April 1 to November 1 2008

An exhibition exploring the contributions made by Black Londoners during the Second World War. From Air Raid Precaution wardens to popular entertainers, Black Londoners carried out a variety of tasks on the Home Front during the Second World War. This exhibition will uncover stories from South London and beyond, exploring both the positive and negative experiences of Black Londoners from 1939 to 1945 through rare photographs, music and film clips.

The exhibition will reveal the voluntary roles on the Home Front of ordinary Black men and women. It will tell stories of wartime courage, hardship and service to the community. It will also show how bombing, evacuation and rationing affected Black people.

Discover the story of community leaders such as Dr Harold Moody, a Peckham-based doctor, who became an ambassador for Britain's Black community and a founding member of the League of Coloured Peoples. Learn about the role musicians and singers like Adelaide Hall and Ken "Snakehips" Johnson played in keeping up London's morale during the Blitz. The exhibition will also reveal how Caribbean and African Commonwealth countries contributed to the war effort.

For more information about the events that will be accompanying the exhibition please contact the Cuming Museum on Tel: 020 7525 2332.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund 
The Cuming Museum
Old Town Hall, 151 Walworth Road, London SE17 1RY
Admission free
Train & Tube: Elephant & Castle
Buses: 12-35-40-45-68-171-176-468-P5
Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm
Tel No 020 7525 2332
The museum is fully wheelchair accessible.
www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseum

Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival 2008

As part of the 2007 bicentenary commemorations, Anti-Slavery International launched the Recovered Histories project, an outreach and resources programme. 2007 provided a basis for creating dialogue about the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its legacies, Recovered Histories seeks to continue this work beyond 2007.

Anti-Slavery International is inviting participants to a series of free regional seminars in April and May 2008 to bring together a wide range of groups and organisations who are working on these issues and interested in making links, creating sustainable networks and sharing appropriate practice. These will include grassroots community organisations, youth clubs and associations, women’s groups, faith groups, schools, libraries, local authority departments, development education centres and museums. The seminars will also introduce participants to the available free resources (including an education pack and exhibition) and look at how to use them effectively in a variety of local and national settings.

It is vitally important that the legacies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade which continue to affect all of us today are addressed with accurate information in order to foster greater and more effective community cohesion. Recovered Histories will link groups and organisations from across the UK in dialogue and practical work around these issues.

Seminars:
18 April - North West - Museum at the University of Manchester
25 April - South East - Museum in Docklands, London
29 April - South West - Bristol Council House
10 May - North East - Leeds University
13 May - Scotland and Ireland - Friends House, Edinburgh

To register, download a registration form and return it to us by email at recoveredhistories@antislavery.org, fax 020 7738 4110, or post to Recovered Histories, Anti-Slavery International, Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard, Broomgrove Road, London, SW9 9TL.

Symposium to be held at the Courtauld Institute of Art 16-17 May 2008

"Marble comes doubly alive for me then, as I ponder, comparing,
Seeing with vision that feels, feeling with fingers that see Goethe", Roman Elegies

Since the Renaissance, at least, the medium of sculpture has been linked explicitly to the sense of touch.  Sculptors, philosophers and art historians have all related the two, often in strikingly different ways. In spite of this long running interest in touch and tactility, in recent decades vision and visuality have tended to dominate art historical research.

The aim of the conference is to introduce a new impetus to the discussion of the relationship between touch and sculpture by setting up a dialogue between art historians and individuals with fresh insights working in disciplines beyond art history, for example, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and practicing artists.

The fundamental question that the conference will address is: What is the relationship between sculpture and the sense of touch?  Under this broad focus, contributors are invited to examine a number of more specific issues.  For example:

• In what sense does beholding sculpture enlist tactile sensations, even where direct physical contact is impossible? 
• How do sculptors anticipate the possibility of physical interaction with their work?
• Does sculpture have a privileged relationship to the sense of touch?
• Are there sculptures that repel or avoid the sense of touch? 
• Is talk about touch and sculpture largely metaphorical?
• In what ways are tactile sensations mediated by vision?
• How far should art historical theory and language draw on the insights of the psychology and physiology of touch?

A central issue will be the extent to which the relationship between sculpture and touch is historically and culturally determined.  But it will be equally important to identify overarching issues that cross these boundaries.  In order to draw out these broader issues, the sessions will be organized thematically rather than chronologically.  Possible themes might include (but are not limited to): handheld sculpture; the artist’s touch; the beholder’s touch; untouchable sculpture; materials and tactility.

Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Tel: (+44)20 7848 2909   web www.courtauld.ac.uk/research/research_forum

Links:
www.museums.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ifch
www.ucl.ac.uk/biology/
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/learning/touch_research

(Richard II, Henry IV, parts I and II, Henry V, Henry VI, parts I,II, and III and Richard III)
Directed by Michael Boyd, Associate Director and director of Henry IV Part II Richard Twyman The Roundhouse 

History Cycle transfers for an eight week season at London’s Roundhouse in Spring 2008 1 April - 25 May 2008

The eight plays in Shakespeare’s History Cycle, directed by RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd, will transfer for an eight week season to London’s unique performance venue, the Roundhouse, in spring 2008.

In 2002 the Roundhouse staged the RSC’s productions of The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale and Pericles. Already well known for its ‘event’ theatre and now newly refurbished, it also recently presented Tim Supple’s Indian version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

With Michael Boyd’s Histories cycle, the company will recreate the intimacy of The Courtyard Theatre to house the eclectic staging of the eight History plays comprising Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I,II and III, and Richard III.  The actors will use every corner of the stage and auditorium as they did in Stratford.

The productions will play in repertoire with chances to see all eight performed in sequence (as they are scheduled to do in Stratford-upon-Avon from February 2008).

THE 2008  BLACK AUTHORS' EXPO IN GREENVILLE, SC will be held on May 17-18th, at the Brutontown Community Center's 'NEW' Gymnasium.  The event will include:  workshops, networking and vending opportunities, spoken-word poetry, book marketing experts, local and long-distance Black authors, work from authors of ALL genres and more.  The expo will be hosted by Ms. Joy Phillips of 107.3 JAMZ-FM.  Nationally-known Black authors participating will be ( but will not be limited to)...Essence Magazine Award-Winning Author--Angel Hunter-Irby and Urban Novel Author--Terry L. Moss.

Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey presents:

Mutabaruka Word Soun's at Liberty Hall

When : Sunday April 20, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

Where: Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey
            76 Kings Street
            Kingston.

Admission: $500 (general)
                  $300 (students with ID & persons under 18 years)

Performance in aid of the Garvey Research/Reference Library at Liberty Hall.

Donations: Interested persons may make a monetary donation to the library.

Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey
76 King Street
Kingston
Tel: 876-948-8639/7058
Fax: 876-948-8640
www.garveylibertyhall.com

"We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind."

- Marcus Garvey, 1937.

We are cordially inviting you to our twin combined conference which will be held. In Anaheim California From the 19th - 23rd of April 2008 and Dakar senegal from the 26th - 30th of April 2008. If you are interested to participate and want to represent your country,you may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and
information. You should also inform them that you were invited to participate by a
friend of yours (DR. VARISA.W. VALY), who is a member of the American Youths 4
Peace and a staff of (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS).
The benevolent donors of the Organizing Committee will provide round trip air tickets and accommodation for the period of participants Stay in  the U.S, to all registered participants. You will only be responsible for your own hotel booking in Dakar where
The second phase of the conference will be held. If you are a holder of an
international passport that may require visa to enter the United Statesyou may inform the conference secretariat at the time of registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for more details and all visa arrangements and travel assistances including
registration.kindly contact the secretariat at the below contacts: Also Endeavor to update me with every step you take to enable me follow up the processing of your documents,as I was the one who invited you so as to receive the entitled travelling documents ontime. Contact them so next: i will also like us to know each other better cos it would also be pleasure to meet here in this up comming event, aslo be by exchanging our photos.
Below are the contacts:
MADAM MYRA B COHEN,
Email:wythc2008@california.usa.com
Sincerely,

Ms.Varisa Valley