SEEN Lewisham exhibitions: Bun n Cheese, the Caribbean Living Room .. and This is England
Three exhibitions are running at the Broadway Theatre - Aneesa Dawoojee's portraits Bun N Cheese: Things That Bring Me Joy, Tony Fairweather's Caribbean living room and Matt Small's acclaimed This is England. Don't miss them!
Bun N Cheese: Things that Bring Me Joy emerged from a series of oral history workshops in Sutton with a group of black elders of Caribbean heritage.
Joseph Jefferson, CEO of charity ASKI worked with Dr Michael McMillan to bring together the stories of the participants.
Aneesa Dawoojee, award-winning photographer from South London took the stunning photographs.
Free entry, showing until Sunday 12 October in the Gallery next to the Studio, at Broadway Theatre Catford.
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The Caribbean living room
Tony Fairweather has a mission to preserve the "irreplaceable antiques" of his parents' generation, using them to tell the story of the Windrush generation who arrived in the UK from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1970.
Fairweather points out that the young men and women were invited by the British government but still had a pay the fare of £28 and 10 shillings, a large sum at the time, which most people found difficult to get together.
He explains the cultural significance of the front room, its ornaments, furnishing and even the wallpaper, for the generation who arrived with nothing but "the shirt on their back and a grip".
He's passionate about saving these items from the skip and using the installation to pass on stories on to a younger generation who "prefer Ikea".
350 school students will be visiting the exhibition this week and hearing Fairweather tell the Windrush story.
Tony Fairweather's book Twenty-Eight Pounds and Ten Shillings is available from bookshops.
Free entry, showing until Sunday 12 October at the Broadway Theatre Catford.
This is England
Artist Matt Small was commissioned to create a series of 27 portraits for the Football Association, at the start of 2020. He painted each a member of the England men's football squad for UEFA Men's EUROs and their manager Gareth Southgate.
The portraits reflect the diversity of the squad and the complexity of modern British identity, and capture a unique team that the public recognised stood for something greater than sport.
Small said: "Through their resolute and determined stance on various social issues and matters of inclusion and compassion for all, this group of players have come to represent the modern face of England, a multi-cultural land where people from all walks of life now call the country home."
Free entry, showing until Sunday 12 October in the Upstairs Gallery at the Broadway Theatre Catford.
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