Munroe, who reshaped perceptions of Caribbean migrants in the UK through her performances in such West End plays as Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ and her roles on popular British television programs including ‘Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World’ (1967 – 1968), ‘The Persuaders’ (1971 – 1972) and ‘Desmond’s’ (1989 – 1994). Part portrait, part historical document, Boyce’s film traces Munroe’s impact as an artist and activist.
A screening of the 15-minute artwork will be followed with Sonia Boyce in conversation with Theatre Director Paulette Randall MBE, and an audience Q&A.
Please note: tickets for this event are free and extremely limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Event Performance Details
Event Location
World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens
Venue InfoLondon
SW11 7BD
Need to Know
Carmen
About Sonia Boyce
Dame Sonia Boyce OBE RA is an interdisciplinary artist and academic working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound and installation. In 2022, she presented ‘Feeling Her Way’ for the British Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in Italy, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning British Black Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement, and sound with other people. Working across a range of media, Boyce’s practice today is focused on questions of artistic authorship and cultural difference.
[Image: Sonia Boyce in her studio, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photograph: Lily Bertand-Webb. © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2025]
Dr Paulette Randall MBE
Paulette is currently directing Eastenders and co-directing the 75th Anniversary “You are Here” at the Southbank.
Paulette was the Associate Director of the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Paulette was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honors List for her services to Drama.
Television credits include: Coronation Street, The Wives, Waterloo Road, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Tin Star, Death In Paradise, Casualty, River City, Holby City, The Real McCoy, Desmond’s, Porkpie, C4, The Crouches, Comin Atcha, Kerching!, The Little Miss Jocelyn Show (Creative Consultant).
Theatre credits include: The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre), Doctor Faustus (The Globe), Love Letters To The NHS (National Theatre Wales), Daisy Pulls It Off (Park Theatre), The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence (Vital Exposure), Obama-ology (RADA), Play Mas (Orange Tree Theatre), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune (Chichester Festival Theatre), Rudy’s Rare Records – starring Lenny Henry (Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire), Fences (Theatre Royal Bath, Tour and West End), the sketch show Funny Black Women on the Edge.
Further: Tell Me You Love Me (Short Film), Bluebird (Short Film).
