by Windrush Foundation | Jan 9, 2023 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
War, Windrush & the Beatles Trinidadian Harold Phillips served King & Country during WWII, returned to Britain on Empire Windrush in 1948, and became the first musical mentor of The Beatles during the late 1950s. Join us as we celebrate the man and his...
by Windrush Foundation | Dec 6, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH: A Touring Exhibition Everyone is invited to a unique display of images and texts covering more than 175 years. Come along and share your views. Exhibition Curator: Arthur Torrington When SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2022 } Time 5.00pm – 7:00pm...
by Windrush Foundation | Nov 18, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
An Evening with Nairobi Thompson Nairobi is a performance poet and an all-around talent, performing different styles of poetry from traditional rhyme to colorful patois. Author of the book, Almost British, a historic and autobiographical account of life and work in...
by Windrush Foundation | Oct 21, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
WINDRUSH PIONEER: OSWALD ‘COLUMBUS’ DENNISTON Join us as we celebrate his life and outstanding service to the community. Contributors include Friends & Acquaintances. He left school at 14 to work on a sugar plantation but later trained as a sign-writer and...
by Windrush Foundation | Sep 26, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Windrush Foundation Presents GLENDA CAESAR Glenda arrived with her mother in the UK in 1961 from Dominica ‘as a babe in arms’. She first found out she wasn’t British and could not get a passport after trying to visit her dying mother in the Caribbean in 1998. In 2009,...
by Windrush Foundation | Aug 31, 2022 | News, PREVIOUS EVENTS
Neil Flanigan WWII RAF Veteran Come along and hear him talk about his service to king and country during the war and discuss his contributions to British society. Poetry by Saffron Blue Q&A led by Arthur Torrington When Saturday 10th September 2022 } Time...
Finding Home – A Windrush StoryAlford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire......
WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 28 YEARS ONIn 1995, Samuel Beaver King and Arthur Torrington (co-founders) began work on establishing...
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FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSHMonday to Friday | 10am to 4pm | LEWISHAM COLLEGE, LEWISHAM WAY, LONDON SE4 1UT...
The Windrush LineRecognising the contribution of the Windrush generation, who continue to shape and enrich London’s cultural and social identity today...