Bristol Reggae Orchestra

2025 marks the centenary of Malcolm X. The words of this extraordinary figure can still make us gasp in shock and recognition today. The story of oppressed people gaining a voice and of those who still seek to oppress it, or simply refuse to listen, is told through the spoken text of Malcolm’s incendiary speeches, through reggae music and song.

Shipwrecks and Dreams productions and Bristol Reggae Orchestra present a thought-provoking, ultimately hopeful journey through Malcolm’s words and asks how they resonate through the era of Black Lives Matter and Bristol’s reckoning with its past. Music includes songs by Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley as well as some original compositions from the orchestra.