A Windrush suitcase.
- Credit: Hackney council
Hackney community groups are being asked to apply for microgrants to help celebrate, commemorate and educate people about the valuable contributions of the Windrush generation.
Microgrants between £500 and £1000 are available to community groups and events or activities selected will be part of the borough s Windrush Generations Festival in June 2021, or as part of the council s ongoing work to honour the community and its heritage throughout the year.
The funds are available to local groups and not-for-profit organisations, to be used for projects such as online exhibitions, cultural and intergenerational events, digital skills training, historical collections, films, writing workshops and more.
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Yayoi Kusama,
Dancing Pumpkin, 2020. Courtesy: the artist Otis Fine Arts, Tokyo, David Zwirner, New York and the New York Botanical Garden
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New York Botanical Garden, USA
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the selection of nimtim architects with artist Katie Schwab for the Becontree Estate’s public realm commission. Looking to redesign 12 neglected and underused corner plots across the estate, the project reimagines these areas as new civic squares in East London.
On the centenary of the estate, RIBA in collaboration with Create London and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) is celebrating Becontree’s past and reimagining its future. Six emerging and mid-career architectural practices were invited to propose a way to make neglected corner plots of the estate more valuable spaces for the community, a brief developed in conversation with the community.
When it was built after the first world war, Becontree in Dagenham was billed as the world’s largest ever housing estate – a modern utopia where more than 100,000 war veterans and workers from Dagenham in east London would have an inside toilet, a proper bathroom and gardens front and back. A hundred years after the first “home for heroes” was completed in 1921, Becontree’s centenary is being marked by a series of events and public realm.
The world s largest council estate 100 years on: Pioneering Becontree that was built for 100,000 WWI veterans and workers in east London in 1921 marks its century.with two England football managers among its famous past residents
Becontree estate was built after the First World War for veterans and workers with 100,000 moving there
Since 1921, many famous names have lived there including football managers Alf Ramsey and Terry Venables
Today, around 85,000 people live on the housing estate with range of plans in place to celebrate its centenary