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Join National Maritime Museum for a free family festival celebrating the Windrush generation.

Experience a fantastic series of Caribbean-inspired workshops, talks and performances, and discover your own Windrush connections with Royal Museums Greenwich partners, the Caribbean Social Forum.

Check out what's on below, and keep an eye on our website for more information.

Event highlights: 
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Watch new emerging musicians and spoken word artists with Caribbean connections perform in our first ever 'music jam', designed and developed by young people.

See historical figures come to life as part of a series of performances known as 'Walking Images' developed by the Caribbean Social Forum. Find the characters around the Museum, ask questions and hear their stories from Caribbean history.

FUN AND GAMES
Vocal Workshops 
Come and sing with performer Sharon Rose, fresh from her run as Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre).

Calypso Dancing 
Watch or join in body-shaking Calypso dance workshops with Carol Morelle, and experience Caribbean dance culture first hand.

Family Activities 
Take part in creative workshops throughout the day. Come and make your own Windrush flag with artist Shane D'Allessandro and get artistic with multi-disciplinary artist and activist, Zita Holbourne.

Dominoes 
Watch or join in with dominoes matches Caribbean-style, and take on the friendly but feisty players from the Caribbean Social Forum.

FAMILY HISTORY
Family Connections 
Explore your family connections to Windrush and the Caribbean through a family history workshop hosted by the Library and Archive team, and a talk given by the Caribbean Family History Group (Solihull and Birmingham).

Reminiscence Workshops 
Take part in workshops designed to open up your family’s memories of the Caribbean, inspired by objects and images in the National Maritime Museum's collections.

Windrush Stories 
Reunite with other members of the Windrush generation, and share your experiences of overseas journeys between the Caribbean and the UK with the Caribbean Social Forum.

TALKS AND TOURS
Engage with a range of speakers as part of our free talks programme.

Discover the cultural significance and impact of sound systems in the UK with arts organisation Lin Kam Art. The talk will include a screening of the short film ‘Lin Kam Art Sound System Futures Programme’ by Adam Razvi, which tells the story of the groundbreaking pilot to provide access for young people at the 2022 Notting Hill Carnival.

Be inspired by the stories of the Windrush generation - and hear about their legacies - through panel discussions and films with Windrush elders, event speakers and Museum staff.

Learn about Caribbean family history and connections to Tilbury Docks with Evewright Studios and celebrate influential women of the Windrush generation with historian Stella Dadzie.

Royal Museums Greenwich curators will also be sharing objects and stories from the collections with Caribbean connections.

ART AND COMMUNITY
Find out about local community heroes through a display of new portraits developed by the Caribbean Social Forum.

Don't miss the new display of digital artworks, commissioned by current Practitioners in Residence, The Collective Makers.

”The Windrush arrival marked a turning point, when Caribbeans came here to help re-build Britain, to work in the transport system, factories and the newly created NHS. So for those who had to overcome so much adversity, it has great significance” - Baroness Floella BenjaminTheSpiri