Sweet Patootee
Tony 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...
read moreThrough the generous support of the Culture Dementia UK network, Tony is carrying out a brief London-based outreach project, as part of his work with the British Museum. He is researching experiences and insights of Black people and communities people living and working with Dementia. It’s a huge opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding that...
read moreRe-edit of our film Mutiny is complete. All being well the film will be available from the start of the new 2018/2019 school year. This release will be online pay to view only. We will keep the cost as low as possible in order to allow for formal and informal learning budgets. (Mutiny’s pay to...
read moreWe’re looking forward to our trip to Birmingham to screen Mutiny this Monday. Thank you for the invitation CALMCC [CALMCC is the acronym for The Caribbean Legacy Memorial for Commonwealth Contributions]. Mutiny Screening and Open Discussion A story of war, and the Black struggle for honour and freedom: through the eyewitness testimonies of surviving veterans,...
read moreCongratulations Blast Fest! Tony was invited to speak at the Blast Fest & Winston Churchill Memorial Fund ‘Meet the Fellows’ Showcase event earlier this month as part of Manchester’s Carnival Weekend events. Blast Fest is a new genre of science festival where science, technology, engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is explored alongside Black Arts and Culture. Tony...
read moreTony and Rebecca announce the successful launch of Sweet Patootee Arts – a new non-profit sister-company to Sweet Patootee – the vehicle for a new phase of their artistic development. A bid for R&D funding will be submitted to the Arts Council of England in 2018, for SPA’s first project – ‘Turning Point’. Watch this...
read moreA great response to our Mutiny talk/screening at Islington Museum, for the launch of Away From The Western Front. “The project offers contrasting perspectives on the campaigns and will provide opportunities for local communities to engage with and learn about this global event. The project will also be working with Turkish and Iraqi communities which...
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