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1000 Londoners: Windrush Generation

Name: 1000 Londoners: Windrush Generation
Start: 2019-06-26T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-06-26T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Birkbeck Cinema

26 June 2019 6:00 pm

Free

West Indian immigrants arriving at Victoria Station, London. Picture Post, ‘Thirty Thousand Colour Problems’, 1956 (© Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images Hulton Archive)

Cinema, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London

Discover the lives of five generations of Londoners with Caribbean Heritage in this series of award winning short film portraits

Birkbeck is delighted to host a screening of 1000 Londoners: Windrush Generations, part of an award winning series of documentary portraits of Londoners from Chocolate Films. This screening accompanies the Peltz gallery’s current exhibition Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post, 1938-1956 (the Peltz Gallery, 3 June-4 July)

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Details

Date: 26 June 2019
Time:
6:00 pm
Cost: Free
Event Categories: Artforms, Film, Film screenings, What’s On
Website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=6308

Venue

Birkbeck Cinema
43 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD United Kingdom + Google Map