Welcome to the Black History Month 2021 edition of Kaleidoscope. Here at SACCO, our Community Leads Veronica and Ann were busy organizing BHM events reflecting the range of cultural and historical contributions made by African, Caribbean and Black British people. Our colleague Mic Lord’s play Dorothee, exploring the lives of Africans in Sutton in the 1700s, debuted at the Cryerarts Theatre on Saturday 23rd October, whilst Africa's Kings & Queens provided youngsters aged 4-9 with the opportunity to explore African dress and Djembe music. We were delighted to welcome author Dorothy Koomson, who read for us from her latest novel. All members of the community are always welcome at our events – visit our home page to keep up to date with further events, or sign up for our family events notifications.
Kaleidoscope
SACCO’s fledgling Kaleidoscope grew out of Sutton’s Black History Group quarterly magazine.
It showcases members’ writing talent on topics such as South Africa, the economic relationship between Africa and China, Nigeria, Prince Klaas, Ballet Black, Stephen Lawrence, LGBT & masculinity, Walter Tull, Sara Forbes Bonetta, Barack Obama, Naomi Osaka, and modern Jamaica. As sports fans, particularly of our local team the ‘giant killers’ Sutton United, we also regularly include features on black talent in football, cricket and tennis, while our Travels with SACCO articles will take you off to Spain, Jamaica, and Holland.
We are always interested in including memoirs of the migrant experience to Britain from both the Caribbean and Africa, so if you have a life story to tell please do contact us. You are also welcome to contact us if you would like to become a volunteer writer.
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Welcome to SACCO’s summer quarterly edition of Kaleidoscope. As usual, we’ve included our usual choice selection of reflections on issues including lockdown and Windrush, together with two excellent book reviews by SACCO’s Deborah Bell.
Welcome to Kaleidoscope. As mentioned in the last issue of Kaleidoscope we planned to host a series of events for Black History Month during the months of February and March. We delivered over 50 events to celebrate black history month which highlighted Black Excellence, Mircro Black Businesses and Young Black Voices within the community. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our contributors who made the past two months not only a roaring success for SACCO but have also touched the hearts and minds of those who attended their sessions.
Welcome to Kaleidoscope. Firstly, we would like to wish all of our readers a happy and safe new year. We understand all the challenges faced during the previous year. Therefore, we would like to assure you that SACCO is here to support the community in any way that it can.
Black History and Black Excellence is all around us 365 days of the year. However, with the pandemic still amongst us and government restrictions SACCO wanted to give you something to look forward to during the months of February and March. As a result, we have an array of online activities for the whole family to participate in. This has been made possible by the hard work of our B.H.M champions with funding from HM Government, in Partnership with the National Lottery Community Fun
At SACCO, we understand that 2020 has been a difficult year, given the global pandemic and national lockdowns. From our wellness phone calls to our members, to our Butterfly Wellbeing Project, to distributing Windrush Bay packages, we have been there as much as we can for the community and are grateful for the grants which have allowed us to continue with our projects. Recent National Lottery funding will also ensure that the activities we had planned for Black History Month can now take place in February 2021.
