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With the support of Professor Lola Young, in 2001 Future Histories began setting up an archive space at Middlesex University Bounds Green Campus to house and preserve black theatre archives with the...

Future Histories was officially incorporated on 12 July 2001 by Terracciano and McConnell, respectively Chair and Company Secretary. They were joined on the Board of Directors by black artists,...

In the early 2000s Terracciano and McConnell negotiated the move of the Black Theatre Forum archive to Middlesex University for preservation and public access. They saw the benefits of setting up an...

As part of her PhD research on the history of black theatre in Britain, Alda Terracciano engaged with the archive and collected material on the Black Theatre Seasons. To prevent the loss of the...

Jeremy Conlon, Ameena M. McConnell, Mel Jennings, John Shevon, Jenny Bernard, and Shabaka Thompson at the Yaa Asantewa Centre offered to privately host the Forums' archive, which was boxed up and...

When the Arts Council England stopped funding the Black Theatre Forum, its Board of Directors was forced to close the office at Oval House and split the...

In 1995 the Black Theatre Forum organised the Future Histories conference at the South Bank Centre in London, which attracted over 200 delegates, to discuss the future of black theatre in the UK and...

The Black Theatre Forum was formed in 1985 as an umbrella organisation of seventeen African, Caribbean, and Asian theatre companies to stimulate the development of black theatre in Britain and promote...

Choirs

ERE was produced by the Bando de Teatro Olodum Company, a collaborative project between Brazil and the United Kingdom, and presented as part of the London International Festival of Theatre. The Black...

Choirs

Kodak colour photographs of the Blacapella group rehearsing and socialising.

Choirs

File includes contracts, membership details, gig lists, and some publicity documents such as press releases.

Set in Trinidad, where Errol John came from, the play focuses on the story of two lovers, Ephraim and Rose. It explores Ephraim's attempts to break away from the island and move to London to seek his...