BLACK HISTORY MONTHS – EVENTS TAKING PLACE AROUND TOWER HAMLETS, HACKNEY AND NEWHAM
Date and Time
Sunday 13th September
7.30pm-9.10pm
Event
Lie Back and Think of
America
Venue
St Paul’s Old
Ford Church
Thursday 01st October
Making Tracks:
Namvula
Rich Mix
Friday 2 Oct – Thu 29
Oct
All day
Abu Jafar: RONG
Rich Mix
Friday 2nd October
7pm
Soundcrash: Pat
Thomas + Kwashibu
Area Band
Rich Mix
Monday 5th October
7pm
Makeba
Rich Mix
Monday 12 Oct – Sat 17
Oct 15
Mon 4.30pm & 7pm,
Tue 4.30pm, Wed
10:30am & 1.30pm, Thu
4.30pm & 7pm, Fri
4.30pm, Sat 3pm & 7pm
Monday 19th Oct
8pm
Map of Me
Half Moon
Young People’s
Theatre
Yaram Presents Lokito
Ya Congo in
Celebration of Black
History Month
Workshop – BHM
Rich Mix
Thursday 22 October
6.15pm -7pm and
Saturday 7 November,
2pm-2.45pm
Hackney’s Hidden
Enslavement Stories
Hackney
Archives
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Saturday 24 October 15
7.30pm
The Problem We All
Live With
Rich Mix
Tuesday 27 October
10.30am – 12.30pm and
2.00 pm – 4.00pm
African Threads –
Hackney Style
Create textile designs,
patterns and prints
with a professional
textile artist.
Supported by Hackney
Learning Trust.
Pancha KabiCelebrating Works of
Hackney
Museum
http://www.tower £10, £8 concession
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Thursday 22 October
5.30pm – 7.30pm
Sunday 25 October 15
12pm – 3pm
Archives Library
Bancroft Road
Rich Mix
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£10 full price
£8 concession
4 tickets for £25
£12, £10 advance
FREE
£22.50
FREE
£6 Adult/Children
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FREE
FREE (booking
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Five Great Composers
of Bengel
Wednesday 28 October,
11am-1pm
Wednesday 28 October,
2pm-4pm
Thursday 29 October
6.30pm
Friday 30 October, 2pm
– 4pm
Friday 30 October
7.30pm
Music of African &
Caribbean Memories
Come and enjoy music
of African and
Caribbean roots from
the past 50 years;
song-sheets and
percussion will be
provided and
participation is
encouraged. The Spitz
Charitable Trust brings
music workshops to
older people in care
homes and links them
with young people to
reduce isolation,
improve well-being
and create a positive
impact on the lives of
everyone involved.
Hackney Fashion
Design fabulous
fabrics and fashions
inspired by Hackney
and Africa.
The Textile Trade
Discover how West
African consumers
shaped globalisation
during the 18th
century. An illustrated
talk by researcher
Kazuo Kobayashi
Universal Board
Games
Play games from
around the world in
this special Black
History Season
workshop with
Universal Board
Games. Supported by
Hackney Learning
Trust.
Tamasha’s Birthday
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Hackney
Museum
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Free entry. All ages
welcome.
Hackney
Museum
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Hackney
Museum
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Hackney
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Rich Mix
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Other events
Thursday 5 November
6.15pm to 7.35pm
Talk by Yinka
Shonibare MBE
Hackney
Museum
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FREE
Hackney
Archives
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Limited spaces,
booking essential.
To book,
please email: archiv
es@hackney.gov.uk
or call: 020 8356
8925. Free entry. All
ages welcome.
Yinka Shonibare MBE's
work examines the
construction of
identity and the
tangled relationships
between Africa and
Europe. Join the artist
as he reflects on his
work.
Thursday 26 November,
6pm-7.45pm
The Life and Times of
Joanna Vassa
A talk by Arthur
Torrington, OBE,
Secretary of The
Equiano Society
Joanna Vassa was the
only surviving child of
the former enslaved
African and antislavery campaigner
Olaudah Equiano. In
this talk discover how
her grave was
discovered in 2005 in
Abney Park in Stoke
Newington and learn
about her father's
relentless journey as
an abolitionist.