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This is a post to inspire all six of Sweet Patootee Arts target audiences: Schools (primary & secondary), Young people (17-30), Elders, Dementia support, mainstream Arts & Heritage, general public.
TURNING POINT’s fantastic participants and volunteers in East London’s Newham, have completed an absolutely storming activity for our arts & heritage programme across the city.
The concept offers a devastatingly effective, inclusive and rewarding template for others to be inspired by:
(Again using a screening of our 1920s Caribbean-set TURNING POINT drama film as catalyst…) This group, under the leadership of Jennifer Laurant-Smart (of Sakafet London) have completed a wonderful journey building heritage research skills through heritage dress making and archive enquiry.
This remarkable, intrepid bunch of pioneers have explored the importance and impact of Sunday Best clothes for working class women of colour in the Caribbean – and as migrants in the early 20th century.
The workshop participants and volunteers have now added to their research through heritage dress making, by conducting archive enquiries inspired by early 1900s Black heritage, and making their findings available to the public via this website’s ‘resources section.
Explore our participants archive research here
To view a short movie of the Sunday Best workshop participants with one of their completed 1920s dresses, click on the photo below to see Kris modelling the beautifully crafted ‘Wob Dwiyet’ dress, made by the group.
