Sweet Patootee
Calling TURNING POINT’s wonderful project partners, stakeholders, and workshop participants. My colleague Rebecca Goldstone, our board, volunteers, yours truly… we’re all over the moon to welcome a new member to the Sweet Patootee Arts team. Our new Project & Partnerships Coordinator for TURNING POINT’s Black heritage programme is Bimpe Adeyemi. Congratulations Bimpe. And congratulations Sweet...
read moreWe were in the room for the first of Abigail Kelly’s (free) Caribbean folk singing workshops this August – it was amazing. Thank you to the wonderful volunteer singers who have signed up to take part in these sessions. You were/ are stunning. And thank you again, Abigail! Please note: recruitment for these workshops is...
read moreSince 2022, a team of UK dementia support practitioners has been forming through work with Sweet Patootee Arts as TURNING POINT’s Dementia Support working group: using our storytelling as inspiration they are devising (culturally relevant) resources and activities, for their communities and service users. So we come to Birmingham and our newest member. She hates...
read moreCalling TURNING POINT Birmingham’s wonderful participants, audiences, and stakeholders. Coming soon: (Free) Heritage Research Skills workshops, inspired by Sweet Patootee Arts’ storytelling and the “Peaky Blinders” character played by Benjamin Zephaniah – brought to you by our awesome partners, Black Heritage Walks Network (feat’ Prof. Carl Chinn). The workshop with Prof. Carl Chinn is a...
read moreIt’s official. TURNING POINT’s Birmingham partners are awesome! Sweet Patootee Arts’ collaborative model for this project, is delivering a wonderful heritage programme for partner organisations, workshop participants, visitors to our exhibition… With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Onwards and upwards!
read moreDance workshops launched today for TURNING POINT’s heritage programme in Birmingham! For more information go to the ACE dance and music website here
read moreFrom now until the end of 2024, our partner organisations in Birmingham are delivering an exciting programme of workshops inspired by TURNING POINT’s storytelling… Here’s how to find out more: Dementia Support workshops led by Black History Arts & More – email Dawn Carr for details < blackhistoryartsandmore@gmail.com > Heritage Research skills workshops...
read moreTURNING POINT’s touring programme is coming to London – Oct 2024 to Sept 2025. Preparations are underway to deliver another stunning mix of exhibitions, screenings, and partner-led creative heritage activities across the capitol – launching at Fulham Palace in October 2024. Details of the full programme coming soon…. This programme is supported by The National...
read moreTURNING POINT’s UK exhibitions programme is now in Birmingham until end of 2024… The GAP Arts Project – exhibition, 13th July to 3rd August Soho House Visitors Centre – exhibition. October (dates tbc)ThinkTank – screening, October (date tbc)Handsworth Library – screening, 7th November
read moreA shout out to TURNING POINT’s wonderful audience in Athens, Greece who came to our 13th July screening… Opa! Such amazing feedback – thank you for taking our Black heritage-inspired storytelling to your hearts. Seeing the pictures of the event for the first time, we’re sorry all over again we couldn’t be with you. But...
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