Why Are Community-Based Organisations Needed?
Ubuntu Film Club
Ubuntu Film Club in conversation with Good Hair Day.

Ubuntu Film Club is a collective from Helsinki that organises monthly film screenings and panel discussions.
Ubuntu Film Club interviews Good Hair Day Collective
Ubuntu Film Club (Alice Mutoni, Rewina Teklai, Fiona Musanga) in conversation with Good Hair Day (Saida Mäki-Penttilä, Paloma Sandberg, Akunna Onwen) about why community-based organisations are needed?
Videography and Photos by Sam Boateng
Good Hair Day is an antiracist movement that works towards the wellbeing of AfroFinns. Good Hair Day is a collective, community and event celebrating AfroFinns & afro hair through hope and joy.
Sam Boateng was born and raised in Italy by Ghanaian parents, and is deeply connected to both African and Italian roots. Sam moved to Finland in 2016 to start a new chapter in his life and to challenge himself in a new way. He has two major passions: sharing love and happiness through food and through pictures and videos as a Photographer/ Videographer.
- Interview / 06.2022 / Iisa Lepistö
A significant decision in my career was to abandon gallery-based work and pursue my own interests. I began creating pieces independently without telling anyone when I was supposed to complete them or where they would end up. I found creative ways of showing the works; I performed in public spaces or at different events, often filmed those and uploaded them online. I also started to tell other people’s stories, so the video was an excellent format for that, and it started almost accidentally. This was a tremendous professional change for me, and I have continued working that way more or less until now.
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- Interview / 09.2021 / Nimco Kulmiye Hussein
Craftsmanship that leaves a polished finishing and evocative historical notions hidden underneath the fine details. Man Yau’s work with ceramic installations arrests the viewer, while encouraging to revisit and contemplate the uncanny contemporaneity that the artworks embody. In this interview, we discuss artistic processes, practices and labour as well as the intertwining of the personal and the thematic in Yau’s two exhibitions from the spring 2021: M.Y. Chinoiserie at Kuvan Kevät, Exhibition Laboratory, and Dried flowers last forever at Boy Konsthall.
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- Interview / 10.2021 / Ubuntu Film Club
Ubuntu Film Club (Alice Mutoni, Rewina Teklai, Fiona Musanga) in conversation with Good Hair Day (Saida Mäki-Penttilä, Paloma Sandberg, Akunna Onwen) about why community-based organisations are needed?
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- Interview / 04.2023 / Abinaya Nathan, Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy
Abinaya and Vanessa reflect on their experiences in the Tamil community and discuss the pressure to represent Tamilness for non-Tamil audiences. Abinaya discusses her work with Tamil Guardian, which sought to combat Sri Lankan government propaganda and elevate the voice of the Eelam Tamil polity. Vanessa discusses her role in editing Tamil Futures, a creative arts magazine aimed at the global Tamil community, which prioritized creative archiving and documenting underrepresented histories.
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