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Day
of Record-Nails, Weaves and Naturals: Black British Hairstyles and
Nail Art Victoria and Albert Museum
7 May 2001 |
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Tools
of the Trade: Black British Hairdressing, Black Cultural Archives
Gallery, 378 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8LF
19 October 2001- 18 December |
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Grooming
an Identity: Hairstyles of the African Diaspora, Brixton Library,
The Oval, Brixton, London SW9
20 October -2 November 2001. |
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Seeing,
Being, Telling: Dress, Black Britons and Birmingham, The Drum, 144
Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 4UU
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The Archives and Museums of Black Heritage (AMBH) aims
to create a space within museum culture to question, articulate
and celebrate the history and culture of the African diaspora
in Britain, and to counter the sense of being 'heritage-less'.
The exhibitions mounted by AMBH will use the material culture
of black Britons as well as the critical practice of past
and contemporary writers, musicians, poets, political activists,
educators and others.
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The principal aims of AMBH¹s exhibition strategy is
to be a showcase for the rich resources of material on black
British history held in archives and museums throughout
Britain, but also the forgotten material stored in homes.
AMBH is committed to working with a wide range of individuals,
institutions and organisation, to create stimulating and
challenging exhibitions that questions established critical
and cultural orthodoxy
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| Day
of Record-Nails, Weaves and Naturals: Black British Hairstyles
and Nail Art |
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This hugely successful one-day event was attended by 1,200 people, and was designated by several visitors as a 'historic moment'. The project was a collaboration between AMBH and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The day of record sought to document and catalogue 'applied and decorative arts in relation to the body, an area of beauty practice, rarely discussed and collected within current museum practice. .
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Participants were invited to visit the museum, and to have their hairstyles or nail art photographed, thereby making an unique contribution to the documentation of black British cultural practice. These practices and fashions increasingly have a cross- cultural usage, and so non- black people with hairstyles inspired by black creativity, were also invited to attend. 120 words. |
Victoria
and Albert Museum
7 May 2001 |
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| Tools
of the Trade: Black British Hairdressing |
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exhibition will look at the practice of hairdressing in Britain
since the Second World War told through the experiences of practitioners.
Tools of the Trade will consist of text, objects and photographs
to consider what this segment of material culture can add to
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Black
Cultural Archives Gallery, 378 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9
8LF
19 October 2001
Further information:
telephone: 020 7326 4154;
fax: 020 7738 7168;
e-mail: info@aambh.org.uk |
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an Identity:Hairstyles of the African Diaspora |
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The exhibition will document
the aesthetics of the dressed body that has shaped the culture
of the black community in Britain since the 1950s. By doing
so, Seeing, Being, Telling will explore the relevance of dress
to black Britons and to their sense of 'becoming' inhabitants
of Birmingham, and by extension Britain. It will focus on
the consumption and practice of dress, and the form and styling
of the body amongst this community.
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Brixton
Library, The Oval, Brixton, London SW9. 20 October -2 November
2001.
Further information:
Fiona Gonsalves
telephone: 020 7926 1056/1058; fax: 020 7926 1062;
website: www.lambeth.org.uk |
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| Seeing,
Being, Telling: Dress, Black Britons and Birmingham |
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The exhibition will document
the aesthetics of the dressed body that has shaped the culture
of the black community in Britain since the 1950s. By doing
so, Seeing, Being, Telling will explore the relevance of dress
to black Britons and to their sense of 'becoming' inhabitants
of Birmingham, and by extension Britain. It will focus on
the consumption and practice of dress, and the form and styling
of the body amongst this community
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The
exhibition will also consider issues around migration, not only
of people but also dress practices which can contribute to the
development of a cultural identity in a new environment.
The artists who have agreed to contribute new pieces of work
are: Maria Amidu, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Joy Gregory,
Harold Offeh, Mah Rana, Zineb Sedira, Susan Stockwell, Shez
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The
Drum, 144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 4UU.
Further Information:
Archives and Museum of Black Heritage, 378 Coldharbour Lane,
Brixton, London SW9 8LF, telephone: 020 7326 4154; fax 020 7738
7168; e-mail: info@aambh.org.uk |
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