Celebrating People and Communities Events Guide 2013

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Celebrating people and communities

events guide 2013 music • art • literature • talks • exhibitions • workshops Table of Contents Chair’s Welcome

Launch Events page 4 It gives me great pleasure to present Norfolk’s 10th Black History Month (BHM) programme, containing Music & Drama page 5-15 over 100 events across the county. BHM brings together a diverse set of people to celebrate the contribution of Black people, past and present, and Children & Families page 17 it gives everyone the opportunity and confidence to look into and appreciate their own and others’ history Community Festival page 19-24 and heritage. Activities & Workshops page 25-26 BHM serves as an education project as well as an entertaining experience for those who know little Arts & Literature Festival page 27-41 of, or are just curious about, African, Asian and Caribbean culture and the British connection. This Film Festival page 43-46 year we have organised a variety of events for different ages and tastes from talks and lectures Talks & Exhibitions page 47-51 to theatre and music, from family fun to children’s activities. Finale Event & Profiles page 53-54 The theme for 2013 is ‘Celebrating Black History: Past, Present and Future’. We have chosen this Calendar of Events centre pages theme so that we can reflect on the contribution of the trailblazers who cleared the way for us, whilst acknowledging how far we’ve come and looking towards the future with hope of the promise it holds. We must celebrate Black history past, present and future to ensure that our past continues to impact, improve, and secure our present, and give rise to our future opportunities. Celebrating Black History: Past, Present and Future

This year sees the 150th anniversary of the Norfolk Black History Month is supported by Emancipation Proclamation (issued on January 1, 1863), communities and voluntary groups, statutory agencies the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington such as local authorities, museums, libraries and (which took place on August 28, 1963) and 50 years criminal justice agencies. I would like to extend a of Jamaican independence. We have organised talks special thank you to the support given by Norfolk and discussions focusing on these pivotal events in our County Council, Norfolk Constabulary, Norwich City history to explore their context and consequences. Council, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Writers’ Centre Norwich, Norfolk Library and Information This year Black Heritage and Culture Norfolk in Services, ZIMCAN, NEAD, University of East Anglia, partnership with Norfolk County Council, and the The Bridge Plus+, Community Connections, UEA Afro Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner Norfolk Caribbean Society, Norfolk Jazz and Blues Society, The Constabulary has supported a number of community Castle Mall, Creative Arts East, Office of the Police and events linked to Norfolk BHM 2013 with community Crime Commissioner, Cinema City, Norfolk Fire and groups being awarded £200 towards an event to Rescue Service, Broadland Council, Norfolk FA, Norwich celebrate this year’s theme. Mind and various organisations and community The strength of Norfolk’s BHM celebration is our vision groups for their support and in making Norfolk Black of creating an educational and entertaining event for History Month one of the best and well organised BHM all of Norfolk’s communities along with our partnership celebrations nationally. approach and the hard work of communities and I look forward to sharing in a busy and exciting Black volunteers who have helped organise the events and of History Month, this October, with you all. course everyone who’s going to take part. I hope this programme inspires you to go out and enjoy what Norfolk BHM 2013 has to offer, and I extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been involved in what promises to be another fantastic October. There is something for everyone to participate in celebrating our shared history and there is so much we can learn from each other and from our past that will help us Abraham Eshetu shape a better future. Come and join us. Chair – Norfolk Black History Month Launch Events

Friday 27th September 5:30pm BHM Launch at norwich city hall The theme for this year’s celebration is Black History: Past, Present and Future. The launch will include a short presentation by members of the public, voluntary and community groups and key public sector leaders on the theme. Our aim is to celebrate and recognise the positive achievements of black people locally, regionally and nationally. Tuesday 24th September 5:15-8:15pm Launch after party from 8pm til late at Café Bar Marzano – come and enjoy Jess Ferrera and his Afro Cuban band. Autumn INSET Evening for Teachers Free entry This is a chance to see our new at Norwich City Hall St Peters Street, Norwich NR2 1NH exhibition ‘Masterpieces: Art and t 0344 980 3333 East Anglia’. We have an exciting line-up of workshops for primary Cafe Bar Marzano and secondary school teachers and The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF 01603 665504 there will be an opportunity to tour t the city with the Centre’s guides. Booking essential by 17 September. Payment (if applicable) required on booking – no tickets on the door. Early-bird booking does not apply. Call 01603 593199. Includes refreshments. Free entry (school friends) £10 (non-school friends) at The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts University of East Anglia, Tuesday 1st – Sunday 27th October Norwich NR4 7TJ 10am-5pm t 01603 593199 w scva.ac.uk BHM African Market BHM 2013 gets off to a great start once again with the African Market at Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk Castle Mall in the heart of Norwich. The market offers BHM memorabilia, for up-to-date event info and news clothing, crafts, jewellery and much more. Bring your friends and family, come and say hello and be part of a great atmosphere! Free entry at The Castle Mall Norwich NR1 3DD t 01603 766430 w castlemallnorwich.co.uk

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Sunday 29th September 8pm Masta Ace + DJ Format

Saturday 5th October 8pm Masta Ace has always managed £15 (max. 6 tickets per booking) to remain current and classic at THE SWEETBEATS the same time. One of the most at Open + support imaginative, narrative lyricists ever 20 Bank Plain, Norwich NR2 4SF t 01603 763111 Dance all night to the joyful sounds to emerge from the mean streets w ueaticketbookings.co.uk of The SweetBeats. Jamaica is of Brooklyn USA, his albums have where this music starts – the been likened to mini-movies. journey ends in bliss. The soaring saxophone and double-trouble trombone energise your soul while the sweet vocal harmonies entrance your heart. Chunkin’ rhythms and addictive riffs keep you rocking all night – resistance is futile! Come do the rocksteady. £10 £8 concessions at Norwich Arts Centre 51 St Benedict’s Street, Norwich NR2 4PG t 01603 660352 w norwichartscentre.co.uk or w ueaticketbookings.co.uk Tuesday 1st October they finally begin to understand how it feels to inhabit another 7:30pm Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk person’s shoes. for up-to-date event info and news Rationale: In My Shoes £10 £8 concessions Rationale’s explosive and funny new £7 student groups hip-hop dance theatre production centres on the troublesome at The Playhouse 42-58 St Georges Street, relationship between a father and Norwich NR3 1AB son. In a desperate attempt to t 01603 598598 confront their problems, they attend w norwichplayhouse.co.uk an extreme therapy session where www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk 5 Music & Drama

Norfolk Blues Society: Black Heroes of the Blues

Tuesday Wednesday 1st October 2nd October 8:30pm 8:30pm Luke Arnold, One of the most vocalist and ace respected blues blues player, men in the hosts this open UK (regularly jam session. featured on Paul His harmonica Jones’ Radio heroes are 2 Show) Dave Stevie Wonder, Thomas hosts Sonny Terry and the open blues Sonny Boy Williams. Luke spent an influential month jam. Dave’s early influence was the blues super hero in New Orleans where Tabby Thomas and Keith Slater Robert Johnson. In 2006 Dave was invited to Cleveland, were further fuel for developing his full vocals and wide Ohio, to record with harmonica ace Wallace Coleman. ranging blues harp style. Dave also had the privilege of recording and singing with legendary blues man Robert Lockwood Junior.

Tuesday Wednesday 22nd 30th October October 8:30pm 8:30pm World class blues Guest host John musician Paul Watcham leads Tinkler attracts the open jam the cream of session with his Norfolk’s bluesmen consummate to the society’s blues vocal and blues jams. Paul harp playing. He moved to Norfolk teams up with decades ago and guitarist Yuuki McClure for a resounding blues journey cites influences including Lonnie Johnson, Josh White, of note. Over thirty years ago John had ears for Little ‘Queen’ Victoria, Memphis Slim and more recently Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson (1st and 2nd), Noah Lewis Jimmy Witherspoon, who he saw at the UEA. and most of all Big Walter Horton.

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Saturday 5th October 7:30pm th Pangaea Sunday 6 October 4pm Saturday 5th October Exciting groove orientated music 9pm-2am inspired by African, Middle Eastern, Get Up and Boogie with European and Latin American Alexander O’Neal, Craig charles traditions allied to the experimental Heatwave, Shakatak funk & Soul night approach of Pharoah Sanders, Yusef and more Craig Charles is bringing his Lateef and Mulatu Astatke. Intense, The ultimate Earth Wind & Fire, legendary Funk and Soul Club to beautiful and playful sounds from Shakatak, Rose Royce’s Gwen Norwich this October for a night Dave Ingham (tenor/soprano sax Dickey, Heatwave and a rare overflowing with groove-ridden- and keyboard), Stephen Mynott appearance by the legendary beats, rare-disco-treats and soul- (guitar), Dave Holgate (double Alexander O’Neal. A line up of some jam-shakers for all those dance- bass), Jesse Barrett (drums) and of the most impressive names in floor funksters. Bodhi (bougarou and percussion). soul… the hits just keep on coming! For bookings, contact Stephen Building on sell-out performances £33.50 (max. 10 tickets per booking) at clubs up and down the country, Mynott on 01502 568684 or headline festival appearances 07789 320168. at St Andrews Hall The Halls, St Andrews Plain, and a prime time radio slot, The £6 Norwich NR3 1AU Craig Charles Funk and Soul Club t 01603 628477 guarantees only the funkiest tunes at The Cut w standrewshall.co.uk will make it into the best party in New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY town! t 0845 673 2123 [email protected] £12 (over 18s only – proof of ID required) e w newcut.org at Open 20 Bank Plain, Norwich NR2 4SF t 01603 763111 w open247.org.uk w ueaticketbookings.co.uk

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Tuesday 8th October Thursday 10th October 8pm 8pm RHIANNON GIDDENS NORWICH SOUND & & LEYLA McCALLA VISION presents: (of the Carolina NS+V13 Ghostpoet Chocolate Drops) + No Ceremony + Saturday 12th October Sullivan and Gold 8pm The Carolina Chocolate Drops started creating a buzz with their Mercury Music Prize nominated Blonde On Black pursuit of American roots music avant-garde hip hop/indie artist Sophisticated chanteuse Chrissie with an African persuasion in the Ghostpoet is joined on the opening D. and her trio reprise the songs style of the jug band. Their 2010 night of the festival by Manchester of Ella, Billie, Sarah, Nat and many debut ‘Genuine Negro Jig’ drew electro pop trio No Ceremony. more of the great black heroes of in wider styles and its follow-up, jazz accompanied by a soul food ‘Leaving Eden’ took an even broader £15 advance buffet supper. sweep of American roots. At this £17 on the door £30 early bird gig wristband point, cello-playing Leyla McCalla Contact 01263 821312 or joined founder member, Rhiannon wendyanddannykeen@btinternet. Giddens, in the Carolina Chocolate com Drops. Taking a break from the full Carolina Chocolate Drops line-up, £12 including Soul food Rhiannon and Leyla come back to buffet the UK to tantalise us with their solo at Cafe Bar Marzano material as well as their work with The Forum, Millennium Plain, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Norwich NR2 1TF t 01603 665504 £13 / £10 concessions Seated event Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk at Norwich Arts Centre for up-to-date event info and news 51 St Benedict’s Street, Norwich NR2 4PG t 01603 660352 w norwichartscentre.co.uk or w ueaticketbookings.co.uk

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Monday 14th October 7:30pm Hip Hop Shakespeare presents: Sunday 13th October Richard II Live tour Featuring 8pm Bashy + Akala + more special guests TBC Reginald D. Hunter – Founded in 2008 by MOBO award-winning hip hop In The Midst Of Crackers artist Akala, The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company Following two previous sell-out tours of the UK, a total (‘THSC’) is a music theatre production company aimed sell-out season at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and at exploring the social, cultural and linguistic parallels the release of his debut stand up DVD, Reginald D. between the works of William Shakespeare and that of Hunter Live, Reginald will bring his own unique blend modern day rappers. In 2009, THSC received a London of humour to Norfolk in a brand new show, Reginald D. 2012 Olympic ‘Inspire Mark’, which coincided with the Hunter – In The Midst Of Crackers. first ‘Hip Hop Shakespeare Live’ show in the Cultural Olympiad’s Open Weekend. To date THSC’s work has £24 (Age advisory: 16+) consistently proved popular with youth and audiences at The Corn Exchange of all ages having toured the world. Tuesday Market Place, Town Centre, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1JW Showreel (short version): t 01553 764864 www.bit.ly/thscshowreelshort w kingslynncornexchange.co.uk Showreel (extended version): www.bit.ly/thscshowreel Hip Hop Shakespeare Live (highlights): www.bit.ly/thsclivereel

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The Anna Mudeka Band

The Anna Mudeka Band play Friday 11th October songs rooted in the Mbira music 7pm of Zimbabwe, and have created a unique sound, full of colour, at Dersingham Library vibrance, happiness and spice Chapel Road, Dersingham, Norfolk PE31 6PN which they call chimurenga pop! t 01485 540181 This will be a fantastic night of th Wednesday 16th October lively, uplifting music and dancing Tuesday 15 October 7:30-9:30pm that’s not to be missed! These 7pm events are run by Creative Arts East at King’s Lynn Library Black History Month with funding from Norfolk County London Road, King’s Lynn, Special Live Music Council, Kings’ Lynn District Council, Norfolk PE30 5EZ Tribute - Song Noir the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and t 01553 772568/761393 Song Noir pay homage to stars Arts Council England. th Wednesday 16 October like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, To book your place, please contact 7:30pm Bill Withers and Lauryn Hill. With Creative Arts East at enquiries@ at Downham Market Library a blend of jazz, funk and hip-hop, creativeartseast.co.uk or telephone The Priory Centre, 78 Priory Road, Song Noir tell the stories behind the 07568 532744. Downham Market, Norfolk songs... PE38 9JS t 01366 383073 Let yourself be entertained by Thursday 17th October Francesca (vocals) and Clifford 7pm Andrews (saxophone) of Song Noir with Matt Hodges (piano) and Cath at Hunstanton Library Evans (percussion). Westgate, Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 5AL For more information please visit t 01485 532280 songnoir.com/bhm th Friday 18 October Free entry 7:30pm at Cafe Bar Marzano at Gaywood Library The Forum, Millennium Plain, Creative Arts East is offering a free River Lane, Gaywood, King’s Lynn, Norwich NR2 1TF transport service provided by the Norfolk PE30 4HD t 01603 665504 West Norfolk Community Transport t 01553 768498 Project for people with mobility issues for these performances at Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk the libraries in the King’s Lynn and for up-to-date event info and news West Norfolk district. If you wish to use this service please contact Creative Arts East at enquiries@ creativeartseast.co.uk or phone 07568 532744. £5 per person £15 for groups of 4 people

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Friday 18th October 11pm-4am Friday 18th October 8:30pm Roots Reggae: Past, Present BAKA BEYOND and Future After 20 years of mixing African Rebel Lion Saturday 19th October and Celtic music in equal measure, Sound 8pm Baka Beyond have become one of presents a the finest danceable bands around, musical feast White Boy in Harlem creating the sound of the global for your ears, The young Edward Burra visited village. The band support the Baka bringing Harlem in the 1930s and 40s at the Pygmies of Cameroon by sending together legendary veterans height of The Harlem Renaissance. royalties to help with development alongside rising stars. projects and tour with Baka At that time Harlem was one of the musicians. PAST: With over 40 years in the most culturally dynamic places in soundsystem business, Fatman the Twentieth Century. A celebration £12 International Sound out of North of the English artist’s life and work £10 concessions London will take you on a musical is presented by Robert Short and at Norwich Arts Centre journey from the 1960s to the the Rebus Theatre in The Curve. 51 St Benedict’s Street, present day. Immediately afterwards a Harlem Norwich NR2 4PG PRESENT: Norwich’s own Rebel style jam session with the Dave t 01603 660352 Lion Sound will be delivering the Holgate Trio is accompanied by a w norwichartscentre.co.uk or mouth watering soul food supper in w ueaticketbookings.co.uk freshest roots music accompanied by the talented mic man Stamina Li. Marzanos Bar. FUTURE: Get ready for the sounds Contact 01263 821312 or of tomorrow with vocal talents from wendyanddannykeen@btinternet. Ram One, MOBO award nominee, com and the Unique Brothers, some of the youngest and most exciting £12 talent in the scene. inc. theatrical performance, jam session & supper £5 on the door at The Curve Auditorium at Kartel Nightclub 68 London Street, Norwich NR2 1JT & Cafe Bar Marzano The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF t 01603 665504 www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk 11 Music & Drama

Saturday 19th October Monday 21th October 1-4pm 8pm blueberry music house presents: ANDREW ROACHFORD WORLD MUSIC STAGE AT MAC 2013 + support This stage will showcase African and world music bands Andrew Roachford’s trademark has become his rare featuring Sefokanuteh & Meriya (African kora music), ability to put into words, feelings you didn’t even know Andy Kirkham & guitar (acoustic music) and Jose you had. ‘It’s one of the reasons why I make music; to Ferrers & Guateque band (Cuban salsa). bring out those things that people feel, but haven’t always got a voice for. I like to bring the inner person to Contact Mahamadou Sefo on 07943 576009 the forefront.’ And over the years, anthems like ‘Only to or [email protected] or Stefi Barna on be with You’, ‘The Way I feel’ and ‘Complicated’ to name 07964 494836 or [email protected] but a few have done just that. magdalenstreet.blogspot.com £12 in advance Free entry £14 on the door at The Blueberry Music House at Norwich Arts Centre 20 Cowgate, Norwich NR3 1SY 51 St Benedict’s Street, Norwich NR2 4PG t 01603 475001 t 01603 660352 w theblueberrymusichouse.com w norwichartscentre.co.uk or w ueaticketbookings.co.uk

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Wednesday 23rd October 7:30pm Mikill Pane + Amplify Dot Hackney-born rapper Mikill Pane has been propelled onto the brink Monday 21st - of radio ubiquity with the most Saturday 26th October original and exciting British hip-hop Thursday 24th October 7:30pm debut of 2013. As well as trading 8:30pm Plus Wednesday 23rd & in rap breakbeats and pop hooks, Saturday 26th October he seamlessly straddles a string TAMIKREST 2:30pm of guitar-based sounds, including Tamikrest are often called punk, ska and reggae. Twelve Angry Men Tinariwen’s little brothers and there are definitely parallels to draw £9 (max. 6 tickets per booking) Twelve jurors have death on their between these two Saharan bands, minds and a life in their hands at The Waterfront but when Tamikrest stepped onto as they must decide the fate of 139-141 King Street, the scene the stakes were raised. a young delinquent accused of Norwich NR1 1QH Tamikrest take the traditional 01603 632717 murdering his father. t w waterfrontnorwich.com or Tuareg sound and throw other influences (the likes of Pink Floyd £6.50-£28.50 + fee w ueaticketbookings.co.uk and Dire Straits) into the mix. They at Norwich Theatre Royal take generators deep into the desert Theatre Street, Norwich NR2 1RL in search of the perfect synthesis t 01603 630000 of their traditional ritual drumming w theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk and the music of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. £14 £12 concessions at Norwich Arts Centre 51 St Benedict’s Street, Norwich NR2 4PG t 01603 660352 w norwichartscentre.co.uk or w ueaticketbookings.co.uk

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Tuesday 29th October 8pm Tuesday 29th October 7pm doors open HOT 8 BRASS BAND Friday 25th October 7:30pm start New Orleans’ Hot 8 Brass Band 8pm ACS Jazz, Spoken have attracted a phenomenal buzz, word and Poetry THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS appearing on The Culture Show + support on BBC 2, recording a Maida Vale A musical and poetic celebration of session for Gilles Peterson’s show African Caribbean culture presented The Mighty Diamonds – Donald on BBC Radio 1, and laying down by local and university talent. ‘Tabby’ Shaw, Fitzroy ‘Bunny’ a couple of tracks with Basement Expect an elegant and sophisticated Simpson and Lloyd ‘Judge’ Ferguson Jaxx. Their music has also featured night and come dressed to impress! formed in 1969 in the Trenchtown on a Volkswagen advert. The line-up area of Kingston, Jamaica. They (Details subject to change) boasts eight players of the highest are the most consistent and long- calibre, bringing their passion and running vocal trio in Jamaican £6 members noise through a bevy of trombones, musical history and for the past £8 non-members saxophones, trumpets, snare and 41 years have been entertaining bass drums, all buoyed up by the at City Academy Norwich and educating the world with their 299 Bluebell Road, immense tuba basslines of band sweet harmonies and conscious Norwich NR4 7LP leader Bennie Pete. lyrics. t 01603 452628 w cityacademynorwich.org £12.50 in advance £16 in advance £15 on the door £18 on the door Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk at Norwich Arts Centre for up-to-date event info and news at Norwich Arts Centre 51 St Benedict’s Street, 51 St Benedict’s Street, Norwich NR2 4PG Norwich NR2 4PG t 01603 660352 t 01603 660352 w norwichartscentre.co.uk or w norwichartscentre.co.uk or w ueaticketbookings.co.uk w ueaticketbookings.co.uk

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Wednesday 30th October 7:30pm Friday 1st November Jackson LIVE 8pm IN CONCERT A Spectrum of Black Wednesday 30th October Jackson Live in Concert sees World Music long-time fan and hugely talented 7:30pm Ben recreate the Michael Jackson The Pangaea Jazz Arkestra serve Wretch32 with experience with his stunning up hip swaying, toe shuffling, black George The Poet rendition of all his favourite songs. culture based World Music with + Jacob Banks Jackson Live in Concert features Dave Holgate (bass), Dave Ingham + Context all-live vocals and music, fabulous (saxes and keyboard), Stephen costumes, and of course all the Mynott (guitar) and Jesse Barrett ‘Blackout’ is the first single to signature dance moves associated (percussion), alongside a buffet of be released from Wretch 32’s so fondly with the undisputed King exotic Caribbean food. forthcoming third studio album. of Pop. Pure MJ! Premiered on MistaJam’s Radio Contact 01263 821312 or 1Xtra show, and also named £15 (max. 6 tickets per booking) wendyanddannykeen@btinternet. Zane Lowe’s ‘hottest record’, the com at The King’s Lynn track was produced by emerging Corn Exchange £12 (includes Soul food talent Knox Brown who hails from Tuesday Market Place, King’s Lynn, buffet supper) Birmingham and created the record Norfolk PE30 1JW in his bedroom studio. t 01553 764864 at Cafe Bar Marzano w kingslynncornexchange.co.uk The Forum, Millennium Plain, £15 (max. 6 tickets per booking) Norwich NR2 1TF t 01603 665504 at UEA LCR University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ t 01603 508050 w ueaticketbookings.co.uk

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The library service is pleased to be part of Norfolk Black History Month because we aim to make our services more relevant and accessible to the whole of Norfolk’s diverse community. Children & Families

The Osiligi Troupe Of Sunday 13th October Maasai Warriors 2-5pm The Osiligi BHM Family Festival Maasai Celebrate Black History Month Warriors 2013 at the Sainsbury Centre’s show Family Festival! Come and includes enjoy an afternoon packed with music, demonstrations and creative song, and activities for the whole family. Why the extraordinary ‘jumping’ of the not discover something new in the Maasai, in addition to conveying Free entry world art collections, and join a fascinating information about life in special gallery trail? at The Sainsbury Centre their home village of Kisamis. The UEA, University Drive, Troupe’s performance is stunning There will be plenty of Afro-Cuban Norwich NR4 7TJ and always receives musical fun too, as well as face t 01603 593199 w www.scva.org.uk rapturous applause! painting and a dance class. The group of traditional performers from Kenya regularly visit the UK and raise funds for their village. All About Africa Tuesday 29th October 11-12am £7 adults / £6 concessions / Join Nigerian £5 children born storyteller at Earlham Library Patience Colman Road, Norwich NR4 7HG Sunday 6th October 01603 454338 Unazi for a t 7:30pm th fun event for Tuesday 29 October at Swaffham Assembly Rooms all the family 2:30-3:30pm Market Place, Swaffham, featuring stories and songs from Norfolk PE37 7AB at Wroxham Library all over Africa. The event is free but Norwich Road, Wroxham, t 01760 722800 please book a place in advance by Norfolk NR12 8RX Thursday 10th October phoning or calling in at the library t 01603 782560 7pm hosting the event. Wednesday 30th October 11-12am at Diss Corn Hall Free entry St Nicholas Street, Diss, th at Norfolk & Norwich Norfolk IP22 4LB Monday 28 October 11am-12noon Millennium Library t 01379 652241 The Forum, Millennium Plain, Creative Arts East LIVE! at St Williams Way Library Norwich NR2 1TF t 07568 532744 Williams Loke, St Williams Way, t 01603 774 774 e [email protected] Norwich NR7 0AJ Wednesday 30th October t 01603 434123 2:30-3:30pm Monday 28th October 2:30-3:30pm at Mile Cross Library Aylsham Road, Norwich NR3 2RJ at Blofield Library t 01603 425906 The Reading Room, North Street, Blofield, Norfolk NR13 4RQ Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk t 01603 712902 for up-to-date event info and news www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk 17

Community Festival

Throughout October Throughout October and November All day throughout Norwich 9am-5pm Seeking Human Equality: The Colourful Photographs impact of having a one-sided exhibition viewpoint of the world Following on from the successful exhibition last A presentation and discussion comparing the impact of year called ’Mindful Photography’, this celebratory having the freedom to express creatively with a limited Photographic Exhibition presents a range of diverse and freedom to express it. What makes the difference dazzling images underscoring the cultural concerns of and how does creative expression have an impact on the region. The work was put together by a group of society? Prepare to be engaged! talented individuals interested in the conveying ideas of union. Florencio Junior, David Indge, Rositsa Stefanova Contact 07786 841653 or [email protected] and Fernado Usai are the artists. or visit facebook.com/cola.colaman for more details. Free entry Free entry at: The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF at: MIND, 50 Sale Road, Norwich NR7 9TP Friends Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, Monday & Wednesday 1-3pm Norwich NR2 1EW Interface Learning Interface Learning, Unit 6, Beckham Place Unit 6, Beckham Place, Norwich NR3 3DZ (off Esdelle Street), Norwich NR3 3DZ Monday & Thursday 2-4pm Florencio Junior/David Indge Under-1-Roof Training & Development Centre t 07423 279383 100-102 Westwick Street, Norwich NR2 4SZ e [email protected] Monday-Friday 10am-12noon e [email protected] www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk 19 Community Festival

Wednesday 5th October Thursday 10th October 3-7pm 12noon-2pm Athletic legend Mandela Women’s Day Kipchoge Keino aka Join our International Women’s Kipkeino (Kenya) Support Group for this special The Kenyan Community Cuisines event in community will honour of Nelson Mandela. be celebrating Women from a range of cultural the life of backgrounds will speak about the athletics legend ways in which this South African Kipchoge icon has empowered women. Come Keino aka and meet people, hear words of Kipkeino. The inspiration and share taster dishes athlete competed at the 1964 from around the globe. Olympics in Tokyo and participated in subsequent Olympics, Free entry Commonwealth games and African at NIC, The Bridge Plus+ games at 10,000 metres, 5,000 The Blue House, 19 Muspole Street, Norwich NR3 1DJ metres, 3,000 metres, 1,500 metres t 01603 617076 and steeplechase. Kipkeino now e [email protected] runs a Children’s Home, Primary w bridgeplus.org.uk School and Secondary School. Kenyan food will be served at this event open to all members of the Saturday 12th October Contact Dee Robinson at community and is accessible by 6-8pm International Families Club on wheelchair users. 01603 662648 or Black History Month 07799 661009 or Contact Linnet Ouna on and Interface newroutes@interfacelearning. 07502 405981 or Learning – 10 year org.uk [email protected] celebration event Free entry Free entry Sithabile Dube, a contemporary at Fusion Digital Gallery Zimbabwean dancer living in at NIC, The Bridge Plus+ The Forum, Millennium Plain, The Blue House, 19 Muspole Street, Norwich, will work with the young Norwich NR2 1TF Norwich NR3 1DJ people to develop a dance routine t 01603 727950 t 01603 617076 to perform in celebration of BHM w theforumnorwich.co.uk e [email protected] at the 10th anniversary of w bridgeplus.org.uk Interface Learning.

Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk Sithabile has supported for up-to-date event info and news the work of the International Families Club and taught African dance to its young members. There will be multicultural food and refreshments.

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Saturday 12th October Saturday 12th October 3-7pm 7:30pm Sunday 13th October Odon Kasera – African Dinner Ball 3pm A journey from refugee to Enjoy a delicious 4 course African Music & Dance for inspirational meal with live music and dance Zimbabwe teacher of Karate from Tambai Ensemble. Special guests on the night are Alex Dunlop A celebration of African song, dance Norwich United Karate instructor and DJ Eric Knight. This is an and rhythms. This concert will raise Odon Kasera, who runs karate opportunity to dress to impress and funds for the Mudeka foundation set training for local people in Norwich, have a great night out. All proceeds up by Anna Mudeka (more info on will be sharing his experience as go to the Mudeka Foundation’s mudekafoundation.com). a refugee from the Congo. Odon Muda School Building Project. The afternoon features arrived in the UK in 2010 from performances from Dumisani Uganda 3 years ago to start a Contact 01362 822194 or [email protected] African drumming and dance group new life in the UK. He uses karate showcasing west African rhythms, training to promote integration and £35 per person Drumskin performing with Anna volunteers his teaching at Bignold Mudeka, the founder of the charity, primary school. at Glen Lodge Marlingford Road, Bawburgh, Afroluso, a group of Portuguese This event is open to members of Norfolk NR9 3LU dancers, and Broadland School the public of all ages. Food and of Dance. drinks will be served. Contact the theatre box office or Contact Sensei Odon Kasera on [email protected] 07404 469157 or or for more information visit kaseramurhula@ yahoo.co.uk facebook.com/ MusicandDanceforZimbabwe Free entry £7.50 / £5 concessions at NIC, The Bridge Plus+ The Blue House, 19 Muspole Street, at St Georges Theatre Norwich NR3 1DJ King Street, Great Yarmouth, t 01603 617076 Norfolk NR30 2PG e [email protected] t 01493 331484 (box office) w bridgeplus.org.uk t 01493 369964 (enquiries)

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Sunday 13th October 4-6:30pm Celebrating Jules Kabombo’s Commitment This celebration is to thank Jules Kabombo for his huge contributions to the Norwich th Minority Ethnic Thursday 19 October Association of Disabled People. 7-9pm Jules Kabombo has worked P.H.O.E.B.E tirelessly over the years to support (Promotion of newcomers to Norwich and ensure Health, Opportunity, that they have access to practical Wednesday 18th October Equality, support. 5:30-7:30pm Benevolence and Contact Jules on 07424 379487 or CELEBRATING THE Empowerment) [email protected] LIFE AND TIMES OF Mollin Delve, who works for Free entry DR. TAI SOLARIN PHOEBE, a Suffolk organisation Society Alive (SA) this year will which promotes inclusivity for at St John’s Cathedral ethnic minority women and Unthank Road, Norwich NR2 2PA celebrate the life and times of Dr. Tai Solarin, Nigeria’s foremost children, will talk about the work educationist, civil right activist of the organisation and answer Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk and a crusader for the war against questions from the audience. There for up-to-date event info and news corruption in Nigeria and Africa. will also be the chance to hear great Dr Solarin (1922-1994) advocated music and enjoy refreshments. good education for all and fought a Contact 07956 437813 or running battle with the government. [email protected], or visit Contact 07832 972166 or www.zimcan.btck.co.uk for more [email protected] information. Free entry Free entry at Clover Hill Village Hall at NIC, The Bridge Plus+ Humbleyard, Clover Hill, The Blue House, 19 Muspole Street, Norwich NR5 9BN Norwich NR3 1DJ t 01603 617076 e [email protected] w bridgeplus.org.uk

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Thursday 19th October 10am-5pm Magdalen-Augustine celebration 2013 Join us at our annual Magdalen Street Festival. There will be a range of activities around the streets for everyone including music, dance, street art, history tours, craft workshops & stalls, children’s activities, food stalls from a range of cultures and traditions and lots Monday 21st - Friday 25th October more. There will be special stages at Anglia Square, 10am-6:30pm St Augustins Church, Antros Court yard, St Saviour Church and the Blueberry Pub featuring special acts. Breckland Black History Month The Heritage Tour this year will be conducted by the Dance Week – Xen Arts Youth well known Brian Ayres, ex-County archeologist. At Dance Group ‘The Stage’, St. Augustines, there will be a specially Students and youth dance groups in the Breckland area commissioned photo exhibition depicting the variety will get the chance to take part in a fun-filled week-long of businesses and traders in the area, and The Dandy residency with a leading African Contemporary dance Horse – a new business in 2013 – is raffling a bicycle as company from London, Xen Arts Youth Dance Group. prize on the day. Magdalen Street and St Augustines The workshops will expose youngsters to exciting new represent probably the most culturally diverse section choreography and there’ll be the chance to learn about of Norwich. Come, celebrate and experience what’s black history along the way. Friends and family will be positive here. invited to the studio at the end of the week to watch the Free entry work in progress. on Magdalen Street and St Augustines Street Contact 07795 433640 or [email protected], or visit www.xenarts.co.uk for more information. Photograph © Alice Mutasa. Free entry at Litcham High School Church Street, Litcham, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE32 2NS

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Friday 25th October 6pm Celebrating the life of Dr. AllAn Glaisyer Minns A celebration Thursday 31th October of the life 2-4:30pm of Dr. Allan Glaisyer Fun, food and Minns, the first storytelling black mayor in Norfolk This exciting event showcases and in the UK! The achievements cultural foods, storytelling and of Glaisyer, elected in Thetford in music for the whole family. Come 1904, are testament to his hard along to be informed, entertained work, dedication and self-belief… and fed! an inspiration to us all! Saturday 26th October Contact 01493 656372 or 2-6pm The event includes live African Eurel.gray-read@ drumming, a performance from Aggrey Of Africa - communityconnections.org.uk or dance troupe Afrolosu and Dr. James Emmanuel trish.aydin@ communityconnections.org.uk entertainment from Afrozulu, the Kwegyir Aggrey history-performer from South (1875 - 1927) Free entry Africa. A discussion of the achievements at The Magdalene Methodist Contact 07910 922070 or of Dr James Emmanuel Kwegyir Church [email protected] Aggrey, a legendary intellectual, Magdalen Way, Gorleston, missionary and teacher from Ghana. Norfolk NR31 7DB £5 per family t 01493 661 741 Come and listen to the talk, enjoy at Litchfield Community Centre mouth-watering Ghanaian food and Suffolk Road, South Town, Great listen to the best in Ghanian music. Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk Yarmouth, Norfolk NR31 0EP for up-to-date event info and news Contact 07424 707953 or [email protected] Free entry at NIC, The Bridge Plus+ The Blue House, 19 Muspole Street, Norwich NR3 1DJ t 01603 617076 e [email protected] w bridgeplus.org.uk

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Sunday 13th October 12:00-5:00pm Football Unites and Racism Divides a BHM football tournament Norfolk BHM will be holding a 5-a-side football tournament at UEA Sportspark to help kick off our celebrations. Teams from across Norfolk will compete in this prestigious tournament in a bid to be named Norfolk BHM Football Tournament 2013 champions. This event is organised by Tiger Football Club, Norwich Mind and BHM and is sponsored by Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk and Norfolk FA. Free entry at UEA Sportspark University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ t 01603 592398 e [email protected] w sportspark.co.uk

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Wednesday 2nd October Song Noir events for Black History Month Brought to you by Clifford Andrews (‘Jazz and Blues Project’ director and ex-lecturer at City College) and Francesca (vocalist of Song Noir). For more info please visit songnoir.com/bhm 7:30-8:30pm

Mood Indigo – How Africa Wednesday 30th October Changed Popular Music AFRICAN Drumming with Discover how the collision of African music with western Anna Mudeka music in the last century helped create the sounds Drumming and music from of jazz, blues, soul, rock, hip-hop and rap. A dynamic Sub-Saharan Africa presentation supported by video and audio. To celebrate Black History month, Anna Mudeka is back 8:30-9:30pm by popular demand. Come and have a go at African Let’s Improvise! drumming, a free half term activity suitable for all the Music Workshop family (for children aged 4+). Presented in partnership with COAST Arts Festival. Find out how you can use the ‘devil’s interval’ and ‘call and response’ to create improvisations. Join in this Bookings and information: www.casaf.co.uk or practical workshop and have fun exploring your own www.annamudeka.com creativity within a supportive group. Free entry For musicians of all backgrounds and levels (12 years 11am-12noon old and above), no previous improvisation experience is required. at Sheringham Library New Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8EB Free entry 2pm-3pm at Cafe Bar Marzano The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF at Cromer Library t 01603 665504 Prince of Wales Road, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 9H

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Tuesday 8th October Thursday 17th October Thursday 24th October 7pm 7pm 7pm The Colour of Words Different or Black Power: Deficient? Discussing Malorie If you like reading and discussing How Black Characters Blackman’s Noughts books, you’ll love this evening of Speak in Mark Twain’s & Crosses literary chat. Join some of Norfolk’s The Adventures of finest writers as they read from, and If you’ve Huckleberry Finn, talk about, novels by black writers been bowled and How This Gets which have made them think and over by Translated feel differently about the world. ‘Noughts & Crosses’ Guest writers ‘The by the UK’s include Nick Adventures of children’s Caistor, Huckleberry laureate prize-winning Finn,’ by Malorie literary Mark Twain Blackman, translator has attracted or even if you haven’t read the and author of controversy for book but want to find out what non-fiction decades over you’ve been missing, come along to including its depictions of African-Americans. this energetic evening discussion. a critically In this talk Dr B.J. Epstein, lecturer ‘Noughts & Crosses’ explores an acclaimed biography of Che in literature and public engagement alternative world in which dark- Guevara; Sarah Bower, whose first at the University of East Anglia, skinned Crosses enact Jim Crow-like novel ‘Needle delves into the issue and questions laws against pale-skinned Noughts. in the Blood’ how much of black characters’ This ground-breaking novel – which was Susan cultures, dialects, and beliefs have was one of the 20 titles handed out Hill’s Book of been lost in translation. The issue for World Book Night this year – the Year in is whether the will serve as a starting-point for a 2007; and Hayley Long, celebrated black characters broader discussion about racism in writer of teen fiction, shortlisted are depicted as western society. for the Costa different or as Book Awards deficient, and 2012 for her what this says novel ‘What’s about society’s up Jody views of black Barton?.’ people.

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Thursday 10th October 6-7pm Black History in Poetry - An evening with the ‘Exploring Poetry’ group Join the ‘Exploring Poetry’ group for an evening of poetry celebrating Black History Month & National Poetry Day. Bring your favourite poems, or listen to others reading and enjoy the discussions. Refreshments available. Free entry Friday 11th October at Loddon Library 7:30pm 31 Church Close, Loddon, Norfolk NR14 6EX t 01508 520678 John Agard & Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Presented by Writers’ Centre Norwich and Norfolk Black History Month in association with Renaissance One Tuesday 29th October 2:30-4pm Enjoy an evening of powerful performance, laughter and brisk word-play with Caribbean poets John Agard and Afternoon Tea and Books Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze. Join us in the Both poets will have you hooked from the start. John Vernon Castle Agard, who currently holds the Queen’s Medal for Room on the Poetry, is loved by adults and children alike. Playful, yet 2nd Floor of full of purpose, poems such as ‘Mr Oxford Don’, ‘Limbo the library to Dancer at Immigration’ and ‘Half Caste’ have become discuss our classics. Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, from Jamaica, inspires two Library audiences around the world with her mastery of the Reads books, politically powerful ‘dub’ artform. She is the author of ‘To Kill a many poetry collections and in 2013 was awarded an Mockingbird’ MBE for Services to Literature. by Harper Lee and ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker. Enjoy a slice of cake and a cup of tea too! To book, contact 01603 877 177 or [email protected] Free entry Photography © Paul Taylor/ at Norfolk and Norwich Millenium Library Renaissance One The Forum, Millenium Plain, Norwich NR2 1AW This is a free talk but spaces are limited, so please £7 / £5 concessions contact Sarah by phone or email to book your place, so we know how much cake to buy! at Cafe Bar Marzano t 01603 774774 The Forum, Millennium Plain, e [email protected] Norwich NR2 1TF w theforumnorwich.co.uk t 01603 665504

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October events Celebrate Black History Month by reading and sharing the same book(s) at the same time over the Autumn. Share your views about these books, specially selected by local libraries, online at norfolklibrarybookreviewblog. wordpress.com. More information is available on the notice boards in each of the participating libraries.

Acle Village Read Attleborough Town Read Half of a Yellow Sun Noughts & Crosses by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Malorie Blackman The novel is set in 1960s Nigeria, Sephy is a Cross – a member during a vicious civil war in of the dark-skinned ruling which a million people died class. Callum is a nought – a and thousands were massacred ‘colourless’ member of the in cold blood. A young boy underclass who were once from a poor village employed slaves to the Crosses. The two at a university lecturer’s have been friends since early house, a middle-class woman childhood. But that’s as far as confronting the reality of her it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more relatives’ deaths and a white social equality and a limited number of Noughts are writer who falls in love with a local woman, are swept allowed into Cross schools… Against a background of up in the violence during these turbulent years. prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity by Noughts, a romance builds between My Best Friend’s Girl Sephy and Callum – a romance that is to lead both of by Dorothy Koomson them into terrible danger. What would you do for the Tail of the Blue Bird friend who broke your heart? by Nii Parkes Best friends Kamryn and Adele thought nothing could Sonokrom, a village in the come between them, until Ghanaian hinterland, has Adele slept with Kamryn’s not changed for thousands fiancé, Nate. Worse still, of years. Here, the men and she got pregnant and had women speak the language of his child. When Kamryn the forest, drink aphrodisiacs discovered the truth about their betrayal she vowed with their palm wine and walk never to see any of them again. alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains, possibly human, definitely ‘evil’, in Free entry a vanished man’s hut brings the modern world into the at Acle Library village in the form of Kayo, a young forensic pathologist Bridewell Lane, Acle, Norfolk NR13 3RA convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most t 01493 750693 inexplicable of mysteries. Free entry at Attleborough Library 31 Connaught Road, Attleborough, Norfolk NR17 2BW t 01953 452319 www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk 31 Arts & Literature Festival

Aylsham Town Read Caister Village Read A Lesson Before Dying White Teeth by Ernest J. Gaines by Zadie Smith Join us, and the The story travels rest of Aylsham, in through Jamaica, reading this story of Turkey, Bangladesh a young black man and India but ends sentenced to death up in a scrubby for a murder he North London didn’t commit. borough, home of the book’s two Books will be unlikely heroes: available from prevaricating 30th September - Archie Jones and 2nd November. intemperate Samad

Iqbal.

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Costessey Community Read Diss Town Read Black Mamba Boy Free entry by Nadifa Mohamed at Diss Library Aden, Yemen, 1935. Church Street, Diss, Norfolk IP22 4DD t 01379 642609 A city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home Mundesley Village Read to Jama, a ten Free entry year-old boy. But then his mother at Mundesley Library 18 Cromer Road, Mundesley, Norfolk NR11 8BE dies unexpectedly t 01263 720702 and he finds himself alone in the world. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962, where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver. There’s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing Free entry the hurt caused by at Costessey Library her own son’s tragic Breckland Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR5 0RW death; Minny, whose t 01603 742669 cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they’d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it.

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GORLESTON Town Read Harleston Town Read Hellesdon Town Read Free entry Marrowbone Marble Company at Gorleston Library by Glenn Taylor Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley Lowestoft Road, Gorleston, A powerful Norfolk NR31 6SG t 01493 662156 novel of love The summer and war, of 1948 in righteousness MILE CROSS Read the City and of Angels Free entry redemption, and there’s at Mile Cross Library and the heat on Aylsham Road, Norwich NR3 2RJ triumph of the streets t 01603 425906 the human and in the spirit. From the author of the ghettos of Baking Cakes in Kigali critically-acclaimed The Ballad of LA when by Gaile Parkin Trenchmouth Taggart comes this Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Meet Angel sweeping novel of love and war, Heat when she disappears with a Tungaraza, power and oppression, faith and trunkload of someone else’s cash. professional deception, set over the course of ‘I’m just asking you to find a girl...’ cake-baker, three defining American decades. A simple decision for Easy Rawlins – amateur no job, a mortgage and money due. Free entry matchmaker, Simple but for one thing. Nobody an ear to listen at Harleston Library ever warned him – better the devil and a shoulder Swan Lane, Harleston, you know. Norfolk IP20 9AW to cry on. t 01379 852549 Books will be available from A uniquely charming, funny and 30th September - 31st October touching novel of life and food set in PLUS Pop-up Book Group 18th Rwanda, a country recovering from October 2pm-3.30pm, with free unimaginable terror and violence. tea and cake! Free entry at Hellesdon Library Wood View Road, Norwich NR6 5QB t 01603 427790

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Hethersett Village Read NORWICH Read The Dying Wish To Kill a Mockingbird by Courttia Newland by Harper Lee The story travels In 1960, on the cusp of the through Jamaica, Turkey, US Civil Rights movement, Bangladesh and India but Harper Lee’s one and only ends up in a scrubby North novel was published and London borough, home has since become one of of the book’s two unlikely the best-loved stories of heroes: prevaricating Archie all time. Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm The Color Purple by Alice Walker in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself A powerful insight into the in a place both foreign problems faced by an African and frightening. When it American woman over 40 rains, the waters rise up years from the early 1900s and swallow the bridge to including poverty, racism and town, stranding the family sex discrimination. in a sea of mud. As the Second World War shudders to an end, two young men Free entry return from Europe to help work the farm only to face at Norfolk and Norwich Millenium Library far more dangerous battles against ingrained bigotry. The Forum, Millenium Plain, Norwich NR2 1AW t 01603 774774 Free entry at Hethersett Library Queen’s Road, Heathersett, Norfolk NR9 3DB t 01603 810188

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Reepham Village Sprowston Swaffham Town Read Read Community Read Look We Have Coming To Dover! Long Song Love by Daljit Nagra by Andrea Levy by Toni Morrison Taking in July is a This its sights slave girl audacious Matthew who lives vision of Arnold’s upon a the nature ‘land of sugar of love – its dreams’, plantation appetite, Nagra named its sublime explores Amity and possession, the it is her life its dread – idealism that is the is rich in and reality subject of this tale. She was there characters and striking scenes, and of multicultural Britain with wit, when the Baptist War raged in 1831, in its profound understanding of intelligence and no small sense of and she was present when slavery how alive the past can be. mischief. was declared no more. Free entry Free entry at Sprowston Library at Swaffham Library Recreation Ground Road, The Pightle, Town Centre, Norwich NR7 8EW Swaffham, Norfolk PE37 7DF t 01603 408426 t 01760 721513

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Tuckswood Read Great Yarmouth Town Read Free entry Purple Hibiscus at Tuckswood Library by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Robin Hood Road, Norwich NR4 6BX The limits of 15 year old t 01603 452038 Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her West Earlham Read family estate and the Free entry dictates of her fanatically religious father. When at West Earlham Library Nigeria is shaken by a 17-18 Earlham West Centre, Norwich NR5 8AD t 01603 451881 military coup, Kambili’s father sends her to live Beloved with her aunt. In this house, by Toni Morrison noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love – Terrible, unspeakable and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, The Secret Life of Bees the farm where she lived by Sue Monk Kidd as a slave for so many Lily has grown up believing years until she escaped she accidentally killed her to Ohio. Her new life is mother when she was four. full of hope but eighteen Now fourteen, she yearns years later she is still not for her mother, and for free. Sethe’s new home is forgiveness. Living on a not only haunted by the peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has memories of her past only one friend: Rosaleen, but also by the ghost a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender of her baby, who heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where died nameless and segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. whose tombstone When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, is engraved with a Lily feels compelled to act. single word: Beloved. Free entry at Great Yarmouth Library Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR30 2SH t 01493 844551

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October and November events Celebrate Black History Month by reading and sharing the same book(s) at the same time over the Autumn. Share your views about these books, specially selected by local libraries, online at norfolklibrarybookreviewblog. wordpress.com. More information is available on the notice boards in each of the participating libraries.

Dersingham Village Fakenham Town READ Hingham Town READ read Little Soldier Marshmallows for Breakfast Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Bernard Ashley by Dorothy Koomson by Christie Watson When When Kendra Lagos, Kaninda Tamale Nigeria. survives returns to Blessing’s a brutal England from Mama found attack on Australia she Father lying his village in rents a room on top of East Africa from Kyle, another he joins the a divorced woman. It’s rebel army. father of two, bad enough However, and begins a new job. She’s looking when her aid workers forward to a fresh start and a simple father abandons them. But when take him to London, to a new home life. Then she bumps into the man her mother loses her job, they have and family. Kaninda soon learns that who shares her awful secret, and to leave home and move into her clan and tribal conflicts surround things fall apart. The only way to grandfather’s compound. Living him, estate versus estate and urban fix them is to confess to the terrible with a poor countryside family is a tribe against urban tribe. mistake she made. shock beyond measure. Free entry Free entry Free entry at Fakenham Library at Hingham Library at Dersingham Library 22 Oak Street, Town Centre, The Fairland, Hingham, 59 High Street, Dersingham, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 9DY Norfolk NR9 4HW Dereham, Norfolk NR19 1DZ t 01328 862715 t 01953 850621 t 01362 693184

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Holt Town read KING’s Lynn Library Town Read Calling Me Home Pigeon English by Julie Kibler by Stephen Kelman Shalerville, Kentucky, Eleven-year-old Harrison 1939 is a world where Opoku, the second best runner black maids and in Year 7, races through his handymen are trusted to new life in England with his raise white children and personalised trainers – the tend to white houses, Adidas stripes drawn on with but from which they marker pen – blissfully unaware are banished after dark. of the very real threat around Sixteen-year-old Isabelle him. Newly arrived from Ghana McAllister, born into with his mother and older wealth and privilege, sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of finds her ordered life city life. But his life is changed forever when one of his turned upside down friends is murdered. when she becomes attracted to Robert, the ambitious black son of her family’s housekeeper. Before long Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Isabelle and Robert are crossing extraordinary, dangerous boundaries and falling deeply in love. Cassie Logan finds it hard to understand why the family farm means so much to her dad. She finds it even harder Free entry growing up in a place like at Holt Library Mississippi in the 1930s. But 9 Church Street, Holt, as she witnesses the hatred Norfolk NR25 6BB and destruction all around t 01263 712202 her, Cassie begins to see why she must find strength in the people she loves and stand up for what she believes. Free entry at King’s Lynn Library London Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 5EZ t 01553 772568

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Taverham Village read Wymondham Town Read Scottsboro Hello Mum by Ellen Feldman by Bernadine Evaristo Alabama, 1931. A posse It is a hot summer stops a freight train and afternoon. Tension is arrests nine black youths. in the air. A gang of Their crime: fighting with youths on bikes gathers white boys. Then two outside a chip shop and white girls emerge from a teenage boy is stabbed another freight car, and and left bleeding on the within seconds the cry of street. Hello Mum is a rape goes up. One of the powerful and moving girls sticks to her story. novel about a frightening The other changes her current issue. tune, again and again. A young journalist fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her Look We Have Coming To Dover! own past. by Daljit Nagra Free entry Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold’s ‘land of dreams’, at Taverham Library Sandy Lane, Taverham, Norfolk NR8 6JR Nagra explores the idealism t 01603 260545 and reality of multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Free entry at King’s Lynn Library London Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 5EZ t 01553 772568

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Library Book title Author Page October events Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Acle 31 My Best Friend’s Girl Dorothy Koomson Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman Attleborough 31 Tail of the Blue Bird Nii Parkes Aylsham A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 32 Caister White Teeth Zadie Smith 32 Costessey Black Mamba Boy Nadifa Mohamed 33 Diss The Help Kathryn Stockett 33 Gorleston Baking Cakes in Kigali Gaile Parkin 34 Harleston Marrowbone Marble Company Glenn Taylor 34 Hellesdon Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley 34 The Dying Wish Courttia Newland Hethersett 35 Mudbound Hillary Jordan Mile Cross Baking Cakes in Kigali Gaile Parkin 34 Mundesley The Help Kathryn Stockett 33 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Norwich 35 The Color Purple Alice Walker Reepham Long Song Andrea Levy 36 Sprowston Love Toni Morrison 36 Swaffham Look We Have Coming To Dover! Daljit Nagra 36 Tuckswood Beloved Toni Morrison 37 West Earlham Beloved Toni Morrison 37 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Great Yarmouth 37 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd October and November events Dersingham Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Christie Watson 38 Fakenham Little Soldier Bernard Ashley 38 Hingham Marshmallows for Breakfast Dorothy Koomson 38 Holt Calling Me Home Julie Kibler 39 Pigeon English Stephen Kelman King’s Lynn 39 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Taverham Scottsboro Ellen Feldman 40 Hello Mum Bernadine Evaristo Wymondham 40 Look We Have Coming To Dover! Daljit Nagra

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Film Festival

Sunday 6th October 7:15pm The Color Purple + INTROduction [15] Director: Steven Spielberg Introduced by Dr. Sarah Godfrey, th Monday 30 September Lecturer in Film and Television st Tuesday 1 October Studies at UEA. 2:45pm Steven Spielberg’s raw and NT Encore: Othello [12A] powerful adaptation of Alice Director: Nicholas Hytner Walker’s controversial, Pulitzer The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Prize-winning novel; a powerful Shakespeare’s play about the destructive power of jealousy. insight into the problems faced by an African American woman Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, over 40 years from the early 1900s BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous including poverty, racism and sex Iago is fellow Olivier winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, discrimination. Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the Greeted with mixed reviews in National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet. 1985 when it received 11 Oscar nominations and not a single Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed statuette, the film has been re- leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by evaluated in recent years and is Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and becoming acknowledged as one of Desdemona are having an affair. Spielberg’s masterpieces.

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Tuesday 15th October Wednesday 16th October 10am 9pm doors / 9:15pm start TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ROH. Live: Don Quixote [no cert] SCHOOLS SCREENING Composer: In 1960, on the cusp of the US Civil Ludwig Minkus. Rights movement, Harper Lee’s Choreographer: one and only novel was published Carlos Acosta, after and has since become one of the best-loved stories of Marius Petipa. all time. It was adapted for the silver screen in 1962 by Cast: TBC. producer Alan Pakula and director Robert Mulligan. This Run Time: 180 mins Oscar-winning film expertly captures the book’s essence approx. (incl. two and the ways of the Old South during the Depression of intervals). the 1930s. The adventures of Please note this screening is exclusively for schools, Cervantes’ bumbling colleges and educators. To book contact knight have been the [email protected] or call 01603 625145. inspiration for many £3 per pupil / teachers free ballets, best known of which is the Don Quixote of Marius Petipa with music by Ludwig Minkus. All the Sunday 27th October elements of the great classical ballets are here: emotion, drama and vivid characters. 5pm Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta has TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD + INTRO danced the virtuoso role of Basilio many times. So Introduced by writer it is especially exciting that he is creating this new and broadcaster production for the Royal Ballet, which will have designs Andrew Smith, who by Tim Hatley, who will give a modern edge to a broadly made the acclaimed traditional staging. BBC 4 documentary The music is full of Spanish flair and atmosphere, with a To Kill a Mockingbird at characteristic clarity of melody and rhythm that makes 50, about how Monroeville, Alabama has changed since it instantly appealing – here arranged by Martin Yates, it was used by Harper Lee as the setting for her novel. who also conducts. th Wednesday 30 October Don Quixote is a wonderfully entertaining ballet, known 3pm not only for its grand pas de deux, but for the ‘white act’ TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD visions of the beautiful Dulcinea and many lively scenes – a crowded port, an uproarious tavern – that bring the Without intro. whole company on stage. Normal ticket prices apply £20 / £15 concessions at Cinema City St Andrews Street, Norwich NR2 4AD at Cinema City t 0871 902 5724 (10p a minute from a landline) St Andrews Street, Norwich NR2 4AD w picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Cinema_City t 0871 902 5724 (10p a minute from a landline) w picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Cinema_City

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Sunday 20th October 6:30pm doors open 7pm start Emmanuel’s gift UEA ACS film night Narrated by Oprah Winfrey, Emmanuel’s Gift tells the story of a Ghanaian man born with a severely Saturday 19th October deformed 6-9pm right leg who attempts to Lumumba change the Lumumba is a political thriller that tells the story of stigma attached legendary Congolese leader Patrice Emery Lumumba. to disabled His vision of a united Africa earned him powerful people in Africa enemies, including the Belgian authorities and the CIA, and America. who also supported Lumumba’s former friend, Joseph He sets out of Mobutu. The film, starring Eriq Ebouaney, brilliantly cycling across Ghana with one leg whilst opening the documents Lumumba’s rise and rapid fall from power, hearts and minds of society and politicians. On his just months after becoming Congo’s first post- journey he meets many people inspired by his story independence leader. Lumumba was barely 30 when including Robin Williams. the first tremors of a botched decolonisation thrust him (Details subject to change) to the forefront of the international political arena. In a few years, he became the most reviled man of this £2 members intense cold war period. Becoming prime minister of £3.50 non-members one of the most mineral- and resource-rich countries in at UEA Lecture Theatre 1 Africa meant that his destiny as tragic hero was already University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, charted, his assassination already programmed. He Norwich NR4 7TJ would remain in power for only three months. t 01603 456161 Journalist and Prospective Labour Party Candidate Clive Lewis will spend the evening with young people from the mentoring programme Mixed Martial Arts Club. Contact Dee Robinson on 01603 662648 or 07799 661009, or email [email protected] Free entry at Interface Learning Unit 6, Beckham Place, Norwich NR3 3DZ t 01603 662648

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Cromer & Sheringham Art & Literary Festival – COAST 2013 celebrating Bollywoods 100 years in Cinema

Monday 28th October 10:30am-12noon A Passage to India BOLLYWOOD DANCE FAMILY WORKSHOP Bollywood celebrates 100 years of cinema in 2013 with events globally Sunday 27th October throughout the year. COAST’s Monday 28th October 7pm homage includes an introduction 2:30pm to the origins of Indian festival BRIDE AND PREJUDICE ESCAPE FROM TIBET dance by Tina Vallance of Jaya Bollywood Feature Illustrated Film Dance. Participants will also learn a Film Screening Screening Bollywood/Bhangra dance routine Director Nick Gray will introduce this using colourful scarves, ankle bells, From the Director of ‘Bend It Like special screening of his acclaimed bindis, and saris. Much fun was had Beckham’ (Gurinder Chadha) comes documentary which tells the at COAST 2012 in Tina’s workshops - this heartwarming Bollywood- dramatic and emotional true story early booking recommended! style adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic tale. Funded by the UK Film of the escape over the Himalayas by Bookings: www.casaf.co.uk Council and released in 2004, this Tibetans fleeing Chinese repression Information: www.jayadance.com in their country. Also appearing will musical rom-com (cert 12, 111 mins) be Tenzin, who was only 11 years old £3 is filmed mainly in English and has when his escape was filmed, now £4 family ticket (4 people) all the vitality of a classic Bollywood the subject of a new book. production – good, clean ‘cheesy’ fun! Bookings and information: Bookings: www.casaf.co.uk www.casaf.co.uk Workshop & Film: £7 £5 per person £3 £16 family ticket (4 people) £4 family ticket (4 people) at Cromer Community Hall, Garden Street, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 9HJ Brought to you by Cromer & Sheringham Art & Literary Festival – COAST 2013

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Wednesday 9th October doors open 6pm starts 6:30pm UEA African caribbean society (ACS) Debate

st ‘Is black history month still Tuesday 1 October necessary?’ (we here at BHM would 6-7:30pm certainly hope so!) And ‘does social ‘Forever Free?’ media create further divisions Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and between races?’ UEA’s African the Real Meaning of Freedom Caribbean Society host lively discussions. Dr. Becky Fraser will be presenting a talk entitled ‘Forever Free: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Real Meaning of Freedom’. Contact Moses Osibanjo on [email protected] In the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all enslaved peoples in the Confederate States of Free entry America, this lecture will consider the very complex and complicated at UEA Congregation Hall dimensions of freedom for the nearly four million enslaved peoples the University of East Anglia, Proclamation applied to. In addition it will question whether Lincoln can be, Norwich Research Park, and indeed should be, hailed as the Great Emancipator, given the limits of Norwich NR4 7TJ the actual declaration and its historical legacies. t 01603 456161 Free entry Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk at Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library for up-to-date event info and news The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1AW This is a free talk but spaces are limited, so please contact Sarah by phone or email to book a place. t 01603 774774 e [email protected] w theforumnorwich.co.uk

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Monday 7th October Tuesday 29th October 6:30pm From 10am From Tuesday 1st October Portrait of Jamaican artist throughout BHM Abraham Eshetu Danny Keen From 10am all week (Chair of the Black live, direct, and in High Wind in Jamaica History Month residence at the paintings by Danny Keen Committee) Sainsbury Centre Jamaican artist Danny Keen shows Jamaican artist Danny Keen makes Jamaican artist Danny Keen, live, a series of twelve abstract paintings the first public showing of his direct and in person recreates the that recreate in oils the sights, portrait of Abraham Eshetu, chair of sights, sounds, colours and rhythms sounds, colours and rhythms of the the Black History Month Committee. of his native Caribbean in kinetic oil artist’s native country. This striking portrait recognises painting technique to the calypso the unstinting work that Abraham music of Caspar ‘Calypso King’ Eshetu has carried out to enhance James and his ukulele. equality and unite communities across Norfolk. Free entry Free entry at The Sainsbury Centre UEA, University Drive, at Cafe Bar Marzano Norwich NR4 7TJ The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF t 01603 593199 t 01603 665504 w www.scva.org.uk

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Accompanying him all the way is Norfolk’s very own, down home USA, all American, original, former USAF solid Soul man, Bruce Lucas.

Tuesday 15th October 10pm Strut your style - represent your How Norfolk Got County the Groove by UEA African by Norfolk Blues Caribbean Society (ACS) and Soul heritage A chance for everyone to showcase Black rhythm and blues, containing their country’s style and traditional all the ingredients of Rock & Roll, clothing with excellent African and came to Great Britain with USAF Free entry Caribbean music. servicemen in WW2. As the Cold rd War increased in tension during the Thursday 3 October (Details subject to change) 7-9pm 1950s and 60s, more USA personnel £5 members flooded into Norfolk and the at Cromer Library £4 non-members Anglian region, bringing Soul music Prince of Wales Road, Cromer, along with them. Norfolk NR27 9HS at Mantra Nightclub t 01263 512850 50 Prince Of Wales Road, Norwich NR1 1LL Norfolk soul musician John Davison rd tells the story of how Norfolk Tuesday 23 October t 01603 660662 w mantranorwich.com pioneered Blues and Soul into Great 2:30-4:30pm Britain, taking us along with him at North Walsham Library on a fascinating personal journey. New Road, North Walsham, Visit www.norfolkblackhistorymonth.org.uk Norfolk NR28 9DE for up-to-date event info and news t 01692 402118 Wednesday 24rd October 2:30-4:30pm at Mundesley Library 18 Cromer Road, Mundesley, Norfolk NR11 8BE t 01263 720702

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Thursday 10th October Tuesday 15th October 12noon-1:30pm 6pm-7:30pm ‘Collection and Commemoration: ‘Warrior Marks: Slavery in Sight and Memory’ Alice Walker’s Writing’ Nicole Wilson from UEA will be presenting a talk Dr. Rebecca Tillett from UEA will be giving a talk entitled entitled, ‘Collection and Commemoration: Slavery in ‘Warrior Marks: Alice Walker’s Writing’. Sight and Memory’. The controversy surrounding both the publication of This talk looks at visual representations of slavery the Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple (1982) and in museums and memorial sites across the United Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film adaptation focused on Kingdom. It considers the unseen and the unsaid in such claims that Walker had refused a full focus on racism in commemorative spaces and addresses the idea that the order to discuss African American women’s experiences practice of memorialisation is twinned with forgetting. of sexism in the 1930s American South. Moreover, Contemplating the evolution of museological practice Walker’s depiction of often fraught relationships and from the birth of the modern museum in the eighteenth power dynamics between African American men and century, it also ponders whether such practices can offer women, and within black families was condemned as restitution and for whom, if they do, this restitution fuelling racist stereotypes. Taking The Color Purple as serves. a starting point, this lecture will assess the relationship between Walker’s writing and her own passionate and ongoing commitment to political commentary and activism. In addition to forming part of our Black History Month, this is also a Banned Books event.

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Monday 14th – Thursday 31st October Library opening hours Black History Month Exhibition: The Global Anti Apartheid Movement in Britain This enlightening exhibition will examine the extent to which the local political landscape influenced the character of anti-apartheid protest in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

Wednesday 16th October Wednesday 30th October 6-7:30pm 11am-12noon ‘The Local Dimension of the Anti-Apartheid The Anti-Apartheid Movement: the Case of Norfolk’. Movement in Britain Dr. Nick Grant from UEA will be giving a talk entitled ‘The Global Anti- Launch Event for ‘The Global Anti- Apartheid Movement in Norwich.’ Apartheid Movement in Norwich’ Exhibition at Norwich Millennium This talk will address the materials that make up the Global Anti-Apartheid Library. Movement in Norwich exhibition. It will explore the contributions of local businesses, politicians and students in Norwich to the international consumer boycott of apartheid South Africa.

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Claire Hynes Ejike Ndaji Claire Hynes is the A Solicitor at literary director for Overburys Black Culture and Solicitors, Heritage Norfolk Ejike is heavily and member involved in the of the Norfolk community Black History and is a Month Steering member of Group with a the Norfolk responsibility for Black History the BHM Literary Month Festival. She recently completed a PhD in creative and Steering critical writing at the University of East Anglia and has Group. taught creative writing prose fiction to undergraduates Ejike set up at the UEA and in the community to young people and OUTSPOKEN; children. She has worked as TV producer and a print a charity music event aimed at raising money for local journalist and is about to complete her first novel. charities. Previous events have supported the likes of the Foodbank and the Leeway charity. He is a Director at Norfolk Community Law Service which provides free independent legal advice to those without means and is Gervais a Trustee at Red Balloon Norwich which is a school for Kouloungou the recovery of bullied young people. Mambs Gervais moved to Norfolk 10 Obert years ago from Murwira the Ivory Coast where he resettled Obert lived in after fleeing Norwich in the persecution from his home country Congo-Brazzaville. 1970s. After Currently employed by the British Red Cross as a completing his Refugee Service Co-ordinator, he has helped set up the further education Refugee Orientation Centre where Norwich first became in the UK, he a dispersal for people seeking sanctuary in Britain. returned to Among his successes, Gervais has helped develop and Zimbabwe where implement the Gateway Protection Programme in he played various significant roles in the education Norwich, a UNHCR and Home Office partnership scheme system and its development. In 2000, Obert returned that offers a legal route for settlement to up to 750 to the United Kingdom with his wife and four children refugees every year. He founded the Norfolk French and first taught in Guildford, Surrey and then Thetford, Speakers Association (NORFRESA) to help French Norfolk. Having retired in August 2012, Obert is now speaking people to settle in Norfolk. He is currently enjoying life participating in various community the Chair of The Bridge Plus+, a local organisation that activities. He is an active member of the Zimbabwean promotes community cohesion. Community and The Bridge Plus+.

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