Film Jamaica Season – Smile Orange (12)

Date: 28 March 2008
Venue: Barbican Centre, Silk Street London EC2Y
Time: 18:30
Adm: £8.50 full price / £6 members

Heart throb and hustler Ringo (Carl Bradshaw) is a waiter at a popular beachfront hotel who flirts his way to success with the guests as clueless tourists, and the industry that service them, form the butt of the jokes. A nostalgic treat. 8DS

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Film Jamaica – Season Rockers (15)

Date: 28 March 2008
Time: 20:40
Venue: Barbican Centre, Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS
Adm: £8.50 full price / £6 members


Initially conceived as a documentary, Rockers' reggae interpretation of the Robin Hood myth offers an authentic view of Jamaican society and music industry in its heyday in the late 70s.
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The NOMMO Sessions

Date: Fri 28th March 2008 (and the last Friday of the month thereafter)
Time: 7.00pm-10.30pm
Venue: Trinity Hall,274 High Road Leyton E10 5PW (2 doors from Mama Afrika Kulcha Shap)
Adm: £3

Come and listen to financial expert Sis. Sandra Hurst

Develop strategies for reducing debt and learn about the importance of establishing a residual income!!! Sis. Sandra has a keen and active interest in personal development and this, coupled with her thirst for knowledge and the dissemination of information, has given her a great insight into wealth consciousness and the global economic and monetary system. Her gift is the ability to condense and demystify information so that it can be readily comprehended and used by others to improve the quality of their lives - if they wish. Her quest is now the development of Spiritual Economics.

Tube: Leyton (Central Line)/Bus: 58, 69, 97, 158, W14, W15
Info: 020 8539 2154 / 07957 376 328

"Nommo can be thought, Nommo can be played on an instrument, Nommo can be sung. It is prayer. It is curse. It is incantation! Nommo is a praise song. Nommo is our use of the spiritually activating principle. Nommo is will and intent. Nommo is consciousness."
- Marimba Ani, Let The Circle Be Unbroken



The Sybil Phoenix Story (Loving Hands) / The Getty Archimedes Story

Date: Saturday 29 March 2008
Time: 5-8pm
Venue: Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach
Admission: £8.00

From the 1960's Sybil was a foster parent to hundreds of unwanted children. She raised £64,000, opened and ran Moonshot in New Cross, the first youth club for African children in Britain. When the National Front burned it down in 1977 she rebuilt it within 4 years. She was a leader in the New Cross Fire campaign and the post Brixton negotiations. In the 1980's she set up the Marsha Phoenix trust for homeless young women. She is now 82 and still active in Lewisham. This film by Lucia Tanmbini contains interviews with Sybil, family and friends. The rare footage shows how bad racism was in the 80’s and how much we take for granted now

Getty Archimede, from Guadelope, was the first African woman to become a lawyer in France (1939). She became the first deputy parliamentarian in 1946. She fought tirelessly for women and the poor and even defended Angela Davis
when she was on the run. This historical documentary by Mariette Monpierre will show the similarities and differences between the African women’s fight against racism in France and the UK.


This event is organised by the 100 BMOL and brought to you in association with www.imagesofblackwomen.com .
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1st Annual IEGDC Youth Conference for 2008

Date: Saturday 29th March 2008
Time: 1.30pm
Venue: Green Towers Community Centre (off Plevna Road, N9)

“We want to hear Young Peoples views”
We are giving a voice to young people, showing them that their needs are important. We’d like to put forward suggestions about how local authorities can make services more responsive to what youth want and increase young people’s involvement with decision-making at local level.
Liaison with local youth and the community must be sustained! When dialogue ceases, so does progress. Young people need a continuous commitment to funding local youth services, not just one-off funding approaching an election.

Key issues to be discussed include Youth Violence, Lack of funding (e.g. S106) and Policing (e.g. Stop and Search). Enfield’s key policy makers will be in attendance.

For catering purposes please confirm your attendance by emailing IEGDC@yahoo.co.uk.
(Hot food and drinks will be available)


100BMOL: The Shirley Chisholm Story / Who was Carter G Woodson? / Black Power and the Vietnam War

Date: Sunday 30 March 2008
Time: 1pm-5.30pm
Venue: Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1
Adm: Free entry - First come,first served (please bring a donation)

While the media focus on Barack Obama they forget to mention that the first African person to run for President was Shirley Chisholm in 1972. Chisholm was the Garveyite daughter of Guyanese and Barbadian immigrants. After becoming the first African American Congress woman, she ran for the highest office just 4 years after King was gunned down. Her story is incredible but has been suppressed.This is only the 4th time this film has been screened

The Vietnam war was going on at the same time as the Civil Rights movement. This presentation will look at how the US and French governments were able to get black people to fight in a war for "freedom" when they were seen as less than human in their own countries.
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