Events for 2007

Date	Event	Venue
Friday 21st September – Sunday 20th January	Ethiopian Encounters: A British Expedition to Ethopia in the 1840s	Shiba Gallery (Gallery 14), the Fitzwilliam Museum.
29th September	Unison Trip to Liverpool, International Slavery Museum	.
Monday 1st October	Our Stories: Film and photographic exhibition of older people. Launch event. 10am -2pm. Contact Sally Roden for further details 01223 517523	The Guildhall
Throughout October	Our Stories: Film and photographic exhibition of older people	Cambridge and County Folk Museum
Tuesday 2nd October to Monday 31st December	Celebrating Ghana: 50 Years of Independence. Free, children welcome	Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Saturday 6th October	Community Launch of BHM ‘Set it Off’: Bicentenary Party, 12pm – 4pm. Free family event. Tel Ari/Della 01223 457876/07840 152520.	Brown’s Field Community Centre
Monday 8th October to Saturday 13th October>	>Exhibition on Abolitionists: Wilberforce, Clarkson and Equiano. Free event. Tel 01223 765807 for further details and linked talk. Daily 9am – 5pm, except Saturday 9am – 11am	Great St. Mary’s Church
Monday 29th October	As above, 1pm – 5.30pm	Addenbrooke’s Hospital Boardroom
Tuesday 30th October	As above, 10am – 4pm	Addenbrooke’s Hospital Treatment Centre Atrium
t.b.c. after 13th October	BME Consultation/social event	t.b.c
Tuesday 16th and 23rd October	Sub-Urbanite: Celebration of Asian and Black music. Supported by Cambridge University union groups.	The Soul Tree 1-6 Corn Exchange Street
Thursday 18th October	Our World in a Day: Cambridge City Council will be hosting an event on Thursday 18th October to celebrate the diversity of all our staff. Rob Hammond, Chief Executive will launch the event which will be hosted by the City Council’s Black and Minority Ethnic Stagg Group. This is a free event open to everyone.	The Guildhall
Tuesday 23rd October to Sunday 27th January	Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The exhibition will include an examination of slavery and its abolition with support from Cambridge University Press and the Marlay Group.	Mellon Gallery (Gallery 13), The Fitzwilliam Museum
Saturday 27th October	Akashi Festival, 2pm – 6pm. Free entry	Junction (Shed)
Saturday 27th October	Should we bother with Black History Month? Debate and audience participation. 2pm – 3pm. Free entry 16+	Seminar Room (35), the Fitzwilliam Museum
Sunday 28th October	The Bharat Bhavan Cambridge Toujours Afrique presents Ali Baba Bangoura: Experience and learn West African drumming, dance and song with Ali Baba Bangoura maitre Djembe Fola (master drummer) from Guinee Conakry, West Africa. £10, 11am – 4pm. For more info and booking please call Lucas on 07790 996845	Bharat Bavan Cambridge
Monday 29th October	What has Black Athena done for Classics? The Faculty of Classics will be holding an Ancient History seminar. 5.15pm	Room G.2, Faculty of Classics
Monday 29th October	"Slavery and Emancipation: Olaudah Equiano and the African Abolitionists", Dr Hakim Adi 5.30pm. Free.	Pitt Building, Trumpington Street
Tuesday 30th October	Reimagining the Black Power Movement: Peniel Joseph – Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 5pm	History Faculty, Sidgwick Site, West Rd, Cambridge
Friday 2nd November	Lavasplash! Little D Promotions Presents: ‘Back 2 Skool Penthouse Party’ King Erruption Sound playing reggae dancehall and soca! Dress cose: School uniform. Over 18s bring I.D. 10pm -3am	The Soul Tree 1-6 Corn Exchange Street
Every Friday night	The Lavashow; Caribbean Community Radio Programme, 9pm to 11pm	209Radio
Friday 2nd November	6th Cambridge African Film Festival presents Women in African Cinema; Zanzibar Soccer Queens (15) 8.15pm, admission free	Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge
Saturday 3rd November	6th Cambridge African Film Festival presents Sisters-In-Law (15) 3.00pm, admission free	Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge
Saturday 3rd November	6th Cambridge African Film Festival presents Moolaade (15) 8.00pm, admission free	Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge
Saturday 3rd November	Wax and Gold Writing Workshop: Led by Yalew Kebede, lecturer in Amharic and Ethiopian Culture at SOAS, London 1.30pm to 4.30pm. £10 (£8 concessions). Booking essential, tel 01223 332904 or email the Fitzwilliam Museum.	The Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Studio
Wednesday 7th November	Ethopian Encounters: A British expedition to the highlands of Ethiopia in the 1840’s: Talk by Simon Keynes and Jane Munro, exhibition organisers and catalogue authors. Free entry. 1.15pm – 1.45pm	The Shilba Gallery (Gallery 13), The Fitzwilliam Museum
Friday 9th November	"The changing face of Slavery" by Andrew Clark, Chairman of Anti-Slavery International, 5pm. Open to all. Contact Duncan Dormor, St John’s College, djd28@cam.ac.uk	Palmerston Room, Fisher Building , St. John’s College
Monday 12th November	My reflections on American Politics, Past, Present and Portents for the Future: Doug Wilder, the grandson of slaves and the first African-American to be elected as a governor of a US State. Governor of Virginia 1990-94 and currently Mayor or Richmond, Virginia.	Latimer Room, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge
Thursday 15th November	Qene ancient methods of study in Ethiopia: Talk by John Binns, Vicar of Great St. Mary’s Church, 1.15pm – 1.45pm	Seminar Room, The Fitzwilliam Museum
Saturday 17th November	Snap Shots: a family activity. 10am – 1pm £6 per child. Booking essential, tel 01223 332904 or email the Fitzwilliam Museum.	The Fitzwilliam Museum
Wednesday 21st November	Am I not a man and a brother? Josiah Wedgwood’s Campaign Button: Free talk 1.15pm – 1.45pm	Mellon Gallery, The Fitzwilliam Museum
Thursday 22nd November	Wilfred Thesiger in Ethiopia: Talk by Alexander Maitland, author of ‘Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer’. Free entry. 1.15pm – 1.45pm.	Seminar Room, The Fitzwilliam Museum
tbc	World Dance Day. Free entry. Contact Lexzecia Cayneeo 07920 210959 for further details.	Arbury Community Centre
Thursday 29th November	Tewodros II, the Barefoot Emperor; tales and travels form the Ethiopian Highlands 6pm – 8pm. £7.50. Booking essestial. Conatct Anna Lloyd-Griffiths, tel 01223 764362 or email akl32@cam.ac.uk	Courtyard, The Fitzwilliam Museum
Wednesday 3rd October	Slave Trade Abolition in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk (STACS). Click here for more details on this project. 6.45pm – 8.45 pm, free tickets available 01223 511511.	Junction 2: the Shed, Clifton Way, Cambridge
Every Sunday	Street Style Dance 1pm – 2pm, all ages and abilities, hip-hop, RnB, crunk & dancehall. Contact Lll D on 07840 152520	Chesterton Sports Centre

~ by Imran Bukhari on October 8, 2007.