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TURNING POINT research: sharing some treasures…
We have started sharing a broad selection of research/reference material for TURNING POINT on our Facebook page @SweetPatootee Each of these posts will carry the heading ‘TURNING POINT research: sharing some treasures…’
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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 […]
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Exploring the impact of WW1 across the Americas: New Negroes …
1903: In “The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. du bios writes of the need for mental healing after racialised enslavement and colonial rule, “It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others … two souls, two unrecognised strivings, two warring ideals […]
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Mutiny resource: A message to teachers and heritage sector learning …
Teachers and heritage groups across the Americas: Thank you so much for your engagement with our Mutiny resource. UK teachers and heritage groups: We are very keen to connect with anyone else exploring how ‘Mutiny’ can inspire and/or bring to life lesson plans and interpretation linking uncomfortable (national) history and modern identity and diversity – […]
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Turning Point: Sweet Patootee Arts’ R&D project Supported by Arts Council England
Update – 30thJan. 2019 Small cheer, huge congratulations and many thanks. We can proudly announce the successful completion of principle photography for Turning Point’s r&d – our dramatic performances featuring two remarkable talents Veronica Beatrice Lewis, and, Ashley Gayle. “Being a Black woman in a rehearsal space can be a hard, competitive and silencing place […]
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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 […]