This tin of coffee was a gift from Ethiopia to Great Yarmouth

Whilst doing the Big Draw workshops over the weekend at the Time and Tide museum on saturday this exhibit caught my eye. The inscription reads:

"This tin of coffee was a gift from Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, on 31st January 1953. It was one of a batch distrubuted to victims of the East Coast Floods."

As today is the 31st is the last day of Black History month this year it's apt to include it.

Hidden Heritage

On monday afternoon attended another talk by Richard Maguire
at Great Yarmouth libary. Very interesting yet again.
Got some better pics and sound for the Black History film.

Lack of tourist information part 1

The Tourist Information point on Great Yarmouth seafront on an october evening

All seems well until you look closley

Lack of tourist information part 2

On closer inspection

Nzinga Dance

Nzinga Dance play at the Great Yarmouth finale of Black History Month.
One of the many performers attending.

Two hundred years on

Least we forget.

Big Draw

These are not jam tarts but as enjoyable never the less.
Another view of the ARC Big Draw workshops at the Time and Tide museum at Great Yarmouth

fish out of water

Just Another Urban Phobia

Big Draw

Alternative celebrity sunrise over the sea.
(aftermath of the paper making workshop)

I'm among artists participating in the Big Draw event at the Time and Tide Museum. The work is under the theme of a "Tide Line" which I am turning into a short film piece.

When Ven diagrams collide.

The impact of out of town supermarkets on inner town supermarkets.

Great Yarmouth harbours a secret about the slave trade

Yarmouth harbour

As part of the filming of the events of Black History Month I recorded Dr Richard Maguire excellent talk at the Time and Tide museum. One thing that really struck home to me was although the ports of the west of the country such as Liverpool and Bristol involvement with the slave trade are well documented. The eastern ports such as Yarmouth and Kings Lynn were also involved in the early period of the trade.

So indeed Slave ships in Great Yarmouth did exist.

Prehaps that should be remembered at the next years Yarmouth Maritime festival?

Peter Greenaway

"Here's a real provocation: [US video artist] Bill Viola is worth 10 Martin Scorseses. Scorsese is old-fashioned and is making the same films that [the pioneering director] DW Griffiths was making early last century,"

Peter Greenaway at Korea's Pusan film festival.

Black History Month 2007

We're one week into Black History Month. Pictured above is the The Open Trade Network's popular African Market is in Great Yarmouth for the day. Black History Month is a celebration of the input of world culture in what makes us all who we are.
Myself and Rupert Mallin are going to document this through making a poetry film
of the activities in Great Yarmouth.

Levitation, levitation, levitation...

Raj proves he's on the up.

A view from a flatlandscape

www.flatlandscape.blogspot.com is an ongoing project

that I have put into the 2007 Norwich Fringe festival.

A search for the alternative canvas that otherwise might get missed.