The Wallace Collection is one of the world’s great individual art collections
About this Event
The Wallace Collection is one of the world’s great individual art collections.Hidden in its collection of over 5,500 works there are many black presences, most times hidden. We'll take you around the Collection introducing you to many different works revealing subjects of economic capital, creators of cultural capital, kings & kingdoms, musicians, princesses, slaves, servants, saints and inspirations. You'll be introduced to the religious, cultural and social significance of the black presence in The Wallace Collection. If you want to understand this presence in one of the great collections of 18th and 19th century art in the home of the connoisseur who brought this sumptuous collection together, then this tour is for you.
Walk last 2 hours , meet point on request
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- Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
- History of Black British boxing @Kensington Library
- Frantz Fanon film and talk weekender 4/5th September
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- Remembering Joy Gardner: Black Lives Matter 1993
- Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
- Mayfair, Hackney,Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
- Black Liverpool: film, book launch, Q&A. Professor Stephen Small
- Champion Black Boxers and businessmen in 1800s London:
- South Africa’s London Recruits
This is an African Odysseys screening. Previously at the BFI Southbank for 18 years, African Odysseys is now hosting films across London due to systemic racism at the BFI which ignored a18,600 strong petition and cancelled the popular,monthly programme there. Full details HERE
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Meet point on request, 1, London, United Kingdom
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