Birmingham Dementia Support Workshops
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TURNING POINT is a video installation and Black heritage comedy melodrama telling four stories set in 1920s Barbados and Jamaica. It is used as the catalyst for a touring programme of heritage workshops across the UK.
Role:
Producing TURNING POINT and facilitating a cross-country programme of workshops which use Turning Point as a catalyst to think creatively and critically about heritage.
The Turning Point Project
Neglecting early 20th century British Black history has prevented important understanding of British heritage and its legacy today. Coinciding with the centenary of civil rights struggle in Britain’s former slave colonies of the Caribbean after WW1, the TURNING POINT touring programme, developed by Sweet Patootee Arts, uses four narrative films set in 1920s Barbados and Jamaica to benefit learning, wellbeing, and build social cohesion nationwide through free workshops giving unique access to landmark interpretation of this heritage. Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the programme offers dementia support activities, heritage research skills in intergenerational oral history, Caribbean folk singing, and dance in Birmingham and London until December 2025.
Birmingham Programme
Click to see the work we have done with our partners in Birmingham and find out more about our heritage projects including: Workshops and creative heritage activities for people living with dementia, Heritage research and Digital Skills, Oral history, Caribbean folk singing, Dance
Birmingham Heritage Research & Digital Skills
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Deck of Defiance
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Birmingham Caribbean Folk Singing Workshops with Abigail Kelly
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ACE Dance & Music
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London Programme
Click to see the work we have done with our partners in Birmingham and find out more about our heritage projects including: Workshops and creative heritage activities for people living with dementia, Heritage research and Digital Skills, Oral history, Caribbean folk singing, Dance, Sewing Skills.
London Dementia Support Workshops
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London Caribbean Folk Song with Ethno Vox
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London Caribbean Dance Workshops with DanceWest
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‘Sunday Best’ Heritage Research & Sewing Skills Workshops
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Schools
In 2021 the Schools History Project brought together a group of teachers to work with Sweet Patootee Arts to create lessons linked to their TURNING POINT project. We were invited to be part of the project because of our existing interest in teaching the legacies of slavery and decolonised history in our different schools. After three years of development, the lessons are ready to share.
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Inspiring, compelling and diverse stories
Sweet Patootee Arts serves to tell heritage stories from the archives that can be retold and reshared for learning and educational purposes as well. You can access some of these archives for free on our Resources page.