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1. Happy Black History Month

   Greetings old and new friends, audiences and collaborators across the Caribbean, USA, and Canada – thank you for your wonderful responses to Black History Month’s Facebook post for MUTINY. It wouldn’t be fair to single out anyone in particular. But I will say this. It really means a lot to us that this work is […]

2. DEVELOPING A TURNING POINT PROJECT AT HMP BRONZEFIELD

   Big shout of thanks to Andrea and colleagues at HMP Bronzefield. Thank you for inviting me to talk about our arts and heritage work. I found the day very rewarding and ‘good challenging’ (so all in all, fantastic CPD). Huge thanks for your enthusiasm and support for our latest programme – we’re really looking forward […]

3. BUILDING SWEET PATOOTEE ARTS’ LONG-TERM RESILIANCE – WITH HERITAGE COMPASS

   Whilst “TURNING POINT” our new organisation’s first Arts and Heritage programme, grabs the limelight – and rightly so – we’re also hard at work in the background, developing our reliance.   This is vital work. So we’re chuffed to announce that Sweet Patootee Arts have been accepted onto the Heritage Compass programme – we’ll benefit from […]

4. HAPPY NEW YEAR

   New year greetings to all our friends, collaborators, our volunteers, our partners, our Board and everyone who has supported us and engaged with our work in 2020…! Here’s a teaser to get 2021 started in a Sweet Patootee Arts style and fashion: What does this ship have to do with Black British history after World […]

5. Spirit of Carnival

   So many thank-you’s going out to friends, supporters, colleagues… Like carnival TURNING POINT didn’t stop. Special shout out to our brilliant team mates and partners – UK and international who’ve allowed us to carry on building…  2021, we’re coming for ya! One Love, and warmest wishes from Sweet Patootee Arts.  

6. Mutiny documentary now available: Black British West Indies’ experience of WW1

   The reversion of “Mutiny”, our documentary resource on the Black West Indies’ experience of WW1, is now on general release for streaming audiences – on Vimeo on Demand. Here is the link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/160987 Mutiny includes extracts from unique video oral testimonies of WW1 era Black British West Indian women and veterans, that have inspired our […]

7. Turning Point, our new combined Arts Project, commences R&D:

   A first success for Sweet Patootee Arts! The Arts Council of England has approved our application for Research & Development funding, allowing us to commence work on our new Combined Arts project, ‘Turning Point’: an immersive mix of vignette performance, soundscape and montaged imagery.   Research & Development inspired by our testimony of Black British WW1 […]