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Hi all. No apologies for the big smile as I write…
Heritage research and (basic) Digital skills workshops with African Caribbean Elders at project partner Pepper Pot Centre – for Sweet Patootee Arts TURNING POINT (London) arts and heritage programme – are now completed.
A treasure trove of goodies generated by these sessions is coming soon to our new website: including the activity plans, volunteers’ reports, and our evaluation report.
The headline takeaways are: packed house each week; vibrant glow-in-the-dark conversations; the exploring and enjoyment of participants; exemplary planning and delivery by our facilitator; towering best practice management and support from our volunteers and Sweet Patootee Arts team.
(Once again) The Black heritage storytelling of Sweet Patootee Arts TURNING POINT drama film – set in 1920s Barbados and Jamaica – was the start point for devising and delivering this activity. But genius facilitator Andrea Dodd completely and boldly took up our challenge to make these sessions her own – and she inspired our participants to follow suit.
See in our photo below, how conversations ignited by Andrea’s session exploring 1919’s violent race riots in London, fired participants’ web-surfing for content reflecting lived experiences of race relations in 1960s London…
And here’s a link to “Missa Luba” ‘found’ in the course of a lovely conversation that I was privileged to sit in on, during Andrea’s last session.
Thank you so much everybody!
TURNING POINT’s Black heritage inspired arts and heritage programme is enabled by support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund
