60 Years of Carnival: A history of Steel Pan Pioneer, Jit Samaroo.
About this Event
This special African Odysseys event is presented as part of Windrush International Caribbean Film Festival for the 20th anniversary of African Odysseys monthly Black history film series
60 years of Carnival — Steel pan and the Jit Samaroo story Plus Q&A
The official WICFF Film festival continues with the untold story of Trinidadian pan legend Dr Jit Samaroo.
Founder of the Samaroo Jets and the only arranger to win eight National Panorama Large Band titles with BP Renegades, Samaroo is presented not only as a champion arranger, but as a teacher, innovator and global ambassador for the national instrument
“Jit Samaroo’s quiet, humble and virtuosic nature has meant that, while he helped to establish the musical precedent by which modern steelpan now lives, his life and journey is surprisingly unarchived, especially on video,” said director Michael Gibbing
Watch trailer HERE
Plus three short films: Entitled by Adeyemi Michaels , Roots by Don Letts and Pan Gyul by Juliette Jeffers
- 60 years of Black British Civil Rights Professor Gus John
- Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip
- Playing Away by Sir Horace Ove
- Frantz Fanon weekender
- 20 years of African Odysseys: 19,000 people and racism @BFI
- Black Women and Film Exhibition
- Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
- Mayfair, Hackney, Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
- In search of Mami Wata : African Spirituality
- Black Liverpool film and book launch with Professor Stephen Small
- The Price of Memory. Reparations @Bernie Grant Arts centre
- I fought the law and I won, a Black judge of 60 years of Equality legislation @BCA
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 12.00
