TURNING POINT Watch Party X Community Conversation Dinner

Where are the stories and histories about the Caribbean (pre-Windrush) located within the UK? Where is our starting point, if we wanted to learn more about these histories if we do not have direct ties to the region?

One route is through oral histories.

You are warmly invited to a special screening of TURNING POINT followed by a community conversation to reason on the possibilities of exploring histories connected to Britain in ways more holistic and relevant to people of Black Caribbean and African Diaspora communities. Join us - The GAP and Sweet Patootee Arts - for some delicious Caribbean food, to fuel conversation between generations and cultures.

All ages welcome! This is an inter-generational event.

Free food and drinks.

6pm - Arrival & Welcome

6.15pm - Screening (40 mins)

7pm - Food served. Conversation in small groups (with facilitated prompts)

8pm - Come together, round up and close

8.30pm - End

The event is designed and facilitated by Lisa Kennedy - a writer and researcher, who advocates for the inclusion of wider perspectives within museums and the study of history. Working across museums, galleries and cultural spaces, Lisa’s research interests focus on better understanding the relevance of these spaces to the widest audience possible. Lisa’s practice centres on improving access to history, art, and culture from a socially engaged lens. while exploring accountability models and the role of user research.

You can read some of Lisa's thoughts on her blog, check out inspiring people she's come across on Instagram or see what she's been working on lately.

This workshop is part of a wider events programme surrounding the TURNING POINT exhibition at The GAP. TURNING POINT is a video installation created by Sweet Patootee Arts. Inspired by the oral testimonies of people who lived and worked in the Caribbean in the 1920s, these films combine monologue-style performances, melodrama, comedy, projection, poetry, visual arts, folk songs and 3D sound to convey this momentous moment of history in Britain’s former slave colonies after the First World War - a new era for Black identity and pride.

Host or Publisher The GAP