Former track athletes, Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallists Yamilé Aldama and Connie Henry MBE discuss all facets of freedom and what it means to them, including freedom of expression, identity, and discussing whether freedom could be at risk.

The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions in an interactive Q&A with both former athletes.

This event is part of Our Freedom Then and Now: Road to Freedom, a dynamic community programme by Brent Libraries, Culture and Heritage and the Jason Roberts Foundation. Join inspiring events reflecting on freedom today, marking 80 years since VE/VJ Day as part of Future Arts Centres’ national Our Freedom: Then and Now programme.

The Jason Roberts Foundation (JRF) is a sport for development charity delivering a programme of wrap-around support for 5 – 25-year-olds, incorporating mentoring, life skills, education, and training, within multi-sports activities providing opportunities and promoting exercise and team games to young people, including those at risk, and those with physical and learning difficulties and disabilities.

There is also a focus on health and wellbeing family interventions, and intergenerational community projects and events. They collaborate with local voluntary, public, and private sector organisations, and funding bodies to achieve their objective of ‘community first’.