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THE BEAT GOES ON – WE LOVE FILM & FESTIVAL! + Free workshops
ONLINE FAMILY FESTIVAL, CELEBRATING FILM, STEEL PAN MUSIC, DRUMMING WORKSHOPS, CARNIVAL CULTURE, ORAL HISTORY, HERITAGE.
Entertaining online community celebration of film, music, performance, memories and storytelling on Zoom. Share your memories and pictures of community festivals and carnival, and sign up for some music workshops.
Special invited guests sharing memories of carnival in the UK – from the1950s!
Steel Pan performer Janine Williams
Short film screenings and oral history sharing
Film director Q&A with Gayle Wilmot, Hearts of Steel
Storytelling and poetry with poet Anita Grant
Steel Pan History and Heritage – Felix Joseph
Marlon Hibbert – Endurance Steel Orchestra
Percussion / body drumming workshop
Plus, film & music quiz
FREE WORKSHOPS:
Sing Gospel! workshop: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sing-gospel-tickets-116733307465?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Children’s Drumming Workshop: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beat-it-childrens-drumming-workshop-tickets-117387516221?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Children’s Drumming Workshop: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beat-it-childrens-drumming-workshop-tickets-117387516221?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
This event is part of Film FeelsConnected, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk
The Beat Goes on is also sponsored by Croydon Council Culture Fund.
Coronavirus: as the world pauses to the beat of a deadly virus, we are reviewing our regular programmes and thinking up creative ways of delivering activities safely as lockdown lifts.
Stay safe, look out for one another and stay positive. One Love!
MAKING A SONG & DANCE ABOUT BLACK HERITAGE FILMS
R&V is on the good foot as a supported partner in the BFI’s Musicals season, celebrating musical films across the UK. https://www.bfi.org.uk/musicals
Our programme, Bright & Beautiful: A Black Musical Heritage Review will showcase the films Carmen Jones (1954), Dreamgirls (2006) and Cabin in the Sky (1943), and profiling celebrities of yesteryear: Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Dandridge, and Harry Belafonte.
