In “New Dawn”, a poem from Men of All Continents written to celebrate the dawn of independence and creative freedoms, Dadié proclaims “the time of the child’s dream.” He calls for a revitalisation of ancient forms of expression and popular dreamworlds within the New City imagined by earlier generations: a way of invoking an alternative modernity.

Hedges and Edges: Barbershops, Community Gardens, and the Architectures of Care is a new solo exhibition by Damien Davis that explores the intertwined aesthetics and social histories of Black barbershops and community gardens as spaces of care, maintenance, ritual, and collective gathering.