Sweet Patootee
1903: In “The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. du bios writes of the need for mental healing after racialised enslavement and colonial rule, “It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others … two souls, two unrecognised strivings, two warring ideals...
read moreTeachers and heritage groups across the Americas: Thank you so much for your engagement with our Mutiny resource. UK teachers and heritage groups: We are very keen to connect with anyone else exploring how ‘Mutiny’ can inspire and/or bring to life lesson plans and interpretation linking uncomfortable (national) history and modern identity and diversity –...
read moreUpdate – 30thJan. 2019 Small cheer, huge congratulations and many thanks. We can proudly announce the successful completion of principle photography for Turning Point’s r&d – our dramatic performances featuring two remarkable talents Veronica Beatrice Lewis, and, Ashley Gayle. “Being a Black woman in a rehearsal space can be a hard, competitive and silencing place...
read moreWith a 2019’s February Black History Month now upon us, it’s my pleasure to let you know that our Mutiny documentary resource is also now available on Amazon Prime. Unique on-camera first hand testimonies of Black-British veterans, official documents and a wealth of archive photos tell an epic story of WW1 and the Black struggle...
read moreUpdate – 20th Jan. 2019 In Turning Point, the British West Indies of the early 1900s is the setting for Sweet Patootee Arts to explore questions of Identity, freedom, Black heritage and transformation after WW1. The stars of the project at this R&D stage are two young and wonderfully gifted Black British actors, Veronica Beatrice...
read moreOn Sunday 11th November, Tony was with the ‘Shot At Dawn’ group, in the official march and wreath-laying at London’s Cenotaph memorial – as a special mark of remembrance for 17-year-old Jamaican, Herbert Morris, of the 6th Battalion, British West Indies Regiment – one of the men and boys executed by firing squad for the...
read moreThe reversion of “Mutiny”, our documentary resource on the Black West Indies’ experience of WW1, is now on general release for streaming audiences – on Vimeo on Demand. Here is the link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/160987 Mutiny includes extracts from unique video oral testimonies of WW1 era Black British West Indian women and veterans, that have inspired our...
read moreA first success for Sweet Patootee Arts! The Arts Council of England has approved our application for Research & Development funding, allowing us to commence work on our new Combined Arts project, ‘Turning Point’: an immersive mix of vignette performance, soundscape and montaged imagery. Research & Development inspired by our testimony of Black British WW1...
read moreFollowing his latest project at the British Museum, Tony is posting a massive thank you and shout out to Alyse, Cat and Alex at Leonard Cheshire Disability’s main offices, and staff and service users of their residential facilities at Hydon Hill, The Manor, and Chiltern House! (“Working with you has been irreverent, creative, inspirational, cheeky,...
read moreTony has completed a fantastic project for Worcestershire’s Regimental Museum: an Arts Council-funded programme comprising oral history interviews, a public consultation and written report; to enable new audiences to discover an important story of Black history and achievement spanning 300 years from the mid 1700s to the present – in new interpretation and displays for...
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