FAMILY BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS/ACTIVITIES Special events taking place this Black History Month in Islington, neighbouring London boroughs and central London. All events free unless specified. For more info: https://islingtonlife.london/things-to-do/celebrate-black-history-month-2021/ to register for free Islington events. https://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/bhh365_event_listings_2021.pdf for more info on free Haringey drop in events listed. The free events at Bruce Castle Museum require booking www.haringey.gov.uk/brucecastlemuseum https://hackney.gov.uk/libraries-whats-on for more info on Hackney events https://www.lovecamden.org/blackhistoryseason for more info on Camden events SAT 2ND OCT Black History Walk of Islington (FREE) (Islington Event) Black History Month Music Workshops. Sat 2,9,16,23 &30th October. Drop-in mentoring workshops for young people with an interest in music Wood Green Library N22 (Haringey Event) SUN 3RD OCT Soldier Stories: Walter Tull. The National Army Museum in Chelsea presents a live interpretation of war stories including Walter Tull a professional footballer and one of the British army’s first infantry officers of Black heritage. Age 7+. Adults can also check out the “West Indian Soldier” exhibition www.nam.ac.uk SAT OCT 9TH Reading of "Aminata and the bag of seeds" by Sandra Moodie - 11am Islington Central Library, 2 Fieldway Crescent, London N5 1PF (Islington Event) Storytime and Craft Colourful African Necklaces - 2-3pm Shoreditch Library, Hackney (all ages) (Hackney Event) Garrett Morgan Craft (Inventor of the traffic light): 10.30am – 12noon. St Ann’s Library Cissbury Road Tottehnam N15 5PU, Age 5-12 (Haringey Event) Create a sculpture out of card inspired by award winning architect David Adjaye: 10.30-11.30am Hornsey Library Haringey Park, London N8 9JA, Aged 5-12 (Haringey Event) SUN OCT 10TH Ghanaian cooking 12 noon-1pm Islington Event (Online) SAT OCT 16TH Capoeira Workshop - Capoeira is a martial art developed in Brazil derived from African traditions. Wood Green Library 12.30-2pm & 5-6.30pm Hornsey Library. Session is with the Topasio Group (Haringey Event) BHM Storytime, Songs and Art reading Trish Cooke’s classics: “So Much” & “Full, Full, Full of Love”. Coombes Croft Library Tottenham High Road N17 8AG. (Haringey Event) SAT OCT 23RD Black History Walk of Islington (FREE) (Islington Event) BHM Craft Workshop: Space themed craft honouring Katherine Johnson the mathematician whose calculations as a NASA employee were critical to success of the first US space flights. 10.30-12pm. St Ann’s Library, Cissbury Road N15. (Haringey Event) Museum of London: Travel through time to the 1700’s and meet the famous abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. Age 5+ (FREE) SUN OCT 24TH Jamaican Online Cooking Class 12 noon-1pm (ONLINE) (Islington event) Family activity: Rainbow Flags - Find out more about the ethnically diverse history of the LGBTQ+ community. Stories, posters and create your own flag. 24pm, Bruce Castle Museum, (all visits must be booked in advance) (Haringey Event) Museum of London: Travel through time to the 1700’s and meet the famous abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. Age 5+ Event times 11am, 1pm and 2.30pm (FREE) Events running throughout BHM Black History Month at Canary Wharf (FREE) Unicorn Theatre: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun Digital Theatre (Free to view Online throughout Black History Month) www.unicorntheatre.com (all ages) Lyric Theatre Shaftsbury Avenue: Get Up Stand Up The Bob Marley Musical – opens 1st October Age 12+ (till April 2022) Black Owned Hackney Market – Bohemia Place, Hackney E8. 16th/17th & 30/31st Oct Hackney Museum – Being African in Hackney exhibition -1 Reading Lane, Hackney E8 HALF TERM ACTIVITIES Monday 25th October Museum of London Docklands: Olaudah Equiano -Travel through time to the 1700’s and meet the famous abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. Age 5+ Event times 11am, 1pm and 2.30pm (FREE) Museum of London: “How Ananse the Spider got his tiny waist”. Join IROKO Theatre to hear the African folktale combining drama, drumming and dance. From 25th October – 27th October Event times11am, 1pm, 2.30pm Age 5+ (FREE) Tuesday 26th October Discover Children’s Story Centre: Adventures of Amari through Black History 1-1.45pm, Stratford. Age 4+ Purchase tickets from discover.org.uk Rhyme and Storytime with Tyan - Tuesday 26th - Highgate library Caribbean nursery rhymes and Black children’s books (Camden Event) Storytime and Family Craft - Cr