Remembering the Grenada Revolution

Black Cultural Archives

Remembering the Grenada Revolution; Showcasing the Jacqueline Creft Memorial Collection at Black Cultural Archives

Showcasing the Jacqueline Creft Memorial Collection at Black Cultural Archives with Chris Searle and Connie Bell (<a href="https://www.decolonisingthearchive.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Decolonising the Archive</a>) An evening of discussion and reflection on the Grenada revolution with new generation thinkers, practitioners and researchers. Participants are invited to collectively reflect on the legacies and significance of the Grenada Revolution forty years on from it’s tragic demise, including in relation to themes such as decolonisation, women’s roles in liberation struggles, and the importance of education for the Grenada Revolution. The event will feature an ‘in conversation’ discussion with Chris Searle and Connie Bell (<a href="https://www.decolonisingthearchive.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DTA</a>), as well as presentations on key themes and materials gleaned from recent research conducted by researchers at <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/institute-advanced-studies-ias" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University College London (UCL). </a>The Jacqueline Creft Memorial Collection is dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline Creft, a founding leader of the New Jewel Movement and Minister of Education in the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) from 1980 to 1983. Creft was instrumental to the transformation of the educational system in Grenada under the PRG rule, coordinating hugely innovative mass education programmes to overturn practices inherited from colonialism and continued under the Gairy administration. The material in the collection was donated to Black Cultural Archives in 2019 by Chris Searle, a writer, teacher and radical educationalist, born in Romford, England in 1944, through his time spent in Grenada during the revolutionary period and his close involvement with the PRG. Chris Searle worked as a teacher trainer in Grenada during the PRG rule and became the National Co-Ordinator of the Revolution’s teacher education programme NISTEP (National In-Service Teacher Education Programme). Searle was also the main editor and writer of Fedon Publishers, the emergent publishing house of the revolutionary government and worked with Maurice Bishop to help write his speeches.Connie Bell is the co-founder of <a href="https://www.decolonisingthearchive.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Decolonising the Archive,</a> a cultural producer and memory worker based in the United Kingdom. Connie’s work contributes to the educational development of strategies and methods for the identification, formation and access of ‘the Pan African archive’ by people of African heritage. Programme<ul><li>Opening remarks and welcome from BCA</li><li>Archival showcase and presentations (Jacob Fairless Nicholson, Nathaniel Télémaque, Jasmine Roberts, UCL Geography)</li><li>Opening statements from Chris Searle and Connie Bell followed by an ‘in conversation’ discussion</li><li>Q&A / open discussion</li></ul>This event is kindly supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. The event will be audio recorded. Please contact <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/jacob-fairless-nicholson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/jacob-fairless-nicholson</a> for any queries

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