Black Cultural Archives (BCA) has introduced its new exhibition known as HOME: Remembering the Windrush Generation, which is able to launch on Windrush Day, June 22.
The exhibition is at BCA’s dwelling 1 Windrush Square in Brixton and can take guests on a nostalgic intimate look contained in the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties properties of the Windrush technology.
It contains a recreation of the long-lasting and conventional Caribbean entrance room, kitchen and bed room, showcasing many household favourites, such because the Blue Spot Gramophone to the eclectic ornaments displayed in glass cupboards.
The significance of launching the exhibition on Windrush Day is that it marks the anniversary of the embarking of passengers from the MV Empire Windrush on the Port of Tilbury on June 22, 1948, following an invite from the British authorities to women and men from completely different Caribbean islands to come back to the UK to assist rebuild Britain after the Second World War.
The within most of the properties of these women and men, as they made their new dwelling in Britain, would have mirrored the décor showcased within the exhibition.
This culturally vital very British presentation, which is able to run till the September 10, is created by Tony Fairweather.
Mr Fairweather is the founding father of the Windrush Collection, a touring exhibition of artefacts related to the Windrush technology.
He can also be the creator of Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings – A Windrush Story, which chronicles the poignant heart-warming story of the folks behind the Windrush scandal.
Mr Fairweather stated: “This exhibition was inspired by wanting to continue the legacy of our elders.
“This was an ideal opportunity to showcase the Caribbean lifestyle of the 1950s and 1960s, when Brixton was the hub of Caribbean life, so BCA with the Windrush Collection will be celebrating the home life of our pioneers in Windrush month.”
“This long overdue exhibition will show everyone where the grounding for Black Lives Matter (BLM) arose from and how this generation are now benefitting from the pioneering work of their grandparents who without knowing it were the first BLM.
“They saw ‘NO BLACKS , NO IRISH, NO DOGS’ signs outside houses.
“They were invited over to England to feel and see blatant racism.
“They have now opened the door for young people today to have a voice.”
Pictured: A recreated conventional Caribbean entrance room Picture: Sharon Wallace
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