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Film Screening by GPI Generation. Fee £3

The True Reggae Story

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When Jun 24, 2009 07:00 PM to
Jul 01, 2009 09:00 PM
Where George Padmore Institute, 76 Stroud Green Road, London N4 3EN, UK
Contact Name Ayisha de Lanerolle
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Contact Phone 020 7281 4662
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GPI Generation is a new group at the GPI encouraging participation from young people in the activities of the Institute. In 2007 GPI Generation showed the film Dream to Change the World to a group of young people and held a discussion about their responses to John La Rose's legacy and their own lives and work.  Since then they have held a number of discussion meetings and accomplished a video of Irma La Rose speaking of her early life in Trinidad and Venezuela.

 

Today the group are screening The True Reggae Story a Nu-Beyond summer school project that involved six young women and four young men aged between 15 and 17.  In 2006, these young people interviewed 32 artist/dee jays for a study of Reggae Dancehall Culture during the 1970s and 1980s in London.  Most of the interviewees were artists who had operated Reggae Sound Systems during those two decades.

 

The film will be followed by a discussion with participation from Lez Henry, the director of the project, some of the young people who took part in the making of the film, and members of GPI Generation, many of whom are involved in the music business..