National Windrush Day 2022 in Hackney: Thomas J Price's Hackney Windrush Art Commission launch, community celebration and solidarity.
A new public sculpture honouring the Windrush Generations.
For the Hackney Windrush Public Programme we partnered with Prison Radio Association, to bring you another iteration of Windrush Stories!
“What will you do for Windrush?” to celebrate and support the Windrush generation and their historical and far-reaching legacy.
We are delighted to see Veronica Ryan OBE be nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize.
This year Hackney Council are asking community groups and organisations in Hackney ‘what will you do for Windrush?’
Each week we will be spotlighting one of the amazing participants who got involved in Thomas J Price's scanning process.
LAUNCHED THIS MONTH: Hackney Museum has recovered lost files, that document and celebrate Hackney's vibrant Caribbean community
"With the artist, museum curators and art historians we talk about issues of invisibility, belonging and identity."
Artists Thomas J Price and Veronica Ryan were commissioned to create two new public artworks honouring Hackney’s Windrush Generation
If you are eligible for the Windrush Compensation Scheme, we need to hear from you urgently
Watch here, the moment Veronica Ryan's sculptures were unveiled before the local community!
'Being African in Hackney', a film with poet, Theresa Lola
The Hackney Windrush19 Group are donating 3 of their keepsakeWindrush 2021 calendars to the Hackney community.
"My inspiration was the experience of Windrush. A lived experience of my brothers and sisters who came generations before me"- Emily Lewis
"As a wordsmith I feel a big responsibility to reframe the narrative around my heritage"- Sheba Montserrat
Uprising Community Club provides friendship and a range of activities to promote inclusion and community awareness for senior citizens.
As part of the wider engagement programme, tea towels designed by designer Martine Rose will be distributed to Windrush descendants
This Windrush day sees the unveiling of Halina Edwards’ textile artwork outside Vogue Fabrics in Dalston.
Information on the compensation scheme and additional support for those affected by the Windrush scandal
Community Club, Friends of Woodberry Down have just launched their Windrush booklet - A Special Collection of Poetry, Life Stories and Art
"A small poem that delivers a large message. Small Island highlights outdated and old fashioned ways of thinking" - Amanda E Inniss
In conversation with Halina Edwards
"Are we a welcome visitor or an invader is my answer to the treatment of the Windrush generation"- Sonia Cummings
