Bristol Commemorating Slavery
& Celebrating Cultural Diversity
Draft 2007 calendar of events
| Date |
Project |
Lead Agency |
2007 Theme |
BCC Corporate Strategic Aims |
| January |
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| Great Reading Adventure Adults: Small Island by Andrea Levy Young People: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Oloudah Equiano |
Bristol Cultural Development Partnership (BCDP) & BCC Libraries |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education amd skills for young people |
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| Many Rivers to Cross – Caribbean elders drama |
BCC Arts/ Community Development & Malcolm X Elders |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education for young people Health & Well Being |
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| Caribbean weekend of films, concerts, book talks |
BCC St Georges Brandon Hill BBC |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| Bristol’s People: Diversity – yearlong ongoing programme of community history projects to collect stories and objects for content in the new Museum of Bristol’s gallery of stories about Bristol’s diverse communities - opening in 2008/9 Reinterpreting the past and present: ongoing long term programme to update interpretation in the Museums Service’s galleries, to reflect contemporary perspectives upon diversity and acknowledge links to the slave trade where appropriate |
BCC Museums (Museum of Bristol) BCC Museums |
Culture Education Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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| Ghana Project Visit (linked to exhibition from April to June) Young people visit West African slave heritage sites to learn about the past and explore the present day legacy in Africa and in Bristol. They also learn about West African culture. |
BCC Museums (Museum of Bristol) Grass Roots 2000 Pax Productions |
Culture Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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| 26 |
Holocaust
Memorial Day |
BCC Equalities Unit |
Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people |
| 15 |
World Religion Day |
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| February (LGB History Month) |
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| Digital Stories: Launch and screening of contemporary perspectives on Bristol’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, including its impact and legacy – stories made by young and elder members of the African Caribbean community |
BCC Museums (Museum of Bristol) and Watershed |
Education |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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| Slavery Exhibition Launch with Black history talks |
British Empire & Commonwealth Museum |
Culture Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people Health & WB |
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| March (Women’s History Month) |
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| City Museum exhibition programme with guest curators at Queen’s Road & Custom House |
BCC Museums |
Culture Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people Health & WB |
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| World Book Day |
BCC Libraries |
Education |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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| 8 |
International Women’s Day focus on women abolitionists |
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| April |
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| Non-conformist churches events: tercentenary of birth of Charles Wesley, bicentenary of the death of John Newton |
Methodists Quakers |
Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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| Ghana Project exhibition and programme of events at the City Museum & other sites (April to June inclusive) - Young people’s co-curated exhibition about their visit to Ghana, with associated screenings of video diaries, programme of talks, and African/ African Caribbean cultural events |
BCC Museums (Museum of Bristol) |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education and skills for young people |
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| 7 |
World Health Day – focus on Sickle Cell Anaemia & Diabetes |
Bristol NHS |
Education |
Health & WB |
| May |
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| Pero: Enslaved African in Georgian Bristol - Living History interpretation of the story of Pero, servant to John Pinney, a plantation owner – at the Georgian House Museum Launch of contemporary art installations at the Georgian House Museum exploring 2007 themes, and extended displays of the Pinney family’s slaving activities on Nevis. |
BCC Museums BCC Museums |
Culture Education |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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| Catch
A Fire |
Arnolfini
& |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| 31 |
World No Tobacco Day |
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| June |
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| Bristol Bus Boycott commemoration cricket match - Bristol West Indians V Sikhs |
BCC Sports |
Commemoration Culture |
Health & WB |
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| 18 – 24 |
Refugee Week – celebrating diversity through music and arts |
BCC Refugee Support |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education for young people Health & WB |
| Bera, |
BCC Twinning |
Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people |
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Porgy & Bess Musical in Queen Square |
BCC Arts |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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Amistad Play in Queen Square |
Pax Productions |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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Architecture Week |
Architecture Centre |
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| July |
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| Ashton Court Festival Diversity Stage, sponsored by Colston Hall |
Ashton Court Festival & BCC Colston Hall |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| St Pauls Carnival (relaunch as a citywide event) |
Carnival Committee |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| Harbour Festival Cultural diversity theme – music, dance, twinning stage (Amistad slave ship replica as centre of maritime festival) |
BCC Events |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| August |
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| Emancipation Day celebrations (including Jamaican independence Day) |
Emancipation Day co-ordinator BCC Young People’s Services |
Culture Commemoration |
Learning – improving education Health & WB |
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| Black Community Memories Project – Launch of oral history recordings collected through community partnership project with the Black African Families Association in Bristol |
BCC Museums (Museum of Bristol) & BAFA |
Culture Education |
Learning – improving education Health and WB |
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| 12 |
International Youth Day |
BCC Young Peoples Services |
Culture |
Health & WB |
| September |
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| Bristol Jazz, Blues & Gospel Festival – multi venue with diversity as the them |
BCC Colston Hall |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| Bristol Half Marathon Strong African contingent of runners |
BCC Events/ Sports |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| Door Open Day |
Architecture Centre |
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| October (Black History Month) |
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| Launch of Bristol Black Archive & Exhibition & Book |
BCC Record Office |
Culture Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education Health & WB |
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| African American quilts exhibition and schools project |
BCC Arts |
Education |
Learning – improving education |
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| Audio Slave Trade Trail – Launch of an updated trail around the City Centre, that utilises digital technologies to provide a multisensory approach to learning about the legacies in the landscape of the city’s involvement in the slave trade. |
BCC Museums (Museum of Bristol) |
Culture Education Commemoration |
Learning – improving education Health & WB |
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| Kick Racism Out of Football week |
BCC Sports Bristol Rovers FC Bristol City FC |
Culture Education |
Learning – improving education Health & WB |
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| Black History talks at John Wesley’s Chapel |
BCC Museums/ Libraries |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education Health & WB |
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| November |
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| Young Musicians Showcase |
BCC Arts & Studio 7 |
Culture |
Health & WB |
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| Launch of Creative Education Trust |
BCC and partners |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education for young people Health & WB |
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| Fairtrade week “From slave trade to fair trade” |
Fairtrade Foundation |
Education |
Learning – improving education Balanced & Sustainable Communities A thriving economy |
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| Remembrance Sunday Soldiers of the Commonwealth |
British empire & Commonwealth Museum |
Commemoration Education |
Learning – improving education |
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| 16 |
World Food Day African and African Caribbean food stalls |
BCC St Nicholas Market |
Culture |
Health & WB |
| December |
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| 1 |
World Aids Day |
Bristol NHS |
Education |
Health & WB |
| 2 |
Abolition of Slavery Day Ceremony at Scipio Africanus’ grave at Henbury Church |
BCC Equalities |
Commemoration |
Learning – improving education for young people |
| 10 |
Human Rights Day |
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| Citywide ‘One world, One Bristol’ celebration and launch of sustainable future programme |
BCC |
Education Culture |
Learning – improving education for young people Health & WB |
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