Four Lambeth Riverside Festival events

Mon 11 July: Paul Robeson

7pm-9pm at Roots and Shoots, Fitzalan St, off Kennington Road.
Sean Creighton talks about the extraordinary American singer, actor and black rights campaigner, who had a tremendous impact on political and cultural life in Britain 1920s-60s.

Tue 12 July: 'When we ruled': African civilisations

7pm at Durning Library, 167 Kennington Lane.
A visual journey through thousands of years of Black History. Robin Walker on African civilisations of Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Swahili Confederation, Ancient Nubia, Ancient Egypt and Axum/Abyssinia.
 
Mon 18 July: UK Black History on the Web

6.30pm-8.30pm at Riverside IT, 125 Lambeth Walk
Workshop led by Sean Creighton. Under 18s must be accompanied by a parent or adult relative.

Sat 23 July: Vauxhall Black History Walk
11am-noon. Meet at Bonnington Square Centre, 11 Vauxhall Grove, SW8. Led by Steve Martin, leading UK Black History researcher and writer. We will look at Duse Mohammed Ali and the early (1912) Black press, Master Juba and Black entertainers at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, West Indian cricket at the Oval, the 'Black women at Brixton Causeway' (1723), William Cuffay and the Chartist meeting of 1848 and Mary Seacole.

For more information on Lambeth Riverside Festival

phone 020 7820 0555.