Archive Year Category : 1986

Focus on African Women Exhibition Catalogue

Peyps Diary Community Newspaper

The B.A.T Workshop Exhibition Catalogue

Black Visual Artists Forum Schedule and Budget

An Exhibition of Drawings by Denzil Forrester Price List

From Two Worlds Exhibition,Whitechapel Art Gallery Guide

A Day in Edinburgh, Leaflet, August 1986

Edinburgh Festival 1986 - Fringe Programme

Edinburgh International Festival 1986

International Broadcasting Trust Application for Role of Director

Filmotsav 1986: Scattered Reflections Around an Event by Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Imruh Bakari Caesar - Street Warriors

BFI Summer School 1986 - Beyond 1984 Information Pack

BFI News Three Sixty Magazine: April 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: A History of the Black Presence in London: Book

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Aurat Shakti Exhibition: Flyer

The Black Experience Arts Programme: List of Media Companies attending the Programme Launch on 7 February 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance Booking Pack

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance - Budget and Cashflow

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Press Cuttings Feb-March 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance: Entertainment Fair 21 and 23 March 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance Seminar Information Pack

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Caribbean Labour In Revolt, Flyer

The Black Experience Arts Programme: CLR James Man of the People Exhibtion and Programme Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: CLR James Man of the People Exhibtion Press Pack

The Black Experience Arts Programme: From Resistance to Rebellion Exhibition and Extract from Race and Class

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance, List of Publications Adverts Placed and Information

OBAALA Poetry Theatre: Black Art Gallery, Pamphlet

The Black Experience Arts Programme: GLC News Service Press Release 9th Janaury 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Letter from Parminder Vir to Positive Publicity to discuss the Marketing Campaign for the Programme.

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Reflections of the Black Experience, Catalogue of Nine Photographers Commissioned.

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Struggles for Black Community, A Film Programme 28th February to 6th March 1986, Programme Catalogue and Press Release.

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Programme Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Flyer

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Play Script with edits by Yvonne Brewster

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Programme Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Progress report from Talawa to Parminder Vir.

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Press Release

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Twelve Days at the Roundhouse Black Arts Centre, Programme Catalouge

GLC Housing Research & Policy Report: What Price Equality, a report on the allocation of GLC housing in Tower Hamlets

GLC Arts and Recreation: The Future of Local Government in London Arts, Recreation and Sport Draft Paper by Alan Tomkins, Arts Advisor for comments from Parminder Vir, 1986

Arts Council: Letter to Parminder Vir from Barry Lane, Photography and Ethnic Minority Groups, dated 9th January 1986, research project and invitation to a meeting on 6th February 1986

Black Artists White Institutions Conference and Arts Council: Collective Letter to Anthony Everitt, 28th Janaury 1986

Greater London Arts Association: Into the Eye of the Needle Independent Enquiry Into Greater London Arts' alleged racism, Chaired by A. Sivananandan, Press Conference 24th March 1986

London Forum of Ethnic Arts Officers and MAAS: Letter Invitation to Parminder Vir to the Independent Inquiry on alleged racism in GLA, 18th February 1986, to the first meeting of the Inquiry on 5th March 1986

Ethnic Minorities Unit: Draft Proposal to Establish a London-wide Race Equality Unit

London Forum of Ethnic Arts Officers and MAAS: A new forum to discuss the arts of the African, Caribbean, Asian, Chinese and Vietnamese Communities in Tower Hamlets 2 March 1986 Meeting Agenda

London Forum of Ethnic Arts Officers and MAAS: Black and Ethnic Arts Forum Launch Programme at the Whitechapel Art Gallery on 2 March 1986. Guest Speaker Parminder Vir. Other speakers: Praveen Bahl, Junior Douglas, Shweta Otiv

London Forum of Ethnic Arts Officers and MAAS: Letter from Tower Hamlets Ethnic Arts Officer to Parminder Vir GLC Race Equality Unit Invitation to speak at the launch of the Tower Hamlets Black and Ethnic Arts Forum dated 23 January 1986

London Borough of Tower Hamlets Black and Ethnic Arts Forum Programme April 1986

Roundhouse Black Arts Centre: Question from Mr Tony Banks MP to the Secretary of State for the Environment on funding from the London Residuary Body for the Roundhouse Black Arts Centre, Monday 21 April 1986.

Anti-Apartheid Movement Festival Programme

The Elbow Room Presents Unrecorded Truths, April 16 to May 16 1986

GLC Race Equality Unit and Divemay Films invitation to screening of Mandela by Lionel N’Gakane at BAFTA, 9th January 1986

Filmotsav 1986 Hyderabad, India: A Third World Women's Film Programme, 13-20 January 1986 Festival Pass

International Broadcasting Trust Annual Report 1985

Edinburgh Festival 1986 - Assembly Theatre Programme

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Aurat Shakti Exhibition: Press Release

The Black Experience Arts Programme: C.L.R. James - Man of the People Exhibition

A Third World Women's Film Programme 13-20 January 1986, Filmotsav 86, Hyderabad, India: Photographs

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair, Programme Leaflets, Brixton Recreation Centre

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Association (BMA) Presents Jazz Warriors

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance Team Meetings, March 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance Billy Banks Consultant Contract

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance Seminar Budget prepared by Billy Banks

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance: Invitation and information to participants

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Music Fair 86 Business Behind Performance: Draft Invite Letters

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Caribbean Labour In Revolt, Press Release

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Caribbean Labour In Revolt, Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Reflections of the Black Experience Photographers Invoices

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Reflections of the Black Experience Photographers Exhibition, The Triangle Arts Centre, Birmingham, Press Release

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Black Arts Showcase, Inovice

The Black Experience Arts Programme: From Generation to Generation (Installation), OBAALA Arts Collective, Brixton Recreation Centre

Ken Livingstone Presents Cheque to the Mozart Estate Youth Club GLC New Service Press Announcement

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Note of press interested interviewing Parminder Vir about the programme

Third World Within: Artsits on Show Exhibition

Black Experience Arts Programme: Womens' Work Newsletter on the Reflections of the Black Experience Ten Photographers Exhibition The Triangle Arts Centre

Same Difference Exhibition by Camerawork, July 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Press Article by Virginia Dignam, Morning Star, December 1985

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James Press Coverage

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, 21st February to 15th March 1986, Riverside Studios Press Release

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Biographical Introduction by Margaret Busby, February 1985

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Preparation for Launch on 7th February 1986 and Information on all the programmes commissioned

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James and an exhibition of his life by Creation for Liberation at Riverside Studios, Flyers

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Greater London Film Script Competition, Information Pack and Application

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Greater London Film Script Competition, Handwritten List of Winners and Tutors

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Press Release, Riverside Studios

The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Interviews with CLR James

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Biographical information about Director and Cast

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Colours of Black, A Black Arts Showcase Catalogue

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Colours of Black, A Black Arts Showcase Press Release and Invitation

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Life and Work of Rajani Palme Dutt Exhibtion Booklet

The Black Experience Arts Programme: The Life and Work of Rajani Palme Dutt Exhibition Poster and Press Cutting from the Morning Star

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Uthingo presents Amakhosi Press Pack

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Invitation from Lord Birkett, Director, Department of Recreation Arts and Ken Little, Chair Ethnic Arts Sub-Committee Arts, and Press release to the launch of the Black Experience Arts Programme on 7th February 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Press Release for the Black Experience Arts Programme 15th Janaury 1986

Black Artists White Institutions Conference and Arts Council: GLC Race Equality Unit meeting notes to discuss the Arts Council Ethnic Minorites Arts Action Plan, January 1986

Black Artists White Institutions Conference and Arts Council: Handwritten draft letter to Anthony Everitt and instructions for its distribution

Black Artists White Institutions Conference and Arts Council: Letter from Anthony Everitt, 4th February 1986, to Parminder Vir, responding to her letter dated 28th January 1986, inviting her and speakers to a meeting.

Arts Council: Photography and Ethnic Minority Arts Agenda and Information Pack, 6th February 1986

Arts Council: The Arts and Ethnic Minorities Action Plan, February 1986, Press Release and Equal Opportunity Statement

Arts Council: The Arts and Ethnic Minorities Action Plan, February 1986 , letter from Luke Rittner

Arts Council: The Arts and Ethnic Minorities Action Plan, February 1986, Parminder Vir notes on Press Release and Action Plan

Arts Council: Letter to Parminder Vir from Barry Lane About Black Photographers, 7th Janaury 1986

Black Artists White Institutions Conference and Arts Council: Letter to Praveen Bhal, Anti-Racist Outreach Worker, GLC Race Equality Unit, from Pippa Smith, dated 10th Janaury 1986, regarding Black Artists White Institutions Conference

Black Artists White Institutions Conference and Arts Council: Letter to Parminder Vir from Praveen Bhal, Anti-Racist Outreach Worker, GLC Race Equality Unit, 20th January 1986, regarding Arts Council

The Black Experience Art Programme: Photographs from the Programme Launch on 7th February 1986, Commonwealth Institute

Greater London Council Campaign for a Popular Culture from 1981 to 1986 Publication of Achievments across Community Arts, Ethnic Arts and Mainstream Arts

GLC Women's Committee Bulletin: Black and Ethnic Minority Women Special Issue 27 March 1986

Women Alive: A Summer Event for Women at South Bank Polytechnic, 5th and 6th July 1986

Arts and Recreation Committee: Urgent Report on Grants Funds Available 1985-86 on 17th February 1986

London Forum of Ethnic Arts Officers and MAAS: Notice of Forum Meeting and Letter Invitation to Independent Inquiry on alleged racism in GLA, 18th February 1986, to the first meeting of the Inquiry on 5th March 1986

National Film and Television School (NFTS) Women’s Group Open Meeting held at the Women's Place on 10 March 1986. Parminder Vir, Chair of the Panel on Experiences and Needs of Black and Ethnic Minority Women in Film Training.

Ethnic Minorities Unit: Proposal to Establish an Association of London Authorities (ALA) Race Equality Unit

GLC Paul Robeson Exhibition: Letter from JD Douglas to Parminder Vir, 14th February 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Twelve Days at the Roundhouse Black Arts Centre, Parminder Vir Interviews Shashi Kapoor on 31st March 1986. Press Cuttings and Parminder Vir's Handwritten Questions

International Broadcasting Trust Publication

Who's Who in Arts Management 1986: Parminder Vir's entry into the publication

Farewell Letter from Balbir Sangha Deptartmental Personnel Officer, to Parminder Vir, Head of Race Equality Unit, Department of Recreation and Arts, 25 March 1986

Harrison Birtwistle, World Premiere of The Mask of Orpheus at the English National Opera (ENO), 21 May to 26 June 1986, leaflet

Brent Leisure presents Matra: Shujaat Khan, Slawomir Kulpowicz, Ghulam Sarwar Sabri, World Premier Performance, Brent Town Hall, 18 April 1986

Camden Festival 1986: Jazz Week 17 to 22 March 1986, Shaw Theatre featuring Courtney Pine Quintet, Loose Tubes, Melba Liston with Gale Force 17, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Camden Festival 1986: International Music and Dance Programme brochure, March 1986

Camden Festival 1986: Opera, March 1986 at The Place and Bloomsbury Theatre

Chingari: The Spark: A Celebration of Asian Popular Culture Presented by GLC & Roundhouse in Association with the Academy of Performing Arts & Music at Royal Albert Hall on 4, 5 and 6 March 1986

Reba Bhaduri, Asian Music Presented by Wandsworth Ethnic Minorities Arts and Libraries Service, 27 April 1986

Black Dance Forum: Letter of funding, invoice and payment to publish a register and continue the Black Dance Circuit from Parminder Vir, Head of Race Equality Unit, 26 March 1986

Black Dance Forum: Post GLC Abolition. Name changed to The Dance Forum. Statement to Funding Bodies, 20 September 1986

Dance Theatre of Harlem at London Coliseum, 1-12 July 1986, as part of the London Dance Festival 1986, Leaflet

Dance Theatre of Harlem at London Coliseum, 1-12 July 1986, as part of the London Dance Festival 1986, Programme

Black Experience Arts Programme: From Coffee Beans to Disinfectant, Greta Mendez, Choreographer and Director, Programme leaflet

Black Dance Circuit: Letter from L’Acadco Dance to Alex Pascal, Caribbean Focus86 copied to Black Dance Circuit staff, 7 March 1986

Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre at Shaw Theatre, 9 and 12 April 1986, Programme Brochure

Caribbean Focus 1986 presents Carl Campbell Dance Co 7 at GLC Royal Festival Hall, 11 January to 29 March 1986

Black Dance Forum: Notice of a Meeting of the Management Committee to be held on 18 June 1986, Africa Centre

Black Dance Circuit: January Programme: Traditional Dance: Draft copy of the programme to Parminder Vir from the Black Dance Circuit team for review, January 1986

Black Dance Circuit: February Programme: Contemporary Dance Programme Leaflet, 19-26 February 1986

Black Dance Circuit: December 1985, Janaury, February and March 1986, Cover Page of Programme Leaflets

Black Dance Circuit: March Programme: Dance Fusions Programme Leaflet, 9-23 March 1986

Black Dance Circuit: January Programme: Traditional Dance: Programme Leaflet, 15 Janaury to 1 February 1986

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre West End: Little Clay Cart, Tara Arts production from 9 January to 1 February 1986, Press Reviews

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Rakshasa's Ring, a play by Visakhadatta, Directed by Anton Phillips, starring Renu Setna, Wyllie Longmore from 6 February to 1 March 1986. Press Reviews

British Theatre Association: Membership Brochure

Double Edge Theatre Company: Remnant, written and directed by Derrick Blackwood, Touring Schedule from 26 September to 12 October 1986, Programme brochure.

Black Theatre Co-operative presents Waiting for Hannibal by Yemi Ajibade, directed by Yemi Ajibade and Burt Caesar at The Drill Hall Art Centre, from 3-21 June 1986, Programme Brochure

Temba The Black Theatre Company: Education and Outreach Tour 6 January to 1 February 1986: A Double Bill Presentation of Chameleon by Michael Ellis and All You Deserve by Debbie Horsfield Tour Schedule

Temba The Black Theatre Company: Forthcoming London Season of Mama Decemba, The Pirate Princess, Chameleon, and All You Deserve in a letter from Alby James, Artistic Director, dated 3 Janaury 1986

Talawa Theatre Company presents An Echo in the Bone, a play by Dennis Scott, directed by Yvonne Brewster at The Drill Hall Arts Centre, 24 June to 19 July 1986, Programme Leaflet and a letter dated 6 June to Parminder Vir, Post GLC

Club MC Riverside Studios by arrangement with LWT and Channel 4, hosted by Pretty Boy Wayne featuring The Dynamic 3, Banana Boat Company, Shikisa, Yetunde Otuwehinmi, Alumni, plus Benjamin Zephaniah, 15-19 July 1986

The Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company Tour of Britain as part of the Commonwealth Institute's Caribbean Focus 86' from 30 July to 16 August 1986. Leaflet

Riverside Studios Monthly Newsletter, July 1986. Post GLC Day of Debate

Riverside Studios Montly Newsletter May 10th Anniversary Issue

Riverside Studios: The State of Play, A symposium on new theatre in Britain, 30 to 31 August 1986. Leaflet

Shikisha Arts at Riverside Studios, 15 and 16 July 1986. Leaflet

The Sistren Theatre Collective: Sistern Magazine April 1986, published in Jamaica

Tara Arts Group: Funding Appeal application for Tara Arts Centre

Tara Arts Group: Tara Arts Centre opens with an arts programme from January to March 1986, Programme Brochure

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Miti Ki Gadi - The Little Clay Cart by Tara Arts Gropu, Programme Brochure

Club MC Riverside Studios by arrangement with LWT and Channel 4 from 15-19 July 1986, Programme Leaflet

GLC Black Theatre Forum Open Membership Meeting held on 16 February 1986 at Tara Arts Centre, Agenda and Discussion Paper to Parminder Vir dated 10 February 1986

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: The Pirate Princess, a Jamaican Pantomime by Barbara Gloudon, Music by Felix Cross, Co-directed by Alby James and Paulette Randall, at The Arts Theatre, 5 -29 March 1986, Programme

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: The Pirate Princess, a Jamaican Pantomime by Barbara Gloudon, Music by Felix Cross, Co-directed by Alby James and Paulette Randall, at The Arts Theatre, 5 -29 March 1986, Programme

The Market Theatre of Johannesburg presents Born in the R.S.A., directed by Barney Simon, at The Tricycle Theatre, June 1986

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: Race Equality Unit Assessment of the Third Black Theatre Season Report, 1986

Foco Novo and Birmingham Rep Studio Theatre present The Lower Depths - An East End Story by Tunde Ikoli, at Tricycle Theatre from 8 April to 3 May 1986

GLC Third Black Theatre Season: The Little Clay Cart by Tara Arts Group at The Arts Theatre, 9 January to 1 February 1986 Programme Brochure

Charabanc Theatre Company: Letter from Administrator to Parminder Vir post GLC

Moon On A Rainbow Shawl by Errol John, at Theatre Royal Stratford East, directed by Errol John, from 15 March to April 1986 as part of GLC Farewell Festival

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Rakshasa's Ring, directed by Anton Phillips, starring Renu Setna, from 6 February to 1 March, Programme Brochure

GLC Third Black Theatre Season, Produced by Black Theatre Forum at Arts Theatre, West End: Rakshasa's Ring, directed by Anton Phillips, starring Renu Setna, from 6 February to 1 March, Leaflet

Alterations a play by Michael Abbensetts at the Theatre Royal Stratford, 1986

The New Shaw Theatre Company presents The Negro Ensemble Company Production of Home by Samm-Art Williams at the Shaw Theatre, from 28 May to 15 June 1985

The Wooster Group at Riverside Studios on 21 August to 6 September 1986, Press Relase, Programme and Press articles

Black Theatre Forum - Open Membership Meeting 16 February 1986 at Tara Arts Group, Minutes of the meeting. Chairperson, Alby James, Treasurer Jatinder Verma

An Exhibition of Drawings by Denzil Forrester, Commonwealth Institute, April 1986: Poster

The Black Experience Arts Programme: From Generation to Generation (Installation), OBAALA Arts Collective, Brixton Recreation Centre, 11th February to 4th March 1986, Poster

Some of us are Brave. All of us are Strong: Exhibition by and about Black Women, at the Black Art Gallery, 13th February to 15th March 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: From Generation to Generation (Installation), OBAALA Arts Collective, Birmingham April-June 1986

The Black Experience Arts Programme: Reflections of the Black Experience Photographers Exhibition, The Triangle Arts Centre, Birmingham, June 1986

Filmotsav 1986: A Third World Women's Film Programme from 13 to 20 January 1986, Hyderabad, India, curated by Parminder Vir, Programme Catalogue

GLC Race Equality Unit: Memo dated 26th February 1986 Audit - Race Equality Unit on Financial Management of three REU Programmes

Ethnic Arts Sub-Committee Note to the Leader of the Council from Ken Little, Vice Chair Arts and Recreation Committee, and Chair of Ethnic Arts Sub-Committee, 18 February 1986