04.03.2024
Hi everyone, Please share this news with anyone you think this will be of interest or benefit to… Calling Black people of Tower Hamlets passionate about Black history, and interested in helping to bring the borough’s hidden Black lives and stories from 300 years ago into the open. We are now recruiting 6 Black...
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02.02.2024
Woop woop…! Just downloaded and backed up great recordings of today’s interviews for “B”, Sweet Patootee Arts’ short R&D project. Huge thanks to Sway – today’s interviewee. And huge thanks plus congratulations Sweet Patootee Arts trainee, Sandra V – the newest member of our collective. Sandra’s leading our interviews and co-Directing, alongside our co-Founder Rebecca...
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15.01.2024
Here are this year’s projects for Sweet Patootee Arts (our non-profit org), and Sweet Patootee Ltd (our commercial org): 1. Sweet Patootee Arts 1a. TURNING POINT UK Exhibitions & Screenings… May – Sept across Birmingham: touring programme with partner-led activities. Oct – in Liverpool: Black History Month screenings & activity programme. Oct (24)...
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06.01.2024
Next week we’ll update about this year’s schedule of TURNING POINT exhibitions and partner-led activities in the UK and internationally – plus news of our latest work. We’ll also update on the Freelance hat that our CEO and co-Artistic Director Tony T is wearing too just now; working with the awesome team at Tower Hamlets...
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16.10.2023
Until now our own Tony T has found our work and exploration around this ‘journey’ emotionally triggering and hard to process – ‘push through, take your blows, and move on’, sort of thing. But all of a sudden, his new role in the London borough of Tower Hamlets with the groundbreaking COMMUNITIES OF LIBERATION project...
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13.10.2023
Sweet Patootee Arts has an exciting programme this (UK) Black History Month. it’s a marker for our steady progress – thanks to consultants, partners, stakeholders and the wonderful public response to TURNING POINT (our first major project) – since our organisation launched in 2017. Interweaving and giving richly transformative insight to Sweet Patootee Arts’ activitirities...
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10.10.2023
Sweet Patootee Arts’ co-Artistic Director, Tony T, has started an exciting new Black history role in London’s Tower Hamlets, as ‘Research and Engagement Lead’ for the groundbreaking Communities of Liberation project. This is role is part-time alongside his work for Sweet Patootee Arts. “I’m honoured to be the Research and Engagement Lead, Communities of Liberation....
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29.08.2023
Join us for free screenings of TURNING POINT, and a fun social gathering at our wonderful Islington partner Mildmay Community Centre. There is wheelchair access. If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Mildmay’s staff team – tel. 0207 249 8286 Please note: You need to get...
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17.05.2023
Thank you Writing on the Wall, thank you Liverpool John Moores University: School of Education. thank you Culture Liverpool, and thank you Liverpool – for an amazing screening of TURNING POINT in your city. Wonderful audience, and such awesome and humbling feedback. I wish our brilliant actors, crew and more of Sweet Patootee Arts’...
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17.05.2023
Big sigh… TURNING POINT’s exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has its last day this Sunday 21st May… Thank you Julia Carver, Karen MacDonald, Emma Brown, Zahid Jaffer and colleagues at BMAG. Massive thanks to Michelle, Bev, Laura, Gloria and members at Malcolm X Community Centre for taking part in the production...
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