VoW Festival 2023
The VoW Festival 2023 celebrates the 75th anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush, a ship which brought 492 passengers from the English-speaking Caribbean to Tilbury on the 22nd June 1948, symbolic of the arrival of Manu ships and planes bringing British subjects from the Caribbean to the UK.
What does it mean to be LGBTQIA in the black community
Kane Jackson and Marcia Willis Stewart, all lawyers, assess whether the accusation of homophobia long levelled at the Black community is justified,
and look at the challenges for Black LGBTQIA, today.
Moderator: Lianne Walters, Lawyer
The role of the Windrush generation in creating economic and social Growth in the Caribbean region.
The role of the Windrush generation in creating economic and social Growth in the Caribbean region Dr Jonathan Thomas, Economist, Dr Godfrey Martin, Statistician and Actuary and Her Excellency Karen Mae Hill, High Commisionar of Antigua and Barbuda to the UK.
Moderator: Creana Dodson, Pupil Barrister
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Enabling Economic and Political Power: Breaking Down the Barriers
Enabling Economic and Political Power: Breaking Down the Barriers
Bell Ribeiro Addy MP, Councillor Carole Williams. Moderator: Sharon Thomas, Founder and Director of the Black Counsel Forum
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Seminar: Windrush Voices - Building an Oral History
Windrush Voices: Building an Oral History Dr Juanita Cox, Oral History expert, Melissa Williams, PhD Student and Her Excelllency Janet Charles, High Commission of Dominica to the UK.
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Panel: Raising the stakes for out Youth - Adultification and Features
Raising the Stakes for the 4th and 5th generation of the Windrush: the challenges of adultification, stereotyping, stop and search, and the quest for attainment with Sarah Burke, Chris Oliver and Jerome Bond of Channels Research.
Moderator: Nath Gbikpi
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“The Lights Shines in the Darkness“: the importance of faith in the Black Community
With Bishop Desmond Jadoo, Reverend Yvonne Clarke CoE Vicar and Jeff Peart, Trustee of 12 Tribes of Israel (UK Chapter)
Creating a National Health Service Fit for All: The Pride of the Windrush Generation
Creating a National Health Service Fit for All: The pride of the Windrush generation Lynette Richards Lorde, Dr Donald Palmer and Rev Charles Morris, Deputy High Commissioner of Barbados. Moderator: Patsy Cummings, Croydon Councillor.
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Panel: Health and Wellness
Health and Well being Intergenerational health challenges through race related stress and health and economic disparities
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‘Barrel Children’ by Nadine White - Screening and Conversation
The screening of journalist and film maker, Nadine White’s debut, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind. Followed by a conversation with Evadney Campbell MBE and Shaun Pascall
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How the Windrush Scandal came to be exposed and its lingering milaise
How the Windrush Scandal came to be exposed and its lingering malaise
With Subira Cameron-Guppy, Windrush Justice Clinic, Anthony Brown, WD Legal, Grace Brown, Lawyer, Garden Court Chambers, Amelia Gentleman, Journalist, The Guardian. Moderator: Glenda Ceaser
Spoken Word
Kane Jackson and Marcia Willis Stewart, all lawyers, assess whether the accusation of homophobia long levelled at the Black community is justified,
and look at the challenges for Black LGBTQIA, today.
Moderator: Lianne Walters, Lawyer
Misclassification of children as Educationally Subnormal
Maisie Barrett, Noel Gorden authors and survivors and Professor Leslie Thomas KC, examine the experiences and evidence of the state’s role in misclassifying some children as educationally subnormal, thereby depriving them of both an education and lifelong opportunities.
Moderator: Akima Paul Lambert – Partner, Hogan Lovells
The Inaugural Windrush Lecture with Martin Forde KC
Martin Forde KC delivers the inaugural Voices of Windrush Lecture: When They Called, We came, But Then… Introduced by Jacqui McKenzie, Partner Leigh Day.
Cultural Evening: Expression of the Windrush through Arts
Artists Zita Holbourne and Antonietta Torsiello showcase their work and explain how art has emerged as a means of both celebration and struggle for the Windrush generation
The Black Civil Rights movement in the UK + Screening of Uprising
The Black civil rights movement in the UK – An analysis of the Struggle and Resistance through the ages. With Cecil Gutzmore, Historian, Ros Griffiths, Community Organiser and Activist and Glenroy watson, Pan Arfikan Trade Unionist.
The Windrush Play
Tony Cealy, Theatre Practioner, produces a show which will create spontaneous,
improvised theatre performances through a unique collaboration between the
audience members and the intergenerational group of Windrush performers.
Fireside Conversations
Four Generations of women of Windrush descendants exchange talked of their experiences, challenges, highlights and lowlights, aspirations for the future of life in the UK amidst anecdotes.
Wreath laying ceremony in partnership with the a Jamaican High Commission
Caribbean High Commissioners to the UK, and other diplomatic staff and dignitaries, will lay flowers and pay tribute to those Caribbean men and women who gave their lives fighting for the UK in WWI and WWII, and in wars since, including the Falklands, Afghanistan and Iraq. Private reception to follow, sponsored by the Voices of Windrush.
Conversation and Calypso: In Conversation with Arthur Torrington CBE
Arthur Torrington CBE, a co-founder and director of the Windrush Foundation, along with Alexander D Great, Calypsonian, will highlight the contributions to the Black community in Britain made by ex-RAF WWII service member, first Black Mayor of the London Borough of Southwark, passenger on board the HMT Windrush, and founder of Windrush Day, Sam King MBE.
Spoken Word Performance and Workshop
Dave Neita - Poet and Playwright, will perform a selection of spoken word before inviting the audience to structure and create their own pieces, to be delivered, using the theme, We Came, We Stayed, We Endeavoured.
Play: Uplift
Uplift – This play on contributions of the Windrush Generation and the Scandal, thrilled audiences when it made its debut in 2022. Dave Neita uses his expert story telling skills to weave history and struggles into a drama with twists, which makes you laugh out loud but angry at the same time. Dave Neita, Poet and Playwright. Followed by a conversation with Cllr Sonia Winifred, Lambeth’s lead on addressing the Windrush Scandal, 2018- 2022.
Rhythm and Sounds
Kwaku, journalist and Black music expert and Sinai Fleary, Journalist, broadcaster and educationalist, will explore the role that music has played inthe struggle for identity in Britain, connecting the Windrush generation to theirhomelands. The panel will play selections of their choices of music.
Is the Windrush Story Distorting the History of Black Settlement in Britain
An Opening Polemic: Is the Windrush Story Distorting the History of Black Settlement in Britain
Professor Gus John in conversation with Yvonne Witter, acting CEO of Operation Black Vote
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All merchecndise is available on the day without the additional charge.