Roots to Reckoning - Photographic Exhibition

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This is where I'll be this weekend - I hope many of you can go along as well. As a boy growing up in a Jamaican house in NW London during the 70s and 80s, I'm hoping to be reminded of them days (apart from the lick mi fader gi mi wid im belt!).

These are the kind of things we must take out youths to to see what where our parents came from and how it all began.

Despite the intense competition from American Cultural Imperialism, we Afro-Carribbeans Brits have our own story to tell, and it mustn't ever be forgotten... It's our duty to keep those memories alive...

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Photographs by Jamaican-born Londoners, Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock and Charlie Phillips, bear witness to the story of London's black communities from the 1960s to today.

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOL...ing/roots1.htm

A free exhibition of over 100 images captures a period of profound change as a new generation explored their identity as black Londoners.

See iconic events, from Black Panther demonstrations to Bob Marley's visits to Britain. Admire portraits of international stars, such as Muhammad Ali and Peter Tosh, alongside scenes of everyday life in London, from the streets of Brixton to the pubs of Notting Hill.

Exhibition events
Please pre-book these events by calling the box office on 0870 444 3850.

Free events
Mixing London
Join this fun art workshop and help create a large collage about London from the 1960s to today.
Sunday 9 October, 12.30pm-2pm & 2.30-4pm

In conversation
The photographers Armet Francis, Neil Kenlock or Charlie Phillips, in conversation with Mike Phillips
Wednesday 19 October, 7.30pm

Festival on film
Explore issues of politics, community relations and civil rights with a day of films and talks focusing on the Notting Hill carnival.
Sunday 20 November, 1pm-5.30pm
In conjunction with 100 Black Men

Preserving historic photographs
Learn about the work of the Museum’s conservators caring for a large and varied collection of historic photographs.
Wednesday 9 November and 22 February, 3pm

Free lunchtime talks
Politics in black London
Dr Hakim Adi, author and lecturer, Middlesex University, explores political issues affecting black communities in London.
Friday 7 October, 1.10pm

Re-imagining black London
Photographer, writer and lecturer David A Bailey talks about black photography in London. David curated the 2005 exhibition Back to Black at the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Friday 9 December, 1.10pm

Evening talk £5/3
Black Gold of the Sun
Ekow Eshun, director of the ICA and author of the autobiographical Black Gold of the Sun, on growing up as a black boy in 1970s London.
Thursday 17 November, 6.30pm

Gallery tours
Armet Francis
Saturday 19 November 2.30pm

Charlie Phillips
Saturday 14 January 2.30pm

Neil Kenlock
Saturday 18 February 2.30pm

Mike Seaborne, exhibition curator
Thursday 20 October, 2.30pm
Tuesday 31 January, 2.30pm

Special group tours can be arranged for 6-12 people