Black History Month A celebration of history, arts, literature and film A guide to events in Lambeth - Autumn 2018 Photo Public Domain: Bob Marley and friends in Kennington Park.

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené Malorie Blackman Afua Hirsch Lloyd Bradley www.lambeth.gov.uk/bhm #BHM18 Lambeth Libraries Lambeth Libraries Black History Month 2018

Introduction am delighted to invite you to this year’s Black History Month celebrations, which will be running throughout October. Last year so many of you told us how inspiring and uplifting you found the events and this year’s programme is equally as exciting.

There is something for all ages and all tastes. Please take this wonderful opportunity to learn about and celebrate African Caribbean Heritage and Culture, which influence and enrich all our lives.

Lambeth Libraries has partnered with Black Cultural Archives and 3 many local organisations, along with a selection of brilliant writers and artists, to deliver this fantastic programme of events.

I hope you will join us.

Cllr Sonia Winifred DISCOVER Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture @BHMLambeth BLACK #BHM18 WRITING ON THE MOVE http://lambeth.oneclickdigital.eu

@BHMLambeth BHMLambeth Programme events Slay in your Lane: The Black Call Mr. Robeson: Black History Market Girl Bible with Yomi Adegoke A Life, with Songs Saturday 6 October, 11am - 5pm. and Elizabeth Uviebinené Professor Dame Elizabeth Nneka Friday 5 October, 7pm. Impact Hub Brixton, Pop Brixton, Anionwu - Mixed Blessings Wednesday 3 October, Clapham Library 49 Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PQ from a Cambridge Union 7pm. Brixton Library Paul Robeson was a This Market Tuesday 2 October, 7pm. Black women today are great and famous actor, celebrates Clapham Library facing uniquely challenging singer and civil rights campaigner. When the inherent Born in Birmingham experiences in all aspects over the years he gets progressively beauty of in 1947, Elizabeth of their lives. Yet when best too radical and outspoken for the the African and Caribbean Diaspora started work for friends Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth establishment’s liking, he is branded through entrepreneurship. Uviebinené searched for a book that a traitor to his country, harassed, and the NHS at the Please join us at Impact Hub Brixton, addressed these challenges they denied opportunities to perform or age of 16. In 1979 for an inspiring showcase of black realised none existed. So Slay in Your travel. He is summoned to appear she helped to businesses. This is an indoor event Lane – the lovechild of exasperation before the House Un-American Activities establish the first representing entrepreneurs from and optimism – was born. Committee, to give the most difficult and nurse-led UK Sickle across the African and Caribbean important performance of his career. & Thalassaemia From education, to work, to dating, to diaspora. They will be displaying Screening and representation, money and health, this Tayo Aluko takes us on a roller- high quality products including food, Counselling Centre and has received 4 inspirational, honest and provocative coaster journey through Robeson’s clothing, stationary, books, jewellery, 5 many awards. She has written Black Girl Bible explores the ways in remarkable and eventful life. One of hair and beauty. Be sure to come extensively and is a co-author of The which being black and female affect the 20th Century’s most impressive down, support and discover new Politics of Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia. each of these areas – and offers but overlooked figures is revived in this businesses. advice and encouragement on how to compelling tour-de-force, performed at Elizabeth was vice-chairperson of Free entry: navigate them. New York’s Carnegie Hall in February the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Black History Market Appeal from its launch in November Illustrated with stories from their 2012 and including a dramatic rendition For more info: Tel: 0207 926 3032 2003. The statue was unveiled in the own lives, and using interviews with of Ol’ Man River. Not to be missed! grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital in successful black women in Britain, Tickets £8 June 2016. A Life Patron of the Mary Slay In Your Lane is essential reading Call Mr. Robeson Seacole Trust, she was honoured for a generation of black women 80 minutes (no interval) with a Damehood (DBE) in 2017. inspired to find success in every area Join Elizabeth of their lives. to discuss her Join Yomi and new biography. Elizabeth for a great night – booking essential! Tickets Free: Slay in your Lane Credit: Carol Rosegg Cuffay, Keyworth and the PoetrySlabs presents Jamaica, Britain and the Colour of Madness: Exploring Common – Carole Wright’s ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ Maroon Wars BAME mental health in the UK Lambeth Walk. Sunday 7 October, 2pm. Wednesday 10 October, 7pm. Thursday 11 October, 6pm. Saturday 6 October, 2pm. The Portico Gallery, Knights Hall, Impact Hub Brixton, Pop Brixton, Brixton Library Kennington Park - Meet at 23a Knights Hill, SE27 0HS 49 Brixton Station Road, SW9 8PQ The Colour Of St Mark’s Church, Oval PoetrySlabs presents ‘Get Up, Stand Paul Crooks (author and trailblazing Madness is a The Kennington Chartist Project walk Up’ – a reading of Caribbean and genealogist) speaks on the hidden seminal BAME led & for Black History Month is a personal African poetry, prose, and drama. Black and British history of Jamaica’s curated anthology, reflection on the radical local history As part of the West Norwood FEAST Akan speaking Maroons. Focusing comprised of Carole Wright encountered growing up ‘Black History Month’ programme, on the Maroons’ Wars with Britain, poetry, fiction, in the Kennington and Brixton areas PoetrySlabs will be featuring readings Paul draws attention to the impact of essays, memoirs, and art submitted by and how those encounters informed her of work by writers including Aimé Maroon activities on the early years BAME writers, academics, mental health development as a community gardener, Césaire, John Agard, Frantz Fanon, of the Industrial Revolution. Paul will workers, artists and those still navigating artist and activist. The walk will include Colin Channer, Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Ngũgĩ call on his experiences tracing his life with mental health problems, William Cuffay the black Chartist leader, wa Thiong’o, Andrea Levy, Oumar African Caribbean ancestry to help exploring the BAME mental health Bob Marley’s famous performance in Farouk Sesay, Stuart Hall, Ama bring this important history into focus. experience in the UK. Kennington Park (and his link to the Ata Aidoo and Chimamanda Ngozi Tickets £5 (early bird ticket £3) Join book Rastafarian temple on St Agnes Place), Adichie. Join to read and to enjoy. 6 contributors, and a particularly inspiring history For more info, email: 7 editor Rianna teacher at Keyworth School who taught [email protected] Walcott, her about the profound significance and BAME of the 1848 Chartist meeting on mental health Kennington Common. organisations for a Carole Wright: Wright1Carole new exploration of the issue. The Kennington Chartist Project: Kennington1848 Free booking: Cuffay, Keyworth and the Common Black Cultural Archives Friends Focused Healthy Life How Europe Underdeveloped Brixton Still Walking Tour with Heritage Tour Africa – Brixton Radical Reads Michael Groce Friday 12 October, 1.30pm to book group special Thursday 11 October, 4pm to 5pm 4.30pm and 5.30pm to 8.30pm. Saturday 13 October, 2pm. and 6pm to 7pm. BCA, Windrush Sq. Streatham Library Friday 12 October, 7pm. Meet Brixton Library Brixton. SW2 1EF Brixton Library (walk approx. 1hour) Let food be your medicine and Go behind-the- medicine be your food - Health summit. Join the reading group to discuss How Michael Groce scenes and Europe Underdeveloped Africa, the is an award- Our health discover the inner landmark work on exploitation of the winning, BBC is our most workings of the African continent from Walter Rodney. Windrush Poet precious UK’s heritage and community gift and yet Few books have been as influential. centre dedicated leader in Brixton. we do not With oppression and liberation to the histories of Michael’s understand his main concern, Rodney ‘delves Black people in relationship with how to into the past… only because Britain. Our archive collections span Brixton reaches maintain our otherwise it would be impossible over centuries and hold stories of the back 50 years bodies - we operate at maximum to understand how the present everyday to the extraordinary. Join one and he is known for his connection to levels. Do you ever wonder what are came into being.’ In the search for of the heritage centre tours and learn the Brixton Riot and other struggles for the essential things we need to do to an understanding of what is now about the history of the Black Cultural social and racial equality. Join Michael 8 stay healthy? This event will introduce called “underdevelopment” in Africa, Archives and go behind the doors of on The Brixton Still Walking Tour which 9 you to the four basic building blocks this book, first published in 1972, the archive vault. will show you a side of Brixton that of health, namely - Water, Breathing, remains an essential introduction remains unknown to many, uncovering Free, booking is essential contact Sleeping and Nutrition. to understanding the dynamics of hidden treasures, meeting local people [email protected] Africa’s contemporary relations with We also cover four challenges that and experiencing the important cultural the West and is a powerful legacy of a face our community, namely prostate elements that Brixton has to offer. committed activist and thinker. cancer, fibroids, type 2 diabetes and This is the first in a series of walking mental distress. At each of the two For a copy of the book please contact tours that will be run as part of the sessions Streatham Library will be the library on 020 7926 1056. Coldharbour Project: a creative hosting expert speakers covering all of community heritage project that works the issues. with volunteers to tell local stories and uncover the important social and cultural evolution of Coldharbour Lane over 70 years. For further information and to book a place contact: [email protected] Kennington’s Black History Walk Watt Town: Holy Songs from Big Joanie and support – A Screaming Toenail - Danceable Jamaica Film showing (47mins) night of Black British Punk! decolonising punk, with razor sharp Saturday 13 October, 2pm. and Director Q&A lyrics tackling race and gender politics Meeting point at the junction of Saturday 13 October, 7.30pm. led by Afro-futurist artist Jacob V Joyce. Manor Place and Walworth Road Saturday 13 October, 7pm. Clapham Library (by McDonalds, 198/200 Walworth Rd, West Norwood Library Clapham Live is proud to be highlighting Women of colour have SE17 1JJ) one of the most under-celebrated arenas Watt Town: Holy always had a place in of Black influenced music. Don’t miss Led by local historian S I Martin Songs from Jamaica punk. Big Joanie is here this – a night like no other in the library. and Marietta Crichton Stuart from presents a Revival to remind you of that. the Friends of Kennington Park, pilgrimage in St Ann. The London-based group who blend Tickets £10 Big Joanie the walk looks at Kennington’s Revival is one the tangling post-punk guitar lines, spit- Black History links including William Black religions born shined hooks, and a “sprinkling,” of Davidson (Jamaican born Cato Street in Jamaica during black liberation politics headline a night Just Rhyme: Black History Conspirator); William Cuffay (son of slavery. Known as ‘Native Baptist’ then of Black Punk. Month Special a black sailor and leading Chartist); later ‘Revival’, this became the first Big Joanie - The black feminist Thursday 18 October, 7pm. Robert Wedderburn (radical preacher Christian Jamaican church. Two of the punk band bring their own brand of Brixton Library and anti-slavery campaigner); Mary National heroes, Sam Sharpe and Paul Sistah Punk, drawing influence from Just Rhyme invites you to participate Seacole and Bob Marley, as well as the Bogle were also Jamaican Baptists. It everything from New Bloods to Sister in our special Black History Month role of Kennington Park and St Mark’s has also been said that the character of 10 Rosetta Tharpe and Bell Hooks to competition. We are offering the Church as sites of protest and political Rastafari has been shaped by Revival 11 Melissa Harris Perry. winner a chance to headline our fifth and religious meetings. to a greater extent than thought. Join Just Rhyme event on October 27 us for the film showing and discussion alongside other well-known spoken with Director Stephane Delphin, over word artists and poets. All you need from France for the showing. to do is a write a poem about positive contributions in history from influential black figures, and then share it with us at our Black History Month special. Participants Secret Power - Forceful reverb driven must be 16 post-punk melded with dreamy R&B and over and girl group harmonies. the poem must not exceed five minutes in length when recited. Just turn up ready - we look forward to hearing your poems on October 18 at Brixton Library! Kitch: A Fictional Biography Genesis Choir and poetry Celebrate Windrush with AfroCROWD UK of a Calypso Icon with in the afternoon Pegasus Opera Wikipedia workshop Anthony Joseph Saturday 20 October, 4pm. Saturday 20 October, 7pm. Wednesday 24 October, 11am to Friday 19 October, 7pm. West Norwood Library Brixton Library 4pm. Streatham Library Tate South Lambeth Library Join LYF (Live Join Pegasus Opera for a scintillating Combining life-writing Yours Fully), a evening of splendid singing. with poetic prose, local group of This vocal extravaganza features Anthony Joseph gets young people Britain’s leading black classical singers to the heart of the man who use art performing opera, musical theatre behind the music and forms such as the myth, reaching and a Caribbean inspired programme singing and behind the sobriquet to present a as we pay tribute to the Windrush poetry to express Join AfroCROWD UK and learn how holistic portrait of the calypso icon generation. We know you will love this themselves to edit Wikipedia and improve content Lord Kitchener. unique and uplifting event!… and of and encourage about Black history and culture in course the evening will end with some The poet and others to live their best life. LYF and the free online encyclopaedia. Come audience participation so bring your musician Anthony The Genesis Choir will perform song and get practical tips and experience best voice. Joseph met and and poetry to inspire in the afternoon. in improving and creating content spoke to Lord Poetry will be read from Climbing for Wikipedia. Experienced editors 12 Kitchener just once, Clouds, Catching Comets, a collection and complete beginners are equally 13 in 1984, when he from the young poet Alexander Paul welcome. We’ll provide training for found the calypso who lost his battle with terminal brain anyone new to editing. icon standing alone cancer last year. for a moment in the heat of Port of Limited places, booking essential: Spain’s Queen’s Park Savannah, one The Genesis Project is a gospel group contact 020 7926 6768 Carnival Monday afternoon. It was consisting of talented singers and a pivotal meeting in which the great musicians around London, who want calypsonian, outlined his musical to use powerful music and relevant vision, an event which forms a moving songs to spread positive messages to epilogue to Kitch, Joseph’s unique their listeners. biography of the Grandmaster.

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Credit: Naomi Woddis Celebrating Black Hair Day! The Solomon Success Story Flintlock Theatre presents Funk Is Its Own Reward – No Dogs BritFunk with Lloyd Bradley and Wednesday 24 October, Monday 29 October, 7pm. special guest Junior Giscombe 2pm to 6pm. West Brixton Library Thursday 1 November, 7pm. Norwood Library Durning Library Friday 2 November, 7pm. Clapham Library Join us in celebrating “No Blacks. No Irish. No Dogs. That’s the history, style and what the signs said. And here we are, Lloyd Bradley is beauty of Black hair. fifty years later. I’m Jamaican. You’re one of the UK’s Drop in to see historic Irish. Both British. But ain’t got no foremost black styles from our Archive home anywhere. Not anywhere. music experts and and talk to experts and a seasoned cultural Niamh’s Irish but you wouldn’t know it, bloggers for tips and commentator apart from the name nobody can spell. advice on celebrating Meet Solomon Smith, the founder both in print and Images courtesy of Paul’s black, well, Jamaican, actually, your natural beauty. Lambeth Archives of the popular charity Brixton Soup in person. but English people don’t know Kitchen, which provides hot food, the difference. Could be St. Kitt’s, Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King drinks and clothes for the homeless. Feast in the Archives Barbados, for all they know. And that’s remains the world’s best-selling book More recently Solomon has seen Sunday 28 October, 3pm to 6pm. the way he likes it. ‘Cos at night, at the on Jamaican music and culture; the his charity skyrocket with celebrity BCA, Windrush Sq. Brixton. SW2 1EF club, they’re just kids, dancing, free internationally acclaimed Sounds Like volunteers and mass media attention. 14 in this new Britain, where you can be London: 100 Years of Black Music Each and every October You may have seen him on BBC, 15 anything you want to be. Can’t you?” in the Capital is the first and only to BCA Friends open up SKY or ITV NEWS or even at number explore Britain’s modern black music the archives to host 10 Downing Street. Now Solomon No Dogs charts the shared history as one continuous thread. Feast in the Archives. is sharing his business secrets in his of journeying and identity between This year the Family debut book ‘The Solomon Success Irish and Afro-Caribbean immigrants Tonight Lloyd turns his attention Ties exhibition tells a Story’ – Solomon teaches you how to to the UK, exploring evolving notions to BritFunk in an evening of chat, story of an East-London family and get a business up and off the ground of Britishness down the generations. music and good times – even a bit of their discovery of remarkable family as well as the best ways to market Currently in development, No Dogs dancing - with Lloyd’s specially curated history dating back centuries. Bring your business. His heart-warming will be shared as a work in progress at soundtrack for the night - if you fancy! rehearsed readings. All welcome. your family together to share nostalgic story of growing up in Brixton town will Forward, the memories over home-cooked food definitely inspire you to reach higher autobiography of from back home. From jerk chicken in your everyday goals and ambitions. Marcia Barrett, co- and mutton, roti, suya, waakye and Do join us for networking and chat at authored by Lloyd jollof rice, enjoy the blend of cuisines Solomon’s debut launch. – was published in that have been carried over into Black February this year British communities and delve deeper and he is currently into the archives for an afternoon of writing Funk Is Its food, memories, history and archives. Own Reward, the Tickets: £25, includes Sunday lunch story of 1970s buffet. Booking [email protected] soul music. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Pan Africanism: A History with Common Ties 10 For School group Belonging with Afua Hirsch Professor Hakim Adi Friday 16 November, 7pm. library visits Saturday 3 November, 7pm. Monday 5 November, 7pm. Clapham Library Brixton Library Brixton Library An evening of celebration and promotion Race to the Frozen North: The You’re British. Your parents are British. The first survey of the Pan-African of Caribbean heritage and culture. Matthew Henson story with You were raised in Britain. Your movement for over 50 years, this book author Catherine Johnson A range of guest contributions, partner, your children and most of your provides a history of the individuals performances, and presentations will Tuesday 9 October, 10.30am-12pm. friends are British. and organisations that have sought entertain, enthuse and enthral, whilst Durning Library the unity of all those of African origin So why do people keep asking you also helping us all to reaffirm those as the basis for their advancement Matthew Henson, where you are from? “Common Ties” which bound together and liberation. Initially an idea and an outstanding, our parents, grandparents and Brit(ish) is about a search for identity. movement that took root in the African unsung Black hero ancestors throughout our history, and It is about the everyday racism that Diaspora, in more recent times Pan- is celebrated in sustain us today. plagues British society. It is about Africanism has been embodied in best-selling author our awkward, troubled relationship the Organisation of African Unity and You will be part of an evening which Catherine Johnson with our history. It is about why liberal its successor the African Union, with will allow us to remember, celebrate, latest novel: Race to attempts to be ‘colour-blind’ have some leading Pan-Africanists calling and look forward to preserving the the Frozen North, a story suppressed caused more problems than they have for a United States of Africa as the culture from which the proverbs came. for decades because of the colour 16 solved. It is about why we continue of his skin. Henson became a 17 means to advance the interests of the Tickets Free: to avoid talking about race. In this navigator, craftsman and translator African continent. Common Ties 10’ personal and provocative investigation, on a treacherous journey to the North Hakim Adi covers many of the key Afua Hirsch writes an urgent call for Pole, defying the odds and the many political figures of the 20th century, change. Join her in discussion. prejudices that faced him to become a including Du Bois, Garvey, Malcolm X, true pioneer. Nkrumah and Gaddafi, as well as Pan-Africanisms expression via the Catherine Johnson is an award- writing of the Harlem Renaissance and winning YA author. Signed copies of Negritude to the wearing of the Afro the book will be available for purchase. hair style and the music of Bob Marley, Year groups 5 and 6. Fela Kuti and Didier Awadi. Booking essential: [email protected] An Afternoon with Kofi and the Magic Shaker – Effua’s Tales – Malorie Blackman storytime Folk tales from Africa Saturday 29 September, 2pm to 3pm. Tuesday 2 October, 10.30am. Saturday 13 October, 1.30 to 2.30pm. BCA, Windrush Sq. Brixton SW2 1EF Minet Library Clapham Library and Lambeth Town Hall SW2 1RW. Friday 19 October, 10.30am. Saturday 13 October, 3.30 to 4.30pm. The BCA invites Waterloo Library Durning Library young people to a special Wednesday 24 October 10.30am. gathering with the Carnegie Library loved Children’s Celebrate Black History Month and join Laureate Malorie in these special story-telling sessions Blackman OBE. that have been developed for children Award-winning with additional needs to enjoy. Special and critically-acclaimed Malorie is props bring the story alive for everyone. celebrated for her ingenious and brave stories that transport young minds into Kofi is sitting under a coconut tree future imaginings and possibilities. trying to keep cool when he is approached by a strange looking Join Effua, the award-winning Join us at Lambeth Town Hall for spider, who offers a magic solution to international story-teller, poet and 18 Events for Children storytelling and conversations led 19 the heat! Find out what happens next… by Malorie Blackman with the next TV presenter to hear traditional folk tales from Africa. Be entertained while Welcome to Black History generation of readers and future writers. Ages up to 7 years Afterwards, enjoy asking Malorie all learning about the richness of African Month 2018 for Children Storytelling suitable for children with your favourite questions for afternoon culture and heritage. and Young People. We additional needs tea back at Black Cultural Archives. Or, Effua was born in , West Africa have a range of activities enjoy lunch in the BCA café and relax and came to the UK at the age of and events for everyone for a reading session with your favourite three. She specialises in original and to enjoy. Be inspired to characters from classic folktales from creative sharing of oral and written Africa and the Caribbean. create amazing artwork, stories and traditional folk tales. She to write, to sing and to Children are free and must be has worked with the BBC, National accompanied by a paying adult. Literacy Trust and Sky TV. dance. Come and listen to great authors and hear Storytelling: Free for children aged Ages 5 to 12 years 16 years and under, adult with the wonderful traditional accompanying child: £3, adult only: £8 tales from Africa and the Afternoon Tea: £25 (Limited tickets Caribbean. Most of all available, book early to avoid have fun as you celebrate disappointment) Booking is essential contact Black History Month. [email protected] Scoop – Black History Caribbean Folk Tales with African Art and Craft Kechi’s Hair Goes Every Which Magazine Making for Kids Winston Nzinga Workshops Way with Tola Okogwu Saturday 20 October, 10.30am to Saturday 20 October, 1.30pm to Monday 22 October, 1.30pm to Wednesday 24 October, 10.30am. 12.30pm. Streatham Library 2.30pm. West Norwood Library 2.30pm. Waterloo Library West Norwood Library Saturday 20 October, 1pm to 3pm. Thursday 25 October, 1.30pm to Wednesday 24 October, 2.30pm to Who will win in the epic battle between Upper Norwood Library 2.30pm. Streatham Library 3.30pm. Upper Norwood Library dad and hair? Kechi’s hair is big, thick and loud... and that’s just the way she Scoop is a bi-monthly printed Old time stories come back again. Thursday 25 October, 2.30pm to likes it. Mummy’s away and it’s up to magazine for kids 7+ designed to Come and join in the fun. Play a 3.30pm. Carnegie Library Daddy to get Kechi and her hair ready inspire and nurture a love of reading drum, a shaker or bell. Listen and sing Friday 26 October, 1pm to 2.00pm. for school. There’s just one problem... and stories. Each month they bring along with Winston Nzinga recounting Minet Library he doesn’t know how! Fun and hilarity together a host of incredible writers Caribbean folk stories with music and ensue as Daddy tries to tame Kechi’s and illustrators to create original fiction song from the Windrush generation. Get creative and celebrate Black swirly-springy, fluffy-puffy, squishy- and non-fiction in a magazine. A lively, interactive story-time, where History Month with these African squashy, candyfloss curls. Meet you will hear and be entertained by inspired craft activities. Make a shield, a Join the creators to hear about how author Tola Okogwu reading from her traditional tales. mask or some jewellery to take home. they made our Black History Month new book. issue for November, get inspired and Ages 5 years and above Ages 4 to 12 years Ages up to 8 years make your own special mini magazine. 20 21 Ages 7 to 12 years Breaking and Street Dance Samba Reggae Other Events Fun Palaces Workshop with the Rain Crew Drumming Workshop Saturday 6 October Thursday 25 October, 2.30 to 4pm. Wednesday 24 October, 2.30 to A Cabaret Celebration of the Clapham Library 3.30pm. Brixton Library Poetry of Beata Duncan Friday 26 October, 2.30 to 4pm. Friday 26 October, 2.30 to 3.30pm. Thursday 4 October, 7pm. Brixton Library Tate South Lambeth Library Brixton Library Fun Palaces are about promoting culture at the heart of community and Breaking, often mistakenly called break- Come and learn, enjoy and perform the For National community at the heart of culture. The dancing, is a dynamic dance style that Afro-Brazilian rhythms of the Blocos Poetry Day Brixton day of action uses the combination originated from funk, soul and hip-hop Afro from Bahia, Brazil at this lively Library presents of arts, craft, science, tech, digital, in the early 70s in the Bronx New York. carnival drumming workshop with an evening of heritage and sports activities, led The art form is known in popular culture Trevor Kentish. Trevor is a professional poetry, cabaret and by local people for local people, for dancers doing flips, head-spins and multi-percussionist and band leader for music celebrating sharing their own passions and moving to the beat. Sonido Bossa Nova and runs regular the poetry of skills, as a catalyst for community- drumming classes. He has played Beata Duncan. Rain Crew, an internationally renowned led transformation, with active in West End Musicals; with Hugh Composed dance company, connects communities participation for all ages. Masekela and at Glastonbury with the and sung by Andreas Demetriou through music, dance and culture and Rebirth Brass Band. with musician friends, the evening Lambeth Libraries will be celebrating believes in supporting and empowering will include an introduction and Fun Palaces again this year. See 22 individuals. They deliver classes, www.unityinspiration.co.uk 23 performance by the Duncan family. posters in your local library to find out workshops, performances, events and Ages 5 years and above what is happening and how to join in. competitions as well as fundraising ‘ Blues’ included in the National drives for international disasters. As Poetry Day Anthology 2018 Shared spaces - Poetry night performers they have worked with ITV, Hosted by Friends Of Brixton Library Tuesday 23 October, 7pm. Tate Puma, Adidas, ASOS, Argos, Orange, www.brixtonsociety.org.uk. South Lambeth Library EE, Brit Awards and danced on various Free event – all are welcome! international stages including the A group of London 02 Arena. Instagram: @raincrew poets discuss and read their Ages 6 to 12 years poems on an issue that has a wide resonance, notably for public libraries and parks – how a community shapes and is shaped by those who share its public spaces. Admittance free: refreshments available. Organised by the Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library. Nein! Standing Up to Hitler The Rebellious Women International Games Week How to Survive A Post-Truth 1935-44 with Paddy Ashdown of Wimbledon Apocalypse Saturday 10 November Monday 15 October, 6.45pm. Tuesday 23 October, 7pm. Friday 23 November, Libraries are known as the place to go Durning Library Durning Library 7.30pm. Clapham to share culture in the form of books, Library From the music, movies and even technology. bestselling and But, more and more they are a place A one-woman prize-winning to gather as a community. During show mixing author Paddy International Games Week, more than story-telling, verse, Ashdown, a two thousand libraries across the planet spoken word, revelatory new will celebrating the mutually-reinforcing (gentle) audience history of German the power of play and learning. interaction and a opposition to Hitler from 1935 to 1944. game of “Whose We invite everyone to visit Lambeth Attic Theatre presents The Rebellious Lie is it Anyway”. In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in Libraries during International Games Women of Wimbledon. A witty, his bunker that he had been betrayed Week. Bring the family and the kids Join Francesca inventive and moving new show about by his own people, defeated from the and take a new look at what your Beard, your sham-shaman, on an the Suffragettes inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, library has to offer – it just might adventure into falsehood. Through a his armies were being crushed on all ‘Welcome everyone. Do take a seat, surprise you. series of fabulous encounters, you will 24 fronts, his regime collapsing with many and enjoy the refreshments. We’re meet make-believe in its many forms, 25 fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, here tonight to talk about the cause from political spin, to polite half-truths, even before the war started, there of women. Quite simply, we’re here to to the lies we live by: ‘Capitalism is were Germans very high in Hitler’s change the world.’ a meritocracy’; ‘Grandma, I love this command committed to bringing cardigan’; ‘Yes, I have read the terms Centring on the remarkable story of about his death and defeat. Paddy and conditions’. Clapham born Rose Lamartine Yates, Ashdown tells, for the first time, the this new play, by acclaimed playwright Francesca is one of the most story of those at the very top of Hitler’s Beth Flintoff, is an impassioned, successful spoken word artists in the Germany who tried first to prevent the unsentimental and sharp-witted UK, and in this new show explores Second World War and then to deny tribute to the Suffragette cause in this our place in a new “post-truth” world Hitler victory. centenary year. that’s had enough of experts, but not Talk organised enough of Donald Trump. It asks: A cast of three women, a handful of by the Friends of ‘What is the global cost of make- props and original music, bring this Durning Library. believe?’, ‘Are all humans liars?’ and incredible story vividly to life for the 6.45pm for 7.15pm ‘Can the truth set us free?’ first time, in a production by Attic start. All welcome, Theatre Company. Tickets £8: How to Survive light refreshments, A Post-Truth Apocalypse suggested Overall running time: approx. 1hr donation £2 Tickets: £14.50/£12.50 concessions www.attictheatrecompany.com Lambeth Libraries

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