Dear colleagues,

See below.

All the best,
Pat


Dr Patricia Noxolo,

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,

University of Birmingham,

Edgbaston,

Birmingham

B15 2TT

UK

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Subject: [BSA-RACE] FW: JULY & AUGUST @ THE V&A - SEE THE CARIBBEAN ACROSS SIX GALLERIES & GHANA - A NATION IN RETROSPECTIVE



From: Janet Browne [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 July 2017 21:25


Greetings All,

Hope this finds you well.

Thank you to those who managed to make it down to the V&A on sunny Sunday 2 July for the REVEAL FESTIVAL that celebrated ‘A NEW WAY INTO THE MUSEUM’ through the SACKLER COURTYARD on Exhibition Road SW7. TALAWA Theatre Company were ‘Knocking Down Doors’ with their wonderful poet protesters and provocative interplay on how the residue of colonialism can sometimes get in the way of progress.  Also top of the class was the NEW HISTORICAL & HIDDEN CARIBBEAN GALLERY INTERVENTIONS led by the African Heritage Guides, that saw 75 visitors explore 300 years of history, across six different galleries, through 8 significant objects!

If you have not yet visited the Sackler Courtyard and walked on the white porcelain tiles that crown it, then why not come down this Sunday 16 July and also enjoy one of our FREE 90 minute Caribbean Gallery Interventions.  Read further for more details…….

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THE HISTORICAL AND HIDDEN CARIBBEAN
A VIEW OF LIFE THROUGH ART AND DESIGN
Sundays 16 July, 6 & 20 August, 3 & 17 September, and 1 & 15 October
Tours repeat each day at 12.30, 14.30 & 16.00 (90 minutes)
Meet at the ‘Meeting Point’ in the Grand Entrance
Journey 300 years across the galleries as we reveal the Caribbean through its natural resources, trade and commerce, design and crafts, makers and collectors. From Colonialism to Modernity, we uncover hidden stories, sensibilities, culture, and the impact of this on these island nations.
Free and drop-in, strictly 30 visitors maximum per session
Recommended for ages 12+


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A Learning LATE Event – SAVE THE DATE - Booking information to follow
GHANA – A NATION IN RETROSPECTIVE
FRIDAY 4 AUGUST, 18.00 – 21.30
Ghana, a nation rising, was the first African country to gain independence in 1957 led by Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah. Lord Paul Boateng of Akyem and Wembley will give the welcome and keynote address.

Join independent historians, cultural theorists, scholars, museum curators, and artists and performers of the diaspora, as they look retrospectively at a nation who over the last 60 years, has worked towards shaping a modern vision for Ghana, and witnessed a transformative rise of Ghanaians as leading contemporary ‘Afropolitans’.  Review and re-contextualise your history, heritage, culture, for a greater and bolder future.

Select what you do and how you do it with our amazing event contributors:
[*]       Senior Curator of Metalwork Angus Patterson introduces the Goldweights and Regalia held within the museum collections, with rare opportunities for visitors to view these for one night only!
[*]       Designer, Director and Writer Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo will host ‘The Adversary’ which stages ‘Undoing Africa’, a critical simulation developed in response to Kwame Nkrumah’s address ‘We must unite now or perish’, that he gave at the Organisation of African Unity Conference in 1963.
[*]       Historian Hakim Adi tells the story of Pan-Africanism from inception to modern understandings
[*]       Gallery Educator Peter Ashan will explore the 18th century ‘man-about-town’ William Ansah Sessarakoo featured on a bookplate in the British Galleries
[*]       Photographers James Barnor and Ed Otchere will offer visitors the chance to have their photograph taken in the ‘Ever Young’ photography pop up studio to commemorate the evening’s event
[*]       Cultural specialists Afrograph will share 5 generations of women through cloth & culture
[*]       Project Co-ordinator Natalie Fiawoo of Black Cultural Archives (BCA) shares a story of kings, family ties & colonial rule in Keta
[*]       Chef Zoe Adjonyah tells how she re-discovered her heritage through her grandmother’s recipes, and shares her contemporary passion for food through ‘Ghana Kitchen’ followed by a book signing
[*]       DJs Volta 45 and Chief Commander Yaaba will play a musical soundtrack charting 60 years of Ghana’s independence
[*]       Singer song writer Melvin Ashong will bring live acoustic soulful rock from his albums ‘Copernicus’ and ‘Aberjay’

A Learning LATE Event – SAVE THE DATE - Booking information to follow
GHANA – A NATION IN RETROSPECTIVE
FRIDAY 4 AUGUST, 18.00 – 21.30
In celebration of Ghana @ 60, and the UNESCO International Decade for People of African Descent 2015 – 2024.
£5, £3 concession (SAVE THE DATE - Booking information to follow)

Please forward this email to family, friends and colleagues who are interested in Ghanaian history, heritage and culture.

If you would prefer not to receive these emails please let me know and I shall remove your details from my database.

All the best,

Janet B.

Janet Browne
Programme Manager African Heritage & Culture
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 2RL

Direct line: 020 7942 2184
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Please note that I work part-time at the V&A and my usual days are Wed PM, all day Thursday and Friday.

Images:
Skirt Suit, Nat Gaynes, Guyana, 1950s, V&A ©
Theatre Costume, Peter Minshall, UK, 1974, V&A ©
Francis Williams, The Scholar of Jamaica, ca 1745, V&A ©
Extract - Textiles, Ghana, mid-20th Century, V&A ©





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