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.

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.

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?

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.