Jamaica Fi Real!

Jamaica Fi Real! Beautiful; aggressive; exuberant, talkative; humorous; resourceful; unpredictable – Jamaica brings many adjectives to mind, but boring is not one of them. ‘Jamaica Fi Real’ provides an in-depth look at Jamaica’s people, history, music, sports, religion and culture, creating a vivid twenty-first century portrait of perhaps the world’s most fascinating island…

Speaking Out and Standing Firm

Speaking Out and Standing Firm is an exciting and innovative programme developed by Every Generation in partnership with Haringey Library Services. The project facilitated inter-generational workshops where young people from Haringey interviewed war veterans, ex service men and women from World War 2. For more information visit: www.speakandstand.wordpress.com

A Charmed Life in demand

The screening of ‘A Charmed Life’ will be shown in east London next month due to high demand. Following the resounding success of the Young Black People and Resillience Conference which screened a clip of A Charmed Life, interest in the film called for the full screening to be scheduled. The screening will be hosted [...]

The late Cy Grant

Film Producer Patrick Vernon gives a personal account on meeting the late Cy Grant, who was credited for his work as an actor, singer, writer and who served in the Royal Air Force during the 1940s: “It was with deep shock to hear of the death of Cy Grant. I only had the chance to [...]

Generation to Generation – Free Seminar

Patrick Vernon, Director of Afiya Trust will host a free seminar on Generation to Generation: family history, cultural identity and mental well being. Patrick will look at how heritage affects personal identity among Britain’s many diverse communities. Is the UK’s health and social care system equipped to deal with the issues surrounding cultural identity? How [...]

Haiti Relief Fundraiser

The Haiti Relief Fundraiser raised £300 towards the relief effort. The money raised will be shared with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and United Haitians in the UK (UHUK). Guests at the fundraiser included Diane Abbott MP, Judith Craig (UHUK), Patrick Vernon (Cllr), Sen. Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Ngoma (BEMA) and Eileen Busby Keith.

Haiti Disaster Relief: A Fundraiser @ The Rio Cinema 6th February

Please join us for a special screening of A Charmed Life to help raise money for the Haiti Disaster Relief Fund. The documentary will be followed by a discussion with guest speaker Diane Abbott MP on the issues raised and how we can best aid the current situation in Haiti. By joining us you will [...]

Hackney Roots

Hackney Routes is a family history project with the aim to support local people to record and document their ancestors and descendants from African and the Caribbean by exploring the inter connection between Hackney and the international dimension which have shaped family history and cultural identity locally. The project will work with individuals and family [...]

BFI Film Screening

Film screening of Eddie Noble at the British Film Institute with panel guests MP Diane Abbott, Erica Myers-Davis, Patrick Vernon and others.

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