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Welcome to the exciting and varied programme of events Southwark’s libraries have organised a wide range of that are part of Southwark’s contribution to Black History events for adults and children. Highlights include acclaimed Month in the UK. Black History Month both educates and Jamaican poet Jean “Binta” Breeze MBE at Canada Water reminds us about how migrants from Africa and the Library with award-winning Trinidadian writer Sharon Millar. Caribbean have shaped our society by their contributions. The new Library hosts bestselling author Mike Gayle and Library will be screening powerful films The 90 year life of our former mayor, wartime RAF member, by black British directors every Monday throughout October. Empire Windrush migrant and co-founder of the Notting Hill Carnival Sam King MBE is an excellent example of this. Black History Month is for everybody and all events are free or low cost, so please get involved and get inspired. This year’s theme, “Black History Month and what it means to me,” was chosen to allow event organisers to focus on individual and personal interpretations and many did just that. We had a record number of applications for funding and For more information on Black History Month or to although some hard decisions had to be made over what to download a copy of this brochure, visit www.southwark. fund, our October programme offers a varied mix of events gov.uk/bhm2016 for all ages and interests with many new organisations taking part for the first time. No matter who you are or where you live in the borough, there should be something of interest for you.

Cllr Johnson Situ Cllr Barrie Hargrove Cabinet member for business, Cabinet member for employment and culture communities and safety

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Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze MBE is a Jamaican poet and mentor, whose varied life and colourful personality have shaped a voice that demands attention, whether speaking of poverty in developing countries, the Caribbean, music, family, or themes that chart the human experience. Her new poetry collection The Verandah Poems was published in March to mark her 60th birthday. Jean performed at the opening of Peckham Library in 2000 and came back to celebrate its ten year anniversary in 2010. We are very pleased to welcome Jean back to Southwark on 4 October 2016 where she will be performing at Canada Water Library, with fellow Caribbean writer Sharon Millar.

We are really looking forward to hearing you perform Has there been any particular praise or criticism that some of the poems from your new book The Verandah has stuck with you? Poems. Can you tell us a bit about how your latest Eddie Baugh at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona collection came about? read my poem Dreamer and he said before that, he’d thought I JEAN: I got ill and decided to spend a year in Jamaica had been a ‘one poem wonder’ (meaning The Mad Woman’s recuperating. When I got back to Jamaica I realised how Poem). But when he read Dreamer he knew that I understood much I’d missed my verandah. My bedroom opens out to the that poems were like dreams written on the sand. verandah, so first thing in the morning I sat out there with my I always remember that. cup of coffee. I spent most of the day sitting. It was sitting You’ve talked openly about your battle with mental there that the poems came in my head and I started writing health throughout your life; to what extent has this them down. And they are all true. It all happened just as it is battle impacted on or informed your work? in the book. The poetry let me know when I was well. When I was battling Who inspired you when you were growing up? with the illness or having to go into hospital, or suffering through My mother (laughs). My mother taught me all the poems she it for a couple of months at a time, I lost the ability to write and I had in her head. I learned them all, and recited them at church lost the ability to read. So the writing of the poetry made me and at school. So ever since I could read and could talk, I have know I was getting better. been reciting poems. I started writing my own at about age 11. One was called Post Mortem as I had started studying Latin at high school.

Was there a particular moment when you knew that you would become a writer and performer? Not until a long way in, about 1978. I had been reciting poems at political rallies in Jamaica right through the 1970s. At the end of the 1970s I went to drama school and met Dennis Scott and that’s when I seriously started trying to write what was in my head, with his guidance. When he left Jamaica, he sent me to Mervyn Morris who I showed my poems to and he helped me with the early work.

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Could you tell us a bit about your work as a mental Do you have an all time favourite or favourites of health champion? your books? I have done lots of things. In Jamaica, The Mad Woman’s Poem I am very close to Riddim Ravings and Other Poems because became very popular. Young people were reciting it and it was that was the first time I satisfied myself with the quality of on the radio a lot. It touched home in Jamaica. In England, poems that I had written and it was a great debut in England. mental health associations asked me to speak and asked me Later, when I got Third World Girl: Selected Poems I felt very to read. When I went to live in Leicester, Lydia Towsey from the close to it as it held all my treasures in the one book. The NHS made me a patron of what they were doing for mental Verandah Poems was such a departure from anything I’d ever health, especially in relation to young black men in England done, and right now it’s what I’d call my ‘wash belly book’! (Showcase Smoothie). I worked very closely with the NHS in Do you have an all time favourite book written Leicestershire and, based on my own mental health issues and by someone else? what I understood, I was able to help the process in that community. I also became a patron of Soft Touch Arts and a Strategies by Dennis Scott. He speaks of so many things that few years ago, was an ambassador for Time To Change, which are in my heart and that I never knew how to speak about. involved speaking to audiences and communities in Brixton What advice do you have for someone who would and Birmingham. What was great was that Time To Change like to become a published writer? had so many people who had suffered mental ill health who Well, becoming a writer is a different thing to becoming a were performing. So I wasn’t the only person on stage who had published writer because to be a published writer, you have to that history. For example, they had a band of singers and keep sending your work to people you want to be published by songwriters and musicians. They were so good that they and hope you become lucky. I’d say bring yourself to public deserved to be on any stage. attention by performing as much as you can.

Did receiving your MBE in 2012 for services to literature What does Black History Month mean to you? change anything, personally or professionally? Living in England for almost 30 years when Black History Month My mother loved it and anyone who comes to her house has it came about, it was a culmination of a lot of things that black shown to them. My family was really proud of me. people in Britain wanted to accomplish. How we wanted to come together, and speak to each other, and to also speak to England. As a citizen in England, in Britain, I thought that Black History Month was a great development of that society. Book your free place to see Jean ‘Binta’ BreezeTuesday and 4 Sharon Millar at Canada Water Library on October, 7pm via southwarkjeanbreezesharonmillar. eventbrite.co.uk

FEATURED EVENT MONDAY 10 OCTOBER Telling tales: African and Caribbean storytelling An evening of storytelling, featuring tales of wonder, magic, mystery and suspense. Rediscover the joy of being told tall tales and embark on a spellbinding journey in the safe hands of acclaimed storytellers Eli Anderson, Griot Chinyere, Carol Russell and Sandra Agard. For adults. Free, but advance booking is essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com

Time: 7pm Venue: Canada Water Library, 21 Road, SE16 7AR Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, [email protected]

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SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER Deaf people’s black history TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER Pauline Pearce sings jazz at Draper Hall An event for the black deaf community Southwark libraries and Renaissance to share their histories and cultures. International legends of jazz music Digby One present: an evening with Jean Wear cultural dress if you wish and bring Fairweather and his band with Pauline Pearce, ‘Binta’ Breeze and Sharon Millar some home cooked food to share. reunite for this one-off gig in Southwark. Sign language interpreters will be present. An enthralling evening of poetry, stories Advance booking essential via Advance booking essential. and performance by two acclaimed draperestate.com Caribbean writers, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Time: 5pm to 8pm Time: 6.30pm to 10pm and award winning Trinidadian writer Venue: Southwark Resource Centre, Venue: Draper Hall, Hampton Street, SE1 6TL and lecturer Sharon Millar. 10 Bradenham Close (off Westmoreland For adults. Free, but advance booking Contact: draperestate.com, Road), SE17 2QB [email protected] is essential via: southwarkjeanbreeze Contact: [email protected], sharonmillar.eventbrite.co.uk SMS text: 07804 405 893, 020 7701 1391 1 TO 23 OCTOBER Time: 7pm In celebration of our history 3 TO 28 OCTOBER Venue: Canada Water Library, 21 Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7AR Pempeople will be working with local artists Black History Month and what it means Contact: southwarkjeanbreezesharon and organisations to bring a host of activities to Southwark exhibition celebrating the achievements of Afro millar.eventbrite.co.uk, Visit our gallery for fascinating insights into Caribbeans in the UK, including photo [email protected] Southwark’s rich historical culture. Join exhibitions, genealogy classes, film nights Largactyl Shuffle local research meetings on Black History Month textiles day and open mic events. Thursday afternoons throughout September, Draw, photograph and find inspiration in the Time: Various - visit website below for to contribute to the content and production of Horniman’s collection of Adire textiles and more information this exhibition. Contact CoolTan for details. learn about natural dyes in the museum’s Dye Venue: 91 Peckham High Street, SE15 5RS Time: Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm Garden. Then visit CoolTan Arts’ textile studio to dye your own textiles. Advance booking is Contact: pempeople.org.uk, Venue: CoolTan Arts, 224-236 Walworth essential. Limited to 15 spaces. Contact 07859 821 918 Road, SE17 1JE [email protected] or call 020 7701 Contact: cooltanarts.org.uk/current- 2696. Free refreshments provided. SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER upcoming-exhibitions, 020 7701 2696, Time: 11am to 5pm African Storytelling with Mylo Freeman [email protected] and Sade Fadipe Venue: Horniman Museum, 100 Road, SE23 3PQ / CoolTan Arts, 224-236 Come along for a humorous and engaging 3 TO 28 OCTOBER Walworth Road, SE17 1JE afternoon listening to two great storytellers. CelebrateBHM@Bede Mylo Freeman is the creator of the Princess Contact: cooltanarts.org.uk/events/ A programme of activities featuring poetry, Arabella picture books and Sade Fadipe is bhmtextilesday, 020 7701 2696, drama and dance workshops, t-shirt and the writer of A Fun ABC; all published by [email protected] mural printing, and an evening theatre visit Cassava Republic Press. For children aged to see Pidgeon English at the Ambassador three to seven and families. 4, 11, 18 AND 25 OCTOBER Theatre, WC2. Time: 2pm Inspire New Creative Performing Arts Time: Various times and dates throughout Venue: Peckham Library, 122 Peckham Hill October; visit website below for full information Black History Month project Street, SE15 5JR Venue: Bede Centre, Abbeyfield Road, Through the use of drama and performing Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, SE16 2JW arts, explore the struggles and trip to freedom [email protected] of African American personalities who have Cost: Free for young people and those contributed immensely to our history, from with learning difficulties. £15 contributions Civil Rights leaders and children’s authors, MONDAY 3 OCTOBER payable towards theatre show tickets. to musicians, artists and business leaders. Film screening: Gone too far! (15 cert) Advance booking is essential at least Time: 4.30pm to 6.30pm Every Monday afternoon in October, Dulwich one week before the event. Spaces are library will be celebrating the work of black limited and consent forms may be required Venue: Wickway Community Centre, British film directors. Gone too far! (2013) is to participate. St. Georges Way, SE15 6PL Destiny Ekharaga’s first feature film; a breezy, Contact: bedehouse.org, Contact: incpa.org.uk, witty culture-clash comedy adapted from 020 7231 6027 for youth activities, 020 7237 [email protected], Bola Agbaje’s Olivier award-winning play. 8930 for learning disability activities 07535 408 348 For ages 15 and over. Time: 1.30pm Venue: Dulwich Library, 368 Lordship Lane, SE22 8NB Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com [email protected] Black History Month 2016 • southwark.gov.uk • Page 5 Events listings

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER Time: 6 and 20 October, 2pm to 4pm; SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER 11 and 25 October, 9.30am to 11am. Black Plays Archive Event Positive vibrations Trip to Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, The Black Plays Archive is an exceptional Invigorating family drumming, writing, mid-October. Contact HOurBank for tickets resource, cataloguing theatre writing performance, artistry and thought-provoking and date. produced in the UK by African, Caribbean health and wellbeing focused workshops. and Black British writers. This special event Venue: St George the Martyr, Borough Please call or email to reserve your place at will celebrate and raise awareness of the High Street, SE1 1JA on 6 and 20 October; individual workshops. All Saints Church, Blenheim Grove, archive, through drama workshops, readings Time: 12.30pm to 6.30pm and discussions. Tickets must be booked Peckham, SE15 4QS on 11 and 25 October Venue: All Saints Community Centre, online or by calling the box office; contact Cost: Trip would usually cost £7 but is free 105 New Cross Road, SE14 5DJ details below. in exchange for time credits. Time credits Contact: thewomenscommunityforum. Time: 7pm can be earned for attending the discussions. org, thewomenscommunityforum@yahoo. Venue: Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, co.uk, 07449 196 673 SE1 2HZ Contact: pecan.org.uk, [email protected], 020 7732 0007 Cost: £5 MONDAY 10 OCTOBER Contact: unicorntheatre.com/BCAEvent, 6, 13, 20 AND 27 OCTOBER Film screening: Second Coming 020 7654 0560 (15 cert) Free to Act – Black History Month Project Every Monday afternoon in October, Dulwich 6 TO 9 OCTOBER library will be celebrating the work of black The Blue Elephant Theatre hosts an event for The Voices of Black Folk British film directors. Second Coming (2014), the local community focusing on what black is written and directed by award-winning This production looks into the century’s long history means to our community, giving playwright debbie tucker green and is her first fight for freedom from slavery, in particular young people aged six to 16 the opportunity feature film. Jackie (Nadine Marshall) and looking at the role Africans played in the to learn about black, Afro-Caribbean culture Mark (Idris Elba) are a couple thrown into cause of abolition, as this narrative is sadly and inspirational artists who helped to shape turmoil by the prospect of another child. For absent from the “official histories”. history and celebrate their successes. ages 15 and over. Time: 7.30pm Time: 5pm to 7pm Time: 1.30pm Venue: Canada Water Culture Space, Venue: Camberwell Library, 48 Camberwell Venue: Dulwich Library, 368 Lordship Lane, Canada Water Library, 21 Surrey Quays Green, SE5 7AL Road, SE16 7AR SE22 8NB Contact: blueelephanttheatre.co.uk, Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, Cost: £15 [email protected], [email protected] Contact: duoartsandedutainment.com, [email protected], box office 020 8692 4446, 020 7701 0100 [email protected] TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER Southwark’s Black History: an overview by S I Martin 6, 8, 15 AND 22 OCTOBER Southwark dominoes tournament This illustrated presentation by acclaimed Peckham Platform OPEN drop Join in this dominoes tournament for all author, historian, journalist and teacher S I in workshops ages, with Caribbean food and music. Martin introduces well known members of Free drop-in workshops for all ages, families There are prizes for the winning pairs, Southwark’s black population, from Mary welcome. Run by The Missing Collective, a runners-up and the best young players. Seacole to Marcus Garvey, and demonstrates group of young BAME women artists. Part Draper Hall is fully accessible. how they impacted on the borough we know of Peckham Platform’s OPEN exhibition. Advance booking is essential; please today. For adults. Find full details about the workshops online call Graham on 07946 438 380. Time: 2pm peckhamplatform.com Time: 7pm to 10pm Venue: Dulwich Library, 368 Lordship Lane, Time: 6 October, 6pm to 7.30pm (for 13 to Venue: Draper Hall, Hampton Street, SE22 8NB 19 year olds); 8, 15 and 22 October, 11am SE1 6TL to 4pm (for all ages) Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, Contact: [email protected] Venue: Peckham Platform, 89 Peckham [email protected] High Street, SE15 5RS Songs with a story: live music at Contact: peckhamplatform.com, Dulwich Library 12, 19, 21 AND 26 OCTOBER [email protected] An evening of ska, reggae and more in the Black History Month with PG Dulwich Library hall. Discover the stories Time Bank behind these classic songs and enjoy 6, 11, 20 AND 25 OCTOBER Enjoy a cultural costume catwalk show hearing them played live by the Common HourBank delves into black history followed by dance workshops and a Denominator Band. For adults. and identity pampering session on natural nails and hair Time: 8pm products. Other sessions include self-belief, Come and join the HOurBank at our free Venue: Dulwich Library, 368 Lordship Lane, natural beauty and self-confidence, and a cafes, as we discuss what black history SE22 8NB great talk by a representative from the Black and culture means to us, a mixed group of Cultural Archives. Southwark residents. Discussions include Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, identity, language and empowerment. [email protected] Time: 12pm to 5pm (2pm to 9pm on 26 October) Venue: Kingswood House, Seeley Drive, Page 6 • southwark.gov.uk • Black History Month 2016 SE21 8QR (in the Jacobean room) Contact: [email protected] Events listings

FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER Time: 2.30pm WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER Evelyn Dove: Britain’s black Venue: John Harvard Library, 211 Borough Lagos Rising: with publisher Bibi cabaret queen High Street, SE1 1JA Bakare-Yusuf and crime writer Stephen Bourne presents his new biography Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, Leye Adenle [email protected] on the life of Evelyn Dove, a Black British An evening focused on the work of Cassava pioneer who thrilled audiences around the Republic Press, the African publishing house world in the booming cabaret age and was 15 TO 26 OCTOBER which launched in the UK in April 2016 with a BBC Radio and television star. My art beats in London Junior the aim of changing the way the world thinks Advance booking is essential online via: Two days of creative workshops at the about African writing. bit.ly/2bCIMmX Docklands Settlement, for children aged For adults. Free, but advance booking is Time: 6pm to 7.30pm five to 11 years old. essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com Venue: Camberwell Library, 48 Camberwell Time: Tribal masks and wooden jewellery Time: 7pm Green, SE5 7AL workshop – 25 October, 10am to 12pm Venue: Peckham Library, 122 Peckham Hill Contact: and 2pm to 4pm – mabiljj.eventbrite.co.uk Street, SE15 5JR and mabiljtm.eventbrite.co.uk [email protected] Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, Tribal masks – 26 October, 2pm to 4pm Divided by Race, United in War and [email protected] – mabiljt.eventbrite.co.uk Peace: film screening and Q&A with Marc Wadsworth and Deborah Hobson Venue: Docklands Settlement, 400 Salter THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER Road, SE16 5LJ Divided by Race, United in War and Peace A Lindy Hop salute to Sam King Cost: Free, but donations requested from (2013), is a moving documentary about race Galleywall School invites you to learn the participants for the Docklands Settlement relations in Britain during and after the Second joyful Lindy Hop dance of the 1940s and charity on the day. Tickets available online World War. Filmmakers Marc Wadsworth and celebrate through dance, music and the from the links above. Deborah Hobson will introduce the film and children’s wonderful art, the life and times of take questions from the audience. Contact: myartbeatsinlondonjunior@ the late great Sam King. Advance booking For adults. Free, but advance booking is gmail.com, 07538 553 134, facebook.com/ essential via [email protected]. bizziebodies or on Twitter @Bizziebodies1 essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com Time: 2.30pm to 5.30pm Time: 7.45pm SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER Venue: Galleywall Primary School, Venue: John Harvard Library, 211 Borough Galleywall Road, SE16 3PB The Camberwell Amble High Street, SE1 1JA Contact: galleywall.co.uk, Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, Join us on an interactive walking tour over [email protected] [email protected] more than 400 years of Camberwell’s black history, where we encounter activists, Dr Moody interpretive sign unveiling 15 TO 29 OCTOBER performers and others who changed history. Dr Harold Moody, one of Southwark’s first Time: 11.30am to 1pm and 3pm to 4.30pm black GPs in the 1920s to 1940s, strove for Hair-looms: African Hair-story Venue: Starting at Brunswick Park, equal rights for black people in Britain and and Hair-itage Camberwell, SE5 7RH. Finishing at Love the Colonies. This event, at his former Illuminated Arts invites you to an exhibition of Walk, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AD residence, unveils a sign and portrait photographs, art and sculpture inspired by dedicated to his memory, life and work. Contact: [email protected], the traditions and symbolism of African hair 07789 552 450 Time: 12pm and its history. Come and learn about the Venue: Open air outside 164 Queens significance that hair plays in African Road, Peckham, SE15 2HP societies. Discover the cultural importance of TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER braiding and of hair as a symbol of rebellion, Meet Mike Gayle: bestselling author of Contact: southwark.gov.uk/ pride and empowerment. My Legendary Girlfriend drmoodyboard, 020 7525 0867 Tickets for the opening event on 15 October, Bestselling novelist, journalist and former Aaina Womens Group black history 7pm to 9pm are available online from agony uncle, Mike Gayle will be talking Inspirational storytelling by women. Ongoing goo.gl/wH36Ag about his career and reading from his opportunities for henna and massage Time: 10pm to 9pm, 16 to 29 October superb new novel The Hope Family treatments and art for adults. Stress Calendar. It’s a bittersweet tale of a father Venue: Me’lange Hair Salon, 3 Blenheim management session by specialised trainer, struggling to raise two daughters after the Grove, Peckham SE15 4QW including mindfulness techniques, how to loss of his wife. Contact: illuminated-arts.com, manage stress and identify the symptoms. For adults. Free, but advance booking is 020 7732 9383, Time: 11am to 2pm [email protected] essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com Venue: Sojourner Truth Centre Hall, 161 Time: 7pm Researching Caribbean family history Sumner Road, SE15 6JL Venue: Camberwell Library, 48 Camberwell Contact: [email protected] Sharon Tomlin, founder of Carib Genealogy Green, SE5 7AL and Family History Research offers an Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, expert two hour guide to researching your [email protected] Caribbean family history. Please note that places are limited. For adults. Free, but advance booking is essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com

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FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER Lorna Liverpool: drums, dance FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER and storytelling Black History Month celebration Our Past Your Future Children’s author and musician Lorna of creativity An exciting new piece of theatre based on Liverpool presents her unique mixture of Showcasing, celebrating and promoting the experiences and life stories of members storytelling, arts and crafts, drumming and discussion around the theme ‘what black of Elimhouse Community Association in dancing. For children aged five and over history means to you’. Find your creative way Peckham, brought to life by young actors and families. to wellbeing with live music, poetry, from Southwark. Tickets will be available aromatherapy workshops and a smoothie bar. Time: 2pm online at southwarkplayhouse.co.uk from Time: 6pm to 9pm Venue: Canada Water Library, 21 Surrey 30 September. Quays Road, SE16 7AR Venue: CoolTan Arts, 224-236 Walworth Time: 2pm Road, SE17 1JE Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, Venue: Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 [email protected] Contact: cooltanarts.org.uk/events/ Newington Causeway, SE1 6BD bhmcelebration, 020 7701 2696, Contact: southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/ [email protected] THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER whats-on, 020 7407 0234, boxoffice@ Rastamouse is here! southwarkplayhouse.co.uk Southbound: an evening of poetry Rastamouse creator and author, Michael Rastamouse is here! Four talented performers, Patricia Foster, D’Souza presents a Rastamouse workshop Zena Edwards, Suléy Muhidin and Janett with interactive brainteasers, poems, stories Rastamouse creator and author, Michael Plummer, reveal a window into their lives and props. For children aged five and over D’Souza presents a Rastamouse workshop through moving, funny, fierce, and and families. with interactive brainteasers, poems, stories inspirational poetry. and props. For children aged five and over Time: 2pm For adults. Free, but advance booking is and families. Venue: John Harvard Library, 211 Borough essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com Time: 2pm High Street, SE1 1JA Time: 7pm Venue: Camberwell Library, 48 Camberwell Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, Green, SE5 7AL Venue: Camberwell Library, 48 Camberwell [email protected] Green, SE5 7AL Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, Our memories, our contributions [email protected] [email protected] The exhibition and talk by Selena Carty of Black Poppy Rose organisation will share SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER the experiences and sadly unheralded Our Diverse Culture contributions made by black soldiers who Back in the day: reggae vibes and London Senior Social will be hosting Our have fought for the UK over the years. A two memories with David Katz Diverse Culture; BME groups reminiscing on course Caribbean lunch is available for £6 their heritage and cultural history, through Author and journalist David Katz discusses but must be booked in advance via the drumming, an art exhibition, African dress his books Solid Foundation: An Oral History contact details below. of Reggae and People Funny Boy: The and dance. Time: 1pm to 4pm Genius of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, in an Time: 11am to 4.30pm Venue: Walworth Methodist Church, 54 illustrated reading featuring the music Venue: Stone End Day Centre, 11 Scovell Camberwell Road, SE5 0EN covered in the books. For adults. Road, SE1 1QQ Contact: [email protected], Time: 7.30pm Contact: londonseniorsocial.com, 07891 030 121 Venue: Rye Wax, CLF Art Café Basement, [email protected], 122 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST Half term cartoon sketch class 07495 722 523 or 07930 646 608 Contact: southwark.gov.uk/libraries, Learn how to draw black heroes and [email protected] heroines from history at this educative MONDAY 31 OCTOBER and entertaining black history cartoon Lilith Ai in performance WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER workshop; a must for history enthusiasts Lilith Ai is a singer-songwriter, a purveyor of Black History Month celebration and aspiring cartoonists. Advance booking heartfelt tales of modern urban living. She’s Hear personal accounts of the diverse is essential via [email protected] been acclaimed as a pioneer of the history of black people, highlighting the or 07802 970 511. alternative soul movement, moving from richness of black heritage and what Time: 1.30pm to 3pm sensitive vocals to red-blooded riffs, using great influence black people have had Venue: Damilola Taylor Centre (DTC), 1 subtle distortions and fragmented beats. on our community. East Surrey Grove, Peckham SE15 6DR For adults. Free, but advance booking is Time: 12pm to 5pm Contact: [email protected], essential via: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com Venue: Thurlow Lodge Community Hall, 07802 970 511 Time: 7pm 1 Thurlow Street, SE17 2US Venue: Canada Water Library, 21 Surrey Contact: [email protected], Quays Road, SE16 7AR 07572 249 881 Contact: southwarklibs.eventbrite.com, [email protected]

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