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“The videos… [help] me imagine experience[s] more firsthand as I can visually see their emotions” – Kenzi In 2021 the Schools History Project brought together a group of teachers to work with Sweet Patootee Arts to create lessons linked to their TURNING POINT project. We were invited to be part of the project because...
read morein quick succession we’re delighted to welcome another brilliant addition to Sweet Patootee Arts’ team. Our new Digital Marketing Officer is Leo Shire. Congratulations Leo. And congratulations Sweet Patootee Arts, because we have added quality to our team once again – and we know it. Leo you’ve only been in the job 1 week, and...
read moreAbigail Kelly and members of TURNING POINT’s Caribbean Folk Singing workshop delivered a stunning debut performance at MAC Birmingham. Thank you Abigail and singers for the dedication and love you’ve poured into making your first public sharing so wonderful. Coming soon to Sweet Patootee Arts’ website: our video of this performance and a free-to-download booklet...
read moreMeanwhile… Sweet Patootee Arts’ co-Creative Director Tony T, has been freelancing as Research and Engagement Lead for the groundbreaking Black History project Communities of Liberation – at Tower Hamlets Archives. This work has reached its half-way point, and it’s on track! The project’s (truly) brilliant co-Producers, all of them Tower Hamlets residents, have been developing...
read moreThis is an early bird call to teaching and learning in schools, outside the classroom, and teacher development networks… The History teachers of Sweet Patootee Arts’ Schools Working Group, are now ready to roll out their new original enquiries for the UK History curriculum. inspired by TURNING POINT’s Black heritage storytelling (set in 1920s Barbados...
read moreCalling TURNING POINT’s wonderful project partners, stakeholders, and workshop participants. My colleague Rebecca Goldstone, our board, volunteers, yours truly… we’re all over the moon to welcome a new member to the Sweet Patootee Arts team. Our new Project & Partnerships Coordinator for TURNING POINT’s Black heritage programme is Bimpe Adeyemi. Congratulations Bimpe. And congratulations Sweet...
read moreWe were in the room for the first of Abigail Kelly’s (free) Caribbean folk singing workshops this August – it was amazing. Thank you to the wonderful volunteer singers who have signed up to take part in these sessions. You were/ are stunning. And thank you again, Abigail! Please note: recruitment for these workshops is...
read moreSince 2022, a team of UK dementia support practitioners has been forming through work with Sweet Patootee Arts as TURNING POINT’s Dementia Support working group: using our storytelling as inspiration they are devising (culturally relevant) resources and activities, for their communities and service users. So we come to Birmingham and our newest member. She hates...
read moreCalling TURNING POINT Birmingham’s wonderful participants, audiences, and stakeholders. Coming soon: (Free) Heritage Research Skills workshops, inspired by Sweet Patootee Arts’ storytelling and the “Peaky Blinders” character played by Benjamin Zephaniah – brought to you by our awesome partners, Black Heritage Walks Network (feat’ Prof. Carl Chinn). The workshop with Prof. Carl Chinn is a...
read moreIt’s official. TURNING POINT’s Birmingham partners are awesome! Sweet Patootee Arts’ collaborative model for this project, is delivering a wonderful heritage programme for partner organisations, workshop participants, visitors to our exhibition… With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Onwards and upwards!
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