The Digging deep documentary film was selected for screening as part of the Workers Unite Film Festival 2020, hell annually in Manhattan, New York, USA but due to restrictions, the film festival was held virtually and successfully online. Read more at:
https://www.workersunitefilmfestival.org
https://www.workersunitefilmfestival.org/films-and-directors-2020
Want to have a try a stain-glass window making? Always thought how stain glass is designed, cut, shaped to make amazing glass art? Well, simply watch our live online heritage arts workshop, facilitated by Nottingham based renowned stain-glass artist, Stella Chadwick.
Email info@blackcoalminers.com for more information of how to get involved.
As featured in the Nottingham Post:
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/artist-creates-stained-glass-window-4664989
YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLxhFRe89Zs&t=15s
https://youtu.be/ZpisGRPWeBI
https://youtu.be/OENX4gFABsU
Contact Stella Chadwick at:
https://crackingglass.co.uk
The Black Miners Museum project. has created a customised, digital map to pin point the locations of various mining and industrial heritage museums and organisations that include black miners heritage and diverse industrial heritage within the collections.
Take a look (click the link) and visit as many as you can, in person or online.
https://viewer.mapme.com/black-miners-museum-project/
Want to see two pioneering documentary films that helped to document the experiences for British Black miners? Then book your seat at Cast Cinema Doncaster, Saturday 17th October 2020, 2.15pm for the double bill screening of Skin & Coal directed by Claudine Booth and channel 4 production first shown in 1987 and Digging Deep directed by Norma Gregory first shown in 2019. Light refreshments provided. Screening achieved in collaboration with Tim Brown and the Doncaster African Caribbean Group and Deborah Rees Cast Cinema.
BBC article:
Nottingham Trent University Conference 2019
11th July 2019, 10.30am-4pm
Clifton Campus
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2019/07/migrants-and-minorities-in-british-coalmining