Hillsborough Inquests, and helped to themselves through a broad range of secure justice when it was ruled that the artistic and creative expression. Special Guests at 96 victims were unlawfully killed. Her Kaiso Vibrations sterling work has been recognised with numerous awards, most recently Legal Tuesday 10 October, 6 – 8pm Hackney during Black Personality of the Year at the Solicitors Library Journal Awards 2017. Willis Stewart was also made an honorary Queen’s Counsel History Season 2017 in January 2017. Maya Angelou: Why is she so This year you will meet these creative and artistic talents important to Black British Writers? during events in Hackney’s Libraries. Wednesday 18 October 6.30 - 7.45pm Words of Colour Kadija (George) Sesay C.L.R. James Library Productions House of AMAU Words of Colour Other highlights during Black From its inception, the House of AMAU Productions is a creative (the ‘mau’ syllable is pronounced as in History Season 2017 include: communications the Kenyan Mau Mau) has successfully delivered cultural arts projects and agency that promotes, Sandra A. Agard

facilitates and develops writers of colour remains at the forefront of campaigning

- of all genres, collaborates with arts and for the recognition of African Caribbean Founder/publisher of SABLE LitMag, creative industries to increase cultural artists and arts organisations. The four SABLE LitFest, and co-founder of The inclusion, and creates multi-platform letters in ‘AMAU’ represent the semi- Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport projects to reshape the single narrative autonomous groups through which in The Gambia. Also editor of several misrepresenting diverse communities. the organisation operates: AMBA anthologies of work by writers of African Publications, Morningside Music, Anansi Presented by Words of Colour and Asian descent and the Publications Dramatic and Ultra Promo. Productions during Hackney Black Manager for the Inscribe Programme for Professional Storyteller, Writer History Season 2017: Peepal Tree Press. Her poetry collection and Literary Consultant for Stories Still Unfolding and Caged Birds Still Singing Victoria Adukwei Bulley Irki (which means ‘Homeland’ in the over twenty years in a variety Nubian language) was shortlisted for of venues and settings around Tuesday 17 October, 6 – 9pm the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry the country and abroad. These Library in 2014. Her second collection, The Modern include schools, colleges theatres,

Pan Africanist’s Journey, led to the production libraries, shopping malls, literary festivals, Andrea Enisuoh of an app, The Modern Pan Africanist’s prisons and in the community. Born in Journey. She is a Fellow of the George Bell Hackney, London to Guyanese parents; Institute, a Fellow of the Kennedy Arts Centre her storytelling and cultural and literary British-born Ghanaian poet, of Performance Arts Management and is backgrounds are steeped within the writer and facilitator. She is a currently on an AHRC scholarship to research African-Caribbean Oral Traditions mixed former member of the Barbican Black British Publishing at Brighton University. with a Black British perspective.

Young Poets. Her work has Sandra’s works have been published in a been commissioned by the Royal Andrea Enisuoh is a Hackney

Dean Atta number of publications including: Talking Academy of Arts, in addition Blues (Poetry), Time for Telling (Stories), based community activist and to being featured in The Rialto Myths, Tales and Legends (Stories), writer who has written extensively and on BBC Radio 4. She Times Like These (Poetry and Stories) about the legacy of Malcolm X was shortlisted for the Brunel and Unheard Voices (Stories). and Martin Luther King Jr. She is currently working on a book University International African Also a playwright, her plays have included: Poetry Prize 2016, and is one of about Maya Angelou and their amazing We Are Women (Tom Allen Centre, interaction. ten poets on the acclaimed UK Stratford), Women and Sisters (Royal mentorship programme, The Complete Maya Angelou: Moments with Writer and performance poet. Court Young Peoples Theatre), The © Derek Smith Works. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B, Malcolm & Martin - Stories Untold Described by Time Out London as “one Rainforest Revisited with Keith Waithe - The History of the Civil Rights edited by Kwame Dawes, is forthcoming of the UK’s finest poets” with Benjamin (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and Movement in America as part of the 2017 New-Generation Zephaniah calling his poetry “as honest as Abena’s Stupidest Mistake (The Drill Hall). African Poets series. truth itself”, he has been commissioned to Sandra is currently working on a number Tuesday 3 October, 6 – 8pm An Ode to Maya: Poetry Slam write poems for the Damilola Taylor Trust, of writing projects including a book of Library Workshop Keats House Museum, National Portrait Anansi the Spider stories and a children’s Tribute to Darcus Howe… His Life Thursday 5 October, 5.30 - 7.45pm Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Atta fantasy novel in addition to a play with and Legacy Clapton Library was named as one of the most influential Flautist and Composer Keith Waithe, Tuesday 31 October, 6 – 8pm LGBT people by the Independent on based on the South American rainforest Dalston C.L.R. James Library Sunday Pink List 2012. His debut poetry called Treasures of the Rainforest; Angie Le Mar Memoir Writing Workshop: Hackney collection I Am Nobody’s Nigger was which has been touring for a number my Hackney Island to Island: published in 2013 by The Westbourne Press. of years in school, libraries and theatres Atta is currently Artist in Residence at Tate and will continue its tour in Hampshire Saturday 18 November, 1 – 4pm Britain and Guest Artistic Director at New during this year’s Black History Month Hackney Museum Journeys though the Caribbean Writing South. celebrations. Still I Rise… Praise songs of Survival

This special exhibition celebrates the light, life and landscapes of Marcia Willis Stewart QC (Hon) Thursday 26 October, 2 – 4pm Exhibition at Award-winning comedienne, the English-speaking Caribbean through stunning photographs Library (Children’s entrepreneur, writer, director, Library) Hackney Museum taken over the past sixty years. Displayed alongside local people’s producer and talk show host. Le Our Rainbow in Our Clouds…The Life personal memories from Hackney Museum’s rich collections, Mar has a long and wide ranging and Times of Dr. Maya Angelou career, from being the first British Monday 30 October, 6 – 8pm Tuesday 3 October 2017 – this exhibition provides a snapshot of the Caribbean and its performer to storm the legendary Harlem

© Sarah Booker © Sarah Library (Gallery) connections with Hackney. Apollo to making history in London‘s West Saturday 13 January 2018 End with the first ever sell out show by a Award-winning civil rights lawyer black comedienne. Le Mar cut her teeth and a partner at the renowned on the comedy circuit in the mid-80s and Birnberg Peirce & Partners law firm. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays: No booking required. Suitable for all ages. in the 1990s, she worked with established Willis Stewart has championed legal comedians such as Felix Dexter, Curtis aid and has represented families in 9.30am – 5.30pm Walker, Ishmael Thomas and Leo challenging and high profile cases Thursdays: 9.30am – 8pm Chester leading her to be dubbed against the state. She acted for the ‘The Queen of Black Comedy’. Her TV family of Brazilian electrician Jean Bema Arts Saturdays: 10am – 5pm appearances include the BBC’s The Real Charles de Menezes, shot dead by McCoy and Channel 4’s Get Up, Stand police in 2005, and represented Bema Arts - the arts in Harmony Network - for those who understand that art can For more information Up, Grumpy Old Women and Loose the family at the inquest into the www.hackney.gov.uk/ Women. She is also a radio presenter 2011 police shooting of Mark change the world for the better. The network is committed to art and artist and hosted The Saturday Morning Duggan. More recently, Willis Stewart black-history-month development and the encouragement Please note that all events are subject to Show on Choice FM. She made her debut was the lead lawyer for the legal of collaborations between artists from change. You are advised to contact the as a published writer with her book Full team acting on behalf of 77 of the various cultural backgrounds expressing relevant venue before you attend any event. Circle in spring 2017. 96 families of the deceased at the

Black History Season October 2017 – January 2018 Please note that all events are subject to change. You are advised to contact the relevant venue Directory before you attend any event by calling the Hackney Customer Service Centre on 020 8356 3000 and asking for the relevant venue by name. Celebrating Clapton Library Hackney Central Library Homerton Library Stamford Hill Library Northwold Road Technology and Learning Homerton High Street, Portland Avenue Black Culture E5 8RA Centre, 1 Reading Lane E9 6AS N16 6SB Clapton Station E8 1GQ Homerton Stamford Hill and Achievement 106, 253, 254 Hackney Central and London 236, 242, 276, 394, W15 149, 243, 67, 76, 349 in Hackney Wheelchair access on Fields Wheelchair access and lift to Wheelchair access. There is also the ground floor and lift 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, the first floor. There is also a car a car park and parking for blue to the first floor 253, 254, 276, 277, 394, W15 park and parking for blue badge badge holders nearby INSIDE Island to Island: Journeys though the Produced by Hackney Design, Communications & Print • August 2017 HDS3904 & Print Design, Communications Hackney by Produced Wheelchair access and lift to holders nearby Caribbean and The Life and Works of Maya Angelou Dalston C.L.R. James the first floor Stoke Newington Library Library Shoreditch Library Stoke Newington Dalston Square Hackney Museum 80 Street Church Street E8 3BQ Technology and Learning N1 6LP N16 0JS Dalston Junction & Dalston Centre, 1 Reading Lane Old Street Rectory Road, Stoke Newington Kingsland Station E8 1GQ 149, 243, 67, 242 73, 394, 476 30, 277, 38, 242, 149, 76, Hackney Central and London Wheelchair access and lift to Wheelchair access and parking 243, 67, 56 Fields the basement floor. There is for blue badge holders nearby Wheelchair access and lifts 30, 38, 48, 55, 106, 236, 242, also a car park and parking for to all floors 253, 254, 276, 277, 394, W15 blue badge holders nearby Wheelchair access Hackney Archives To join Hackney Libraries visit www.hackney.gov.uk/libraries Dalston Square, E8 3BQ Or if you can’t get out and about, our Community Library Service can deliver Dalston Junction & Dalston straight to your door. Kingsland Station To join or if you know of somebody eligible to join, visit www.hackney.gov.uk/ 30, 277, 38, 242, 149, 76, 243, community-library-service or call 020 8356 5238. 67, 56 Follow Hackney Libraries on Twitter: @hackneylibs Wheelchair access and lifts Follow or like Hackney Libraries on Facebook: @hackneylibraries to all floors Sign up for the Hackney Libraries Newsletter: www.hackney.gov.uk/libraries heritage at the expense of gentrification. youth. The panel will be chaired by local Stories Still Unfolding and Booking via Eventbrite: www. Island Hoppers: Journeys community organiser Andrea Enisuoh. Caged Birds Still Singing Black History Season eventbrite.co.uk/o/hackney-museum- through the Caribbean No booking required. Suitable for all ages. Tuesday 17 October, 6 – 9pm amp-hackney-archives-8254859339. Thursday 26 October, 2 – 4pm Dalston C.L.R. James Library Smith © Derek This year the House of AMAU Black Suitable for all ages. Discover the sights, stories and sounds History Month event will feature the Hackney Archives of the Caribbean and create your own Exhibition and Events 2017 Celebrating Black History African Heritage Writers reading from island inspired artwork with storytellers Month their own work, including pieces from its Get Up, Stand Up: Songs from and artists, inspired by Hackney Thursday 12 October, 11am – 12 noon forthcoming anthology of poetry and Black History Month is an UK wide annual the Caribbean Museum’s Island to Island: Journeys Join in with our friendly session when prose taking a look at the experiences through the Caribbean exhibition. of African Heritage women whose men Wednesday 25 October, 1 – 2.30pm we will celebrating Black culture through No booking required. For families. celebration of the contribution that Black, African went off to fight in World War One. Join Hackney Museum’s resident artists music, food and stories. Hackney Museum from Advance UK for an afternoon of and Caribbean communities have made both on a No booking required. Under 5s session. The group will also read from the works of Maya Angelou and there will be music, songs and art inspired by the Smith © Derek Clapton Library stories from Africa and the Caribbean Caribbean. Advance UK support adults Black Supersheroes local level and across the globe. told by Sandra Agard and Griot Chinyere. with learning disabilities to explore Thursday 26 October, 4.30 – 6pm Race, Place and Photography: Caribbean Memories: identity and use Hackney Museum’s No booking required. Suitable for all Join Ese Akpojoto, Founder/Designer, Caribbean Stories Coffee Morning ages, although would perhaps be best collections about Black British history Sweet Design Studio at her Shoreditch In 2017, Hackney Council will be celebrating delivered by the Hackney Leisure & Physical Thursday 2 November, 6pm – 7.30pm Thursday 12 October, 11am –12.30pm appreciated by those aged 14+. and heritage in Hackney to create Library Pop up where you can view her the Caribbean and its connections with Activity team. original artworks and music. Come and share your photographs, Come and reminisce and share stories Shoreditch Library works and then take part in a discussion, memories or personal items that you Hackney through the Island to Island: about the Caribbean, from memories of No booking required. Suitable for all ages. followed by a Q&A session. Most events are free but sometimes you may associate with home, arrival and belonging childhood, visiting relatives or holiday Hackney Museum No booking required. Suitable for all ages. Journeys though the Caribbean Exhibition as need to book in advance, so please check and find out how your family photographs experiences. Be inspired by the Island to well as The Life and Works of Maya Angelou. Shoreditch Library and memories of celebrations, festivals, relevant details in the programme and keep Island: Journeys through the Caribbean Black History Month Treasure events and everyday life in Hackney can photography exhibition and items from There will also be historical walks covering an eye on the website for new additions and Hunt Screening of Hidden Figures help shape our understanding of our Hackney Museum’s collections. the theme of My Hackney – Black History events: Wednesday 25 October, 1 – 4pm (Film) borough’s rich histories. Tea, coffee and biscuits provided. Take part in our popular treasure hunt- Thursday 26 October, 6 - 8pm Together with local artist Ekua No booking required. Suitable for Find clues around the library. Stay and Based on the non-fiction book of the McMorris, we will look at how different adults, Caribbean elders are particularly Maya Angelou: Why is she play colouring sheets and word searches same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, communities have shaped Hackney www.hackney.gov.uk/black-history-month encouraged. so important to Black British also provided. Hidden Figures is about the Black female starting with African and Caribbean Here in Hackney we celebrate Black Culture and Achievement all year round, so sign up to our Hackney Museum Writers? No booking required. Suitable for all ages. mathematicians who worked at NASA experiences. Please bring your Wednesday 18 October, 6.30 – 7.45pm during the Space Race. photographs or personal items for the mailing lists at the events to keep you in the loop. Hackney Central Library Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Maya Angelou is a global legend. Her Booking: Contact Homerton Library with workshops. prolific writing, civil rights activism and your name and phone number. Parental Booking: Via Eventbrite at www. *Please note that all events are subject to change. You are advised to contact the venue before you attend any event* Friday 13 October, 11 – 12 noon Guidance (PG). Unaccompanied children hackney.gov.uk/museum. For age 16+. Maya Angelou’s poem celebrates the impressive oratory skills have inspired will not be allowed entry. courage in us all. Join us for black history generations of writers, including British Hackney Museum themed stories especially for the under writers of colour. Homerton Library Words of Colour Productions’ Events do not require booking in advance Warrior Shields Craft 5s. Stay and play colouring sheets after Ancestry Talks with Paul the session. executive director Joy Francis will chair Gathering Together in Maya’s Crooks: Celebrating the 40th Friday 6 October, 4 – 5pm a celebratory panel discussion on unless it states otherwise. No booking required. Under 5s session. African Mask Making for Name (closed event) Anniversary of ROOTS Angelou’s influence on Black British For the latest listings and event details visit, www.hackney.gov.uk/black-history-month. Come and explore your bravery at Children Friday 27 October, 11am Hackney Central Library writing and writers. Panellists include Wednesday 8 November, 6 - 7.30pm Homerton Library by making Warrior comedian, actor, writer and playwright Wednesday 25 October, 2 – 3.30pm Favourite poetry readings of Maya Trailblazing family historian Paul Crooks Shields for Black History Month. Shoreditch Beads Angie Le Mar, literary activist and Celebrate Black History Month by Angelou and poetry written and inspired (author of Ancestors) traced his family Hackney Museum by the lives of The Bell’s Project residents, Booking: Contact Homerton Library Saturday 14 October, 2pm – 4pm academic Kadija George Sesay, award- making your own African mask. back 6 generations to Ami Djaba who winning civil rights lawyer Marcia Willis followed by music, song and lunch. was living in the Krobo Mountain, Ghana. with your name and phone number. Join us and create your very own African No booking required. For age 4 – 11. Workshops for Hackney Schools: Stewart and award-winning poet and Closed event for Bell’s Project residents. Paul will talk about his book and his Suitable for all ages. inspired bracelet or necklace using a Dalston CLR James Library Island to Island: Journeys through educator Dean Atta. journey to find his family history as a Homerton Library selection of beads, materials and colours. The Community Library Service the Caribbean No booking required. For age 18+. case study. Join us for this exclusive and No booking required. For age 6 – 15. Black Supersheroes informative event. Not to be missed. Throughout October and November Dalston C.L.R. James Library Quiz Club African Storytime and Mask Shoreditch Library Wednesday 25 October, 6 – 7.30pm No booking required. For age 16+. Over 2000 local primary schools will visit Island to Saturday 28 October, 2 – 4pm Island: A Journey through the Caribbean at Hackney Museum to explore Hackney’s Making With a misrepresentation of women of Still I Rise - Poetry Workshop Learn Black history facts and figures at Hackney Central Library connections with the Caribbean inspired by the photographs and personal stories on Saturday 7 October, 11am – 12 noon Quiz Club colour and various body types within Thursday 19 October, 5.30 – 7.30pm our friendly and relaxed quiz club. display. Saturday 14 October, 2 – 4pm the media, the Black Supersheroes Decorate your own African mask and A facilitated workshop discussing Maya series looks at iconic images of female No booking required. For age 7+ Has your class missed out this year? Join our mailing list to be the first to find out Learn Black History facts and figures at listen to traditional African stories. Angelou’s iconic poem and a collection characters and remasters them to reflect about 2018’s programme for schools. our friendly and relaxed quiz club. Hackney Central Library of her other works. Join us for an the woman of colour of today. To join the mailing list or for more information email: No booking required. Under 5s session. No booking required. For age 7+. evening studying Maya’s inspiring and [email protected] Dalston CLR James Library Ever wondered what Wonder Woman Hackney Central Library revolutionary prose in an informal and would look like with dreadlocks or a fuller Corrio © David friendly atmosphere. figure? Then join Ese Akpojoto, Founder/ Poetry Workshop at The Bell’s No booking required. For age 18+. Designer, Sweet Design Studio at her Black British Music in Hackney Hackney Leisure and Physical Activity Project (closed event) Hackney Central Library Shoreditch Library Pop up where you Thursday 9 November, 6 – 7.30pm Monday 16 October, 11am can view her works and take part in a Soca Aerobics Sessions at Kings Hall discussion, followed by a Q&A session. Music lovers come and share your stories, As a prelude to a main event, residents #BlackHistoriesMatter memories and memorabilia of Black Leisure Centre will give a line or 2 of things that are No booking required. Suitable for all ages. Saturday 28 October, 2 – 5pm British music in Hackney! Help Hackney Wednesdays, 10.45 - 11.45am important to them in their current lives Shoreditch Library African and Caribbean people have lived Museum find out more about the people, Soca Aerobics is a great fitness workout, moving or in the past – we then all work together in Hackney for hundreds of years. places and events that have shaped your body to the sound of slow and fast rhythms, as well as the inclusion of to put all those lines together to make a Chess, Dominos and Black Supersheroes Join Young Hackney for a museum the sounds of the borough for a special resistance training. poem that captures all their feelings as a © Tim Smith Games Club Thursday 26 October, 12.30pm – 2pm takeover revealing the poetry, petitions exhibition in October 2018. Free sessions are being held as part of the New Age Games Programme for Hackney group. We will also read Maya Angelou and protests of African and Caribbean Saturday 7 October, 2 – 4pm Join Ese Akpojoto to view her work residents aged 50+ at Kings Hall Leisure Centre, 39 Lower Clapton Road, E5 ONU. poems and pick our favourites. Caribbean Through a Lens: young people in the past that have Booking: Via Eventbrite at www.hackney. and have fun creating your very own Come slap down some dominos shaped Hackney today. gov.uk/museum. Suitable for all ages. For further information: call the Hackney Leisure & Physical Activity Team Closed event for Bell’s Project residents. Photographer’s Talk supersheroes. on 020 8356 4897, email: [email protected] or visit Caribbean style! If you would like to Thursday 19 October, 6.30pm – No booking required. Suitable for all ages. Hackney Museum The Community Library Service No booking required. For age 7 –14. www.hackney.gov.uk/new-age-games learn how to play, come along. All 7.45pm Hackney Museum Shoreditch Library abilities welcome. Join photographer Tim Smith for an Young, Gifted and… Rich. No booking required. For age 7 – 14 illustrated talk about the Island to Calling all Ultrapreneurs! The Life of Maya Angelou and they all complimented the struggle. Island: Journeys through the Caribbean Saturday 11 November, 11.30am – 1pm Hackney Central Library Legacy Join writer, journalist and community exhibition at Hackney Museum. Discover You’re never too young to turn a great Sunday 1 October – Tuesday 31 activist Andrea Enisuoh for an evening how his personal experience of growing idea into a business! Inspired by the of celebration of the story of Maya not Kaiso Vibrations October, during library opening times Maya Angelou Poetry up in the Caribbean has shaped his story of Ridley Road’s Dyke & Dryden, often told. With readings and special The exhibition space will be dedicated Tuesday 10 October, 6 – 8pm Discussion career as a photographer and researcher Britain’s first multi-million pound black- guests we will celebrate the life of a and the stories of migration and identity to celebrating the phenomenal work Kaiso Vibrations will tell the story of the owned enterprise, join Ultrakids’ young pioneer. Monday 16 October, 6 – 7.30pm Journeys through Sound: My Hackney – Black History of Maya Angelou. We will also be that have influenced his work. entrepreneurs coach Chileshe Hall for development of Trinidadian music from Stoke Newington Library’s Poetry African-Caribbean Drumming Sunday 29 October, 11am – 12.30pm showcasing key moments in Black history No booking required. For age 16+. Booking: Via Eventbrite at www. a fun, interactive product design and Kaiso through Calypso to today’s Soca. Reading Group will be running a special This walk takes you on a journey where with a wonderful variety of artefacts, art Hackney Central Library hackney.gov.uk/museum. For age 16 +. Workshop marketing workshop helping children one-off session to read and discuss you will hear about Centerprise, 4 Aces and ephemera. Kysonian musician, teacher and Hackney Museum Thursday 26 October, 2 – 3.30pm to understand business from idea to Maya Angelou’s poetry. National Front, Mr Newmont, World War historian Tobago Crusoe will take the Join Etienne Joseph for a family marketplace. No booking required. Suitable for all ages. 2, Sus, Commission for Racial Equality, audience through an exciting musical All are welcome, and no advance reading drumming workshop taking you on a Hackney Central Library Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Colin Roach and more. Booking: Email archives@hackney. journey, exploring and describing the is required, though some advance rhythmic journey through the history of Friday 20 October, 11am - 12 noon gov.uk or telephone 020 8356 6044. transition and relevance of one of the copies are available for people who the drum - moving from Africa to the Start point: Outside Dalston CLR James For age 6 – 12. are interested – please email calum. Maya Angelou’s poem celebrates the Library region’s most innovative forms of music, Caribbean. No drumming experience Hackney Archives [email protected]. bravery in us all. Join us for Black History If you are interested in including the impact it has had on world required. Drums provided. Booking: No booking required. For age 16+. themed stories especially for the under attending, contact Hackney Leisure & music, in particular through recordings 5s. Stay and play colouring sheets after No booking required. Suitable for all Museum of Grooves: A Hackney ages, but children under the age of 8 Physical Activity team on 020 8356 An Ode to Maya: Poetry Slam - albeit in a less raw form - by Maya Stoke Newington Library the session Archives BHM Takeover! must be accompanied by an adult. 7459/4897 or surbjit.mahey@hackney. Workshop Angelou and other international figures No booking required. Under 5s session. gov.uk. For further information please Thursday 16 November, 6.30 - Tinga Tinga Time Dalston CLR James Library My Hackney – Black History Thursday 5 October, 5.30 – 7.45pm such as Harry Bellefonte. Hackney Central Library visit www.hackney.gov.uk/walking. 8.30pm Tuesday 17 October, 11am – 12 noon Sunday 1 October, 11am – 12.30pm Hosted by Words of Colour Productions No booking required. Suitable for all ages. The SS Sankofa touches down at Come and join us in celebrating Black Still I Rise… Praise songs Discover and enjoy a walk which covers and facilitated by award-nominated African Mask Making Our Rainbow in Our Clouds… Hackney Archives for a unique on- Homerton Library History Month with a special Under 5s of Survival Ancient African civilisations, Black history poet and writer Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Friday 20 October, 4 – 5pm The Life and Times of Dr. Maya location broadcast! Let 24th century MC participants will be encouraged to build session, where we will go on a Tinga Thursday 26 October, 2 – 4pm Patrick Vernon and some very special of food, Hackney Black Peoples Defence Get creative. Come and design and make Angelou on their existing poetry skills and have Tinga special adventure with stories guests take you Black to 2300AD with Committee, Operation Spanner, Maurice your own African mask This session led by Sandra Agard, Monday 30 October, 6 – 8pm the chance to write a tailored poem, and based on African Folktales. will look at the stories of ‘Black Folks’ music and words celebrating 30 years of Bishop, Black Victorians, Olaudah Equiano, Come and discover the phenomenal perform it, in front of the group. No booking required. Under 5s session. No booking required. For age 5+. around the world that have shaped and Hackney’s contribution to Black History Black Scientists and Inventors and more. life and times of Dr. Maya Angelou with Stamford Hill Library moulded Black life then and now. Month; asking the question ‘how much Start point: Outside Hackney Central First come, first served. 10 participants Homerton Library Sandra Agard. max. Arrive early (from 5.15pm) to Come and discover what the roles were black is there in the Union Jack?’ Library/Museum We will be looking at moments in her secure a place. For age 18+. Chess, Dominos and Games Club of ‘Black Folks’ like: Phillis Wheatley, To find out more about the Museum Booking: If you are interested in Chatterbooks: An African spellbinding life and how she is most of Grooves visit www.mixcloud.com/ attending, contact Hackney Leisure & Clapton Library Journey Saturday 21 October, 2 – 4pm Ignatius Sancho, Nanny of the Maroons, definitely our rainbow in our clouds. Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, patrick-vernon/ Physical Activity team on 020 8356 Tuesday 17 October, 4 – 5pm Come slap down some dominos No booking required. For age 16+. Caribbean style! If you would like to Harriet Tubman, Bessie Coleman, Claudia Booking via Eventbrite: www. 7459/4897 or surbjit.mahey@hackney. Celebrating Black History Meet visiting author Barbara Ellis as she learn how to play, come along. All Jones, Dr Maya Angelou to name but a Stoke Newington Library (Gallery) eventbrite.co.uk/o/hackney-museum- gov.uk. For further information please Season shares stories about Sista and Breda visit www.hackney.gov.uk/walking abilities welcome. few. Discover their powerful stories and amp-hackney-archives-8254859339 Thursday 5 October, 6 – 7.45pm Anancy and make your own Anancy create your own praise songs, poems and No booking required. For age 7 – 14. Hackney Archives Join us for the launch of Hackney spider to take away! stories in their honour. Hackney Central Library Museum’s new exhibition, Island to No booking required. For age 8 – 12. No booking required. Suitable for all ages. Island: Journeys through the Caribbean Screening of Maya Angelou Memoir Writing Workshop: Clapton Library Stamford Hill Library (Children’s Library) and to celebrate Black History Season in And Still I Rise (Feature Hackney my Hackney Hackney. Find out about the fantastic Documentary) Saturday 18 November, 1 – 4pm events, exhibitions and activities taking Wednesday 11 October, 6.30 – 9pm Tribute to Darcus Howe… His We all have our Hackney stories to tell. place across the borough. Life and Legacy Come and explore the unique and untold Maya Angelou: Moments with The first documentary about the iconic No booking required. Suitable for all ages. Tuesday 31 October, 6 – 8pm stories of African and Caribbean people Malcolm & Martin - Stories writer, poet, performer and activist who in the borough and think about how Hackney Museum Screening of Legacy in the A tribute to the life and legacy of an Untold - The History of the overcame racism and devastating abuse to share your own story about living, Maya Angelou Creative Dust: The Four Aces Club (Film) African Badge Making and anti-racist campaigner and political Civil Rights Movement in to become one of our culture’s greatest working, learning or loving in Hackney. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Workshop Saturday 21 October, 1.30 – 4.30pm Carnival Masks! activist Darcus Howe (1943-2017). America voices. If you have always wanted to write a Dalston’s Four Aces Club has been called Friday 6 October 11am – 12 noon Tuesday 17 October, 4 - 5pm Thursday 26 October, 2 – 4pm His life and legacy will be celebrated memoir but don’t know where to start, Tuesday 3 October, 6 – 8pm Rare footage and photos unveil an London’s equivalent of the New York Maya Angelou’s poem celebrates the Come and take part in a creative Make a badge from a range of beautiful with a presentation by Patrick Vernon this workshop with Andrea Enisuoh will Maya Angelou was not only a great intimate and often unknown view of her Apollo’. Featuring Don Letts, Dennis courage in us all. Join us for Black History workshop, making collage posters with African themed textures and colours. OBE and a new generation of organisers set you on the path. poet and writer; she was also a great Bovell, Bunny Lee, Trevor Saxon, Dennis themed stories. Stay and play colouring public and personal life with the power Maya Angelou inspired quotes. Make a fun, bright mask celebrating the in the black community such as Deji activist and advocate for civil rights. She Alcapone, The Prodigy and many more, Booking: Via Eventbrite at sheets after the session. of her own words. 2016, 114 minutes. carnival spirit. Adeoshun, youth programmes manager had a huge impact on the civil rights No booking required. For age 5+ with Winstan Whitter’s ‘Legacy in the Dust’ at Hackney CVS and local reggae singer www.hackney.gov.uk/museum. No booking required. For age 18+. movement. Close friends with both No booking required. Under 5s session. parents/carers. charts the rise of Black British music in No booking required. Suitable for all ages. and community activist Stushie, who has Suitable for all ages. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, Hackney Central Library Dalston CLR James Library Stoke Newington Library Hackney and beyond and the demise of Hackney Central Library led a number of projects with local black Hackney Museum