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Date: Tue 19 June 2007 - Fri 30 April 2010 (Thu only)
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Life FM 103.6 FM
Address: , London
Admission:
Tune in to LifeFM on 103.6FM or www.lifefm.org.uk, Thursday 6-7pm with Kwaku & Ms Serwah on BTWSC/BBM/BMC’s BusinessOfMusic/Mixed Bag Show for a lively mix of talk, chats with special guests and music from UK artists that covers a wide range of styles and vintage.
You are welcome to call the studio line: 020 8963 9566
Email: editor@britishblackmusic.com
Website: www.lifefm.org.uk
Tel: Studio line is 020 8963 9566
Organised By: BBM/BMC
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| Rebel Music
Date: Sun 28 October 2007 - Wed 28 October 2009 (Tue only)
Time: 10pm
Venue: Klimaxxradio.com - 92.9FM
Address: , London
Admission:
Consious musical vibes plus support for any artists with material out, available for interviews. Free stylers, Jazz musicians, Poets, People with ideas they'd like to make a reality.
Studio Tel: +44 7960 171 293
Email: studio@klimaxxradio.com
Website: http://www.klimaxxradio.com
Tel:
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| Brent African Music History Photographic Exhibition
Date: Mon 26 November 2007 - Tue 25 November 2008
Time: 11:00
Venue: Community Gallery @ Brent Museum
Address: Willesden Green Library Centre,, 95 High Road, London, NW10 2SF
Admission: Free
Photographs by Patrick Friday and Kwaku used in BTWSC's Heritage Lottery Funded Brent Black Music History Project (BBMHP) form part of a year-long exhibition in the Community Gallery @ Brent Museum in Willesden Green.
Access to the exhibition is free, 7 days a week, 11am-9pm. Over the year there will be special events held to draw attention to the exhibition.
Special open days are on March 27, June 26, Oct. 30 2008, 11am-8pm. These will feature new photographs, local music history talks by BBMHP leader Kwaku, networking, open mic, and performances by the likes of Noel McKoy.
Email: info@btwsc.com
Website: http://www.btwsc.com/?sec=NEWS&action=display&cat=3&vid=53&News
Tel: 020 8450 5987
Organised By: BTWSC
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| Afrika Speaks with Alkebu-Lan
Date: Mon 7 January 2008 - Mon 29 December 2008 (Mon only)
Time: 8.00PM
Venue:
Address: 94.3 FM, www.voiceofafricaradio.com, London
Admission:
Hear weekly discussions and lively debate on all issues affecting the Afrikan community, at home and abroad.
We talk it straight and
make it plain!
Call in on: 020 8487 4643.
E-mail: studio@voiceofafricaradio.com
Or text us on: 07984 482 853
Email: arm6227@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.voiceofafricaradio.com
Tel: 020 8539 2154
Organised By: Voicer Of Afrika Radio
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| Keep Smiling Through: African Londoners on the Home front 1939 to 1945
Date: Tue 1 April 2008 - Sat 1 November 2008 (Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat only)
Time: 10.00am
Venue: The Cuming Museum
Address: The Old Town Hall, 151 Walworth Road, London, London, SE17 1RY
Admission:
Keep Smiling Through: Black Londoners on the Home Front 1939-1945
April 1 to November 1 2008
An exhibition exploring the contributions made by Black Londoners during the Second World War.
From Air Raid Precaution wardens to popular entertainers, Black Londoners carried out a variety of tasks on the Home Front during the Second World War. This exhibition will uncover stories from South London and beyond, exploring both the positive and negative experiences of Black Londoners from 1939 to 1945 through rare photographs, music and film clips.
The exhibition will reveal the voluntary roles on the Home Front of ordinary Black men and women. It will tell stories of wartime courage, hardship and service to the community. It will also show how bombing, evacuation and rationing affected Black people.
Discover the story of community leaders such as Dr Harold Moody, a Peckham-based doctor, who became an ambassador for Britain's Black community and a founding member of the League of Coloured Peoples. Learn about the role musicians and singers like Adelaide Hall and Ken "Snakehips" Johnson played in keeping up London's morale during the Blitz. The exhibition will also reveal how Caribbean and African Commonwealth countries contributed to the war effort.
For more information about the events that will be accompanying the exhibition please contact the Cuming Museum on Tel: 020 7525 2332.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
Email: cuming.museum@southwark.gov.uk
Website: ark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum
Tel: 020 7525 2332
Organised By: The Cuming Museum
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| Ayekoo Chill Out Sessions @ Mission Dine Club
Date: Sat 24 May 2008 - Tue 27 April 2010 (Sat only)
Time: 15:00
Venue: Mission Dine Club Centre
Address: Fry Road off Longstone Avenue, Harlesden, London, NW10 4BZ
Admission: £5 includes meal
Family-orientated sessions for individuals and families to chill, play games, listen to music, and occassionally story-telling, debates, film show, etc plus African style meal cooked on the premises by Dame Betty Asafu-Adjaye and staff for £5 per person.
No need to book - let's make this the hub for African-interest networking, chilling and socialising in north/north-west London by attending the first saturday of every month.
Email: info@btwsc.com
Website: www.btwsc.com
Tel: 020 8450 5987
Organised By: BTWSC
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| Mashufaa Classes
Date: Wed 4 June 2008 - Thu 4 June 2009 (Thu only)
Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: The Albany Theatre (Plum Room)
Address: Douglas Way, Deptford, London, SE8 4AG
Admission: 1st lesson free - £4.50 thereafter, members £2.50
Mashufaa is a martial are created for the mental, physical and spiritual upliftment of a generation of people who have become detached from themselves! Mashufaa is about living a life with light through the sweat of training. Sweat lets you know you are alive.
Remember Mind, Body and Spirit are one. Train to live and live to train. Mashufaa Classes will take place from at The Albany Theatre (Plum Room) nearest Rail: Deptford or DLR Deptford Bridge.
Email: info@mashufaa.co.uk
Website: http://www.mashufaa.co.uk
Tel: 07956 337391/ 07715 942734
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| Mashufaa Classes
Date: Wed 4 June 2008 - Thu 4 June 2009 (Mon Fri only)
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Lord Morrison Hall
Address: Chestnut Grove (off Scales Road), Tottenham, London, N17 9ET
Admission: 1st lesson free - £4.50 thereafter, members £2.50
Mashufaa is a martial are created for the mental, physical and spiritual upliftment of a generation of people who have become detached from themselves! Mashufaa is about living a life with light through the sweat of training. Sweat lets you know you are alive.
Remember Mind, Body and Spirit are one. Train to live and live to train. Mashufaa Classes will take place from at The Albany Theatre (Plum Room) nearest Rail: Deptford or DLR Deptford Bridge.
Email: info@mashufaa.co.uk
Website: http://www.mashufaa.co.uk
Tel: 07956 337391/ 07715 942734
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| Mashufaa Classes
Date: Wed 4 June 2008 - Thu 4 June 2009 (Wed only)
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Boy Scouts Centre (Near Bruce Castle Park)
Address: All Hallows Road, Tottenham, London, N17 7AD
Admission: 1st lesson free - £4.50 thereafter, members £2.50
Mashufaa is a martial are created for the mental, physical and spiritual upliftment of a generation of people who have become detached from themselves! Mashufaa is about living a life with light through the sweat of training. Sweat lets you know you are alive.
Remember Mind, Body and Spirit are one. Train to live and live to train. Mashufaa Classes will take place from at The Albany Theatre (Plum Room) nearest Rail: Deptford or DLR Deptford Bridge.
Email: info@mashufaa.co.uk
Website: http://www.mashufaa.co.uk
Tel: 07956 337391/ 07715 942734
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| Amplified
Date: Thu 5 June 2008 - Fri 5 June 2009 (Thu only)
Time: 7 pm
Venue: East Village (former Medicine Bar)
Address: 89 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HX
Admission: Free before 9pm / £5 after
The original Thursday night session is back. Amplified returns to Old Street at the all-new East Village (former Medicine Bar), bringing you the best soulful music, old and new in Amp's unique style.
Email: info@amplified-online.co.uk
Website: www.eastvillageclub.com
Tel:
Organised By: Amplified
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| Exhibition: Living Under One Roof
Date: Tue 23 September 2008 - Sat 15 November 2008
Time:
Venue: Hackney Museum
Address: 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ
Admission:
Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Empire Windrush, the voyage from the Caribbean to Tilbury. Our exhibition will present the rooms and memories of the Windrush generation who first came to Hackney. In collaboration with Lorna Holder of Tuareg Productions.
Email: hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk
Website: http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cm-museum
Tel: 020 8356 3500
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| Studio One Love
Date: Wed 1 October 2008 - Wed 29 October 2008
Time:
Venue: Swiss Cottage library
Address: , London, NW3 3HA
Admission:
An exhibition featuring photography by Ron Vester – the official photographer of the legendary Studio One. Also among Ron’s clients were the Jamaica Tourist Board and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. The exhibition includes images of Coxsone Dodd, Lee Scratch Perry, Theo Beckford, King Stitt and The Silvertones.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel:
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| Camden B68 – official launch
Date: Tue 7 October 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: British Library
Address: , London, WC1B 3DG
Admission: £7.50
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment in which the radical spirit of the sixties upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. At the 1968 Olympic Games, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved clenched fists in support of the Black Panther movement after receiving gold and bronze medals in the 200m sprint. What inspired them to make their protest? Why did it carry such a powerful message? And what happened to the unlikely revolutionaries following the Games?
The screening will be followed by a question and answer session, and will include a special guest appearance by Tommie Smith.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel:
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| African Performers in London
Date: Tue 7 October 2008
Time: 2 pm
Venue: London Metropolitan Archives
Address: 40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 0HB
Admission: Free - booking required in advance
Stage performers from the African community have given the world joy and pleasure through their exceptional talent. In many instances they have also used their public position to promote the rights of all African people. Discover more about Ira Aldridge, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Paul Robeson and others using sources from the LMA collections. An African History Month event.
Email: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Website: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7332 3820
Organised By: LMA
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| War Stories: Fighting for King and Country
Date: Wed 8 October 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: Committee Rooms 4 and 5, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: Free
Spend an evening listening to first hand accounts from ex-serviceman and women from the Windrush generation and their experiences of post-war London. Featuring historians and members of the West Indian Ex-Servicemen and Women Association.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| Black Power Salute with Q&A
Date: Wed 8 October 2008
Time: 7 pm
Venue: British Library
Address: , London, WC1B 3DG
Admission: £7.50
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment in which the radical spirit of the sixties upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. At the 1968 Olympic Games, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved clenched fists in support of the Black Panther movement after receiving gold and bronze medals in the 200m sprint. What inspired them to make their protest? Why did it carry such a powerful message? And what happened to the unlikely revolutionaries following the Games?
The screening will be followed by a question and answer session, and will include a special guest appearance by Tommie Smith.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel:
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| SERTUC Black History Celebration 2008
Date: Wed 8 October 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: Congress House
Address: , London, WC1B 3LS
Admission:
A chance to learn about the career of Bonnie Greer - playwright, poet and critic.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel: 020 7467 1220
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| Legacy In The Dust: The Four Aces Story
Date: Thu 9 October 2008
Time: 18:00
Venue: Hackney Museum
Address: 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ
Admission:
Beaquarr Productions presents The Four Aces Story. Founded in the 60s which for 33 years was the home to the most influential Black music and musicians to date. The preview of the documentary feature length film will be followed by a question and answer session with the film director and owner of the Four Aces Club.
Email: hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk
Website: http://www.hackney.gov.uk/cm-museum
Tel: 020 8356 3500
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| NUJ Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
Date: Fri 10 October 2008
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: Chamber, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: Free
Between Understanding and Misunderstanding - Global Media and Cultural Diversity This years annual lecture will be given by Doudou Diene, UN Rapporteur on Racism 2002-2008.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| Children Special
Date: Fri 10 October 2008
Time: 12..00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
Pre Booking is required - see contact info
Readings and book signing with Verna Wilkins. A fantastic opportunity for children to meet and interview a writer and publisher with over 20
years of success in publishing for all children. Verna Wilkins is founder of Tamarind,a publishing company specializing in multicultural children’s books. She is also the author of 30 picture books
and seven biographies for young people including Dave and the Tooth Fairy, awarded Book of the Year status, The Life of Stephen Lawrence and the biographies of Benjamin ephaniah and Chinwe Roy.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| The Student Hour
Date: Fri 10 October 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
In celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Africa World Press, Word Power 2008 will host reading for students by top academics, published by the press. Today there will be reading by Dr Gaim
Kibreab, author of Critical Reflection on the Eritrean and Muhammed Umar, author of Amina. Hosted by: Dr Wanguiwa Goro. Sponsored by Africa
World Press, NJ, USA
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| Word Power - Centerprise International Black literature festival and book fair
Date: Fri 10 October 2008 - Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 10am
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: £Free
The Leading Literary Festival for people of the African descent in the World
Commemorating 60th Anniversary of Empire Windrush
Lectures, debates, film shows, book launches. Meet and network with literary agents, authors, wholesalers, distributors, historians from Africa, Europe, America, the Caribbean and other parts of the world.
Dozens of authors • thousands of books & readers • all under one roof!
Email:
Website: www.centerprisetrust.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: Centerprise
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| Hyenas
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 13:50
Venue: BFI Southbank
Address: Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XT
Admission: £5
Djibril Diop Mambéty's film drips with vitriol and is super-savvy about consumerism and greed in its tale of a jilted rich woman who helps a poor village... But at what cost?
Email:
Website: http://www.bfi.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7928 3232
Organised By: BFI
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| Faisal Abdullah
Date: Sat 11 October 2008 - Sun 7 December 2008
Time:
Venue: Swiss Cottage Gallery
Address: , London, NW3 3HA
Admission:
An installation by acclaimed artist Faisal Abdullah, the work is personal homage to the invaluable space provided by a library for personal development. Faisal's work is informed by his ongoing dialogues with many of the leading artists, critics and theorists who have shaped the cultural politics of Britain since 1968. The installation will include contributions by Stuart Hall, Bonnie Greer and Keith Piper.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel:
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| Black Butterfly
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Conway Hall
Address: , London, WC1R 4RL
Admission: £12.50-£15
A Jamboree of performance, education and networking, this event will encompass a creative journey through black culture. You will have the opportunity to enjoy an exciting mix of music, cultural dance, comedy, drama sketches, poetry and a number of fashion designers on show as well as a ‘Stars in Their Eyes’ style contest.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel: 0790 4281038
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| African and Caribbean Headwraps
Date: Sat 11 October 2008 (Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat only)
Time: 14:00
Venue: Clapton Library
Address: Northwold Road, London, E5 8RA
Admission:
Have you ever wondered how to create an African or Caribbean headwrap for that special occasion? Well, join Christie and friends and learn how! There will also be a cultural fashion show and food and drink. An event for all of the family. Please contact the library to book in advance.
Email: info@hackney.gov.uk
Website:
Tel: 020 8356 1620
Organised By: Clapton Library
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| Women Poetry Hour
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 12.00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
Performance poetry by women who contributed to
the anthology “Temba Tupu”(Walking Naked) -Africana Women’s Poetic Self Portrait,edited by Dr Nagueyalti Warren as well as Yvonne Weekes and others. Hostedby Carol-Ann Edwards aka
Cezanne.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| The Manley Memoirs
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
As a young girl, starved of her mother’s love because she was darker than her siblings and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was a modern-day Cinderella. Told incessantly that she was good for nothing, she defied her mother’s prophecy by becoming a household name in local radio, television and
on stage. It was her path at the then JBC that lead her to Michael Manley and the Jamaica House. Marriage to Michael also leads to her political awakening. Not content with being the docile
wife, Beverley assumed an activist role in the governing Peoples National Party (PNP),becoming embroiled in the ideological politics of the
1970s that would eventually lead to her estrangement from Michael, the destruction of their marriage, her flight into the arms of a
rival lover and finally to a self-imposed exile in the US. Join Beverley Manley as she reads from and sign copies of her explosive tell-all biography!
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| Brothers on A Vibe
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
Performance poetry by three top male Poets: Prof.
M.K.Asante, Jr., Victor Richards and Kwame
McPherson.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| The Student Hour
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 4.00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
Join Dr Edgar J. Ridley,author of Symbolism Revisited and The Golden Apple, as he discusses Black peoples’negative attitude towards creating wealth for children and ourselves. Also, Prof
Chege Githoria discusses his work, Afro Mexican which reveals the conditions of arrival and establishment of Africans in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism and the race-based socioeconomic hierarchy known as sistema de castas.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| An Audience with Jacob Ross
Date: Sat 11 October 2008
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: FREE
Jacob Ross will be in conversation with Bernardine
Evaristo as he launches his first novel: Pynter Bender. This extraordinary novel, traces the life of a boy (Pynter),born blind but whose eyes are
eventually healed. Pynter’s father leaves him to be brought up by the Bender women, a close–
knit group of aunts and cousins, and Pynter’s
early life is shaped by these women. The novel also charts the painful awakening of a rural population, essentially organized around serfdom,
into a raw and uncertain future that can only be achieved through fighting, a civil war.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| Images of Self Unravelling Identity
Date: Sat 11 October 2008 - Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 10.00am
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission:
Pre Booking is required - see contact info
This two day conference brings together some of
the most influential minds of the Afrikan Diaspora, on the subject of cultural identity and consciousness, spiritual transformation and personal empowerment. The conference aims to be a catalyst for Afrikan centred resocialization by refocusing our vision to see the world in terms of our own reality. The keynote lectures will focus on analysis and deconstruction of self within a reconstructive paradigm which will leave participants with a clear understanding of how to opposed the perceived materialism and individualism of the majority UK communities.
Day 1 - Images of Self
Will focus on the impact, the disconnection from our cultural origins. Keynote lectures by
Marimba Ani, Paul Ifayomi Grant andWayne B
Chandler will examine how to find a way back to a
culturally appropriate image of self that a
strong sense of cultural roots naturally imparts. There will also be a special showing of the Black British made documentary – The Black Image
by Black History Walk. A very revealing film which
shows how our images have been deliberately altered.
Day 2 – Unravelling Identity
Will focus on the shaping of our aspirations and if not our imperatives. Keynote lectures by Caroline Shola Arewa, Yasus Afari and Anthony
T Browder will unravel our personal identity to weave together again cultural selves with empowered consciousness. There will also be a special presentation on Reparation by Prof. Hilary
Beckles and the showing of a documentary by author
and filmmaker, Prof. M.K. Asante, Jr.
Conference fee:
Institutions - Both Days: £110/ Each day: £75
Charities - Both Days: £90/ Each day: £60
Individuals - Both Days: £75/ Each day: £45
To register your space: www.word-power.org.uk.
Conference spaces may be purchased on the day,
where space permits, as well as individual lectures (£15).
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| Days of Glory (Indigenes) film screening and discussion
Date: Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 11 am
Venue: Renoir Cinema
Address: , London, WC1N 1AW
Admission: Contact cinema direct for ticket costs
A complex film showing the poor treatment of four North African soldiers enrolled in the French Army when sent to the frontline during World War II. Each soldier has a different personal purpose as they fight their way through the Italian campaign and on to liberate France from the Nazi occupation. One soldier seeks booty; one has joined up to escape poverty; another wants to marry and settle in France; while the fourth - by joining in the fighting - hopes for equality and recognition of the rights of the colonised Algerians.
The film looks at the discrimination these soldiers encounter in the army, and depicts an organisation prejudiced in favour of the European French; a wartime injustice which relates directly to continuing modern tensions. Following the screening a discussion will be led by Kunle Olulode, Chair Camden Black History Month Forum.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel: 0871 7033 991
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| Martin Luther King Dream or Nightmare?
Date: Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 2 pm
Venue: Swiss Cottage library
Address: , London, NW3 3HA
Admission:
A screening and discussion with Tony Warner examines US race relations in comparison to that of the UK. With 2008 marking the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, this timely discussion will consider how - although now revered as a saint - mainstream America once saw him as a troublemaker.
Email:
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel:
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| Health Empowerment
Date: Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 12.00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: £10
Pre Booking is required - see contact info
Dr Suzar Epps, author of Drugs Masquerading as Foods will give a lecture on health and wellbeing.
Buy your tickets at www.word-power.org.uk.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| An Audience with Ra Un Nefer Amen
Date: Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: £10.00
The spiritual leader of the Ausar Auset society will be at Word Power 2008, as part of his tour marking the 5th anniversary of Ausar Auset society. He will also be launching his latest work,Metu Neter Volume 3.
Buy your ticket at the Word Power 2008.
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: www.word-power.org.uk
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| An evening of Jamaican Dub Poetry
Date: Sun 12 October 2008
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Emirates
Address: Arsenal Stadium Conference Hall, London, N7
Admission: £10
Pre Booking is required - see contact info
The closing event of Word
Power 2008 will feature a
poetry performance by the Jamaica born internationally recognised, African conscious poet and reggae artist, Mutabaruka. This event will give you the opportunity to enjoy a special performance.Host: Douglas Williams
Email: wordpower@centerprisetrust.org.uk
Website: www.word-power.org.uk
Tel: 020 7254 9632
Organised By: WORD POWER: International Black Literature Festival & Book Fair
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| Deciphering the European Matrix from an Afrikan View Point
Date: Mon 13 October 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Yemanja A Window to Afrika
Address: 446 Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, Birmingham, B20 3JG
Admission: £12.00
Pre Booking is required - see contact info
This Black History month Yemanja A Window to Afrikan brings you one of our visionary Afrikan scholars and teachers. On Monday 13th Ocotber 2008, 6.30pm come and hear from Queen Mama, Prof. Marimba Ani, author of Yurugu , Let the Circle be Unbroken and To be An Afrikan and share in her wisdom on ‘Deciphering the European Matrix from an Afrikan view point’. A rare opportunity to experience Professor Ani's expertise on culture and spirituality applied to our situation.
Email: info@yemanjaonline.com
Website: www.yemanjaonline.com
Tel: 0121 344 3744
Organised By: Yemanja A Window to Afrika
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| Roots To Routes: British Black Music history, legacy and possibilities (part I)
Date: Wed 15 October 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: Chamber, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: Free
The real story of Black British music featuring a distinguished panel of music industry representatives including people who have been documenting, talking about and performing music in Britain from the arrival of the SS Windrush to the present day.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| Pictured but Unknown? Black Sitters in UCL Art Collections
Date: Wed 15 October 2008
Time: 5:30 pm
Venue: University College London (UCL)
Address: South Cloisters, Strang Print Room, London
Admission:
Dr Gemma Romain presents the results of preliminary research into race and representation in UCL’s art collection.
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Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
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| Inside outsider: the London novels of Colin Macinnes
Date: Thu 16 October 2008
Time: 7 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: , The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: £3 (redeemable from the purchase of a book)
The Sohemian Society presents…Notting Hill Nights: ‘The Black Experience in 1950s London’
Best-known for the novels ‘City of Spades’ (1957) and ‘Absolute Beginners’ (1957), Colin MacInnes was the first writer to evoke not only the city¹s burgeoning youth culture but also the lives of its black immigrants. Tony Gould, author of ’Inside Outsider’, the acclaimed biography of MacInnes, will be talking about him and about the world he so vividly depicted: a world of coffee bars, jazz clubs, drugs, and drink. London is the real hero of these books with its capacity to absorb all species of humanity, from bent coppers to bus conductors, from delinquents to debs, from bigots to libertines. The talk will be punctuated by readings from ‘Inside Outsider’ as well as dramatised readings from MacInnes’ novels.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| The Psychological Attack on the Afrikan Mind Through The Media".
Date: Fri 17 October 2008
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Yemanja A Window to Afrika
Address: 446 Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, Birmingham, B20 3JG
Admission: £10.00
Pre Booking is required - see contact info
This Afrikan History Month, Yemanja A Window Afrika brings you our very own Anthonty T Browder. On Friday 17th October 2008 Anthony T Browder, founder and director of the Institute of Karmic Guidance and author of; From the Browder File, Surivial Strategies, and Egypt on the Potomac, will analyse the effects of television and films on the thought and behaviour of Afrikan Youth and adults in his presentation entitled the "Psychological attack on the Afrikan mind through the media". A topic relevant to us all. Don't Miss it!
Email: info@yemanjaonline.com
Website: www.yemanjaonline.com
Tel: 0121 344 3744
Organised By: Yemanja A Window to Afrika
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| The Lonely Londoners
Date: Mon 20 October 2008
Time: 7 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: , The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: £3 (redeemable from the purchase of a book)
The Sohemian Society presents…Notting Hill Nights: ‘The Black Experience in 1950s London’
Recently reissued in the Penguin Classic series, Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) has been hailed as the definitive novel of the ‘Windrush Generation’ (BBC Radio 4’s Open Book). In often amusing, slang-filled 1950s Caribbean patois, it portrays the lives of a group of West Indian immigrants in what were then the down-at-heel districts of Notting Hill and Bayswater, where they trade stories, chase women and look for work. Dramatised extracts from Selvon’s work will be accompany a talk by Sukhdev Sandhu, Chief Film Critic of The Daily Telegraph and author of the controversial, much- praised ‘London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City’. He will offer an insight into Selvon’s life and the 1950s immigrant experience.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| Black as Ink
Date: Tue 21 October 2008
Time: 6 PM
Venue: British Library
Address: Room 66, London
Admission:
A documentary detailing migration of African-American writers to France at the end of World War II, followed by a discussion on leading black writers in modern day Britain.
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| Dream and Achieve
Date: Tue 21 October 2008
Time: 18:30
Venue: Clapton Library
Address: Northwold Road, London, E5 8RA
Admission:
Listen to Kola speak and be encouraged to ‘discover and express your passions in your lifetime’. Kola will have copies of his book 'Dream and Achieve' available to purchase on the day. Please contact the library to book in advance
Email: info@hackney.gov.uk
Website:
Tel: 020 8356 1620
Organised By: Clapton Library
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| Roots To Routes: British Black Music history, legacy and possibilities (part II)
Date: Wed 22 October 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: Chamber, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: Free
The continuing story of Black British music featuring a distinguished panel of music industry representatives including people who have been documenting, talking about and performing music in Britain from the arrival of the SS Windrush to the present day.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| The Great African Scandal
Date: Wed 22 October 2008
Time: 8:00 pm
Venue: Camden Town Hall
Address: Council Chamber, London, WC1H 9JE
Admission: Tickets are limited
Camden Fairtrade Network presents the Channel 4 film ‘The Great African Scandal’, a challenging and thought-provoking documentary about the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold.
There are limited tickets to this event, if you would like to come
Email: penny.abraham@camden.gov.uk
Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel: 020 7284 9853
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| A night with Lenea Heru & Friends!
Date: Thu 23 October 2008 (Thu only)
Time: 7pm
Venue: Inn on the Green
Address: 3-5 Thorpe Close, Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5XL
Admission: £7 before 8pm - £9 after
Brown Rootz Introduces.....
Lenea Heru aka Ma'at!!
Showcasing a brand new set with her new band -
The Frequency Catchers!
A night of live music and featuring a line up of the hottest & most lyrically radical upcoming acts from London.
Soul,Reggae,Jazz, Poetry & Hip Hop and all forms of Black Music!
Line up
to be announced soon!
Wheelchair access available.
Email: leneaheru@hotmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/leneaheru
Tel: 07985506216
Organised By: Brown Rootz Productions
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| Michael X: A Life in Black and White
Date: Thu 23 October 2008
Time: 7 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: , The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: £3 (redeemable from the purchase of a book)
The Sohemian Society presents…Notting Hill Nights: ‘The Black Experience in 1950s London’
John Williams, the crime novelist and author of the classic ‘Into The Badlands’, will be discussing his newly released biography of Trinidadian migrant Michael X. Also known as Michael de Freitas and Michael Abdul Malik, Michael X was a small-time criminal, pimp, drug dealer and Black Power activist who ended up being convicted of a murder for which he was executed. Described by The Times as an absorbing book that frequently casts as much light on the times its subject lived through as it does on the person, Williams offers the definitive picture of an elusive personality who achieved fame during the aftermath of the 1958 Notting Hill riots, fame that persisted into the Swinging Sixties when he was feted by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| Calypsos and Wiener Schnitzel; refugees from Nazism in the Caribbean during WW2
Date: Thu 23 October 2008
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Swiss Cottage Library
Address: , London, NW3 3HA
Admission:
To mark Black History Season, Dr Joanna Newman, British Library, discusses a little known episode in Caribbean history when refugees from Nazism sought shelter in West Indian Islands. Their arrival resulted in surprising alliances during the second World War and their presence has contributed to the unique mix of culture and ethnicity that make up West Indian Jewish identity today.
This is the story of watch makers, tailors, diamond cutters, doctors and dentists who escaped from Europe to a new, completely different world. A partnership project with the Jewish Museum.
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Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
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| African Civilisations of the Nile Valley
Date: Thu 23 October 2008
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Address: University College London (UCL), London
Admission:
Young African British filmmaker Louis Buckley presents his new film on ancient Sudan, archaeology and African heritage
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Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
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| Is Windrush still relevant to Young People?
Date: Fri 24 October 2008
Time: 11 am
Venue: City Hall
Address: Chamber, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: Free
A panel discussion for schools groups featuring some of todays most outspoken youth commentators and young people.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| African History Film Day: 1968
Date: Sat 25 October 2008
Time: 2 pm
Venue: British Museum
Address: University College London (UCL), London, WC1B 3DG
Admission: Admission free, booking required
2pm - Chisholm ‘72 Unbought and Unbossed’
Inspiring and uplifting, a film about the first black person to run for president – a woman of Guyanese and Barbadian parentage – Shirley Chisholm. The film will be followed by a discussion that will reflect upon the impact of Chisholm and the significance on this year’s presidential race and its media coverage.
5.30pm -‘Baldwin’s [N Word]’
A screening of Horace Ové’s film ‘Baldwin’s Nigger’, a striking portrait of the writer Baldwin at his sharp-witted best, addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London. Accompanied by comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, Baldwin discusses Black experience and identity in both Britain and America. Passionate and entertaining, this is a fascinating snapshot of one of America's most powerful novelists.
Prior to this screening will be a discussion with archivist and historian Tony Warner. He will look at clips of civil rights campaigner James Baldwin in action, including footage showing race relations in London, America and South Africa at that time.
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Website: http://www.camden.gov.uk/blackhistory
Tel: 020 7323 8181
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| African History Film Day: 1968
Date: Sat 25 October 2008
Time: 2 pm
Venue: British Museum
Address: University College London (UCL), London, WC1B 3DG
Admission: Admission free, booking required
2pm - Chisholm ‘72 Unbought and Unbossed’
Inspiring and uplifting, a film about the first black person to run for president – a woman of Guyanese and Barbadian parentage – Shirley Chisholm. The film will be followed by a discussion that will reflect upon the impact of Chisholm and the significance on this year’s presidential race and its media coverage.
5.30pm -‘Baldwin’s [N Word]’
A screening of Horace Ové’s film ‘Baldwin’s Nigger’, a striking portrait of the writer Baldwin at his sharp-witted best, addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London. Accompanied by comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, Baldwin discusses Black experience and identity in both Britain and America. Passionate and entertaining, this is a fascinating snapshot of one of America's most powerful novelists.
Prior to this screening will be a discussion with archivist and historian Tony Warner. He will look at clips of civil rights campaigner James Baldwin in action, including footage showing race relations in London, America and South Africa at that time.
Email:
Website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/black_history_film_day_1968.aspx
Tel: 020 7323 8181
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| Verna Wilkins - The Journey of the book
Date: Tue 28 October 2008
Time: 2:30
Venue: Southfields Library
Address: 300 Wimbledon Park Road, London, SW19 6NL
Admission:
Verna Wilkins is the founder of Tamarind, a children’s book publishing company. She is the author of 30 picture books and seven biographies for young people. All her books offer positive role models for success and feature on the National Curriculum Key Stage 1 and 2 reading. Verna will lead an exciting workshop on how a book is born and becomes the book you can read.
Free – For children and adults
booking essential (020) 8871 6388
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Tel: (020) 8871 6388
Organised By: Southfields Library
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| Telling Tales with Sandra Agard
Date: Tue 28 October 2008
Time: 11:00 am
Venue: Clapton Library
Address: Northwold Road, London, E5 8RA
Admission: Please contact the library to book in advance.
Stories from Africa and the Caribbean. A family event with Sandra Agard.
Sandra Agard was born in Hackney to Guyanese parents and is a writer and storyteller. Her repertoire includes stories from all over the world. She runs regular storytelling, creative writing and reading development sessions in the community. Her poetry and short stories have been published in 'A Girl's Best Friend' and 'Watchers and Seekers: tales, myths and legends'.
She has also written plays. She has a particular love for tales from an African, African-American and Caribbean background as well as African British oral history projects. She still lives in East London and works as a Literature Development Officer in South London at Peckham and New Cross Libraries.
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Tel: 020 8356 1620
Organised By: Clapton Library
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| Local Histories: Windrush London
Date: Wed 29 October 2008
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: City Hall
Address: Committee rooms 4 and 5, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA
Admission: Free
What was London life like just before and following the arrival at Tilbury Docks of the SS Empire Windrush? This evening will be a mixture of historical fact and first-hand reminiscence from leading historians, people of the generation and the Windrush Foundation.
Email: blackhistoryseason@london.gov.uk
Website: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/bhm/programme.jsp
Tel: 020 7983 6554
Organised By: Greater London Authority
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| Wall of Words
Date: Wed 29 October 2008
Time: 12 pm
Venue: Swiss Cottage Library
Address: , London, NW3 3HA
Admission:
Contribute your words, phrases, or sentences on 1968 on the wall. The artist Beyonder will look at the wall at regular intervals during the two days and create a poem using it as inspiration.
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A Place Of Rage | Screening: A place of rage/ At the river I stand
Date: Thu 30 October 2008
Time: 7 pm
Venue: West Green Learning Centre
Address: Park View Academy, Park View Academy, London, N15 3RB
Admission: £3 waged / £2 low/unwaged
A PLACE OF RAGE
(Pratibha Parmar, UK ,1991, 52 mins)
This exuberant celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.
Within the context of the Civil Rights, Black Power and Feminist movements, the trio reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionised American society. Angela Davis, at one time the FBI's most wanted woman, recounts her involvement with the Black Panthers and the US Communist Party. Her rarely seen 1970 prison interview, civil rights footage and archival photos are interwoven with June Jordan's powerful poetry, linking issues of homophobia, racism, U.S. imperialism and liberation struggles world-wide. The insights of acclaimed writer Alice Walker (The Color Purple) and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha enrich this engrossing portrait of African American feminism.
Followed by a discussion with the director, Pratibha Parmar
AT THE RIVER I STAND
(D.Appleby, A.Graham, S.Ross, USA 1993, 53 mins)
'HOW MANY RIVERS DO WE HAVE TO CROSS, BEFORE WE GET TO MEET THE BOSS'
Bob Marley
Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have been to the mountaintop" speech was delivered on 3 April 1968 in Memphis, the day before he was assassinated. "At The River I Stand" reminds us that, although King went to Memphis as part of his Poor People's Campaign, he also went there because 1,300 sanitation workers had been on strike for higher wages and recognition of their union branch.
The sanitation workers remained steadfast in their determination to prove, as their most famous picket sign indicated, that they were 'men'. Their signs read "I Am A Man", and they were often photographed by the national media with the tanks of the National Guard rolling menacingly down the Memphis streets behind their picket lines.
The film is a persuasive and moving argument for the position that the Memphis sanitation strike was the culmination of the civil rights struggle in the Southern States.
At The River I Stand should be shown in every school and every workplace.
Email: tonia@padeap.net
Website: www.padeap.net
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Organised By: HIC / PADEAP
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| Wall of Words
Date: Thu 30 October 2008
Time: 4 pm
Venue: Swiss Cottage Library
Address: , London, NW3 3HA
Admission:
Contribute your words, phrases, or sentences on 1968 on the wall. The artist Beyonder will look at the wall at regular intervals during the two days and create a poem using it as inspiration.
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| When We Ruled: Angelina Osborne and Robin Walker in Conversation
Date: Thu 30 October 2008
Time: 6 pm
Venue: University College London (UCL)
Address: Roberts Building, GO6 Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, London
Admission:
Contribute your words, phrases, or sentences on 1968 on the wall. The artist Beyonder will look at the wall at regular intervals during the two days and create a poem using it as inspiration.
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| Living in the 1960s
Date: Thu 30 October 2008
Time: 14:00
Venue: Hackney Museum
Address: 1 Reading Lane, London, 1GQ
Admission:
Try on outfits from the 1960s and settle down in our 1960s front room. Hear people’s amazing tales of leaving the Caribbean and making a new home in England. This will be your chance to ask questions and find out what happens next in this interactive performance.
Email: hmuseum@hackney.gov.uk
Website:
Tel: 020 8356 3500
Organised By: Hackney Museum
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