Passing the Time Through Rhythm & Rhyme on the Windrush
Sun 18 Jun
|Zoom Event
WAPPY will be re-running an amazing, free workshop for young people that explores the Windrush Generation through Rhythm and Rhyme during this fun, interactive after-school workshop. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86454508695?pwd=a1BydTJP
Time & Location
18 Jun 2023, 16:00 – 18:00
Zoom Event
Guests
About the Event
June 22nd this year Britain will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Windrush (‘Windrush Day’), when 500 migrants arrived at Tilbury Docks in London, from Jamaica via Bermuda, Trinidad, Cuba, and Mexico (Polish Jew refugees living there) in 1948. Amongst them were 86 children. Have you ever wondered how they passed the time during the journey? Why not Zoom In Sunday, 18th June from 4 pm onwards for a Windrush-themed WAPPY online session?
Visitors are invited to share real and imagined stories, rhymes and their memories of ring games. 4.00 pm-5 pm is for ages 4-11s; we will create cardboard/paper cut-out, of Windrush boats. From 5. pm -6 pm - pm ages 12-18/WAPPY Pioneers & Elders are welcome to join in for a Windrush/Black History & West London quiz, storytelling and a chance for any Windrush generation members to share our ‘back home’/childhood 'ring and rhyming games’. The aim is to…