Oct. 31 2022
Greetings
Below is a select choice of our and supported events. Scroll down and engage with what you can.
Do make time to read this intro, as not everything mentioned here is repeated in the listings below.
So what, African History Month is over, eh? Well. Dr Velma McClymont has another WomanzVue on the last day - tonight's focused on 'Monarchy, Reparations and Representation', from 6.30pm GMT. Thankfully, many organisations are starting to programme a Season, rather than a Month. We generally rate highly what Hackney Council and partners offer, particularly programmes in its Archive and Museum.
Sadly, we simply have not been able to attend any. Click here to see what they have on offer. BTW, the 'Movers, Shakers And Community Makers: An Exhibition About African Heritage Influencers In Hackney' is on at Hackney Museum until January 2 2023. We've certainly attend a few of the Camden Council and partner offers - our feedback in the Camden New Journal is copied below. Although because of lack of the mention of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (SC-T) Foundation's talk and performance at Holborn Library was deleted. It was particularly interesting as the library is practically a stone's throw from the the #BTWSCNARMRoleModel was born on 1875! A delightful painting of the British African composer was also donated to the Archive in the library.
Still on stuff classico - Morley College by Lambeth tube station in sarf London marked the 110th anniversary of the passing of SC-T's with a concert in the College, whilst there was a SC-T exhibition in the Gallery. There's another SC-T concert at Morley on November 4 - click here for more details.
Unlike 2012 when organisations such us our Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 100PM Collective, The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network, and others did their bit to highlight SC-T's history and music programmes among a more diverse audience, particularly those of AAME (African, Asian, Minority Ethnic) background, this year we've been pretty remiss.
Consequently we've observed pretty much a monochrome audience at these events lauding a British African genius! We know that the Musicians' Union, the Ivor Academy, Black Lives In Music and some education boards and others have been exploring the issue of diversity on and behind the stage of classical music - we'll make to find out what has come out of any of these conversations! Which brings us to another issue to do with diversity - ethnicity deficits, racism, Afriphobia - you name it. In 2020, as a consequence of the unequivocal Afriphobic murder of George Floyd, we got the main music industry organisations to give an account of themselves - see https://bit.ly/REIMI2020Report, plus we organised a couple of online conferences.
But more importantly, several of these music industry organisations organised African History Month programmes in 2020 - that was nice, at least PRS got moi to speak about SC-T, whose death was the catalyst for the founding of that particular organisation.
But two years on, are we talking about a moment, and or a movement? Because except if my searching skills are not up to scratch, I don't seem to have seen any 2022 AHM (OK, if you prefer, BHM) events by these organisations! Someone please email, me and let me know what you did, or will be doing: bbmbmc@gmail.com.
OK, let me first get into some rewinds. Unfortunately we couldn't attend The Voice superb do last week to launch its 'The Voice: 40 Years of Black British Lives' book. We just had to represent The Soho Girl as she launched the latest edition of The Soho Times with a party in where else that Soho.
And feeling under the weather, we could trek to support Rhythm & View's screening of the 'Tina' feature documentary. Their festival at the Peckham Picturehouse ends this Saturday November 5, with the screening of Reggie Yates' 'Pirates'.
However, thanks to the BHM Mag, we were able to attend Reach Society's 9th Recognition Awards Dinner in Victoria. It tells you how bad we were feeling, as we didn't finish our main or dessert - very unusual for moi, when we think of all those farmers and cooks! Anyway, click here for the online version of the 2022 BHM Mag - of course our three articles are naturally some of the best in this issue, even if we have to say so!
OK, this Saturday November 5, you can either catch the Sound System Outernational #8 session at Goldsmiths Uni in New Cross, or the Ethical Name Change's Zoom community update regarding its campaign to get the Leopold name removed from a twin school and road in the north-west London borough of Brent.
Talking about Brent, there's an African community meeting convened for Saturday November 12 at St Michael's Church Hall in Wembley - register now for Taking Back Control, if you're interested in the local social and political issues!
Lastly, if you were a journalist particularly on black music or African culture publications in the 1990s, we're jumping on the back of Dr Kadija George's Black British Magazines In The 90s meeting at University of London's Senate House on Friday November 4 2022, 1:30PM-4:30PM, to convene a meeting later that evening for the 1990s-into early 2000s scribes - see below and the caricature of moi taken at a sikmolat meeting in 2009 (though it feels like it was much earlier - Justin Onyeka, Lee Pinkerton, Paul and the other Powermoves posse, have you get a better recollection?)
Here's wishing you a blessed and peaceful week! And don't forget to scroll right to the bottom!!
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