We welcomed school children from the local area into the institute today!

Ashmount Primary School enthusiastically participated in the first of two outreach schools events planned by the GPI and New Beacon Books.

We are celebrating the win of a £10,000 grant from the Nisa chain of grocery stores under its registered charity Making a Difference Locally (MADL). Sharmilla Beezmohun, one of the GPI's trustees, is the one we thank for this slice of success as she fortuitously noticed the call for applications from local charity/community bodies. MADL marked its 10th anniversary by donating £10,000 each to 10 organizations and Sharmilla completed a winning application on our behalf!  

We have been collaborating periodically with the group Everyday Muslim (EM) for over a year as part of their project The Heritage Story of Black British Muslims in London.The project is almost at its end and the GPI is pleased to have been able to assist with training volunteers from EM in archiving, through workshops led by our archivist Sarah Garrod.What is exciting and gratifying for us at the GPI is the group's decision to deposit the completed material here at the institute.

The GPI's final pop up collaboration for August took place on Thursday 23 when we joined with One Voice Community in west London for an evening of art, discussion and film around the theme of carnival.

The George Padmore Institute in collaboration with One Voice Community presents an evening of banner-making, film and music celebrating carnival. In addition to screenings of films from Brasil, Trinidad and Tobago and the UK, there will be a panel discussion featuring carnivalists and historians and a pop-up GPI archive of vintage carnival material.

The GPI has been busily collaborating with various organizations in recent weeks as part of its continued effort at outreach initiatives.

In July as part of our Citizens of a Common Future programme and in collaboration with Speaking Volumes, the GPI hosted the writer Anthony Joseph in conversation with Nicole-Rachelle Moore our part-time Administrator (see our Events page). The 'London is the Place for Me' event was very well attended and warmly received with much interest in Joseph's fictional biography on the calypsonian Lord Kitchener.