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Key: Arts and Heritage 06 Black History Month is celebrated every October across the UK. Its aims include promoting H Hackney knowledge of Black History and experience, providing information on positive Black contributions Children 12 to British Society and heightening awareness of Black cultural heritage. N Newham Family 16 For the first time this year, the three East London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham and T Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets have joined together for Black History Month in a partnership collectively titled Film 22 Fusion East. We are proud to bring you the East London Black History Month programme.
Literature and Spoken Word 24 In presenting the 2005 East London Black History Month programme we hope that you will be impressed, as we are, by the range of talent, experience and interests of the artists, arts Music and Dance 28 organisations, local groups and individuals participating in this year's Black History Month. The programme presents an exciting series of events including exhibitions, discussions, creative Politics and History 32 workshops, a quiz night, cricket coaching sessions and much more besides.
Youth 34 We warmly invite residents from all communities and of all ages to take part in East London's Black History Month; to learn from and be entertained by the artists, musicians, scholars and Venues 36 many others featuring on the programme.
From the three boroughs and Fusion East we hope you enjoy being part of this significant tri- borough partnership for East London Black History Month.
Cover: ELD Youth Company Jules Pipe, Sir Robin Wales, Cllr Denise Jones, Nick Gurney The Mayor of Hackney The Mayor of Newham Lead Member for Culture Tower Hamlets Star
To celebrate Black History Month in East Friday 21st October A unique night time visual art projection London, local performers and personalities of all ages come together to form a vast Idea Store Whitechapel T visual tapestry of motifs, forms, mosaics and 7pm –10pm fabrics. These are woven together by Plush 321 Whitechapel Road, E1 into stunning artworks projected at night onto some of East London's most recognisable landmarks. These powerful Saturday 22nd October projections define both the architecture and community, drawing from the strengths of Newham Stratford Picture House N the unique Black communities that make up 7pm –10pm the three boroughs of London's East End. Theatre Square, E15
East London is one of the most exciting and vibrant places to be right now. Culturally Sunday 23rd October diverse, open to the world, ever changing and evolving, these are some of the reasons we Hackney Town Hall H PLUSH PLUSH : are home to one of the highest 7pm – 10pm concentrations of artists and creative Mare St, E8
PHOTOS industries in Europe. Fusion East embraces Painful Creatures from the To be confirmed the extraordinary artistic and creative Camden Arts and Tourism Event innovation to be found in the region and is All information is subject to change, proud to commission this new piece of visual please see: art from local company Plush. www.fusionlondon.co.uk or call 0845 262 0846 Funded by the Arts Council and Millennium Commission, Fusion East is a major cultural A joint partnership between the local Common market by Ming Wong, supported by and arts programme covering events in East authorities of Hackney, Newham, Tower 4 Camden Arts and Tourism Event London until Spring 2006. Hamlets and Fusion East. 5 Arts andHeritage Monday 26th September – Friday 30th September – Throughout October Saturdays 1st and 8th October Sunday 9th October Sunday 27th November Art in Ideas Cloth Re-sewn Celebration Mural Christopher Lakony Black History Month Trail Solo show by Ghanaian artist Papa Essel Art and Craft An exhibition of paintings. Acrylic on canvas Hands-on interactive trail which brings to based in London. Special Black History Month art and craft expressing reflections of nature's delights life some of the fascinating stories of black workshops for children and teenagers to work COUTESY OF TROPICAL ISLE OF TROPICAL COUTESY
using bold shapes and vibrant colours, by Londoners from 1500 through to the late : CASA T on a mural using a montage of fabric. Ugandan born artist Christopher Lakony. Victorian era, echoing the ages of Phone for times Arts and Heritage and Arts
Sutton House PHOTO Free Entry Idea Store T Tower Hamlets Arts and Events T Idea Store Whitechapel 10 am - 4 pm 9 am – 6 pm Sutton House National Trust H 020 7375 3933 Free Entry Free Entry 11 am – 5 pm Idea Store, Chrisp Street Brady Arts Centre Sunday 11.30 am – 5 pm 020 7247 9510 020 7364 7900 Adults £2.50 and Children 50p Ghandi at Kingsley Hall National Trust members and Hackney residents free Sunday 2nd October Sunday 2nd October Thursday 29th September Sutton House 020 8986 2264 Honouring Our Elders Gandhi in the East End Four Corners Photoforum Hackney Youth Carnival The event will include lunch, followed by A programme of events celebrating Gandhi's Photoforum is a regular discussion evening reminiscence workshops where elders will three-month visit to Kingsley Hall in Bromley- where selected photographers show recent Throughout October Throughout October share their stories of migration and by-Bow in 1931. work and discuss their practice in an informal resettlement within family groups. and lively environment. Masquerade Join the Parade – Street Masks and Gandhi in the East End exhibition compiled by An exhibition of masquerade pieces and Carnival Costumes The Dominca UK Association N the late Howard Bloch, including the silent Four Corners T costumes is being held in Hackney schools, to Get up close to the masks and costumes. See 1 pm – 7 pm film The Salt March that vividly illustrates 7 pm – 9 pm encourage children to participate in the celebrated Tropical Isles carnival group Adults £2 and Concessions Free Entry Gandhi's approach to non-violence in the face Free Entry masquerade carnival events. Accompanied by costumes as worn at the world famous NACR Centre of colonial taxation and military brutality, Contact venue to reserve a place a programme of discussions and a short video Notting Hill Carnival. 07712 894518 followed by discussion on Non-Violent Four Corners of performances by children at carnivals over Action today. 020 8981 6111 the past year. This event is open to the public Hackney Libraries H as an exhibition. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9 am – 8 pm Kingsley Hall T Friday 10 am – 8 pm From 11 am Beeraahaar Sweet Combination H Saturday 12 noon – 5 pm Film Screening at 4:30pm – 5pm Free Entry Wednesday and Sunday – Closed Free Entry Contact BEMA for further details Free Entry Kingsley Hall 020 7923 1962 Stoke Newington Library 020 8981 8409 [email protected] 020 8356 2531 Papa Essel www.kingsleyhall.co.uk 6 7 Arts andHeritage Monday 3rd – Sunday 16th October Sam Uriah Morris Society H Friday 7th – Sunday 30th October Saturday 8th, 15th, 22nd and Friday 14th October 7 pm 29th October Dhaka City Exhibition Free Entry In Celebration of Black Artists Cultural Day Sierra Leone The exhibition will celebrate the 100 year Harriet Tubman House Diversity of work of black artists from Emancipation Folo Graff and Cultural Archeology, present anniversary of Dhaka regaining the status of a Contact BEMA for further details different cultures. Papa Essel is a Ghanaian A continuation of Jamboulay’s carnival events featuring the rich cultural life of Sierra capital city on 16th October 1905 through 020 7923 1962 based in London, Patrick Seidu from Ghana, costumes & parade programme, including Leone with music, food and creative workshops. photographs, texts, interviews etc. [email protected] Morgan, from Barbados, Kinsi Abdullah, seminars & exhibitions of carnival costumes Somalian artist from London, Mohammed with reference to the theme of Slavery & oh!art T Arts and Heritage and Arts Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and a Fakruzzaman is Bangladeshi, Noel Wallace Emancipation. This project will be extended 10 am – 10 pm major centre for culture, education, industry Wednesday 5th October – from Jamaica, Joanne Alie from Barbados. until at least July 2006, when it will be part of Various, phone for details and trade. The exhibition is very informative, Sunday 6th November an outdoor event both locally & nationally. Oxford House interesting and educational for adults and CASA T 0207 749 1171 children. Coming to England Monday to Friday 10 – 5 pm Jamboulay Carnival Arts www.oxfordhouse.org.uk A special exhibition created by members of Free Entry Sounds Good Multimedia H London Borough of Newham Libraries N Hackney Caribbean Elders that depicts their Spitalfields Gallery Free Entry Contact library for open times memories of moving to England. Original oral 020 7375 3933 Contact BEMA for further details Tuesday 18th October 2005 – Free Entry histories, artifacts, clothing and memorabilia 020 7923 1962 Sunday 19th February 2006 Stratford Library coming together to create this exhibition. [email protected] 020 8430 3650 Ghandi meets Pearly Kings and Queens at Kingsley Hall The West Indian Front Room [email protected] Sutton House National Trust H Major exhibition exploring the changing 11.30 am – 4.30 pm Friday 7th – Saturday 8th October Wednesday 12th – Friday 14th October nature of the homes of various generations of Free Entry immigrants who have come from the Wednesday 5th October Sutton House Gandhi in the East End Exhibition and Visible Voices Caribbean to London between the 1960's and 020 8986 2264 Tour of Kingsley Hall This interactive and educational exhibition the present day. The project is a collaboration Mary Seacole A programme of events celebrating Gandhi's depicts the life experiences of four African between the Geffrye Museum and writer and An event to mark the bicentenary of Mary three-month visit to Kingsley Hall in Bromley- and Caribbean people who came to Britain in artist Michael McMillan. Seacole’s birth. A film about her work will be by-Bow in 1931. the 1960s. followed by a lecture from Professor Elizabeth Geffrye Museum H Anionwu and a Q & A session. Come learn about the work of a formidable African and Caribbean Voices Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm legacy of peace activists, social reformers and Association N Free Entry This event is part of a month-long Black founders of one of the first youth clubs and 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 4 pm Geffrye Museum History Month Museum at the Sam Uriah nurseries founded in London. Free Entry 020 7739 9893
Morris Society, which includes time charts TRUST HOUSE NATIONAL SUTTON Ithaca House Recorded Information 020 7739 8543 exploring the history of Black people and Kingsley Hall T 020 8536 1894 [email protected] exhibitions on Life in Early Egypt, Early Friday 11 am and Saturday 2 pm www.geffrye-museum.org.uk African Kings & Queens and Early Black 020 8981 8409 Religious Contributors. Coming to England www.kingsleyhall.co.uk Patrick Seidu 8 9 Arts andHeritage Tuesday 18th October Wednesday 19th October – Saturday 5th November Throughout October Throughout October Saturday 5th November Unsung Heroes Tracing Your Relatives: Black Victorians The Wonderful Mrs Seacole Untold Stories: Aspects of Black and Venues Celebrating the contribution and achievement Carnival OLIVER WOODS Cathy Chater will be looking at the lives of An exhibition about Mary Seacole, a Jamaican Asian lives in West Ham of black people during World War 2. An exhibition of adult and children's costumes black people who lived in England during the nurse who tended wounded soldiers during An exhibition that explores the lives of six and masks from many of Hackney's carnival Victorian era, making links to present day the Crimean War. people living in or travelling through West Find out about the unsung heroes of the groups alongside images of the groups in action. family names and communities. Ham in the 17th and 18th centuries. Second World War. Why they’ve been ignored Newham Heritage Services N Arts and Heritage and Arts and why it’s important to celebrate their Hackney Museum and Sutton House National Trust H Contact venue for opening times Newham Heritage Services N achievements. Nubian Jak is a broadcaster, Hackney Carnival Groups H 2 pm – 3 pm Free Entry Contact venue for opening times entertainer, author, artist and producer of the Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Adults £2.50 and Children 50p Stratford Library Free Entry multi award-winning Nubian Jak board game. 9.30 am – 5.30 pm National Trust members free 020 8430 2000 ext. 46126 The Gate; Beckton Globe Library; Thursday 9 am – 8 pm Sutton House Plaistow Library; Custom House Library Jak Bubeula-Dodd – Nubian Jak H Saturday 10 am – 5 pm 020 8986 2264 020 8430 2000 ext.46126 2 pm – 3.30 pm Monday and Sunday – Closed Dates to be confirmed Invited School parties and Free Entry also open to the public. Hackney Museum The world in your home Throughout October Free Entry 020 8356 3500 As part of an ongoing investigation into how Homerton Library Hall African mask making workshops people use their homes to reflect who they are Exhibition of Caribbean Arts, Crafts and 020 8356 1696 and where they are from, the Building artifacts by Alé Douvan! Saturday 22nd – Friday 28th October Monday 24th October Exploratory is conducting a series of tours and Arts, Crafts and artifacts from the Eastern workshops during Black History Month. Free Caribbean. Photographs of pottery making Their Past/My Future African Mask Making Craft Workshops workshops will focus particularly on exploring and examples of bilingual story books in Their Past My Future explores the issue of Come and celebrate Black History Month, and African British perceptions of home. The Eastern Caribbean Patwa and English. British-born African Caribbean artists growing extend your knowledge of the history, culture workshops are aimed at groups of older distant from their heritage. The project aims and artistic heritage of Africa by widening people and will include a visit to the West Alé Douvan T COURTESY OF SUTTON HOUSE NATIONAL TRUST HOUSE NATIONAL OF SUTTON COURTESY to encourage young and emerging African your craft skills, learning how to make and to : Indian Front Room exhibition at the Geffrye Contact venue for opening times Caribbean artists to celebrate their culture decorate traditional African masks.This event Museum. In addition, the Building Exploratory Free Entry through their art. Including a public exhibition is designed for children of 6 years and over. PHOTO holds regular tours of its exhibition every Ideas Store, Bow COURTESY OF TROPICAL ISLES OF TROPICAL COURTESY : of contemporary African Caribbean art and a Thursday (4pm) and Friday (2pm). 020 7364 4332 history of African Caribbean culture. Idea Store in partnership with Tower PHOTO Hamlets Libraries and Arts and Events T The Building Exploratory H AMPS H 10 am – 12 noon Contact The Building Exploratory 11 am – 3 pm Free Entry for details Entry Free Under 8s must be accompanied by an adult Free Entry 020 7923 1962 Idea Store, Bow 020 7275 8555 [email protected] 020 7247 9510 Tracing your ancestors [email protected] 1010 Hackney Youth Carnival www.buildingexploratory.org.uk 11
Children 13 Please turn over turn Please T N Monday 24th October Monday in Africa in a Bag – Journeys Stories exciting the bag and see what Reach in to story. your add to objects appear to Discover 11 am – 4 pm £2.50 Concessions, £3.50, Under 2s Free, Discover 020 8536 5555 Monday 24th – 28th October Friday and children for of workshops A week arts and culture in African people young during Half Term in people and young children for Workshops arts and culture. African Idea Stores Monday 2 pm – 4 pm under 5s mask making for African Monday 2 pm – 4 pm 6 –13 years for Design a poster 10.30 am – 11.30 am Tuesday under 5s for Storytelling 2 pm – 4 pm Tuesday 6 –14 years mask making for African 10.30am – 11.30 am Wednesday under 5s and rhyme time for Story T N
Wednesday 19th and Wednesday 20th October Thursday Schools performances through telling / Caribbean Story African KS2 & KS3. for and dance song drama, Arts and Events Hamlets Tower details Phone for required Entry, Booking Free Arts Centre Brady 020 7364 7907 22nd October Saturday In The World – Where Big Draw by adding to the Big Draw celebrate Join us to our big mural. Discover 11 am – 4 pm Concessions, £2.50 £3.50, Under 2s Free, Discover 020 8536 5555
NYWOOD ANDY PHOTO : Wednesday 10.30 am – 11.30 am Idea Store, – 11.30 am Idea 10.30 am Wednesday Whitechapel am – 11.30 am Idea Store, 10.30 Thursday Chrisp Street Library Market 2 pm – 3 pm Watney Library am – 11 am Bethnal Green 10 Friday Library Cubitt Town 10 am – 11.30 am Entry Free by an adult be accompanied Under 8s must 020 7364 4332 T N Tuesday 18th and 18th Tuesday October 19th Wednesday Storytelling Children's children for the world around from Folktales by music accompanied with Rani Singh, and puppets. Libraries Newham 12 noon The Gate 11 am – Tuesday Library 2 pm – 3 pm Plaistow 10.30 – 11.30am Wednesday Library Street Green Entry Free 020 8430 3650 [email protected] 18th – Tuesday October 21st Friday – Kids Carnival Special Under 5s Sessions sessions of special under-5s group A week and history cultural the diverse which reflect in Britain. of black people roots painting, mask- include face Sessions making, rhymes, music, singing, dancing and storytelling. with in partnership Idea Store Libraries Hamlets Tower Library 10 am – 12 noon Bancroft Tuesday Library 10 am – 11 am Dorset Bow 10.30 am – 11.30 am Idea Store, T N Sunday 9th October Sunday Sorceress and the Magic Kirikou film of baby African animated this Enjoy the forbidden to in his journey Kirikou a village from his rescue to mountain witch. wicked Museum in Docklands 2 pm £3, under 16 and Adults £5, Concessions entry free full-time students Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk 13th October Thursday Storytelling Children's and and present past from and songs Stories Pascall. with Alex workshops storytelling Libraries Newham 9.30 am – 10.30 am and Library 11 am – 12 noon Stratford Ham Library 2 pm – 3 pm East Entry Free 020 8430 3650 [email protected] H N
Tuesday 6th, 13th, 20th and 13th, 20th and 6th, Tuesday 27th October Carnival Isles Tropical Workshops Group about the art of more and learn Come along and mask costume dance, Craft, carnival. olds. 6 – 16 year to workshops. Open Isles Tropical 6 pm – 8 pm Entry Free Gallery Library Newington Stoke 020 8356 5231 8th October Saturday Big Imaginations For Poetry Day and the Poetry National celebrate To Month History Black launch of Discover's invited olds are all 4 – 8 year celebrations, at BBC poet-in-residence former join to a fun Sam-La Rose for London, Jacob workshop. Discover 11 am – 4 pm £2.50 Concessions £3.50, Under 2s Free, Discover 020 8536 5555 Children 12 Children Wednesday 2 pm – 4 pm Monday 24th – Wednesday 26th October Tuesday 25th – Thursday 27th October Wednesday 26th October Friday 28th October Celebrity treasure hunt for 6 –14 years African Mask Making Craft Workshops Celebrations – A Long Time Ago When Animals African Mask Making EFFIE FOTAKI :
Children Thursday 2 pm – 4 pm Extend your knowledge of the history, culture Half Term Project Workshop Used To Talk Explore African stories in this hands-on, African football tournament for 7 –15 years and artistic heritage of Africa by widening Creative arts holiday programme for families To celebrate Black History Month, interactive mask-making workshop. PHOTO your craft skills, learning how to make and to where world celebrations will be enjoyed. storyteller and performer, Debora Alleyne-De Friday 10 am – 11 am decorate traditional African Masks. This event Children aged 8-12 are invited to enjoy a Gazon, introduces a series of interactive Discover N Card making for under 5s is designed for children of 6 years and over. special project for Black History Month during stories followed by a craft workshop to make 11 am – 4 pm Under 8s must be accompanied by an adult. the half term holiday. your own character to take home. £3.50, Under 2s Free, £2.50 Concessions, Friday 2 pm – 4 pm Discover African Caribbean art for 6 –14 years Idea Stores in partnership with Sutton House National Trust H Discover N 020 8536 5555 Tower Hamlets Libraries and Tower Hamlets £1.50 per child 11 am – 4 pm Under 8s must be accompanied by an adult Arts and Events T Sutton House £3.50, Under 2s Free, £2.50 Concessions, Free Entry 020 8986 2264 Discover Idea Store, Bow Monday 020 8536 5555 020 7364 4332 10 am – 12 noon Idea Store, Bow 10 am – 12 noon Idea Store, Whitechapel Tuesday 25th October 2 pm – 4 pm Cubitt Town Library Thursday 27th October 2 pm – 4 pm Bancroft Library Caribbean Sing-along Stories
EFFIE FOTAKI Traditional stories and songs from the Games and Traditional Movements : Tuesday Caribbean and a chance for children and Join in with traditional games that children
PHOTO 10 am – 12 noon Bethnal Green Library, parents to join. would have played in the Caribbean. Debora 10 am – 12 noon Watney Market Library Alleyne-De Gazon introduces the games, 2 pm – 4 pm Dorset Library Discover N followed by traditional dance movements 11 am – 4 pm which tell a story. Wednesday £3.50, Under 2s Free, £2.50 Concessions, 2 pm – 4 pm Idea Store, Chrisp Street Discover Discover N 020 8536 5555 11 am – 4 pm Free Entry £3.50, Under 2s Free, £2.50 Concessions, 020 7364 4332 African mask making workshops Discover 020 8536 5555
Tower Hamlets Arts and Events, drumming workshop 14 15 Family 17 T Saturday 8th October 8th October Saturday Sugar Crafter times only in Victorian that know Did you buy sugar? Use to afford could people wealthy with this once art make hands to your stories to listening whilst commodity valuable about sugar. Museum in Docklands 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm £3, under 16 and Adults £5, Concessions entry free students Full-time of groups advance for available Discounts adults 10 or more Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk T Museum in Docklands 7th, Friday Monday 3rd, 11th October Tuesday Special Schools and Community Programme Events African-Caribbean Listwa! Tiwe Monday 3rd under 5s. for storytelling KS2 and KS3. 7th Rap Workshop Friday 11th Kalinda. Caribbean Dance Tuesday KS2. Workshop Museum in Docklands details for office Phone box Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk T N Sunday 2nd October Sunday and Counselling Healthcare African of the African the contribution Demonstrating healthcare. to and Caribbean people and African Healthcare Counselling Service 12 noon – 4.30 pm Entry Free Centre Church St Bartholomews Sunday 2nd October – Sunday 13th November The Sugar Lands From Rhyming Fun In The Caribbean African-Caribbean Join in with traditional been rhymes, music and games that have with generation to generation on from passed Baden Prince. Museum in Docklands 1 pm, 1.40 pm and 2.15 pm under 16 and £3, Adults £5, Concessions entry free full-time students Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk T N Saturday 1st October 1st Saturday Journey The Sugar objects Museum's historic some of the Handle as sugar changed the world and find out why field to cane a from its journey explore you and cake tea your Museum in Docklands 12.30 pm – 2 pm £3, under 16 and Adults £5, Concessions entry free full-time students Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk and 15th October 1st Saturday Health Workshop and sexual cell sickle Health and fitness, on hair, beauty, and advice health information adults and teenagers. for and makeup fashion Libraries Newham opening times for venue Contact Entry Free House Library Custom October 1st Saturday Library Stratford 15th October Saturday 020 8430 3650 [email protected] H T
Saturday 1st October 1st Saturday Launch Month Black History from and Caribbean song and dance, African The poet, Skorpio performance Alé Douvan, and Caribbean Hair and Nemesis, African mask and African Beauty demonstrations making workshops. Arts and Events Hamlets Tower 11 am – 3 pm Entry Free Whitechapel Idea Store, 020 7364 4332 October 1st Saturday Head's Up! art the elegant and discover drop-in Families Arts. with Zenzele head wrapping of African Arts Museum – Zenzele Hackney Entry Free 1pm – 4pm Museum Hackney and Learning Centre Technology 020 8356 3500 [email protected] www.hackney.gov.uk/hackneymuseum
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Throughout September September Throughout Information Sensory sight and with your problems have Do you and Services Social hearing? Newham provide to together working Deafblind UK are with a sight and people to services specialist living in Newham. hearing loss Newham of London Borough 9 am – 5 pm Entry Free House Gable 020 8430 2000 ext.30184 [email protected] 2004 launch event Hamlets Bries, Tower Family 16 16 Family 19 N Nzinga Dance 4 pm - 8 pm Adults £2 and Entry Free Concessions Hall, Stratford Old Town 020 8430 2429 [email protected] Sunday 16th October Day Family Day Celebratory Food World all cultures will bring together The event arts, celebrate to in Newham and faiths delicious food over and fashion culture and celebration. Arts and Events Newham H Sunday 16th October 16th October Sunday Day Family Month Black History Sutton between collaboration The successful with continues University House and the Open in the Included event. produced this specially and dancing by Nzinga day will be drumming by Adisa, talks led poetry performance Dance, and family guided tours roots, your on tracing art activities. Sutton House National Trust Entry Free 12 noon – 4 pm House Sutton 020 8986 2264 Nzinga Dance T T Saturday 15th October Saturday Art Giant Anansi gigantic creature a mysterious Help us make tales. folk based on African-Caribbean Museum in Docklands and 3.00 pm 12.00 pm, 2.00 pm £3, under 16 and Adults £5, Concessions entry free full-time students Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk Sunday 16th October Joseph Johnson, 'The Man with a Ship on his Head' and storyteller century Meet the nineteenth Joseph Johnson sailor black merchant Museum in Docklands 2.30 pm and 3.30 pm under 16 and £3, Adults £5, Concessions entry free full-time students Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk T T Thursday 13th October Thursday (Diabeties) Health Day BME Open dance, and music, of craft Art and exhibition painting and face henna hand paint, stories. personal AYOKA 11 am - 4 pm Entry Free Mulberry Hall [email protected] 15th October Saturday Anansi Stories from and mischief of adventure tales to Listen character. Indian folk this West Museum in Docklands 12.00 pm, 2.00 pm and 3.00 pm £3, under 16 and Adults £5, Concessions entry free full-time students Museum in Docklands 0870 444 3855 0870 444 3856 information Recorded www.museumindocklands.org.uk N H Saturday 8th October 8th October Saturday Postcards Poetry with an artist work in and drop Families home take to a postcard create and poet to with you. Museum Hackney 2 pm – 4 pm Entry Free Museum Hackney 020 8356 3500 12th and Wednesday Monday 24th October African – your Tracing Caribbean Ancestors be easier than you can ancestry your Tracing will be Chater Kathy historian think. Family on hand. Heritage Services Newham 2 pm – 4 pm Wednesday Monday 6 pm – 7.30 pm Entry Free Library Stratford 020 8430 6881 [email protected] H
J head” Joseph Johnson, “The Man with a ship on his 8th October Saturday Hunt Black Treasure the 2005 London Nubian Jak presents Hunt. Join in the fun Book Treasure Libraries and the trail, of London. Follow with the rest the famous discover work out the clues to in London lived who have black personalities by English been celebrated and who have entry levels: with a Blue Plaque. Two Heritage Prizes Great olds, 12 and above. 7 – 11 year be won. to Libraries Nubian Jak and Hackney 12 noon Entry Free Libraries Hackney 020 8356 1696 Family 18 18 Family Wednesday 19th October Thursday 27th October Thursday 27th – Friday 28th October Saturday 29th October Saturday 12th November Saturday 12th November
Family Cultural Food and Flowers Event African Puppets Black History Month Celebrations Fashion Show Alé Douvan! Caribbean and African Kineshi Kraft African and Caribbean Stalls and Display from various African and Make your own puppet inspired by the folk Family drop in workshops. Fun for all ages. A celebratory day of Fashion from the Cultural Festival Market Celebrating Black History Caribbean countries. tales from Africa and the Caribbean. residents of West Ham Community Forum. An event for adults, children and the young at Kineshi Kraft is East London's African and Hackney Museum H heart celebrating the dynamism of African Caribbean Market taster. Stalls selling a Bishop Wilfred Wood Court Sheltered Museum in Docklands T 1 pm – 4 pm West Ham Community Forum N and Caribbean culture. Exhibition of range of health and food items, cards and Housing Scheme N 1 pm and 2.30 pm Free Entry 3 pm – 12 pm Caribbean arts, crafts and artifacts, books available. Health and Nutrition 1 pm – 4 pm Adults £5, Concessions £3, under 16 and Hackney Museum Free Entry perfomances of traditional and contemporary talks and tastings, plus drumming and Free Entry full-time students free entry 020 8356 3500 Newham Town Hall dance and drumming and Patwa story telling. poetry performances. Bishop Wilfred Wood Court Sheltered Museum in Docklands 020 8430 6311 Housing Scheme 0870 444 3855 [email protected] Alé Douvan! T 'Asumjwe – Peace of Mind & Mind in Tower 020 8472 6732 Recorded information 0870 444 3856 Saturday 29th October 7.30 pm – 10 pm Hamlets' African and Caribbean project T www.museumindocklands.org.uk Free Entry 4.30 pm – 8.30 pm Africa Positive Effect Project Saturday 29th October Kingsley Hall Adults £1 and Concessions 50p Saturday 22nd October An event promoting African heritage & 020 8981 8409 Open House Centre Thursday 27th October culture, particularly aimed at Black children Black History Month Celebration Day www.kingsleyhall.co.uk 020 7515 6144 Community Arts Festival born in Britain. The project will enable A celebratory event with traditional dances Arts festival featuring the different Acholi Black Treasure Hunt Quiz night participants and audiences to develop self, from across Africa. Demonstrations of dress (Ugandan) traditional dances, music, a variety Nubian Jak reveals the winners of the Black community & cultural awareness of the and food, storytelling and plays. of Ugandan food/dishes and drinks, a fashion Treasure Hunt and awards the prizes. Musical African race, and will teach pride in African show displaying traditional costumes, an art performances and refreshments provided. culture, heritage and colour. Inter-African Womens Development and craft display with the Group's past Organisation N recorded performances and photos and a Hackney Libraries H Sounds Life Trust H 4 pm – 11 pm disco to close the evening. 6 pm – 8 pm 4 pm – 10 pm Free Entry Free Entry Free Entry The Ram Restaurant LWO Cultural Group N Homerton Library Hall Contact BEMA for further details 07940 367192 3 pm – 10 pm 020 8356 1696 020 7923 1962 Adults £7 and Children (6 –16 years) £2 [email protected] St Mathews Church Hall 07951 659538
20 21 Film Throughout October Sunday 9th October Saturday 15th October Sunday 30th October Film Local Black British Heroes Kirikou and the Magic Sorceress Pressure African double bill This film project focuses on local Black Enjoy this animated African film of baby Pressure is the first feature film made by a Moolaadé (15) 1.45pm Heroes in Hackney. Interviews will be Kirikou in his journey to the forbidden Black British director, Horace Ove, in 1971. (Sen/B Faso/Cam/Mor/Tun/ Fr 2004) undertaken with members of BEMA and high mountain to rescue his village from a Originally banned for two years by the British dir.Ousmane Sembene. Subtitles. profile individuals in Hackney. The project will wicked witch. Film Institute (BFI), Pressure tells the story of Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène include input from local schools (pupils will a British-born Trinidadian teenager whose Diarra, Salimata Traoré. identify black heroes to interview) and aims to Museum in Docklands T attempts to integrate into British life are produce a film that can be used to teach 2 pm obstructed by racism. Along with his older The Night Of Truth (18) 4.10pm young people about cultural issues. Adults £5, Concessions £3, under 16 and brother, a member of the Black Power (France/Burkina Faso 2004) dir. Fanta Régina full-time students free entry movement in 1970s Ladbroke Grove, he 500 Years Later Nacro. Subtitles. Naky Sy Savane, Moussa BEMA H Museum in Docklands confronts the establishment. Before and after Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraougo, Contact BEMA for further details 0870 444 3855 the screening there will be a chance for Saturday 29th October Rasmane Ouédraougo. 020 7923 1962 Recorded information 0870 444 3856 people to meet and discuss the film [email protected] www.museumindocklands.org.uk informally, with food and drinks. Black History Month Film Matinee Rio Cinema H 500 Years Later (PG) 1.45 pm Adults £7.50 and Concessions £5.50 Loud Minority H One love (US/Br 2005) dir. Owen 'Alik Shahadah 106m. Rio Cinema Sunday 2nd October 2pm 020 7241 9410 Free Entry Sunday 16th October Rio Cinema H www.riocinema.org.uk Excerpts from the film Ghandi Rio Cinema Adults £6 and Concessions £4 including The Salt March 020 7241 9410 Jamaican Double Bill Rio Cinema Celebrating Gandhi's three-month visit to www.riocinema.org.uk Rockers (15) 2 pm 020 7241 9410 Kingsley Hall in Bromley-by-Bow in 1931. (Jamaica 1978) dir. Ted Bafaloukos www.riocinema.org.uk Gandhi in the East End exhibition compiled by Richard Hall, Gregory Isaacs, Jacob Miller, the late Howard Bloch, including the film The Marjorie Norman, Winston Rodney. Salt March which vividly illustrates Gandhi's approach to non-violence, followed by One Love (12A) 4 pm discussion on Non-Violent Action today. (Jamaica 2004) dirs. Rick Elgood and Don Letts Ky-Mani Marley, Cherine Anderson, Kingsley Hall T Vas Blackwood, Idris Elba, Winston Stona. From 11 am Film Screening at 4:30pm Rio Cinema H Free Entry, booking advisable Adults £7.50 and Concessions £5.50 Kingsley Hall Rio Cinema 020 8981 8409 020 7241 9410 www.kingsleyhall.co.uk www.riocinema.org.uk Night Of Truth 22 Pressure 23 Literature andSpokenWord Thursday 29th September – Friday 7th October Sunday 9th October Saturday 15th October Saturday 22nd October Spoken Soul Discussion of 'The Known World' Claude McKay Bashment Soul has never been so sweet. Experience the by Edward Jones This study day celebrates the life and work An electrifying new play. Hard hitting, tender re-interpretation of classic soul cuts like This Pulitzer prize-winning epic is a landmark of poet and radical, Claude McKay. The and painfully funny. About love and hate. 'What's going on?'(Marvin Gaye) by a stellar in American literature. Henry Townsend, a day will include performance, talks and line up of US poets including Ainsley black farmer, boot maker, and former slave, archive recordings. Theatre Royal Stratford East N Burrows, Mahogany Browne and Jive Poetic becomes proprietor of his own plantation, and 7.30 pm and Boogieman. his own slaves. An ambitious novel that Museum in Docklands T £8 – £20 ranges from the past to the present, The 2 pm – 6 pm Theatre Royal Stratford East Oxford House T Known World weaves together the lives of the Adults £5, Concessions £3, under 16 and 020 8534 0310 7 pm freed and the enslaved, and allows all of us a full-time students free entry.
Literature and Spoken Word Spoken and Literature £4 / £3 Concessions deeper understanding of the world created by Booking required Oxford House the institution of slavery. (Women only) Museum in Docklands Tuesday 4th October 0207 749 1171 0870 444 3855 Wednesday 5th and www.oxfordhouse.org.uk Idea Store in partnership with Tower Tuesday 11th October Recorded information 0870 444 3856 Poetry workshop Thursday 13th October Hamlets Libraries T www.museumindocklands.org.uk Performance of poetry with a 'black' theme by From 10.30 am Discussion of 'Some Kind of Black' poet Abraham Gibson on behalf of London's Discussion of Andrea Levy's Saturday 8th October Free Entry by Diran Adbayo Transport Museum. 'Small Island' Idea Store, Chrisp Street Dele is a young student who glides through Thursday 17th October Andrea Levy handles the themes of empire, Africa: Unwrapped 020 7364 4332 violence, love and politics, with his sister Newham Libraries N prejudice, war and love in 1948 England. Writing for stage with an African theme. This Dapo. He comes of age in Black London with Discussion of 'Beloved' 6.30 pm Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve one-day workshop explores the principles of its world of Afro-bohos, Nubians and the Love by Toni Morrison Free Entry when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers. African theatre. Has No Colour Brigade, to the soundtrack of Toni Morrison's modern classic. A story set in The Gate pirate radio. the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish 020 8430 3650 Idea Store in partnership with Tower Newham Libraries N slavery are at their height, and one man's [email protected] Hamlets Libraries T 10.30 am – 4.30 pm London Borough of Tower Hamlets T world of love turns to violence when his 7 pm – 9 pm Adults £7 and Concessions £3 From 6pm daughter dies at the hands of her mother. Free Entry Stratford Library Free Entry Wednesday Idea Store, Bow 020 8430 3650 Cubitt Town Library Tower Hamlets Libraries T Thursday Idea Store, Whitechapel Contact venue for more information 6 pm – 7 pm 020 7364 4332 020 7987 3152 Free Entry Watney Market Library 020 7790 4039
24 25 Literature andSpokenWord Friday 18th October Tuesday 25th October Thursday 27th October Saturday 1st – Monday 31st October Thursday 17th November
Writers Peer Group Launch Party Discussion of 'London Calling' Discussion of 'Things Fall Apart' Black Print West Indian Seamen Education Pack e7arts celebrates the launch of its monthly by Sukdev Sandhu. by Chinua Achebe Listings of recent additions of over 100 Launch, 'Sailors of the Caribbean' writers peer critique with an evening of London Calling tells the story and examines The Nigerian classic story of Okonkwo, an new titles to library stock of adult and The 'Sailors of the Caribbean' Education Pack, performances from local writers. literature written by black people in or important man in the Obi tribe, in the days children’s novels, non fictions, music and follows the unparalleled success of 'The West about London, tracing their escapades, when white men were first appearing on the film at all libraries. Indian Seamen's Conference' and' The West A new writers peer group will take place on fortune making, and self-expansion. scene. This novel tells of the series of events Indian Seamen's Conference Report' that was the 3rd Tuesday of each month following this by which Okonkwo, through his pride and his Hackney Libraries H held at the Museum in Docklands in February launch. Writers from all disciplines, poets, Placing the multiculturalism of today's capital fears, becomes exiled from the tribe. Library Opening Times and October 2004, respectively. playwrights, journalists, novelists and in its historical context, Sukhdev Sandhu Book list is available on request storytellers will be able to share work, shows that it is no new phenomenon, and that Tower Hamlets Libraries T Contact Anita Kane for further details Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental
Literature and Spoken Word Spoken and Literature perform and get feedback from their peers. just as London has been the making of many 6.30 pm 020 8356 1696 Health Organisation T black writers, they too have been the making Free Entry 4.30 pm – 7pm Find out more about the writers peer group of London. Bancroft Library Free Entry and how to get involved on the evening. Or Friday 21st October 020 7364 1291 Saturday 12th November Museum in Docklands simply join us for a celebration of local poets Tower Hamlets Libraries T 0870 444 3857 and creative writers. Power Writers Book Launch 6 pm Reminiscences of West Indian [email protected] The Power Writers Book is a compliment to Free Entry seamen in WWII E7 Arts N 'THACMHO's 'Power Writers Walk' and Bethnal Green Library In association with the Windrush Foundation, 6.30 pm – 9 pm Exhibition which respectfully acknowledges 020 8980 3902 this event focuses on the contribution of the Free Entry the lives of five African Writers who lived and West Indian seamen in WWII and features ex- The Gate worked in East London during the latter part serviceman, Allan Wilmot who served on 020 8555 6376 of the eighteenth century. active duty in both the Royal Navy and RAF.
Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Museum in Docklands T Health Organisation T 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm 6 pm – 8 pm Adults £5, Concessions £3, under 16 and Free Entry, Booking advised full-time students free entry The Whitechapel Mission Museum in Docklands 020 7247 1414 0870 444 3855 [email protected] Recorded information 0870 444 3856 www.museumindocklands.org.uk
26 27 Music andDance Monday 3rd, 10th, 17th and Wednesday 5th, 12th and 19th October Saturday 8th October Saturday 8th October 31st October Improvers Street Dance The Hand That Tut Moved Vader is Sending Out a Shout JANINE IRONS JANINE OLIVER WOODS :
Contemporary and Creative Dance For those with at least one year's experience Paradigmz the dancer/actor/rapper posterboy : to All The Peeps Develop your dance technique and co- in street dance. for Slamdunk, the Hip Hop musical, brings his A one afternoon black music spectacular, PHOTO ordination with an optional creative session to hard hitting performance style to oh!art. PHOTO hosted by Vader, who will take you through learn choreographic skills. East London Dance N Stretching the bodypopping style of "Tutting" the history, sounds, rhythms and artistes of
Music and Dance and Music 7.30 pm – 9 pm to the limit. Black music. East London Dance N £20 for the term 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm Stratford Circus Paradigmz (LDDT) T Ideas Store in partnership with London £20 for the term 020 8279 1050 8 pm Borough of Tower Hamlets T Stratford Circus Adults £7 and Concessions £5 1 pm – 4 pm 020 8279 1050 Oxford House Free Entry 0207 749 1171 Idea Store, Bow www.oxfordhouse.org.uk 020 7247 9510 KOFI ALLEN KOFI
Wednesday 5th, 12th and 19th October :
Beginners Street Dance PHOTO Sunday 9th October Fresh and funky class for beginners Alé Douvan Celebrating African Culture and Harvest East London Dance N Abram Wilson Saturday 8th October Celebrating African Culture and Harvest 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm with music, dance, colourful costumes £20 for the term Friday 7th October Music and Dance Workshops for and photography. Stratford Circus Women's Organisations 020 8279 1050 Tomorrow Warriors featuring Traditional African and Caribbean drumming, AYOKA T Abram Wilson with Guests Shabaka percussion and dancing. Also including a 4 pm – 8 pm Hutchings and Jess Mills discussion of aspects of the history of Free Entry Live music on Friday nights at Stratford African music and a short quiz on famous CCC Hall Circus. RandB and Jazz jam session by Dune Black Women. 07956 489 017 Records including open session. [email protected] Alé Douvan! T Urban Development N 3 pm - 5 pm 7pm – midnight Free Entry Adults £5, Concessions £3 and musicians get The Ecology Pavilion in for free Account3 Women's Consultancy Service Stratford Circus 020 7739 7720 Tomorrow's Warriors 020 8536 0630 Paradigmz www.account3.org.uk 28 29 Music andDance Friday 14th October Sunday 23rd October Friday 28th October Throughout October
True Tiger Recordings featuring Purple Afrika Heroes – Hackney Empire Blacktronica presents Alphabet Soup Achievement in Dance Awards Test Live music on Friday nights at Stratford A full scale showcase to celebrate Black hosted by Charlie Dark The Carol Straker Dance Foundation plans to Circus. East London hip hop/grime label with History Month together with a celebration of Live music on Friday nights at Stratford reach over 1,000 children & young people a one-off live session showcasing new local Black heroes within the borough. This is Circus. A celebration of the word with a varied through this Action Affirmative Dance releases and new MC's. a joint BEMA and Centerprise showcase selection of poets, MCs, vocalists and dancers. Education project. Dance styles include
Music and Dance and Music involving the following:- Ballet, Street Jazz and Jazz & Tap, and will Urban Development N Urban Development N cover Preparatory beginners to Elementary 7 pm – midnight Ujamaa Arts Project 7 pm – midnight advance level students. Students will be
COURTESY OF UJAMAA ARTS DANCE TROUPE ARTS DANCE OF UJAMAA COURTESY Adults £5 and Concessions £3 African drumming group Adults £5 and Concessions £3 assessed and will receive a certificate : Stratford Circus Stratford Circus verifying their participation and dance level
PHOTO 020 8536 0630 Emashi Dance Ensemble 020 8536 0630 achieved. There will be a celebration Children’s African Dance & Drumming Group ceremony on Saturday October 29th. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Thursday 20th October GFM Community Radio Ghanaian children’s dance group Carol Straker Dance Foundation H The Festival of Black Women and Jazz Free Entry LINDEN DOUGLAS This event acknowledges the contributions Orin Productions Crystal Events : 020 8985 1221 and achievements that Black women have Brazilian Capoeria Martial Arts/Dance Group PHOTO made to Jazz and marks the Black Women in Friday 28th October Ujamaa Arts Dance Troupe the Arts Day at the Vortex Jazz Bar. It includes The evening will culminate in an award an exhibition of work by Black Female visual ceremony for local Black Heroes. Heart and Soul Wednesday 12th October artists and a concert bringing together a The finale event for Black History Month in variety of Black female jazz singers, Hackney Empire H Tower Hamlets. In Memory of Brown Man Africa Lives! – Music Extravaganza performing traditional and contemporary jazz Contact BEMA for further details (Chuckles) 6.9.82 – 30.5.05. Celebrate the great traditions of African song, pieces. The event will provide the opportunity 020 7923 1962 drumming and dance, with the celebrated for experienced and new artistes to perform [email protected] A Musical Tribute To The Great Black performers of Ujamaa Arts Dance Troupe. along side each other. Entertainers, with Perry Melius and the Awesome Bare Riddim Band. Hosted by the Ujamaa Arts Dance Troupe and Black Women in the Arts H entertaining Julie Payne. Hackney Libraries H Vortex Club 7 pm – 9 pm Dalston Culture House Crystal Events T Free Entry Free Entry 8 pm – 2 am Stoke Newington Gallery Contact BEMA for further details £9 Contact Anita Kane for further details 020 7923 1962 The Rhythm Factory 020 8356 1696 [email protected] 07947 501 760 and 07092 865 088 Blacktronica 30 31 Politics andHistory Wednesdays 5th and 26th October Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October Saturday 22nd October
Gandhi in the East End – The Influence of Black Culture on Make Poverty History Oral History Workshop Society Lecture A day of history and discussion. A programme of events celebrating Gandhi's The Lord Taylor of Warwick will be ministering three-month visit to Kingsley Hall in Bromley- on the influence of Black people on society West Ham Community Forum N by-Bow in 1931. through education, politics and religion. 1 pm – 6 pm Free Entry Former Kingsley Hall users and local Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church N Grass Roots Centre Politics and History and Politics residents share stories about Gandhi's visit 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm 020 8430 6311 and about growing up in the shadow of Free Entry [email protected] Kingsley Hall. Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church 020 7474 8411 Kingsley Hall T 3 pm Free Entry Friday 14th October Saturday 15th October Friday 28th October Friday 11th November Kingsley Hall 020 8981 8409 From Malcolm X to Thomas Sankara Claude McKay Africa Called, Cuba Answered Fighting Racism In World War II www.kingsleyhall.co.uk This meeting will address the political legacy This study day celebrates the life and work From 1975 to 1988 hundreds of thousands of On the 60th anniversary of the end of the of these two giants and its importance for of poet and radical, Claude McKay. The day Cuban volunteers joined their Angolan Second World War, this meeting addresses today's struggles by workers and farmers will include performance, talks and brothers and sisters to secure a victory why the end of World War II did not open up against imperialism and its wars. Sponsored archive recordings. described by Nelson Mandela as “a milestone an epoch of peace. “Fighting racism in by Militant Labour Forum and hosted by in the history of struggle for southern African World War II” is a book that documents how Pathfinder Books. Museum in Docklands T liberation”. Ten years before, Che Guevara led Black people in the US armed forces had to 2 pm – 6 pm a campaign in the Congo. The meeting will face the racist Jim Crow system of Pathfinder Books T Adults £5, Concessions £3, under 16 and mark these two experiences of struggles in segregation. Sponsored by Militant Labour 7.30 pm, 6.30 pm Pre-meeting Dinner full-time students free entry. Africa and the internationalism of the Cuban Forum, hosted by Pathfinder Books. Speaker £3 Suggested Donation Booking required revolution, and their lessons for today. to be announced. Pathfinder Books Museum in Docklands Speaker: Jonathan Silberman. 020 7613 3855 0870 444 3855 Pathfinder Books T [email protected] Recorded information 0870 444 3856 Pathfinder Books T 7.30 pm, 6.30 pm Pre-meeting Dinner www.museumindocklands.org.uk 7.30 pm, 6.30 pm Pre-meeting Dinner £3 Suggested Donation £3 Suggested Donation Pathfinder Books Pathfinder Books 020 7613 3855 020 7613 3855 [email protected] [email protected]
32 33 Youth Thursday 29th September – 3rd – 28th October Friday 21st October Monday 24th – Friday 28th October Tuesday 25th, Thursday 27th and Saturday 1st October Saturday 29th October
Youth Youth Arts Action Zone – YAAZ VI Form Conference Raw Talent REHAN JAMIL Authentic Voices Festival A programme of music, dance & theatre Aimed at A and AS-level students, this full day : Free support workshops with specialist tutors Teen Reading Group Sessions This festival explores the different models of involving the Youth Arts Action Zone group, conference will concentrate on African and in Musical Theatre, Street Dance, Breakdance, All Teens are invited to come along to these creating new writing for, by and with young culminating in three nights of public Afro-Caribbean settlement along the River PHOTOS Bollywood, MCing and singing culminating in sessions and have their say about top young people. The acclaimed tense and edgy performances at Chats Palace. The project Thames, from 1600 to the present day. showcase on Saturday 12th November. adult titles. contemporary drama, Trashed by Noël Greig will engage primary and secondary pupils in will be featured Fri and Sat. Authentic Voices the production of work that truly reflects Black Museum in Docklands T A Team Arts T Idea Store T will also embrace the theme of environments British traditions and the global Black Diaspora. 10 am – 3 pm Phone for details Tuesday 4.30 pm – 5.30 pm for new work created during the festival. Free Entry Free Entry Discussion Book: 'Money Hungry' Ujamaa Arts Project H Museum in Docklands Brady Arts Centre by Sharon G. Flake Theatre Centre T Free Entry Recorded information 0870 444 3856 020 7364 7912 Idea Store, Bow Phone for details Chats Palace www.museumindocklands.org.uk Free Entry Contact BEMA for further details Thursday 4.30 pm – 5.30 pm Oxford House 020 7923 1962 Discussion Book: 'Web of Lies' 0207 749 1171 [email protected] Saturday 22nd October by Beverley Naidoo www.theatre-centre.co.uk Idea Store, Whitechapel www.oxfordhouse.org.uk East Meets West Tuesdays – 4th, 11th, 18th and An evening demonstrating the skills, talents Saturday 2 pm – 3 pm 25th October and innovative ideas of young black people in Discussion Book: 'Chill Wind' Every Friday Throughout October Blackwall and Limehouse who will also by Janet McDonald Learning through Cricket design, manage and deliver the showcase. Idea Store, Chrisp Street Group Platform of Creativity Have a great time meeting Mikey Thompson, Forum where young people discuss a topic of celebrated cricketing coach and learn more SPLASH Young People's Showcase T Free Entry their choice before being given the opportunity about the game. Use your skills to find out 7 pm 020 7364 4332 to display their talent. more about Caribbean cricket and famous £2.50 names in Caribbean cricket. St Matthias Old Church, Poplar Platform of Creativity N 020 7987 0459 7 pm – 9.30 pm Stoke Newington Cricket Club and Free Entry Hackney Libraries H East London Music and Drama Centre 10 am – 11.30 am 0208 503 0237 and 07985 205 529 Prior booking required [email protected] Refreshments provided Stoke Newington Library For further details contact Dawn Hendrickson 020 8356 2531 Alternative Fashion Show, A Team Arts A Team Arts and Metrofusion 34 35 It is advisable to contact the venue before you leave to check disabled access and transport links. Venues
Venues in Hackney H Rio Cinema Venues in Newham N The Gate St Bartholomews Church Centre Venues in Tower Hamlets T Ecology Pavillion oh!art 107 Kingsland High Street 4 – 20 Woodgrange Road Barking Road Mile End Park Oxford House
Venues The Building Exploratory Hackney, E8 Beckton Globe Library Forest Gate, E7 East Ham, E6 Account3 Women's (corner of Grove Road and Derbyshire Street The Professional Development 020 7241 9415 1 Kingsford Way 020 8430 3838 Consultancy Service Roman Road) Bethnal Green, E2 Centre www.riocinema.org.uk East Ham, E6 St Matthews Church Hall 1 – 9 Birkbeck Street E3 0207 749 1171 Albion Drive 020 8430 4063 Grass Roots 38 Dyson Road Bethnal Green, E2 www.oxfordhouse.org.uk Hackney, E8 Round Chapel Memorial recreational Ground Stratford, E15 020 7739 7720 Four Corners 020 7275 8555 1d Glenarm Road Bishop Wilfred Wood Memorial Avenue 07951659538 www.account3.org.uk 113 – 115 Roman Road Old Truman Brewery [email protected] Hackney, E5 Court Sheltered West Ham, E15 Bethnal Green, E2 146 Brick Lane 020 8986 0029 Housing Scheme Stratford Library Asumjwe Whitechapel, E1 Chat’s Palace www.theroundchapel.org.uk. 4 Pragel Street Green Street Library 3 The Grove Open House Centre Idea Store, Bow 020 7770 6000 2 – 44 Brooksby's Walk Plaistow, E13 337 – 341 Green Street Stratford, E15 13 Whitethorn Street 1 Gladstone Place Hackney, E9 Sounds Good Multimedia 020 8472 6732 Forest Gate, E13 020 8430 6890 Bow, E3 Roman Road Open House Centre 020 8533 022 21 – 23 Sedgewick Street 020 8472 4101 020 8981 4436 Bow, E3 Hall and Gardens www.chatspalace.com Hackney, E9 Calvary Charismatic Stratford Circus 020 7515 6144 020 7364 4332 13 Whitethorn Street 020 8493 0065 Baptist Church Ithaca House Theatre Square Bow, E3 Four Corners [email protected] 269a – 279 Barking Road 27 Romford Road Statford, E15 Bancroft Library Idea Store, Chrisp Street 113 –115 Roman Road Canning Town, E13 Stratford, E15 020 8279 1050 277 Bancroft Road 1 Vesey Path Pathfinder Books Tower Hamlets, E2 Sounds Life Trust 020 7474 8411 020 8536 1894 Stepney, E1 East India Dock Road 120 Bethnal Green Road 020 8981 6111 3 – 5 Farrow Lane Urban Development 020 7364 1291/1296 Poplar, E14 Bethnal Green, E2 www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk Hackney, E9 Custom House Library NACR Centre Stratford Circus 020 7364 4332 020 7613 3855 020 8985 9922 Prince Regent Lane 627 – 633 Barking Road Theatre Square Brady Arts Centre Geffrye Musuem [email protected] Canning Town, E16 Plaistow, E13 Stratford, E15 192 – 196 Hanbury St Idea Store, Whitechapel The Rhythm Factory 136 Kingsland Road 020 7476 1565 07712 894518 020 8536 0630 Whitechapel, E1 321 Whitechapel Road 16 – 18 Whitechapel Road Hackney, E2 Sutton House 020 7364 7900 Whitechapel, E1 Whitechapel, E1 020 7739 8543 2&4 Homerton High Street Discover Newham Town Hall 020 7364 4332 www.geffrye-museum.org.uk Hackney, E9 1 Bridge Terrace Barking Road Bethnal Green Library Spitalfields Gallery 020 8986 2264 Stratford, E15 East Ham, E6 Cambridge Heath Road Kingsley Hall 7 – 15 Greatorex St Hackney Museum www.nationaltrust.org.uk 020 8536 5555 Bethnal Green, E2 Powis Road Whitechapel, E1 1 Reading Lane Old Town Hall, Stratford 020 8980 3902/6274 Bow, E3 Hackney, E8 Stoke Newington Library East Ham Library 29 The Broadway 020 8981 8409 St Matthias Old Church 020 8356 3500 Stoke Newington Church Street High Street South Stratford, E15 CCC Hall www.kingsleyhall.co.uk 113 Poplar High Street www.hackney.gov.uk/hackneymuseum Hackney, N16 East Ham, E6 020 8534 7835 Northumbria Street Poplar, E14 020 8356 5231 020 8430 3647 Poplar, E14 Mulberry Sports and 020 7987 0459 Harriet Tubman House www.hackney.gov.uk/libraries.htm Plaistow Library Leisure Hall 136a – 142a Lower Clapton Road East London Dance North Street Cubitt Town Library Mulberry School for Girls Watney Market Library Hackney, E5 Vortex Club Theatre Square Plaistow, E13 Strattondale Street Anthony Street 30 – 32 Watney Market 02089851221 11 Gillett Street Stratford, E15 020 8472 0420 Poplar, E14 Whitechapel, E1 Whitechapel, E1 Hackney, N16 020 8279 1050 020 7364 1291/1282 020 7364 1291/1282 Homerton Library 020 7254 4097 Platform of Creativity Museum in Docklands Homerton High Street www.vortexjazz.co.uk/location Gable House East London Music & Drama Centre Dorset Library No. 1 Warehouse The Whitechapel Mission Hackney, E9 27A Romford Road Leyton High Road Ravenscroft Street West India Quay 212 Whitechapel Road 020 8356 1690 Stratford, E15 Leyton, E10 Bethnal Green, E2 Poplar, E14 Whitechapel, E1 www.hackney.gov.uk/libraries.htm 020 8430 2000 ext.30184 020 8503 0237 020 7364 1291/1282 www.museumindocklands.org.uk 020 7247 8280 36 37 Thank you
Black History Month is a momentous occasion that creates a wider spectrum of awareness about It is advisable to contact the venue before you the accomplishments of black people. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all parties leave to check disabled access. who have contributed towards this celebration. For transport links go to: www.tfl.gov.uk or call 020 7222 1234 In addition, Black History Month demonstrates cultural diversity and is seen in a positive and enlightened way throughout our community. This year’s programme is filled with various forms of entertainment and historical information. I would like to encourage everyone to attend and To download a PDF version of this participate within these events, in order to enhance knowledge and understanding of Black History, in order to create harmony within all of our communities. programme go to the following sites and follow the links: www.hackney.gov.uk/index
Cllr Betheline Chattopadhyay www.newham.gov.uk Chair of Black History Month Group Tower Hamlets www.lbthartsandevents.info on behalf of the joint partnership initiative between the local authorities of Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets and Fusion East.
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This brochure is part of a joint partnership initiative between the local authorities of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Fusion East to celebrate Black History Month 2005.