Poster: Gold and Fire - Steve Biko
Object
Poster
Production date
4/7/1991
Object number
1991.254
Physical Description
Poster for 'Gold and Fire' at the Hackney Empire.
Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s. Events to raise awareness, such as these, were popular in the area.
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage.
Ujamma Arts Ujamaa Arts has been promoted black theatre and culture ever since its founders came to Britain in 1981 from Ghana. It ran ran the 'Planet Hackney' project which attempted to show school students in the borough where they had come from and their history from 1900-2000.
Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s. Events to raise awareness, such as these, were popular in the area.
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage.
Ujamma Arts Ujamaa Arts has been promoted black theatre and culture ever since its founders came to Britain in 1981 from Ghana. It ran ran the 'Planet Hackney' project which attempted to show school students in the borough where they had come from and their history from 1900-2000.
Object history
Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s. Events to raise awareness, such as these, were popular in the area.
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage.
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage.
Associated Organisation
Ujamaa Arts (Produced for)
Material
Paper
Dimension
Height: 420mm
Width: 296mm
Width: 296mm
Exhibition Label
Hackney in Solidarity with South Africa
Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s. Events to raise awareness
were popular in the area. Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage.
People Power: Black British Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
4 October 2016 to 21 January 2017
Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s. Events to raise awareness
were popular in the area. Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage.
People Power: Black British Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
4 October 2016 to 21 January 2017
Gold and Fire...
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage. Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s.
Ujamma Arts’ founders came to Britain from Ghana in 1981 and ran projects in Hackney to show school students in the borough where they had come from and their history.
Being African in Hackney: 1960s-2020s
14 September 2021 to 14 February 2022
Stephen Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the Black Consciousness Movement. His death in police custody caused widespread outrage. Opposition against apartheid, the system for racial segregation in South Africa, was growing in Hackney throughout the 1980s.
Ujamma Arts’ founders came to Britain from Ghana in 1981 and ran projects in Hackney to show school students in the borough where they had come from and their history.
Being African in Hackney: 1960s-2020s
14 September 2021 to 14 February 2022
On display?
No