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Black History Month

By Martin Booth  Friday Oct 10, 2014

A month-long programme of events across the city, including:

•October 10 – Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Lecture with Professor Mervyn Morris, Jamaican Poet Laureate; Wills Memorial                     Building

•October 11 – The Abominable Crime, Arnolfini

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•October 11 – The Living Legacies Photographic Exhibition, Malcolm X Centre

•October 15 – Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, St George’s

•October 16 – Everyday Lives: Africans in South West England during the Tudor period, M Shed

•October 16, 21 and 22 – Afrikan Symbols Walk, start at St Mary Redcliffe Church

•October 27 – Babylon & Past to Present, Cube

•October 28 – Vice and Virtue – Black GIs in Britain, Trinity

•October 29 – Young people’s Celebration event, The Station

•October 31 – Afrika Eye: Breaking the Silence, Watershed

Download the brochure from www.bristol.gov.uk

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