We are celebrating Windrush Day Tuesday, 22 June. Our main project is an exhibition, with a compendium of sub projects linking to a Grand Finale’ involving outreach schools, colleges, churches, organisations and community centres involving art, education seminars, song, dance and film.
Our young people making flags and Afro Caribbean art.
Our Windrush exhibition has been running for three month and our finale’ day was a great success, our doors were open from 4 -7pm and we had a steady stream of visitors.
We had some great artists throughout, along with decorations and art produced by young people from our area, food was supplied and it was a great chance not only to inform about the Windrush story but to also mix and make connections with other people in our community.
Some of our patrons were presented with framed awards from the founder of our charity Mr Charlie Barrett. Our Bolton Lady Mayoress Linda Thomas also enjoyed the celebrations.
Charlie, himself from Caribbean descent made some speeches throughout the evening and is extremely proud of his heritage.
We had a special event at The New Testament Church of God, where we supplied food, entertainment, choir and decorations. We had speeches from those with first hand experience of Windrush. It was great to have a diverse interaction, we intend to make this an annual event, please see the video.