North Wales Shared History Group
Last year saw a flurry of activity that led to the celebration last October of Black History as our Shared History in North Wales. Thanks to all of you who got involved and joined in.
One of the main inspirations was the support we had from Jamaican Poet, Yasus Afari, who has really taken North Wales to his heart and for me it is great to be home! The Student Union African Caribbean Society also provided a great focus, as did the unfolding story of the Penrhyn Estate link with Clarendon, Jamaica.
Since then a lot has happened, very quietly! Thanks in part to our efforts, the National Trust have reinstated the exhibition at Penrhyn that tells the shared story with the plantation estates in Jamaica, Marian Gwyn joined me in Jamaica to research the links between the Penrhyn Estate and North Wales and we found the village of Pennants, on the old Pennants Plantation with the old Great House and visited the Denbigh Plantation, which is now the thriving Denbigh Show Ground (surely more than a co-incidence!) We also visited schools and the Ministry of Education to secure links to bring back to North Wales that will enable local schools in North Wales to link with schools in Jamaica.
Yasus Afari visited schools on Anglesey in May to introduce Jamaica and the "Widening Horizons" school link project. On 19th September there will be a special session for North Wales schools with the British Council and Jamaica 2000 to find out about the Global Schools Partnership funding opportunities and the "Widening Horizons" Project. Schools who sign up will then be starting to share with their Jamaican partner schools and planning the teacher exchange visits.
Colin has a range of things planned as well with the Drumming Group and the Capoeira team.
The AC Society at the University are considering options, and it would be good to get some lecture sessions planned by Marian Gwyn to share her research.
We have a little money to help run some workshops - so let me know if you have any ideas. I suggest we plan to meet on Monday 19th at 8pm after the GSP training session - somewhere in the Bangor area, and or on Tuesday 20th at 10.00am - - otherwise we will get regular mailings in place.
So the focus this time looks like it will be through the schools and also the University, plus whatever events we can badge as Shared History events this year. We also plan to formally launch the "North Wales Jamaica Society" and will be inviting a representative from the Jamaican High Commission to join us.
Best regards for now - let me know if you are still interested in hearing about what's going on - we will try to facebook, tweet and linked in etc this time round
Liz Liz Brant Millman Jamaica 2000 / Learning Links International CIC / North Wales Shared History Network
01902 429185 or 07711 569 489 2011 is the International Year for People of African Descent Check: http://www.un.org/en/events/iypad2011/ "People of African descent are acknowledged in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action1 as a specific victim group who continue to suffer racial discrimination as the historic legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. Even Afro-descendants who are not directly descended from slaves face the racism and racial discrimination that still persist today, generations after the slave trade ended."
by Liz Millmanon: 24th August 2011
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