Black History Walks Newsletter 6.8.20
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Above: Online premiere of HAPI the new film on ancient Africa and modern Black economic empowerment. Friday 28th August details HERE
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Above and below: Would you feel comfortable eating a meal in front of such horrific images of abuse? The above pictures are extracted from the floor-to-ceiling mural in the John Whistler restaurant at the Tate Britain gallery in Pimlico, London. The mural is titled 'In pursuit of rare meats'. It was commissioned in 1927. The mural was restored in 2013 as part of a £45 million renovation. For a detailed analysis of this situation see art historian Michael Ohajuru's article below. To sign the petition to remove the imagery click HERE
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Clapham Common Walk (August)
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Clapham Common Walk (August) - Sunday, 16 August 2020 at Meet point on request. Find event and ticket information.
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Caribbean (In)Visibility on British TV
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Caribbean (In)Visibility on British TV - Wednesday, 26 August 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Above: It has been three-quarters of a century since the Windrush ship arrived in Britain from the Caribbean but, in those seven decades of British-Caribbean people paying their BBC licence fees and playing a significant role in this society, the number of British-Caribbean television shows on the “mainstream” channels can still just be counted on your fingers and toes.
Where are the Black chat shows, game shows, dramas, comedies, thrillers, action films etc.? Why don’t they exist in any numbers and what can be done about it?
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Stan (Marvel) Lee's Black History
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Stan (Marvel) Lee's Black History - Friday, 4 September 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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African Animation: Ancient to Modern
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents African Animation: Ancient to Modern - Friday, 11 September 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Hip Hop to Opera via Negro Spirituals
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Hip Hop to Opera via Negro Spirituals - Sunday, 13 September 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Above: A musical journey covering the hidden history and links between some of the most popular and obscure musical forms. Hip Hop is a billion dollar world wide industry and cultural norm while Opera is seen as an elite art form, but what do both of them have to do with Negro Spirituals ? Dr Kimberley Hawkins will take us on an audio-visual tour including live opera singing, 'lining' and rap samples.
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Beyond Nollywood: New African cinema
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Beyond Nollywood: New African cinema - Thursday, 17 September 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Above: A new generation of Nigerian filmmakers are creating film language beyond 'Nollywood'. These creative upstarts, influenced by international popular culture have birthed a distinctive indigenous style. Bold, unflinching voices who remain largely on the periphery are re-writing the future of the Nigerian film industry. In this talk, Nadia Denton will explore BEYOND NOLLYWOOD, her vision for new wave cinema coming out of Nigeria and its diaspora.
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Planet of the Apes movie breakdown Part 1/2
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Planet of the Apes movie breakdown Part 1/2 - Friday, 18 September 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Above: Black history as science fiction, the blockbusting 'Planet of the Apes' films/tv series have many elements which echo real human and civil rights struggles. Many viewers have consumed these movies and, like the Matrix, not been aware of the coded messages and specific black history references present. Over the18th and 25th September, we will analyse and demonstrate: the double meaning in specific scenes, unveil the hidden agendas, show political quotes from the writers,actors and directors and reveal the black history references that are in plain sight.
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Titian: Sex, Race, Murder
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Titian: Sex, Race, Murder - Sunday, 16 August 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Inter-generational Trauma in the age of Coronavirus....
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents Inter-generational Trauma in the age of Coronavirus. (Nzingha 80) - Tuesday, 18 August 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Above: Haiti, New Orleans and the African Diaspora. Examples, recovery and healing Queen Nzingha lecture 80.
This presentation will highlight the psychological effects of generations of structural racism on African people in America, the Caribbean and beyond. Special focus will be on the collective effect of the global pandemic and police brutality. Professor Cirecie West-Olatunji will outline examples of resilience within a historical context that preceded and informed the current wave of social activism and resistance.
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Rare Black Meat Hunted in Tate Restaurant
Tate Britain has a race attitude problem in its restaurant which weasel words alone cannot fix.
Quick to give ‘guidance’ to visitors to their British Baroque exhibition that ‘Paintings in this exhibition depict Black people in a demeaning way’, while Whistler’s The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats mural in their restaurant carries no such warning. This despite being much more graphic, much more horrific and truly much more demeaning than Benedetto Gennari’s Duchess Mazarin Dressed as Diana.
Quoting Tate on the mural: "As part of this Whistler depicts the enslavement of a [naked] Black child and the distress of his mother using highly stereotyped figures that were common at the time. In later scenes the boy runs behind a cart, attached to it by a chain around [the child's] neck"
Charles Aitken, the director who commissioned the work in 1927 had views which today, we would consider out of touch. Quoted in Daily Mail in 1929 described the presence of black figures in Stanley Spencer’s The Resurrection, Cookham “...waking from the death of humanity – the white races …occupied with things intellectual, the black races satisfied with simple tactile shapes”.
Appreciate that was then this is now - views, feelings, ideas have changed.
So rather than remove the mural, Tate might give the same thought that went into that ‘guidance’ sign for the British Baroque exhibition be given to an equivalent response to 'The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats', if Tate really wants to reaffirm its commitment to combating racism. For that response I propose a work of equivalent size to be on permanent display as close as possible to Whistler's be commissioned by Tate not from the established black artist but a fresh talent, on the rise, someone under 25, part of the generation that is on the streets, right now, proclaiming Black Lives Matter quite unlike Tate's mural
Michael Ohajuru , Image of the Black in London's Galleries
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Coming soon !! The Haitian Revolution and its women leaders. |
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1919. Race, riots and the Black British intelligentsia
Eventbrite - Black History Walks presents 1919. Race, riots and the Black British intelligentsia - Tuesday, 25 August 2020 - Find event and ticket information.
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Above: In 1919, after tens of thousands of African/Caribbean people had loyally fought for Britain in World War 1, they were viciously attacked by racist whites, denied jobs and told to 'go home'. However, in Liverpool, London and Cardiff the Black community fought back by any means necessary. The resistance was co-ordinated between Black soldiers and militant activists who lobbied, protested, fund-raised, punched, kicked and shot their way to self-determination. This presentation will cover:
- What were Black people doing here in the early 1900s ?
- Unsung Black British Civil rights leaders of 1919
- The Black 'James Bond' who raised funds in the Caribbean to fund the revolution
- Black Butetown: where (and why) white people feared to tread
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