we made it! - haringey’s bame creators · pool of london (1951) time: 7pm . place: cinema &...
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Date: 1st June to 14th July 2019 Event name: Exhibition: We Made It! - Haringey’s BAME Creators
and Innovators Time: During museum opening times:
Wednesday to Sunday; 1pm to 5pm Place: Bruce Castle Museum
Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17 8NU Price: Free Event details: We Made It! salutes past and present-day BAME creativity
and innovation – all from here in Haringey. Exploring the collections from Bruce Castle Museum and the Haringey Archive this exhibition celebrates the more recent artistic excellence of portrait artist Kelvin Okafor and the creative storytelling of visual artist Agenda Brown, alongside the early work of internationally significant photographers David A. Bailey, Dave Lewis, Ingrid Pollard and Suzanne Roden. Emerging talent Marquel Williams from Tottenham shows his new fashion designs, reflecting on the Windrush generation and influenced by renowned textile designer Althea McNish, with made examples using her beautiful fabric. For the first time the award-winning ‘Sewn Together’ African and Caribbean commemorative quilt made by Sonja Camara and the Haringey community will be displayed. The collection of artists includes Gary March, Melonie Stennett, Bernette Hall, Antony Paul Maina, Adjoa Wiredu, Tony Wolliston and Tania Pascoal, amongst many others. Enjoy, explore and be inspired.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum: 020 8808 8772 or by email at: [email protected]
Date: Thursday 13th June 2019 Event name: FILM: POOL OF LONDON (1951) Time: 7pm Place: Cinema & Lounge,
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Road Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
Price: £7.50 in advance (including booking fee), £9 on the door Event details: Released three years after Windrush arrived in Tilsbury
Docks, film legend Earl Cameron broke through the colour bar landing a lead role in the gritty melodrama heist movie
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Pool of London. Playing a shy, sensitive outsider to his cocky shipmate, Earl Cameron’s character Danny gets unwittingly involved in a diamond heist gone wrong.
Booking information: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/film-pool-of-london-1951/ Box office: 020 8365 5450
Date: Thursday 13th June 2019 Event name: Film screening: Black Britain on Film (including
Q&A) Time: 7 to 10pm Place: St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, London N15 5PU Price: Free Event details: Showing the latest release from this touring programme
exploring the vital history of Black Britain throughout the 20th Century. Bringing together films spanning 1901 to 1985 and taken from many different regions of the UK offering incredibly rare, little-seen and valuable depictions of black British life.
Booking information: Book your free ticket by visiting: www.blackbritainonfilm2019.eventbrite.co.uk or contact Dawn Gobourne on: 020 8489 1422 / 2070
Date: Thursday 13th June 2019 Event name: Talk: Windrush and Me: Rt. Hon David Lammy in
Conversation Time: 7:30pm Place: Theatre, Bernie Grant Arts Centre,
Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
Price: £6.50 (including booking fee) Event details: MP for Tottenham since 2000, Rt. Hon David Lammy has
been at the heart of the campaign for justice for those wrongly deported and detained as a result of the Windrush scandal. Join us for this very special in-conversation as David Lammy and broadcaster Dotun Adebayo talk politics, activism and why a hostile environment affects us all.
Booking information: https://www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/david-lammy/ Box office: 020 8365 5450
Date: Friday 14th June 2019 Event name: Music, Spoken word, Film:
Memories of Mind: Women of the Windrush Tell Their Stories
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Time: 7:30pm Place: Theatre, Bernie Grant Arts Centre,
Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
Price: £11.50 standard, £9.50 concession (including booking fee)
Event details: With stunning original vocals, instrumental music, spoken word and film, award winning composer Shirley J Thompson OBE and guest artists bring compelling narratives and memories of from the Windrush experience to life. Featuring: Queen of Lover’s Rock, Carroll Thompson, poet Zena Edwards and others.
Booking information: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/memories-of-mind/ Box office: 020 8365 5450
Date: 15th to 22nd June 2019 Event name: Exhibition: Windrush Time: During library opening times Place: Marcus Garvey Library,
1 Philip Lane, Tottenham N15 4JA
Price: Free Event details: An exhibition for adults and children to celebrate the
Windrush. There will be display of poems, photo images of the Windrush generation with supported factual information, a Windrush quiz, a Windrush factsheet and details of a workshop for children and families - Finding Your Roots. You can also find more information of various activities and events taking place in our library at our exhibition.
Date: 15th to 22nd June 2019 Event name: Windrush Book Display Time: During library opening times Place: Marcus Garvey Library,
1 Philip Lane, Tottenham N15 4JA
Price: Free Event details: 50 years ago, 500 West Indians made a 30-day journey
across the Atlantic in an ageing merchant ship, the Empire Windrush. They were to become the symbolic founders of Britain's black communities. Pick up one of our numerous books on display and find out more.
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Date: 15th to 22nd June 2019 Event name: Display: The Windrush Time: During Highgate library opening times Place: Highgate Library,
1 Shepherds Hill, Highgate, London N6 5QJ Event details: Pop into Highgate library to see our posters and
information highlighting the history of Windrush. The display will include pictures and stories showing the influences and contributions to British life.
Date: 15th to 22nd June 2019 Event name: Display: Windrush Time: During library opening hours Place: Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, London N8 9JA Price: Free Admission Event details: Visit our Windrush generation display by Dawn Gobourne
at Hornsey Library.
Date: Saturday 15th June 2019 Event name: Author Event: Jan Etienne Time: 12noon Place: The Business Lounge,
Wood Green Library and Customer Services, 187-197A High Road, Wood Green, London N22 6XD
Price: Free Event details: Local author, Jan Etienne, will be discussing and reading
from her book, Learning in Womanist Ways, which explores the benefits of lifelong learning for Caribbean women who came to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. The book features interviews, in the women’s authentic voices, about their experiences of learning.
Booking information: No booking required
Date: Saturday 15th June 2019 Event name: Event: The Windrush Generation: Going Down
Memory Lane Time: 2 to 8pm Place: Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, London N8 9JA Price: Free Admission Event details: Discover the lives of five generations of Londoners with
Caribbean heritage in ‘Windrush Generations’, a series of short film portraits. You’ll hear from Kenny Lynch, the comedian and singer who was born in the East End in 1938 and toured with The Beatles; Dame Jocelyn Barrow, knighted for her achievements in race-relations; teacher
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Sara Burke, who led the 2018 protest about the treatment of the Windrush generation; and Breyanna, a teenager who aspires to one day run in the Olympics. Including live performances from Annika Allen with Saleah’s Journey “Mi a go a Ingland”, drama and dance On Our Doorstep by Steppaz Dance Crew and Mr Jason Johnson known as “Born2Sing” singing live and a special talk called Thoughts on the Windrush Generations: The Black Contribution to the British Experience by Dr Lez Henry. There will also be children’s activities and African-Caribbean market stalls & music.
Booking information: All welcome, no booking necessary.
Date: 15th & 21st June Event name: FILM: RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN
RECORDS (2018) Time: 7pm Place: Cinema & Lounge,
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
Price: £7.50 in advance (including booking fee), £9 on the door Event details: The Story of Trojan Records is a shameless audience
pleaser. Combining the dramatisation of key moments in Reggae history, fresh interviews and archive footage, the full story of this iconic record label is revealed. The journey of Trojan Records goes from Duke Reid to Double Barrel, encompassing Roots Reggae, Rude Boys, Sound System culture, Ska and Rock Steady. From the 1960s – 1975 they inspired a generation of black British youth, building a unique identity and source of pride that differs from their Windrush ancestors. British culture would never be the same!
Booking information: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/film-rudeboy/ Box office: 020 8365 5450
Date: Saturday 15th June 2019 Event name: Reggae Karaoke: REGGAEOKE LIVE Time: 8pm Place: Theatre, Bernie Grant Arts Centre,
Town Hall Approach Road,
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Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX Price: £13.50 standard, £11.50 concession
(including booking fee) Event details: Reggaeoke bringing their unique mix of Reggae,
Bashment, Dancehall and Soca Karaoke with the LIVE BAND to north London for the first time ever. A night jam-packed with high-energy, laughter and lots of fun from start ’til it done.
Booking information: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/reggaeoke-live/ Box office: 020 8365 5450
Date: Sunday 16th June 2019 Event name: Creative ‘Portrait Making’ Workshop & Coffee
Morning (with local professional artist Susan Bryan) Time: 11.30am to 1.30pm Place: Lorenco House, College Road N17 8EA Price: Free Event details: To celebrate identity, culture and creativity, this ‘Portrait
Making’ workshop and coffee morning for all ages will include a demonstration. Local professional artist Susan Bryan will show you how to explore techniques and basic steps to make a portrait or be the model.
Booking information: This event is open to all. No booking necessary.
Date: Sunday 16th June 2019 Event name: Film Screening: The Windrush Legacy in association
with The Speakers Club Time: 2 to 8pm Place: St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, London N15 5PU Price: Free Event details: Film screening of a The Windrush Legacy documentary
including Q&A and live performances, African-Caribbean market stalls and a public speaking workshop.
Booking information: All welcome, no booking necessary.
Date: 17th to 22nd June 2019 Event name: Display: Windrush Stories Time: During Library opening hours Place: St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, London N15 5PU Price: Free Event details: Visit our special display of Windrush history and personal
memories.
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Inviting local people to contribute their written Windrush experiences - either their parents’/grandparents’ or first-hand – of leaving their home, the voyage itself and what they encountered when they arrived here. Memories in the form of oral history, photographs letters and newspaper cuttings will be displayed in the library.
Booking information: For information call St Ann’s Library: 020 8489 2543
Date: 17th to 21st June 2019 Event name: After School Colouring Sheets: Windrush Time: 3.30 to 5pm Place: Highgate Library,
1 Shepherds Hill, Highgate, London N6 5QJ Price: Free Event details: Throughout the week there will be a range of Windrush
themed activity and colouring sheets available for children visiting the library after school.
Booking information: Free for all ages – no need to book.
Date: Monday 17th June 2019 Event name: Workshop: Tracing Your Windrush Roots Time: 10am to 12noon Place: Tottenham Hotspur Foundation,
Percy House, 796 High Road N17 0DH Price: Free Event details: 10 years ago music producer Adrian Stone embarked on
a journey of discovery to trace his family tree and reclaim his heritage. The conversations began with his immediate family after his beloved mother was taken very ill. He was seeking a way to connect better with his family. As he explored the gaps in his family history, branching out to over 6000 ancestors, three continents and over 250 years, he made some remarkable discoveries and found his African ancestor named Ebo Venus from the Igbo tribe, who came to Jamaica on a slave ship in late 1700s. Drawing upon his own personal experience of tracing his ancestry and his desire to share his passion for genealogy, Adrian has launched this unique series of genealogy workshops entitled Tracing Your Windrush Roots to help participants find their African Caribbean roots from the Windrush generation and beyond. This practical workshop will offer you the opportunity to search your own family tree and assist in developing an understanding of basic genealogical techniques. You will
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also be shown how to effectively locate and analyse key sources along with the potential of DNA testing as applied to genealogy. Moreover, this event will help you add historical context to your African Caribbean family history and discuss how to record and communicate research findings. The workshops are suitable for people at beginner to intermediate level. Computers will be available for use at the workshop. Bring along your family tree and let's explore together!
Booking information: Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. This event is open to everybody aged 13 and above. Contact Joanna Yeung, Heritage Project Manager for more information: 07884 186 753; [email protected]
Date: Monday 17th June 2019 Event name: Chair-based Exercise Workshop: Reggae/Ska Dance Time: 11.30am to 12.30pm Place: Lorenco House, College Road, N17 8EA Price: Free Event details: A groovy but gentle chair-based exercise class using
Reggae/Ska beats, tailored for older people by a local professional dancer and tutor Miles Malaba.
Booking information: This event is open to all. No booking necessary.
Date: Monday 17th June 2019 Event name: Windrush Food Fest Time: 3.30 to 8.30pm Place: Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre,
Wolves Lane, N22 5JD Price: Free
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Event details: Come along to this special Windrush themed event; packed full of activities celebrating and educating Haringey’s communities about African Caribbean planting, growing and food preparation stemming from the Windrush era. The programme includes –
• tours of the 3.5 acre horticulture centre; • visits to the tropical Palm House and to our
growing glass houses; • hands-on planting and food preparation; • demonstrations, Windrush food planting
discussions and creative workshops; • an African-Caribbean veggie cooking
demonstration by semi-finalist in BBC’s Britain’s Best Home Cook;
• music and food. The Windrush Food Fest will also explore how African Caribbean foods have been used by the Windrush generation looking at traditional recipes, cooking and tasting sessions as well as sharing tips about African Caribbean herbs and food grown for medicinal purposes. Caribbean food will also be on sale during the event.
Booking information: This is a family friendly event and is open to all. No booking necessary. For further information contact Aisha Khan on: 07564013385 or [email protected] or visit www.ubele.org
Date: Monday 17th June 2019 Event name: Open Mic: Sharing Stories Session
(with a guest poet) Time: 6 to 8pm Place: Lorenco House, College Road N17 8EA Price: Free Event details: Join us for an early evening open mic session for older
residents and the wider community to come together to discuss and share Windrush stories and memories. The evening will include a performance by a local poet. This event will be filmed.
Booking information: This event is open to all. No booking necessary.
Date: Monday 17th June 2019 Event name: Film screening: Di Journey– A Documentary Time: 7 to 10pm Place: Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, London N8 9JA Price: Free
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Event details: Di Journey is a socio-historical documentary comprehensively exploring racism and immigration in historical context - through the chronicles of the African-Caribbean community in Britain. Prominent British-Jamaican figures and academics, along with members of 3 generations of a London Jamaican family, take us on a thrilling, intellectually stimulating and inspiring journey that shaped modern multicultural London and Britain.
Date: Tuesday 18th June 2019 Event name: Craft Session: Windrush Time: 10am to 12noon Place: Highgate Library,
1 Shepherds Hill, Highgate, London N6 5QJ Price: Free Event details: Join us for a Windrush themed craft activity where we will
be making a Windrush ship to mark its voyage through the seas. (For ages 4+).
Booking information: No booking required. Please contact 020 8489 4560 for more information.
Date: Tuesday 18th June 2019 Event name: Reminiscence Café:
New Arrivals - Remembering the Windrush Generation of the 1950s and 60s
Time: 2 to 4pm Place: Bruce Castle Museum,
Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17 8NU Price: Free Event details: 1950s Britain was facing a number of difficulties following
devastating war with bomb-ruined streets and shortage of workers, food and goods. At the same time there was optimism for a better life for its citizens, with the introduction of a free health service for all and a determination to provide more and better housing. The call went out for skilled workers from the Caribbean to support post-war growth, and many came following the arrival of the Empire Windrush. They worked in factories, on building sites and in transport becoming active members of our workforce. Above all they worked in the newly formed NHS, ensuring that the hope of its birth was not destroyed by lack of staff at every level in the organisation. The post-war years had their difficulties, but with the help of the new arrivals we can remember the achievements of better housing, growing manufacturing, better equality in pay and conditions and, of course, better health.
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Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum: 020 8808 8772 or by email at [email protected]
Date: Tuesday 18th June 2019 Event name: Children’s Craft: Make a Vibrant Doctor Bird Time: 3 to 5pm Place: Alexandra Park Library,
Alexandra Park Road N22 7UJ Price: Free Event details: Join us for this craft session and make a vibrant Doctor
Bird, the national bird of Jamaica.
Date: Wednesday 19th June 2019 Event name: Adult Learners’ Workshop: Introduction to the
History of the Empire Windrush Time: 10am to 12noon Place: 639 Enterprise Centre, 639 High Road, N17 8AA Price: Free Event details: Join this adult learners’ workshop where you will learn
about the Empire Windrush and its arrival at Tilbury Dock in 1948. Learners will apply historical enquiry and study skills to explore photographs of the Windrush and its passengers.
Booking information: Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Contact Joanna Yeung, Heritage Project Manager for more information 07884 186 753; [email protected]
Date: Wednesday 19th June 2019 Event name: Windrush Stories, Accompanied by Cello Time: 7pm Place: Wood Green Central Library,
187-197A High Road N22 6XD Price: Free Event details: Storytelling of the Windrush journey by Abe Gibson
accompanied by cellist Mike Parsons. Abe Gibson is a London-born poet & storyteller, was a member of the Brothaman Poetry Collective and has published a collection of poetry, Violently Tender. He has been writer in residence at Feltham Young Offenders Institution and at schools in Tottenham and Hackney. His
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welcoming style captures the attention of those who think poetry is "not for me"!
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required.
Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 Event name: Creative Workshop and Coffee Morning: Making
Memories (with artist Sandra Sutherland) Time: 11am to 2pm Place: Protheroe House, Chesnut Road N17 9FA Price: Free Event details: Join our creative workshop - with professional artist and
tutor Sandra Sutherland – where Protheroe House residents, families and local children will create a special fabric memory book using recycled materials to celebrate the culture, heritage and diversity of our communities.
Booking information: This event is open to all. No booking necessary.
Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 Event name: Children’s Craft: Make your own Caribbean Carnival
Headpiece Time: 3 to 5pm Place: Alexandra Park Library,
Alexandra Park Road N22 7UJ Price: Free Event details: Using feathers, gems and other vibrant materials make
your own Caribbean carnival headpiece.
Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 Event name: Film: Small Island (180 mins) Time: 4pm Place: Marcus Garvey Library,
1 Philip Lane, Tottenham N15 4JA
Price: Free Event details: Based on Andrea Levy's award-winning story of
Jamaicans and Londoners during World War II. Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh.
Booking information: This event is free but booking is essential. Contact Joyce or Edna on 0208 489 2067 to book your place.
Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 Event name: Arts & Craft: Design a Tropical Flag Time: 4 to 5.30pm Place: Children’s Library,
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Wood Green Library and Customer Services, 187-197A High Road, Wood Green, London N22 6XD
Price: Free Event details: Come and join this after school fun arts and crafts
session where we will be making a colourful flag of your choice. (Age: 6+)
Booking information: No booking required
Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 Event name: Open mic: Sharing Stories Session (with guest poet) Time: 6 to 8pm Place: Protheroe House, Chesnut Road N17 9FA Price: Free Event details: Join us for a special evening open mic session with a
guest poet, for our older residents and the wider community to come together to share memories and stories of their experiences of coming to the UK. This event will be filmed.
Booking information: This event is open to all. No booking necessary.
Date: Friday 21st June 2019 Event name: Chair-based Exercise Workshop: Reggae/Ska Dance Time: 11.30am to 12.30pm Place: Protheroe House, Chesnut Road N17 9FA Price: Free Event details: A groovy but gentle chair-based exercise class using
Reggae/Ska beats, tailored for older people by a local professional dancer and tutor Miles Malaba.
Booking information: This event is open to all. No booking necessary.
Date: Friday 21st June 2019 Event name: Film: Leaving the Caribbean for Britain 1950 – 1960
(44 mins) Time: 4pm Place: Marcus Garvey Library,
1 Philip Lane, Tottenham N15 4JA
Price: Free Event details: During the 1950s, many young men and women left the
Caribbean islands for England, in the hope of finding a so-called better life. Instead, what they initially found was resentment and hostility. This film was adapted from the BBC Windrush documentary and British Pathe documentary.
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Booking information: This event is free but booking is essential. Contact Joyce or Edna on 0208 489 2067 to book your place.
Date: Friday 21st June 2019 Event name: Literature: NEW DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA Time: 7:30pm Place: Theatre, Bernie Grant Arts Centre,
Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
Price: £11.50 standard, £9.50 concession (including booking fee)
Event details: New Daughters of Africa – Margaret Busby’s major new global anthology of writing by over 200 women of African descent, comes to the Bernie Grant Arts Centre with an evening of literature, poetry and prose by women of Caribbean heritage.
Booking information: www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/new-daughters-of-africa/ Box office: 020 8365 5450
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 Event name: WINDRUSH DAY SPECIAL EVENTS:
A Day of Kites & Lights: Celebrating Windrush Day 2019 & An Evening at the Bar … with Councillors Reg Rice and Adam Jogee
Time: 12noon to 5pm 5.30pm to 7pm
Place: Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17 8NU
Price: Free Event details: Marking national Windrush Day 2019 and the significant
contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants to Haringey, we celebrate at Bruce Castle with an afternoon and evening of workshops, music, activities, exhibitions and talks. At 12 noon we welcome special guest and inspirational speaker, broadcaster and musician Alex Pascall OBE to launch and introduce the day. All afternoon the celebrations continue with music from the Haringey Young Musicians’ Steel Pan Band and local musician John McAnuff, alongside traditional Caribbean kite making workshops, board games, the sharing of stories and Caribbean food.
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From 5.30 to 7pm, we will be treated to another special event: An Evening at the Bar … with Councillors Reg Rice and Adam Jogee. Listen to the oldest current Windrush generation councillor in Haringey and the youngest, as they exchange stories and views on life and politics with award-winning social entrepreneur Sonja Scantlebury – all at Councillor Rice’s very own 1960s cocktail bar. The evening concludes with a celebratory light projection on to the newly-restored front of Haringey’s iconic museum.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum on 020 8808 8772 or by email at [email protected]
Date: 22nd June to December 2019 Event name: Exhibition: Windrush Legends and Legacies Time: During museum opening times- Wed to Sun, 1 to 5pm Place: Bruce Castle Museum,
Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17 8NU Price: Free Event details: Stories from the Bruce Castle collections and the local
community celebrating the presence, the significant contribution and the lasting impact by Haringey’s Windrush generation.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum on 020 8808 8772 or by email at [email protected]
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 Event name: Kite Making Workshops & Traditional Games at
Bruce Castle’s A Day of Kites & Lights Time: 12.30 to 5pm Place: Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, N17 8NU Price: Free Event details: Join us for a celebratory afternoon of kite making, games,
music and food. Kite maker David James and team from Reaching New Heights will demonstrate traditional Caribbean kite making skills while visitors work in groups or individually to create beautiful kites using traditional and recycled materials. Help make a commemorative community kite to celebrate Windrush Day or make a smaller version to take home.
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You can also play traditional Caribbean games including Hoop and Stick, Wari, Giant Draughts and Dominoes- whether it’s your first time or already an expert… join in! Throughout the day and evening there will be traditional Caribbean snacks and drinks, steel pans, calypso and an inspirational guest speaker in the park, so come along to this relaxing day of sun and fun and stay on for Bruce Castle Museum’s evening programme of events.
Booking information: The event is open to all. Children must be accompanied by an adult. No need to book in advance, workshops will be held on a drop-in basis.
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 Event name: Free Programme of Music, Dance, Talks, Food and
Workshops: WINDRUSH ON THE SQUARE Time: 12.30 to 5.30pm Place: The Square, Bernie Grant Arts Centre,
Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX
Price: Free Event details: Join us for a very special Windrush Day with a packed
programme of free music, dance, talks, workshops, performances and much more as the Bernie Grant Art Centre celebrates the vital contribution the Windrush generation and their descendants have made to the UK. There’ll be stalls from local businesses and Caribbean food too. Here’s all the FREE activities and events we have planned for Windrush on the Square! 12 to 12.30pm – Arts Bridge presents: Windrush Stories Created by elder community members sharing their stories with local children, Windrush stories explores and commemorates the dreams, resilience and legacy of the Windrush Generation. 12.30 to 1.30pm – Bernie’s Book Club: The Lonely Londoners Join us for an in depth and lively discussion of The Lonely Londoners, by Trinidadian author Samuel Selvon.
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1 to 2.30pm – Island Girls Rock! Workshop: Letter to Self A calligrafitti workshop based on the theme of writing a love letter to yourself. 1.30 to 2.30pm – Namron OBE Dance Workshop Join in with trailblazing dancer and teacher Namron’s dance party Coming to England. A workshop telling the experience of a 13 year old Namron arriving in 1959 by plane from Jamaica. 2.45 to 3.15pm – Why a hostile environment affects us all The Windrush scandal has disrupted thousands of lives. People have been detained, deported and denied their legal rights. But what happens next? 4.15 to 4.35pm (TBC) – Steppaz A special performance by Tottenham’s very own award-winning street dance troupe. 4.30 to 6pm – Island Girls Rock! Workshops: I See You A storytelling exchange and photography workshop led by photographer Lizzy Brown.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required.
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 Event name: Workshop: Island Girls Rock Workshop x2 Time: 1 to 3pm and at 2.30 to 4.30pm Place: Enterprise Unit Dance Studio,
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, N15 4RX
Price: Free Event details: Island Girls Rock is a non-profit intergenerational initiative
celebrating women of Caribbean heritage. Their workshop aims to empower Caribbean women to share their stories and experiences in a safe space created expressively for them whilst nurturing and encouraging pride in their unique talents and perspectives.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required.
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 Event name: Windrush Commemorative Project:
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Rum, Rhyme and Liming A social event with music, poetry, social dance and song.
Time: 2pm (1.30pm doors open) Place: Alexandra Palace Theatre
Alexandra Way N22 7AY
Price: Adults: £5, Children: £2 Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children - 5 to 18): £10 Seniors, unwaged, disabled, students and under 5's go FREE
Event details: Rum, Rhyme and Liming a Caribbean social event for older people, their friends and families. Come and enjoy Caribbean culture and celebrate the legacy of the Windrush generation and their descendants who contributed significantly to the rebuilding and shaping of this country. On June 22nd, National Windrush Day, Alexandra Palace will raise the roof of our newly refurbished theatre with music, poetry, social dancing and song to commemorate the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948. Hear from a range of artists and performers including- multi award-winning recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry John Agard, and delight in the infectious calypso and kaiso music of Tobago Crusoe – who featured unforgettably in Paddington and Paddington 2 and was the Calypso Monarch of Trinidad and Tobago (1983). So, put on your finest, and get yourself up to the Palace! Rum based cocktails, mocktails and soft drinks, and Caribbean snacks available for purchase. Tickets: Adults £5, Children £2 Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children - 5 to 18) £10 The event is FREE for seniors, unwaged, disabled, students and under 5's. Rum, Rhyme and Liming, is co-curated and produced by Melanie Abrahams and Tilt in partnership with Alexandra Palace.
Booking information: www.alexandrapalace.com
Date: Saturday 22nd June Event name: Film Screening: Small Island (cert. 12)
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Time: 2pm Place: St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, London N15 5PU Price: Free Event details: Based on Andrea Levy's award-winning story of
Jamaicans and Londoners during World War II. Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh.
Booking information: To book call St. Ann’s Library on 020 8489 2543
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019 Event name: Family Fun and Celebration:
A Tottenham Celebration of Windrush Heritage Time: 12.30pm to 9.30pm Place: Living Under One Sun Community Hub and Café
(inside Down Lane Park), Park View Road, N17 9EX (next to the tennis courts).
Price: Free entry to festival Event details: Haringey is rich with significant contributions, stories and
heritage of our Windrush communities who helped create a welcoming spirit for later communities. Join this welcoming and all-inclusive free family and community event to celebrate the heritage and achievements of our communities, then and now, and what it takes to make it! The event programme will include theatre, poetry, live music performances, film extracts, an exhibition, keynote speeches, intergenerational arts and crafts workshops, information and advice stalls, health and wellbeing activities and local stalls. There will also be sports and games tournaments and freshly cooked food and drink inspired by Caribbean cuisine. This event will be filmed.
Booking information: The festival is open to all, with no booking necessary. For booking information about running a stall on the day please contact Leyla on 07435 969 312 or by email at [email protected]
Date: Saturday 22nd June 2019
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Event name: Film screening: We Deh Yah Before Windrush: Exploring the History of African and Caribbean People in Britain before 1948
Time: 5 to 9pm Place: St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, London N15 5PU Price: Tickets: £6.00
(with free admission for anyone under 17yrs) Event details: Black History Studies presents We Deh Yah Before
Windrush: Exploring the History of African and Caribbean People in Britain before 1948. This fascinating presentation by Black History Studies focuses on the hidden Black History of Britain and the contributions made by people of African and Caribbean descent to Britain before 1948. Black people have lived in Britain since Roman times, with the Moors being a common sight in Elizabethan England. This presentation will highlight the invaluable input people of African and Caribbean descent have provided to London, from the 16th century to 1948.
Booking information: Purchase your tickets from: www.wedeyahbeforewindrush.eventbrite.co.uk
Date: Sunday 23rd June 2019 Event name: Windrush Celebration:
Music, Entertainment and Food Time: 12noon to 4pm Place: Broadwater Farm Community Centre,
1 Adams Road, London N17 6HE Price: Tickets are free. To book tickets in advance please call:
07749 506 912. Event details: Broadwater Farm Residents’ Association invites
members of the Windrush generation and their families to a celebratory meal with music from a local DJ. There will be live music and speeches and an opportunity for members of the Windrush generation to record their experiences on camera if they wish.
Booking information: To book tickets in advance please call: 07749 506 912.
Date: Sunday 23rd June 2019 Event name: Family Activities: African and Caribbean Storytelling Time: 2 to 4pm Place: Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, N17 8NU Price: Free Event details: Come along to our family activities and hear African and
Caribbean storytelling for our special Windrush Day weekend, with a guest storyteller.
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Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum:020 8808 8772 or by email at [email protected]
Date: Monday 24th June 2019 Event name: Munch & Listen: Britain on Film: Black Britain Time: 12.15 to 1.30pm
Doors open at 12 noon Refreshments available
Place: Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, Tottenham N17 8NU
Price: Free Event details: Looking far back beyond the arrival of the Windrush in
1948, this third programme from Britain on Film on Tour explores the vital history of black Britain throughout the 20th century on film. Bringing together films spanning 1901 to 1985 and taken from many different regions of the UK, it offers incredibly rare, little-seen and valuable depictions of black British life on screen. Watch miners in the collieries of Edwardian Lancashire and Yorkshire; and soldiers from across the Empire joining the services to fight for King and ‘mother country’ in World War I. See rare colour footage of multi-racial Cardiff in 1957, a Nigerian wedding in Cornwall in 1964, and touching interviews with black school leavers in 1965; witness growing racial tensions on a Liverpool housing estate and in New Cross, London; communities in search of their roots and partying on the streets of Notting Hill during Carnival. Revealing new voices from across a century of vast and turbulent social change in the UK, Britain on Film: Black Britain is not just an important educative tool – offering audiences the chance to explore stories of migration, community and the struggle against inequality – but also an opportunity to celebrate vivid black British life and culture on screen. With thanks to Independent Cinema.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum: 020 8808 8772 or by email at [email protected]
Date: Monday 24th June 2019 Event name: WINDRUSH DAY: Commemorating a National Event Time: 7pm
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Place: Muswell Hill Library, Queens Avenue N10 3PE
Price: Free Event details: Arthur Torrington CBE, Director of the Windrush
Foundation, presents the history of Windrush, showing how Caribbean men and women helped to rebuild Britain after WWII. ARTHUR TORRINGTON CBE is a community advocate and co-founder (with the late Sam B. King MBE) of the Windrush Foundation which they established in 1995 in London. Through the Windrush Foundation, a registered charity, Arthur promotes good race and community relations, and designs projects that publicise the contributions of Caribbean men and women who settled in the UK before and after 22 June 1948, especially those who served King and Country in WWI and WWII. Visit www.windrushfoundation.com for more information.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required.
Date: Monday 24th June 2019 Event name: Talk: You Are, We Are, The Generation of the
Windrush Era with the WINDRUSH L.I.V.E. Team Time: 7 to 10pm Place: St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road, London N15 5PU Price: Free Admission Event details: Your untold accounts of the Windrush Era (1948 – 1971)
Windrush L.I.V.E. Join the panellists for an exciting and interactive look at Windrush and how this important part of black History can help encourage young people to L.I.V.E - Leave Ignorance, Value Education, Enterprise & Excellence! The panellists are:– a retired Head teacher & OFSTED Inspector, Founder of KAD publishing, arrived in England 1964, a manager of ELSON, IT Professional whose mother arrived in England 1957 and Father arrived 1961, an Educational Consultant who arrived in England 1953 a retired Health Visitor and Community Activists, arrived in England 1963, including a retired Nurse & ESOL Tutor, arrived in England1955 and many more speakers from the Windrush generation who will be telling their story of their arrival to Great Britain.
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The evening will also include live performances from a violinist and a singer.
Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 Event name: Talk: A Life in Tottenham, Interrupted – David Lammy
MP in conversation with Vernon Vanriel Time: 7.30 to 9pm
Doors open at 7pm Refreshments available
Place: Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, Tottenham, N17 8NU
Price: Free Event details: Vernon Vanriel came to live in Tottenham as a young child,
as part of the Windrush generation. Known as ‘The Entertainer’, his successful boxing career took him to prominence in the 1970s and 80s, but after travelling to Jamaica 13 years ago he was refused re-entry to the UK. After a long fight to gain a passport, he finally returned to the UK in September 2018. We are delighted to welcome him back to his home and to hear his story as told to Tottenham MP David Lammy.
Booking information: All welcome. No booking required. For further details contact the museum: 020 8808 8772 or by email at [email protected]
Date: Thursday 27th June 2019 Event name: Film: NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: SMALL ISLAND Time: 7pm Place: Theatre, Bernie Grant Arts Centre,
Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX
Price: £13.50 standard, £11.50 concession (including booking fee)
Event details: Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
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Booking information: Please note that Small Island is BBFC rated 15 due to use of strong language. As part of depicting the experience of Jamaican immigrants to Britain after the Second World War, at times characters in the play use language which is racially offensive. www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/national-theatre-live-small-island/ Box office: 020 8365 5450