Post by Alison Birtwell on Sept 27, 2004 12:00:56 GMT -5
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2004 IN CAMDEN
October sees the arrival of Black History Month 2004 and Camden is celebrating with a varied 6-week programme of exciting events across the Borough. Black History Month is an annual celebration of the Black African and Caribbean community’s achievements, successes, histories and contribution to British life.
This year Camden’s Black History Month Forum has joined with b3 media to produce Black Futures, a festival of films that tell engaging and inspiring stories of everyday people from the UK, US and South Africa. Away from the big screen, Camden Libraries is presenting Sharing Our Stories, a programme of events for everyone. A number of community groups are also playing a key role in Black History Month by putting on Celebrating Black History, a wide-ranging selection of events and arts activities, funded through Camden’s small grants.
For further information & a full programme of events see: www.camden.gov.uk
Highlights include:
Everyday People
USA/ 2004; 91 mins – UK Premiere
Dir. Jim McKay
10 October, 4pm
Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6
020 7328 1000 (Box Office)
£7 (£6 concessions)
Screening includes a Q & A with Nelson George, leading cultural critic and writer.
The closing of a local diner in a Brooklyn neighbourhood concerns a number of employees who’ve dedicated their lives to the eatery. The owner of a long established diner in a changing Brooklyn neighborhood bows to economic pressures and decides to close his restaurant, selling the location to an aggressive developer. It is a typical story in so many increasingly gentrified American cities.
Bullet Boy
UK/ 2004; 90 mins
Dir. Saul Dibb
4 November 8.55pm
Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6
020 7328 1000 (Box Office)
£7 (£6 concessions)
Bullet Boy is the story of two brothers, 12-year-old Curtis and 18-year-old Ricky. Fresh out of youth custody, Ricky (Ashley Walters) is trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but on returning home finds himself caught in a street clash. What begins as a minor confrontation quickly escalates into a series of retaliations that spiral out of control with devastating consequences. As Ricky sacrifices family and a new start in the name of loyalty, it seems only a matter of time before naïve Curtis (Luke Fraser) – in thrall to the allure of his older brother – will be drawn into the cycle of violence. All it takes is one person with courage to break a fatal chain of events.
Let’s celebrate!
1 October, 7.30 – 9.30pm
Swiss Cottage Central Library, 88 Avenue Road NW3
020 7974 6522
Places are limited. Please come early to avoid disappointment.
The launch of Black History Month in Camden Libraries. The celebration will include performances by the acclaimed Somali singer, Fatima Qaasin Hilowle, musician Keith Waithe and poet Lemn Sissay. David Lammy MP has kindly agreed to launch the proceedings.
Normski in NW1
Chalk Farm Library, Sharpleshall Street NW1
020 7974 6526
1 – 30 October: Monday 10am – 7pm, Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 5pm
There will be an opportunity to meet Norman Anderson and view the exhibition on Monday 25 October from 7.30pm with a performance by the Camden Gospel Choir.
Places are limited. Please come early to avoid disappointment.
Norman Anderson, aka Normski, spent most of his childhood growing up in Auden Place in Primrose Hill. He started taking photographs at the age of 12 after doing a four-week course at the Beehive Centre in Gloucester Avenue. He continued to work as a freelance photographer for most of the 80s, specialising in music for magazines and record companies, until he got a break in television as one of the leading youth presenters of the 90s. The photographs present a personal perspective of friends, landscapes, people and places in and around the Camden area.
Black British Actors Speak
30 October, 7.30pm
Swiss Cottage Central Library, Sharpleshall Street NW1,020 7974 6526
Places are limited. Please come early to avoid disappointment.
To bring Camden Libraries’ Black History Month 2004 celebration to a close, join us for an evening of debate, poetry and jazz. Poet and performer Jean Binta Breeze will launch the proceedings, followed by a guest panel discussion on what it means to be a black actor in a predominantly white industry, featuring Allister Bain, Marsha Miller, Geoff Burton, and Della McKenzie. To round off the evening, mellow jazz songstress Claudina Edwards will offer us a mix of moody and celebratory cabaret.
October sees the arrival of Black History Month 2004 and Camden is celebrating with a varied 6-week programme of exciting events across the Borough. Black History Month is an annual celebration of the Black African and Caribbean community’s achievements, successes, histories and contribution to British life.
This year Camden’s Black History Month Forum has joined with b3 media to produce Black Futures, a festival of films that tell engaging and inspiring stories of everyday people from the UK, US and South Africa. Away from the big screen, Camden Libraries is presenting Sharing Our Stories, a programme of events for everyone. A number of community groups are also playing a key role in Black History Month by putting on Celebrating Black History, a wide-ranging selection of events and arts activities, funded through Camden’s small grants.
For further information & a full programme of events see: www.camden.gov.uk
Highlights include:
Everyday People
USA/ 2004; 91 mins – UK Premiere
Dir. Jim McKay
10 October, 4pm
Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6
020 7328 1000 (Box Office)
£7 (£6 concessions)
Screening includes a Q & A with Nelson George, leading cultural critic and writer.
The closing of a local diner in a Brooklyn neighbourhood concerns a number of employees who’ve dedicated their lives to the eatery. The owner of a long established diner in a changing Brooklyn neighborhood bows to economic pressures and decides to close his restaurant, selling the location to an aggressive developer. It is a typical story in so many increasingly gentrified American cities.
Bullet Boy
UK/ 2004; 90 mins
Dir. Saul Dibb
4 November 8.55pm
Tricycle Cinema, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6
020 7328 1000 (Box Office)
£7 (£6 concessions)
Bullet Boy is the story of two brothers, 12-year-old Curtis and 18-year-old Ricky. Fresh out of youth custody, Ricky (Ashley Walters) is trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but on returning home finds himself caught in a street clash. What begins as a minor confrontation quickly escalates into a series of retaliations that spiral out of control with devastating consequences. As Ricky sacrifices family and a new start in the name of loyalty, it seems only a matter of time before naïve Curtis (Luke Fraser) – in thrall to the allure of his older brother – will be drawn into the cycle of violence. All it takes is one person with courage to break a fatal chain of events.
Let’s celebrate!
1 October, 7.30 – 9.30pm
Swiss Cottage Central Library, 88 Avenue Road NW3
020 7974 6522
Places are limited. Please come early to avoid disappointment.
The launch of Black History Month in Camden Libraries. The celebration will include performances by the acclaimed Somali singer, Fatima Qaasin Hilowle, musician Keith Waithe and poet Lemn Sissay. David Lammy MP has kindly agreed to launch the proceedings.
Normski in NW1
Chalk Farm Library, Sharpleshall Street NW1
020 7974 6526
1 – 30 October: Monday 10am – 7pm, Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 5pm
There will be an opportunity to meet Norman Anderson and view the exhibition on Monday 25 October from 7.30pm with a performance by the Camden Gospel Choir.
Places are limited. Please come early to avoid disappointment.
Norman Anderson, aka Normski, spent most of his childhood growing up in Auden Place in Primrose Hill. He started taking photographs at the age of 12 after doing a four-week course at the Beehive Centre in Gloucester Avenue. He continued to work as a freelance photographer for most of the 80s, specialising in music for magazines and record companies, until he got a break in television as one of the leading youth presenters of the 90s. The photographs present a personal perspective of friends, landscapes, people and places in and around the Camden area.
Black British Actors Speak
30 October, 7.30pm
Swiss Cottage Central Library, Sharpleshall Street NW1,020 7974 6526
Places are limited. Please come early to avoid disappointment.
To bring Camden Libraries’ Black History Month 2004 celebration to a close, join us for an evening of debate, poetry and jazz. Poet and performer Jean Binta Breeze will launch the proceedings, followed by a guest panel discussion on what it means to be a black actor in a predominantly white industry, featuring Allister Bain, Marsha Miller, Geoff Burton, and Della McKenzie. To round off the evening, mellow jazz songstress Claudina Edwards will offer us a mix of moody and celebratory cabaret.