16.04.2025
This post will be of special interest to Oral History and Community Participation practitioners. On 6th April, TURNING POINT’s public arts & heritage programme took the Sweet Patootee Arts team to Birmingham, supporting the trial of a mega 4-hour gold medal-winning hybrid – using the screening of our 1920s-set “TURNING POINT” period drama as catalyst...
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09.04.2025
Big shout out to Dementia Support practitioners and stakeholders. Following on from great work with TURNING POINT’s Birmingham partners and community participants last year… Sweet Patootee Arts are on course to launch a new website – to give free access to pioneering. fun, and proven resources inspired by our arts and Black heritage storytelling. Pride...
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19.03.2025
Calling Birmingham friends and colleagues in communities, arts, Black heritage, and wellbeing… On 6th April, our genius project partners The GAP Arts Project, are hosting a wonderful event for Sweet Patootee Arts’ TURNING POINT programme in Birmingham Join us for a Watch Party and Community Conversation Dinner – you can see TURNING POINT, and enjoy...
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25.02.2025
Sweet Patootee Arts is seeking Sewing Skills Volunteers in London to work alongside workshop leader Jennifer Laurent-Smart from ‘Sakafet London’. Jennifer will facilitate a Black Heritage Research & Sewing Skills Workshops series, called “Sunday Best”. Workshop participants will research and create 1920s and 1930s fashions of the Caribbean and London, and make simple garments worn...
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25.02.2025
Join Jennifer Laurent-Smart, founder of Sakafet London, for free ‘Black Heritage Research and Sewing Skills’ workshops in London! Where: UCL Culture Lab, Marshgate, UCL East, 7 Sidings Street, London E20 2AE Dates and times: Monday 31st March – 10am to 3pm Tuesday 1st April – 10am to 3pm Monday 7th April – 10am to 3pm...
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14.02.2025
Just 2 weeks to go until the showpiece finale of Sweet Patootee Arts’ freelance role at Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives. This is an invitation to join us at the launch of Communities of Liberation, a new public exhibition bringing to light Black experiences in Tower Hamlets during the transatlantic slave trade. Exhibition...
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28.01.2025
Sweet Patootee Arts is seeking volunteers to work alongside experienced and creative facilitators helping to deliver programmes based on our TURNING POINT film and 20th century Black history across London. For Digital Communication Volunteer brief – click here For Digital Skills Volunteer brief – click here For Heritage Research Volunteer (Black history & fabric arts)...
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09.12.2024
Hi! My name is Aadya, and I am the new Coordinator of the TURNING POINT heritage project. When I was a volunteer with TURNING POINT, as my first in-person engagement, I attended a dance workshop hosted by DanceWest in collaboration with TURNING POINT at Fulham Palace on 21st October 2024. Being a new member of...
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09.12.2024
My freelance work on groundbreaking Black history project “Communities of Liberation” is on to its third and last chapter. We are now preparing to share our work publicly as a touring exhibition, pamphlet, and web pages with downloadable resources – launching at east London’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall, in February 2025. Spotlight on the research...
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12.11.2024
Join us in London this weekend for free screenings of Sweet Patootee Arts’ “TURNING POINT” (looped continuously) at Queen’s House in Greenwich, on Sunday 17th November from 1pm to 3:45pm. Our screenings will contribute to “Remembrance: A Call to Mind” – Royal Museums Greenwich’s day of talks, screenings, and performances to remember the Armed Forces...
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