Sweet Patootee
Sweet Patootee Arts (SPA) is our new Arts & Heritage organisation, creating historical and contemporary projects rooted in our passion for inclusive storytelling… Our main focus is now helping SPA to make impactful contributions across the arts, heritage, learning and community development sectors – starting with the Bristol Launch of TURNING POINT on 1st Oct…...
read moreSweet Patootee Ltd’s role is now, commercial and non-commercial management of the heritage archive, built from my work with Rebecca Goldstone – this includes our productions, oral testimony interviews, and research materials… (new website coming soon)
read moreCome Join us at Sweet Patootee Arts – take a look at our post for a volunteer fundraiser on the Reach Volunteering site, by clicking here
read moreArsenal Foundation have supported TURNING POINT’s arts and Black heritage-inspired programme with an award from the ‘Gunners Fund’ small grants scheme. We’re so excited by this news. It’s welcome assistance towards more great work with diverse communities across our London borough – Islington. And it’s a wonderful endorsement for the TURNING POINT project as a...
read moreGreetings old and new friends, audiences and collaborators across the Caribbean, USA, and Canada – thank you for your wonderful responses to Black History Month’s Facebook post for MUTINY. It wouldn’t be fair to single out anyone in particular. But I will say this. It really means a lot to us that this work is...
read moreA lot of enquiries recently about our 2005 production “THE FIRST BLACK BRITONS” – yes it’s available on Amazon. Click here to go to the film’s page on this website: We tell the challenging Black history of the West India Regiment 1795 to 1927 – a (regular) British Army regiment created by the purchase of slaves....
read moreHuge thanks to History Dept and awesome Year 9s at Saint Mary Magdalene secondary school in North Greenwich, for the opportunity to come in and do 3 three great workshops with you around your work with our film MUTINY: Black British Caribbean and WW1 Some deep, challenging, funny, philosophical, euphoric exploration of the journey from...
read moreOn 21st October from 6pm, Tony and Dr Kent Fedorowich are giving Zoom presentations for Bristol Museums’ Black History Month programme. Click here for the link to Bristol Museums’ web page about the event: The event will be in two parts… Part one Using Southwest England as a lens, Dr Kent Fedorowich will explore two parallel...
read moreBig shout of thanks to Andrea and colleagues at HMP Bronzefield. Thank you for inviting me to talk about our arts and heritage work. I found the day very rewarding and ‘good challenging’ (so all in all, fantastic CPD). Huge thanks for your enthusiasm and support for our latest programme – we’re really looking forward...
read moreWhilst “TURNING POINT” our new organisation’s first Arts and Heritage programme, grabs the limelight – and rightly so – we’re also hard at work in the background, developing our reliance. This is vital work. So we’re chuffed to announce that Sweet Patootee Arts have been accepted onto the Heritage Compass programme – we’ll benefit from...
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