Come and join us for an exciting multimedia performance by poet Jay Bernard of her work 'Surge' on Monday 4 December. We shall also be raising funds for the work of the GPI.
'Surge' revisits the case of the 1981 New Cross Massacre in which thirteen young black people were killed in a house fire. Using archive film, audio, video and her own unique voice, Bernard asks what can be learned from the New Cross case and the subsequent activism it motivated during this current age of Brexit, the Grenfell fire tragedy, the startling revival of far right extremism and Trump.
The GPI invites you to a public reading and discussion with the actor and author Allister Bain (Parrain Thorance) to launch his new memoir The French Cashew Tree.
Starting with his early years growing up in Grenada, The French Cashew Tree tells of how young Parrain observed the world sitting under his favourite cashew tree and skilfuly depicts Bain's culture, environment and the people who shaped his life.
The George Padmore Institute has received the sad news of the passing of Albertina “Tina” Sylvester (86 yrs) in Grenada a few days ago. Tina Sylvester was a leader, activist and warrior for social justice and education of children in Britain with the Black Parents Movement (BPM), George Padmore and Albertina Sylvester Supplementary Schools and the Lion Youth Carnival Band.
The George Padmore Institute is pleased to present a public reading and discussion to mark the launch of a new poetry collection Without Passport or Apology by Ishaq Imruh Bakari.
28 September 2017, 7.00pm at the George Padmore Institute.
