TURNING POINT Screenings with Q&A in Newham…

23.05.2025

This summer Sweet Patootee Arts are delivering TURNING POINT screenings for the London borough of Newham’s Windrush Celebrations. Across June and July there will be a series of special events honouring the Windrush Generation and the rich Caribbean heritage and culture thriving in Newham, whilst also commemorating the historic arrival of the HMT Windrish in...

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TURNING POINT: Sewing Skills and Caribbean Heritage workshop in East London…

19.05.2025

This is a post to inspire all six of Sweet Patootee Arts’ target audiences: Schools (13-17), Young people (17-30), Elders, Dementia support, mainstream Arts & Heritage, general public. TURNING POINT’s fantastic participants and volunteers in East London’s Newham, have completed the first half of an absolutely storming activity for our arts & heritage programme across...

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Caribbean Folk Singing Workshops at London’s Tramshed arts centre…

19.05.2025

Here’s an update for the attention of stakeholders across the Black History, arts, learning, dementia support, heritage, and wellbeing sectors. Sweet Patootee Arts’ Caribbean Folk Singing workshops in London are up and running and recruitment is now closed. On Thursday 15th May, participants in the first of twelve Caribbean Folk Singing workshops inspired by TURNING...

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Thanks Birmingham for a great Community Conversation event…

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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New Dementia Support resources coming soon…

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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TURNING POINT Watch Party and Community Conversation Dinner – Birmingham 6th April

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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Volunteers to assist in Sewing Skills workshops needed…

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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Communities of Liberation: hidden Black heritage in London’s east end…

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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VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES

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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