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"Charlies Front Room" at The People of the Caribbean Exhibition at The Tabernacle W11 For one week only 21st - 27th October 2019 Presenting Charlies Front Room www.thetabernaclew11.com

A MAJOR NEW EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE PAST 50 YEARS OF BLACK CREATIVITY IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND.  Beginning with the radical Black filmmaker Horace Ové and his dynamic circle of Windrush generation creative peers and extending to today’s brilliant young Black talent globally, a group of 110 interdisciplinary artists are showcasing their work together for the first time, exploring Black experience and influence, from the post-war era to the present day.  "★★★★★ The abundance of great work make this unmissable" Evening Standard  Get Up, Stand Up Now | Exhibition Trailer  Watch "Get Up, Stand Up Now | Somerset House" on YouTube https://youtu.be/6CHFZpDQsY8 In this multi-sensory experience, historic works and new commissions sit alongside items from personal archives, much of which has never been seen by the public before, tracing more than half a century of collective history. Curator Zak Ové – whose father Horace was the creator of the first feature film by a Black Br...

Exhibition: Get Up Stand Up Now - Somerset House From 12 Jun 2019 Get Up, Stand Up Now  is a major new exhibition at Somerset House celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond. The exhibition explores migration, psychological and social borders, the body and participation, power and resistance. During its run, the  Somerset House Studios  summer programme will expand on these themes, bringing together artists and creatives whose work comments on what it means to be Black today. Going beyond the representation of Blackness as a “celebration of culture” or as a homogeneous cultural identity, a programme of music, performance, DJs and drag will create space to discuss the sometimes difficult or uncomfortable issues around Black diasporic experiences in relation social and political conditions of their making. The hope is to bring a broad audience face to face, listening and in dialogue with Black artists, and in doing so, chip away at the collecti...

Exhibition: Paris-Londres Music Migrations at Museum of Migration, Paris 12 March 2019 to 5 January 2020  The exhibition Between the early 1960s and the late 1980s, a wealth of musical styles linked with successive waves of immigration transformed Paris and London into multicultural capitals.  Paris-London. Music Migrations  is an immersive, chronological exploration of three pivotal decades in the musical history of Paris and London. In the late 20th century, in Paris and London more than anywhere else, music embodied the way in which migration was profoundly reshaping the identity of these two former capitals of colonial empires. From the independence of Jamaica and Algeria in 1962 through to the late 1980s, this exhibition explores three decades which saw Paris and London metamorphose into multicultural capitals. Generations of postcolonial immigrants and their children expressed their joys, hopes and aspirations through music. Focusing on the production, dissemination...

Exhibition: Paris-Londres Music Migrations at Museum of Migration, Paris 12 March 2019 to 5 January 2020  Music Migrations (1962-1989) paris-londres  Between the early 1960s and the late 1980s, a wealth of musical styles linked with successive waves of immigration transformed Paris and London into multicultural capitals. Paris-London. Music Migrations is an immersive, chronological exploration of three pivotal decades in the musical history of our two cities, showcasing the unprecedented melting pot of musical rhythms and the social and political evolutions, urban transformations and migratory flows which defined the era.   Visit the exhibition website  https://www.histoire-immigration.fr/exhibition-paris-londres  Paris-London, Music Migrations explores the close and complex relationship between migration, music, anti-racism and political activism. The exhibition demonstrates how successive generations of immigrants to these two former colonial powers used ...

How Great Thou Art – 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London  The photographs of Charlie Phillips  Wolfson Gallery  Sat 21 April until Sat 7 July  Entry to the exhibition is free.  To coincide with the opening of Natasha Gordon’s new play, Nine Night, in the Dorfman Theatre, the National Theatre presents How Great Thou Art – 50 Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London, an exhibition of photographs taken by Charlie Phillips.  Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Charlie Phillips arrived in London in 1953. In the early 1960s he was given a camera by a Black American GI stationed in Notting Hill, and quickly set about photographing the lives of the African Caribbean community around him.   A lifetime project documenting the changing cultural rituals surrounding death in his community began when he attended his Aunt Susie’s funeral in 1962. His work is a loving celebration of the traditions and cultures of the African diaspora in London. Phillip...