Spirit of the Caribbean Ball & Black Honour Awards

15/02/2024

Dive into the vibrant world of British Caribbean life with the latest edition of One Caribbean magazine! Bursting with 7 stories of Caribbean excellence to inspire and delight you. Make sure to never miss out by signing up at eventconnoisseurs.com

11/08/2023

How do you express all the parts of your British and Caribbean personas? “Being Caribbean makes me tick. This is an opportunity to spend time with ourselves in our heritage.” - Nikita Gill, founder of a Manchester Mas band taking part in the city’s Caribbean Carnival this weekend
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07/08/2023

Stormzy is offering at least 10 Cambridge University scholarships for young black students in the UK. His Foundation, in collaboration with HSBC UK, is offering scholarships to the top UK University for Black students looking to begin degree studies this autumn

06/08/2023

Happy Independence Day! 🇯🇲

Happy Independence Day from all of us at Event Connoisseurs 🇯🇲

04/08/2023

The first Caribbeans to travel to space will make their historic journey with Virgin Galactic in the next week.
Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers are from Antigua and Barbuda and will join the crew of Galactic 02 around 10th August for a 90 minute trip, during which they will reach a speed of 2,600 mph. Anastatia is a student at Aberdeen University in Scotland. We wish them all the very best!

28/07/2023

Yesterday, there was some welcome uplevelling for black creatives who aspire to work in TV and Film. Arts organisation, BE United , who advocate for African, Caribbean and black artists and creatives in Scotland, took the inequalities of the TV and film industry into their own hands, and created a database for creators to use for their casting needs. Black people of all ages were invited along for free professional photography and to create a casting profile. They told us that people of colour get less casting calls and less call backs, and there are claims that not enough people of colour respond to casting calls (wonder why?…) Let’s hope this is a step towards the long overdue change we need to see.

25/07/2023

We love to see this : British Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce OBE will be receiving an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University, in recognition of her influential contributions to the Black British art movement 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2023/07/23/birmingham-city-university-bestows-highest-honour-upon-influential-artist-sonia-boyce/

Respected British artist Sonia Boyce OBE, whose work has been a regular fixture at Birmingham art galleries, will receive an Honorary Doctorate from Birmin

18/07/2023

100 Caribbean Voices.
Are you part of the British Caribbean community? If so, we want to hear your thoughts.
Along with our friends at BLACK WALL ST. MEDIA we invite you to complete our survey on what it means to be Caribbean or of Caribbean heritage in the UK.
It’s important to get a sense of how different generations of the community have evolved through the challenges and opportunities of life in the UK. With Windrush Day behind us and Emancipation Day ahead, it’s a time for reflecting on our experiences. Complete the survey here https://lnkd.in/eD3BnKM2 or check our website by 30 July, and please share in your networks.

14/07/2023

This is why we bring the British Caribbean community together through our events, and encourage support and collaboration. We've watched other communities go far by providing strong support to one another, in the good times as well as the bad, and we want our Caribbean community to do the same. There's strength in our unity.

11/07/2023

Guyanese Londoner Letitia Wright has followed up her Marvel Studios' Wakanda movie success with a project portraying a different side of the Western movie genre we all know.

Letitia plays a black woman who has to pretent she's a man for her own safety as she travels across 1870 America, five years after the Civil War. The movie also allowed Letitia the opportunity to co-produce.

‘Surrounded' is out on streaming services now, so support a Caribbean sister and check it out!

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05/07/2023

*unsung Caribbean heros* The method and process that enabled places like Crystal Palace and St Pancras Station to be built using wrought iron, and drove post war prosperity in Britain, was forcibly taken from skilled enslaved metalllurgists in Jamaica - whose foundry was forcibly shut down.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton #:~:text=An%20innovation%20that%20propelled%20Britain,Jamaican%20foundry%2C%20historical%20records%20suggest

Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest

03/07/2023

*Caribbean Influence in the UK* On Saturday, the West Indies cricket team, the famous 'Windies'; lost to Scotland in the World Cup Qualifier.
How did Scotand's cricket become so good? A Jamaican trained them! It's another way that the community has made a massive contribution in GB (even if it worked against us on Saturday).
The man responsible was club cricket legend Irvin Iffla, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He initially played for the Jamaican Cricket team, before moving to Scotland on a contract that required him to both play and train.

His trainees spoke highly of his character and skill, his encouragement, and the transformative effect he had on the Scottish game. 'He changed everything, frankly;" said Raymond Bond, a wicketkeeper. "He transformed the whole club and the whole of Scottsish cricket. He was a magician with the ball and brilliant with the bat, and people came flocking to Williamfield to see him every Saturday he was playing".

Iffla passed in 2012 aged 88, and is buried in Stirling, Scotland, where he was the second ever person to recieve the Freedom of the City. So, it was a loss on Saturday for the Windies, but a win for the community and Iffla's fantastic sporting legacy.

Image : Stephencdisckson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_grave_of_Irvin_Iffla,_Valleyfield_Cemetery,_Stirling.jpg