Posts Tagged ‘Windrush’
Windrush grant winner Wayne Snooze to have his art displayed on billboards across Hackney
The artist’s Jamaica-inspired screen prints will be on show from next week
Read MoreHackney Council offers £1k grants to residents for events celebrating this year’s Black History Season
Town Hall wants to hear ideas from residents before 20 August deadline
Read MoreHackney to host series of Windrush advice clinics to help people navigate government’s ‘unsatisfactory’ compensation scheme
Surgeries are taking place in June, July and August to support residents through the application process
Read MoreLetter: ‘Diane Abbott was wrong’
But the Conservative Party is in no position to take the moral high ground, says Sasha Simic
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Plans for Hackney Central should make more of ‘hidden’ fruits
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Read More‘What a moment’: Veronica Ryan wins Turner Prize for work including Hackney Windrush sculptures
Artist pays tribute to her family after taking home UK’s most prestigious art award
Read More‘Reimagine the world’: New trail of globe sculptures in Hackney puts racial injustice under the spotlight
Arts and education combine for a project designed to develop our understanding of the slave trade
Read More‘They are so beautiful’: Delight in Hackney as two sculptures are unveiled outside the Town Hall to mark Windrush Day
Thomas J Price says his nine-foot-tall figures of a Black woman and a Black man are a ‘celebration of the Windrush generation’
Read MoreArtist Thomas J Price prepares to unveil Hackney sculpture that ‘celebrates positive contribution of the Windrush Generation’
Price is installing two bronze figures outside Hackney Town Hall – ready for a big reveal on Windrush Day next week
Read MoreWindrush Generation public artworks shortlisted for Turner Prize
Artist Veronica Ryan’s sculptures were inspired by her childhood trips to Ridley Road Market
Read More‘Let us help you’: Windrush campaigners urge people to come forward for free support – even if they don’t want to claim compensation
A group of organisations are offering mental health support as well as free legal advice if needed
Read MoreCllr Sade Etti: ‘We must come together to send the clear message that Hackney is no place for hate’
The borough’s No Place for Hate champion encourages ‘inclusivity and respect’ ahead of National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2021
Read MoreUK’s first permanent public artworks celebrating the Windrush Generation unveiled in Hackney
Veronica Ryan’s sculptures of custard apple, breadfruit and soursop can be found on the Narrow Way
Read MoreHackney charity launches free legal service to help Windrush victims win compensation
The Claudia Jones Organisation teams up with universities, lawyers and community groups to set up Windrush Justice Clinic
Read MoreEducation boss ‘very proud’ as council unveils Black curriculum
Nine-week lesson plan on Black British history, including Windrush, drawn up with help of local teachers for Early Years through to GCSEs
Read MoreSmall Island, National Theatre Live on YouTube, stage review: ‘This story has never felt more relevant’
Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel exposes wounds inflicted by racism in Britain which have been left to fester
Read MoreHackney Council announces two public artworks to honour the Windrush Generation
Sculptures by Veronica Ryan and Thomas J Price will be the first permanent monuments in the UK to celebrate Windrush when they are unveiled next year
Read MorePublic Windrush artwork set to be revealed as Town Hall’s annual festival gets underway online
Winning sculpture, which will be the first permanent monument to the Windrush Generation in the UK, to be announced on Windrush Day on Monday
Read MoreTamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘The racist legacies of the past are woven into the fabric of our present’
The local writer on what is needed for meaningful change in Britain – a ‘wholesale shift in an economic system built on the enslavement and sale of human beings’
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