An evening imagining the black Tudor trumpeter at The Great Chamber at Sutton House - a Tudor house in the heart of a thriving East London community - John Blanke Live! SYMPOSIUM -an open mike session where some of John Blanke Project contributors will be sharing how they imagined John Blanke. Their presentation develops what they said on JohnBlanke.com as they imagined the black Tudor trumpeter.

Comments from previous Symposia:
Another inspiring evening JB email
Great event....really informative BF email
An amazing evening shared EC Facebook
An outstanding evening SA Facebook

John Blanke’s image appears twice in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll currently in the College of Arms collection. He is noted in the courts accounts of the day as having being paid wages, other records have him successfully petitioning Henry VIII for a wage increase and receiving a gift from the king, these records are held in the National Archive at Kew.

The John Blanke Project is a work in progress which celebrates the life of John Blanke through a variety of media and art forms – writing, drawing, poetry, music, plays to date has over 50 individual contributions:

Artists Charmaine Watkiss • Chila Kumari Burman • Dan Farrimond • Ebun Culwin • Eugene Palmer • Fowokan • Graeme Mortimer Evelyn • Jeremy Salmon • Joe Lillington • Kimathi Donkor • Kofi • Larry Achiampong • Paul Dash • Peter McCaldon •Phoebe Boswell • Rohan Clarke • Stephen B. Whatley • Tam Joseph • Valda Jackson • Jon Daniel • Barbara Walker • Seema Manchanda • Jody Burton • Keith Piper • Joy Gregory • Mengitsu Etim • Adelaide Damoah • Nathan Bowen • Holly Graham • Jane Porter • Rose Wilkinson • Ormond Noonan Historians Dr Temi Odumosu • Audrey Dewjee • Dr Miranda Kaufmann • Dr Sydney Anglo • Onyeka • Dan Lyndon • Marika Sherwood • Robin Walker • S I Martin • Avril Nanton Rap Phil Hall • Valentine Ogunga • Christian Albert Poets David Neita • Sheba Montserrat • Kadija George •SuAndi • John Agard • Mark Thompson Composer/Musicians Randolph Matthews • Shirley J. Thompson Playwright DD Armstrong Actors Nadia Nadif • Leon Stewart Voice Ebun Culwin Trumpeter Lance Corporal Lawrence Narhkom of the Royal Armoured Corps

Image: Stephen B. Whatley, Tribute to John Blanke, (2015), Charcoal on paper, A4