Sweet Patootee
With 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...
read moreHuge thanks to Bristol’s Radical History Festival organisers for the invitation to continue our WW1 centenary programming, with another great Mutiny talk/screening event. (Delivered by Tony alongside Sweet Patootee’s mentor and collaborator, Julian Putkowski).
read moreTony has joined the Advisory Board for ‘Commemoration, Conflict and Conscience’ a year-long project which culminates in a national festival in Bristol, 27th-28thApril 2019. The project looks at hidden or lesser known stories of the First World War, legacy, peace-building & alienation from commemoration. We are: uniting existing community groups and researchers, focusing on their...
read moreRebecca is back on the road as Wardrobe Manager with Sadler’s Wells Contemporary Dance Theatre’s groundbreaking show, Sutra – celebrating its 10thyear of international touring. “Seen by over 160,000 people worldwide in 60 cities across 28 countries, this critically acclaimed collaboration between choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley and 19 Buddhist monks...
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