Enjoy a fantastic programme of events for Black History Haringey 365 starting in October and continuing throughout the year.
These listings will be updated regularly, so do keep checking back for new events!
If you are holding an event to mark Black History and would like it to be added to the Black History Haringey 365 Programme, please use our online form to submit it for the events calendar.
While we have an amazing programme of events and activities to mark Black History Month in October, here in Haringey we firmly believe that Black history isn’t something we should only talk about for one month each year. That’s why our Black History Haringey 365 programme, features events, activities and resources to help you explore and celebrate Haringey’s Black history and heritage… all year round!
There is more information to explore about Black history in Haringey by looking around our BHH365 webpages - you can find ideas for crafts and quizzes as well as resources for learning about Haringey’s Black history dating back to the 16th Century.
Children’s crafts: Make an African Giraffe, Make Mae Jemison's Space Suit, Make a Traffic Light, Make a Ghanaian Achi Game, Make a Maasai Beaded Bracelet
Events: Black History Haringey 365 programme launch, Library Lates: Afro Culture Heritage Night, Reclaiming Narratives at HLP, Black History Celebration, History in the Making: War Inna Babylon €“ The Community's Struggles for Truth & Justice, Black Communities Healthy Living and Lifestyle Fair, Black Rootz Mental Wealth Day - Celebrating African and Caribbean-inspired approaches to wellbeing, A Taste Of Afrika PopUp Market - Black History Month, Afrobeat Open Deck Day, Black History Month: A Canvas of Culture event, Celebrate Black businesses with the EMBRACE Network, Somali Culture Night 2024, Thru Life Sports Celebration, Mental Health Journeys - Community Film Screening and Conversations on Equality
Exhibitions: WHAT I KNOW IS POSSIBLE, Our Ancestors Legacy: The Past, The Present, Our Future, Photography exhibition: Reclaiming Narratives
Films: Bob Marley One Love (cert 12), The Book of Clarence (cert 15), Barrel Children - The Legacy, Belle (cert 12+), The Stuart Hall Project (Cert 12), Film Screening and Q&A: Cathy Tyson and Kammy Darweish present ‘Liliana’ and ‘The Consequence’, Gone Too Far! (cert 12+), Burning an Illusion (cert 15+), Playing Away (cert 15+)
Literature: Author Talk - Dahlia Allen's 'Resilience', Author Talk: Jocelyn Robson “ 'Elizabeth Heyrick, The Making of an Anti-Slavery Campaigner', Tottenham Literature Festival @ Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Benjamin Zephaniah - The People's Poet: Commemoration and Celebration
Performances: Gianni Morales, Experience the Joy of Dance with Candy's Dance Stars, Delight Project: The African drumming and acrobats, Broadway Brunch: Black History Month, Black Burlesque Festival at Jacksons Lane, 20 Stories High present: Who The F–k is Shakespeare?
Talks: That bookshop on Stroud Green Road - Encounters with an archive, Marcus Garvey’s UNIA and ACL Motherships, In conversation: Barrel Babies, First Five: Yomi Sode with Theresa Lola
Walks: 400 years of local Black History: A guided walk in Tottenham Cemetery and All Hallows Church and graveyard, Black Cultural History in Hornsey: A walking tour of heritage from abolition to the modern day
Workshops: Home Movie Viewing Workshop with London’s Screen Archives, Photo Scanning workshop with Black in the Day, Art Workshop: Paulsimna presents Black History Month Reclaiming Narratives, Photography Workshop: From Way Black w/ Lostintottenham, Writing workshop with Kieron Rennie: Reclaiming the Narrative
Events: Celebrating Black Histories, RISE Project Presents... Somali Culture Night 2023, HLP's BHM Celebration Event: 'Saluting Our Sisters', Reminiscence Cafe @ The Castle: Who Do We Think We Are?, Celebrate Black History Month with Ubele Initiative, Black History Haringey 365 Celebration event 2023, Launch of Exhibition: Windrush 75 'The Grip'
Film: Windrush 75: What is Home?, Film Screening: ME MY MUSIC AND MENTAL HEALTH . . . A story by SHOCKA, Black Lens - Pretty Red Dress (15+), All Roads by Roy Williams (12+), This is not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (15)
Literature: Celebrating the work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Performances: A Windrushers 75th Celebration Sketch Show - 'Welcome to England', Live music: Contemporary Jazz, R&B & Neo-Soul, Broadway Brunch (over 50s), Tea Party Delight, Graceland Reimagined: London African Gospel Choir, Steppaz - The 10th Series
Talks: An Evening with Judith Jacob, Talk and Exhibition: Black History Month 2023 Fashion and Identity
Walks: Black History Tour: Stroud Green Road Legacy Walk with Avril Nanton
Workshops: Making a collective story-telling chair, OLCA African Dance Workshop, LK Yoga and Wellness Taster Session, Follow Your Art for National Hate Crime Awareness Week, Capoeira Workshop, Craft and Conversation: World Mental Health Day event with Sewn Together, Stories and Art Workshop: Fruits for the Soul, Workshop: Fola the Music, Voices Unleashed, Better BAME Women's Health, Simmer Down Fridays presents African Pursuit
Children's crafts: Make Your Mark Bookmarks, African Drum (Djembe),Unity friendship Bracelet, Bamileke Elephant Mask, Harriet Tubman Lantern Sun Catcher, Children’s Display: Together We Can Change the World, Kwanza Placemat Activity, Making Pompoms, Sankofa Headdress, Rosa Parks Rocking Bus, We Can Change the World Poster, We Can Change the World Poster, African Mask, African Shields, Create a Dogon Kanaga Mask, Hand and Footprint Dove of Peace, African Animal Dot Painting, African Rain Sticks, Create a Tutankhamun Headdress, Kente Paper Weaving, Black History Month Scrapbook Making, Black History Month Collage, African Beaded Bracelets, Kwanzaa Harvest Calabash
Events: BHH365 Programme Launch, Social Lunch, African-Caribbean “Afternoon Delight” Tea Party!, BHS Sankofa Saturday: Know the Past, Seize the Future, An African-Caribbean evening at Coombes’ Croft Library, Puzzle-time, Reminiscence Cafe @ The Castle: Style It Right!, Hands on for Black History Month at Haringey Learning Partnership, Black Communities Healthy Living and Lifestyle Fair, Black History Month Quiz, Munch & Listen: In Conversation with the Curators - Inspiring Migrant Stories of Entrepreneurship
Exhibitions: We’re in Business: Art, Trade & Business of West Green Road - the Windrush Generation's Legacy, BHM Display by Dawn Gobourne - Time for Change: Action Not Words, Haringey Black Figures Timeline
Films: Soul (2020) Cert. PG, Harriet (2019) Cert. 12, Dreams of a Life (2011) Cert. E, Akeelah and the Bee (2006) Cert. PG, The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) Cert. 15, Red Tails (2012) Cert. 12, Black Panther (2018) Cert. 12, Sound Business (1981) Cert. 15, Being Blacker (2018) Cert. 15, Africa United (2010) Cert. 12, Boesman and Lena (2000) Cert. 15, A Hole Babylon (1979) Cert. 15, Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) Cert. U, King Richard (Certificate 12), Pirates (dir. Reggie Yates, 2022) Certificate 15, Half of a Yellow Sun, Scenes from the Farm, Lilian – The Film and the Message from Cathy Tyson, Us, The Molly Dineen Collection Part 1: Being Blacker, Part 2: Sound Business, Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse
Literature: Author Event: Young Black Authors Talk About Their Books with Juliet Coley & Romeo Bremmer, Black History Month Book Club, Book Launch: Dee Buchanan Messages From The Divine Mother, Interview / talk with Anni Domingo, author of Breaking the Maafa Chain,
Performances: Broadway Brunch, Dance Umbrella: SHEBEENDUB – NORA CHIPAUMIRE, Baby Gospel, Black Dynamite 18+, Utopian (t’s and c’s apply), Celebrating Blackness
Storytimes: Black Voices Storytime at Home, Your Life Matters by Chris Singleton, Why Not You by Ciara and Russell Wilson, Look Up!, Femi The Fox: A Pot of Jollof, Family African Storytelling, Not So Small by Pat Zietlow Miller, If You Look Up to the Sky by Angela Dalton, I Am Every Good Thing and Idia of the Benin Kingdom, My Rainy Day Rocket Ship by Markette Shepard, All Because You Matter by Tami Charles, Jehvon Goes to Jamaica, The Big Ceremony, I Believe I Can by Grace Byers, Show the World! by Angela Dalton, A Story About Afiya, Handa’s Noisy Night
Walks: Black History Tour with Avril Nanton: West Green Road Legacy Walk, Curator’s Tour of 400 years of Black History - In and Around Bruce Castle, Black History Tour of Historic Tottenham with Avril Nanton – Seven Sisters to Bruce Grove
Workshops: PACHA PEOPLE, Wax Printing Workshop with Box of Prints, Dance Class: Feeling Good: Dance Fitness, Tune Time! Piano Workshops, African Dance Workout, Tell Us Your Story - The Story Telling Chair @ The Castle, CPD Session: Anti-racism in Practice CPD, Draw With Susan - Art Morning for Beginners, Red Card Gambling Awareness Workshop, BHM Poetry Workshop: Words Are Our Friends, Weaving Tales – Black History Month Fabric Workshop, BHM Poetry Workshop: Words Are Our Friends
Children's crafts: A Black History Month Game: Who am I?, Inspired by Lydia D Newman, inventor of the synthetic bristle hairbrush, Make a Sun/Moon Mask, Notting Hill Carnival Mask, Kente Cloth Sun Catcher, A Josephine Baker Performance Stage, I Have a Dream Paper Mobile, Kente Cloth, Garrett Morgan, the three-position traffic signal, David Frank Adjaye, the architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham, Benin Headdress, Alma Thomas Landscape Collage, Frederick Jones Food Delivery Van, Paper Quilt, Maasai Necklace, I Jesse Owens - Gold Medal, Rainbow Peacock Headdress, Rocket Like Mae Jemison!, A Courtney Pine Instrument Artwork, Rosa Parks Bus, Dove of Peace, Make an African ‘DJEMBE’ Drum,Bookmark, Rainbow Flags, African Arts and Crafts, Asquith Xavier Train Guard Hat, Hair Love, Black History Kite Craft, Scrapbook Making, Design Your Own Print
Events: Young Curators - Future Histories, Haringey Creates: Diversifying the Creative Curriculum, The Bernie Grant Arts Centre 2021 Windrush Festival, Celebrating Windrush Day with Haringey Learning Partnership, Windrush Event at T on the Green, Broadway Brunch, Marcus Garvey Library Presents Black History Month Festival 2021, Afro-Colombian Rhythms
Exhibition: Changemakers, We Have Always Been Here, Weaving Tales of Resilience, The Most Legendary Black Musicians of all Time, Haringey Learning Partnership Black History Month Exhibition, We’re in Business: Art, Trade & Business of the Windrush Generation in West Green Road, Tottenham
Films: Hornsey Library Silent Cinema, The United States vs Billy Holiday, Green Book, I Am Not Your Negro, Small Island, Just Mercy, Soul, Moonlight, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Spies in Disguise
Literature: BHM Book Club: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, BHM Book Club: The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Marcus Garvey Centre Book Club Presents: Book of Night Women
Music: The Ultimate Library Mixtape: A Journey Through Black History with Haringey Libraries (online)
Performance: Vest-igios, Circolation 2 (online), The Pappy Show (online), Mr Squash presents - Ticky Picky Boom, Afro-Colombian Rhythms, Self-Care Talk & Poem Performance by Andreena Leeanne, Hangwire (online)
Talks: Talking Textiles (online), Haringey Women's History Walk (online), Culture Bubble: Youth Voice (online), In Conversation: Stella Dadzie & Helen Bart, BHM Discussion: Valerie Lewis, Munch and Listen – Lunchtime Talk Programme: Young Curators, Future Histories – Telling and Redefining Stories from Haringey’s Black Heritage, Wesley the Writer (online), Life of a Black Footballer, BHM Talk: Rewriting the Narrative, a look at the history of stereotypes against black youth and what the future holds
Workshops: Jigsaw-GC Workshop, Crochet Braiding Demonstration, Capoeira Workshop with Topasio Group, Proud to Be - Poetry workshops, Get Printing Workshop
Children's crafts: Make an Ethiopian African Angel Ornament, Afro Comb Art, Make an Egyptian Cartouche, BHM Quiz, Make an Egyptian Headdress, Make an African Baule Moon Mask
Events: An Evening of Conversation and Poetry to Launch BHM 2020, Online Event: Lockdown Lunch, Online Event: HALS - Unsung Heroes, Online Event: BHM Quiz
Exhibitions: Windstorm Arts Presents Anthony Young, Going Back to Our Roots: The Dyke & Dryden Story in Tottenham – 55 Years Ago, Beautiful
Films: I Am Not Your Negro, Carmen Jones, BHM Film Marathon at Hornsey Library Silent Cinema, Harriet, Imitation of Life, If Beale Street Could Talk
Literature: Tottenham Literature Festival, Central Library Reading Group, Online Event: Reading Group: Books by BAME authors, Author Event: Hibo Wardere, Book Club: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Performances: Circolocation, Shaved Chimps Are Pink
Storytimes: African Caribbean folktales with Wendy Shearer, Online Family Activity: Express Yourself!, The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Path to Freedom, Drag Queen Story Time with Mr Wesley Dykes
Talks: Culture Bubble: Art and Activism, Online Event: Haringey Gold: Race Relations Seminar, Online Event: Haringey Gold: Race Relations Seminar, Exiled: Sixty Years Since the Arrival of Oliver Tambo, Black Statues Around London by Avril Nanton, Online Panel Discussion: United Black Women's Action Group (UBWAG), Sharon Foster, In Conversation: On Diaspora, Young Curator webinar talk with Nico Blackstock: Exiled: Sixty Years Since the Arrival of Oliver Tambo
Workshops: Online Workshop: A Story to Tell: Creating, Collecting and Sharing our Stories, JL Circus Haringey: Pablo Fanque, Online Workshop: HALS Listen and Learn - Our Experiences of Education, Online Event: Discussion - Parents and I, Women, Mothers and Children
