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 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. 

Free admission but please book your place in advance - 020 7272 4889 or email newbeaconbooks@btconnect.com.

We will be closing the GPI search room and office from

Friday 4 August and will reopen on Monday 21 August.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused during this period.

If you wish to book research appointments for the week of 21 August, please contact us prior to 4 August.

Thanks.

George Padmore Institute – Press Statement

CITIZENS OF A COMMON FUTURE: FORWARD STEPS FOR THE GEORGE PADMORE INSTITUTE

The Trustees of the George Padmore Institute are delighted to announce that Resilient Heritage funding, made possible by National Lottery players, has been granted for their one-year Citizens of a Common Future project.