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Photographs: Peter Arkell

Photos from the Black People’s Day of Action in 1981.

More of Peter’s images can be viewed here.

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Small crowd in front of burnt building
(P4.1) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Small crowd standing in street
(P4.2) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Young people leaning out of window
(P4.3) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
People standing in the rain with umbrellas
(P4.4) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Scorched building with burnt out windows
(P4.5) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Protest crowd with banners and signs
(P4.6) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Young people leaning out of window
(P4.7) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Protest crowd with banners and signs and umbrellas
(P4.8) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Police on horses in the city centre
(P4.9) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Crowd outside newspaper building
(P4.10) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Large protest crowd with large banner that reads, 'Black People's Day of Action'
(P4.11) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Large protest crowd
(P4.12) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Crowd with signs and banners
(P4.13) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).
Young men standing outside with a sign that reads, 'Leave our Youths Alone'
(P4.14) Images with kind permission and copyright of Peter Arkell (Report Digital).

 

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Pioneers and Protest: No Justice Just Us

A site-specific performance in Fordham Park by the BA students of IRIE! dance theatre.

Created and conceived by BA (Hons) Diverse Dancers – Year 2 students: Laura Bodner, Morgan Charles, Cliodhna Ellin, Adriana Pino, Aisha Sanyang-Meek, Tianna Williams-Powell

Guest Performers : Jamie Baker, Rochelle Weekes-Brown, Naadedei Okine, Elizabeth Ogundare

Choreography:  Dr H Patten, Nii Kwartey, Owoo Leroy, Dias Dos Santos, Year 2 students

Filmed by Carl Bryan

Music: We No Worry Bout Them – Konshers & Romain Virgo, Whuup – Dj Roland Clark, Bad luck Babe – Theodor, letter to the Free – Common (Feat Bilal)

 

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Pioneers and Protest: A commemorative quilt

During the initial screening of Pioneers and Protest at the Moonshot centre, as part of Moonshot’s Community Day, on July 9 2022. Participants were asked to contribute a memory of 1981 on canvas squares.

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Commemorative quilt with multiple sewn panels
(P2.1) Image: Completed quilt

The images produced on the squares were emotional and inspirational, and IRIE! thought about how they would display them. Local craft artist Gloria Pottinger-Jones who was working with IRIE! on the Community Day suggested a quilt, which she designed and created for them several weeks later.

Individual Tiles

 

Commemorative quilt. Text reads, '1981 After the Brixton riot I help to setup Southwark visitors to police station to check on the detained people to make sure their right was reserved'
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Commemorative quilt. Stick man figure
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Di New Cross Fire da a murdah, Linton Kwesi Johnson, SNS Laws, Coxsone, Jah Shaka, Saxon Sound'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'We were part of the second generation and we were not afraid'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Rcok Against Racism, Protest and Survive, Anti-Nazi League'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Watch the film about prejudice that the New Cross victims had to endure. And the families. Had a lovely time at the IRIE project, lovely cakes and sandwiches. We had a lovely time playing the drums'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'There was no national mourning, no condolences, victims became suspects'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'We must never forget the New Cross Fire. Love is the answer. Peace and love always'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Before you post that letter, Before you break that link, Don't you think that you had better think before you ink'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'It was a very sad time and it's still sad. Maybe one day we'll hear something positive'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, ' New Cross, love, pride, beauty, power, history, heritage, thankful'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, '1981 March. It was inspiring, it was uplifting, it was empowering, we became politicized, activists and rebels'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Build caring communities'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, '1981, thought I had found the love of my life'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Working in 1981 in Peckham'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Give thanks for who took part (heart) in the Black People's Day of Action'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, '1981 Finding myself. black consciousness, black creativity, black beauty'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'The march was an expression of identity which placed a value on black lives'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Sound systems Lick Wood, Joyce Jacca, Strictly Vinyls, Music was the food of love'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Deptford Market on a Saturday, blue magic pressing oil, yam, pumpkin and green banana, food shopping, Woolworths, Fantos, Singer sewing machine'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Resistance, Transformation, Revolution'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'New Cross'
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Commemorative quilt. Small flowers
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Food, plantain, respect, elders, stop and search, each one teach one, living life, yam and banana, national front, racism'
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads,
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Commemorative quilt. Text reads, '1981, 41 years later and I am still angry, 2022'
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Photographs: IRIE! dance theatre Community Day

A day of activity for the local community at the Moonshot Centre in Fordham Park.

Learn more about the Pioneers and Protest project.

Information sign. The text reads. 'Pioneers and Protest'
(P1.1) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
An empty gazebo on a sunny day
(P1.2) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
A fabric banner stuck to a wooden fence
(P1.3) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Women and children sitting in the sunshine surrounded by drums
(P1.4) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
A line of drummers sat down in a row
(P1.5) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Man and woman stop to read an information sign
(P1.6) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Give thanks for who took part (heart) in the Black People's Day of Action'
(P1.7) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Resistance, Transformation, Revolution'
(P1.8) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, '1981 After the Brixton riot I help to setup Southwark visitors to police station to check on the detained people to make sure their right was reserved'
(P1.9) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Sound systems Lick Wood, Joyce Jacca, Strictly Vinyls, Music was the food of love'
(P1.10) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Deptford Market on a Saturday, blue magic pressing oil, yam, pumpkin and green banana, food shopping, Woolworths, Fantos, Singer sewing machine'
(P1.11) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Change!'
(P1.12) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'We must never forget the New Cross Fire. Love is the answer. Peace and love always'
(P1.13) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Build caring communities'
(P1.14) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Watch the film about prejudice that the New Cross victims had to endure. And the families. Had a lovely time at the IRIE project, lovely cakes and sandwiches. We had a lovely time playing the drums'
(P1.15) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Food, plantain, respect, elders, stop and search, each one teach one, living life, yam and banana, national front, racism'
(P1.16) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
Commemorative quilt. Text reads, 'Rcok Against Racism, Protest and Survive, Anti-Nazi League'
(P1.17) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
A man holding flowers in one hand holds a little girls hand in the other
(P1.18) Image: Photograph by Evan Jones
A seated crowd listen to a speaker
(P1.19) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
A film projected on a big screen in a hall
(P1.20) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
A film projected on a big screen in a hall
(P1.21) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
A film projected on a big screen in a hall
(P1.22) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
A film projected on a big screen in a hall
(P1.23) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Two women stand in front of the cinema screen
(P1.24) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Four people sit in a row outside in the sunshine
(P1.25) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
A man sticks some paper to a fabric banner amongst other bits of paper
(P1.26) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
A man sticks some paper to a fabric banner amongst other bits of paper
(P1.27) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Three women sat inside
(P1.28) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Three dancers in front of a row of drummers
(P1.29) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Three dancers in front of a row of drummers
(P1.30) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Drum leader with a cowbell
(P1.31) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones
Hands hitting a drum
(P1.32) Image: Photograph by Julia Hones

 

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