Colour picture showing two people talking in an office (possibly BTF), including Oscar Watson, the organisation's co-ordinator. The black and white image shows an unidentified female (possibly artist).
Showing people - possibly actors - rehearsing or leading a workshop in a community centre. Also shots of kids playing outside a building in summertime.
Colour pictures showing old people eating and dancing and a still-band playing music in what could be a South London community hall. Mixed crowd of Black and White persons. Some of the shots have been cut at the top.
Thumbnail strips showing people talking at a conference table, possibly as part of the Black Theatre Season activities. Among them are directors Yvonne Brewster and Renu Setna.
Photographs of actors and directors including: Syreeta Kumar, James Danton, T-Bone Wilson, Beresford Leroy (x2), Yvonne Brewster, John Matshikiza (x2).
Includes: The Bulletin of the National Sound Archive 1998; ldeaflet: The Gallery of the Future; Shock Waves - Portsmouth: an exploration of the creative and social impacts of the new technologies and new physics on the Arts; The Opera Factory (letter) presents And the Snake Shed Its Skin; programme from the Museum of London; Evolving Links, the 1998 Community music conference event presented by Sound Sense (leaflet ); Between the Worlds, Integrated Arts practice for people with profound disabilities (leaflet ); Second National Street Arts Meeting organised by the South East Arts Local Authority Street Arts Consortium; The Drum: programme; The Royal Court Theatre programme, April-June 1998; The Lewisham Theatre Diary of Events, April - June 1998; TheTricycle Theatre: three leaflets presenting Pieter Dirk Uly, Europeans Only, An African Audition for Europe by Polly Irvin; The Basset Table by Polly Irvin; Sitting in Limbo by Dawn Penso and Judy Hepburn directed by Anton Phillips.
Includes: Queerfest '98, The West Midland's first festival of Lesbian, Gay and Queer contemporary arts; City of London Festival 1998 programme; Womad Festival; play: The Way of the Warrior presented by the Asia House - 1998 International Workshop Festival; Festival of Central European Culture 1998, programme; London New Play Festival - 10th Season Anniversary 1998 (copy); Birmingham Readers & Writers Festival, programme of events; The International Workshop festival: A Common Pulse: A body of Knowledge - London Studio Centre 1998; Apna Festival 1998 programme; Islington International Festival 1998; The Yaa Asantewaa Art and Community centre Annual Theatre (letter) promoting writers P.J. Cobham, Jimi Rand among others and giving dates and listing the venues of performances of A Date to Remember; The Second Noel; Savage Love; Stuggart; Semblance of Maddness; Ludlow Fair; The Web; Wired to the Moon; The Bear.
Theatre play leaflets include: Illegal Immigrant presented by the Blue Mountain Theatre; Black Theatre Co-operative presents The Empire Strikes Back at the Union Chapel; Azadi, the Story of Freedom, presented by Man Mela Theatre company; Everybody Knows All Birds Have Wings by Randhi McWilliams; (copy) Positive Mental Attitude by Anthony Gunter; programmes from the Africa Centre; The Artist Behind the Mask: courses and workshops from the Centre for Expressive Arts featuring Merle Van den Bosch, John Wright, Veronica Needa, Mojisola Adebayo, Rick Zoltowski; Kuumba Project: Afrikan Caribbean Theatre; 1998 Black History Month; Black Men's Forum National Conference: Men of African Descent Overcoming Social Exclusion; Independent Theatre Council: fast track training in the Arts for Black and Asian People; The Drum Talk: Sound Bites newsletters issues 4 and 5; ScriptCity presents Black Coral Training, a three-year programme on screenwriting for Black people and other ethnic minority groups.
Some photographs are credited Amrando Atkinson. Single portrait shots of various artists and two unidentified persons. Others include Anton Phillips at the Riverside Studio. Promotional leaflet of IDAF publications Ltd on the book on Nelson Mandela's struggle (1990). Photograph of the cast of the 1987 Black Theatre Season showing Isabelle Lucas, Corrine Skinner Carter, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Amanda Holt, Jason Rose, Lenny ALgernon Edwards, Yazmin Judd, Ronny Cush, Alan E. Moncrieff-Smith, Shango Baku, Daryn Ives, Malcolm Frederick, Chris Tummingo, Victor Romeo Evans, Dereck Walcott x2 (printer proof and print from it), Mushtahir Ghani (model card), playwright Edgar White, theatre director John Matshikiza x3, Roger Griffiths, Vincent Wong x3, Paulette Randall.
South Africa K-Cap: We Are Alive Kids a musical production (including two pictures); August Wilson's Seven Guitars by Huntington Theatre company 1995 (US); National Black Art festival '92 (US) includes leaflets, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 1992 Roots and Branches Folk Festival, Andrew Hinton Gallery, 'Siamga Tire' the National Folk Theatre of Ireland; Future Histories conference on the South Bank: workshop programme, copy of article on American painter Archibald John Motley, Jr. , City of Atlanta; calendar of festivals and special event for 1992, American theatre company Crossroad, Atlanta visitor guide; biographies on Paul Robeson, Phyllis Yvonne Sticney, Maya Angelou and Dionne Warwick, Dallas Black Dance theatre in action (newspaper cutting); three black and white photographs of Avery Brooks (portrait), Jazz orchestra, Sheila's Day (Dance).
Letter from Autograph (ABP) the Association of Black Photographers to BTF about a research project on photographing Black performance (c.1992). Programmes include: Black History Month (1997); Umoja - Nine the Nights by G. Hamilton; Carl Campbell Dance company; Phoenix Dance Company (November 1992); Conference: Ancient Futures - The Albany Theatre and Irie (1996); The Uhuru Newsletter of African Students (May 1993); The Art of Regeneration (1996) - international conference; Yaa Asantewaa's North Westminster one act play festival; Barclays New Stages - festival (July 1996); Riverside studio (May 1996); Trisha Brown Company; Centerprise Literature; Ikon Gallery (May - June 1996); Play Flyers include: The No Boys Cricket Club by R. Williams; Resurrection by M. Lawrence; Heart by Denise Wong; One Night by D. Dhingra; An Enchanted Land by D. Wasserman; Azadi - & # 145;The Story of Freedom by Dominic Raj; Josephine by M. Chadwick (on the Life of Josephine Baker); Exhibition flyer includes: Africa - the Art of a Continent, Royal Academy of Arts (1996); Asafo - South Bank (1992); Transatlantic Slavery, Merseyside Maritime Museum - Liverpool; The October Gallery - South Africa 1.
