ROGER GRIFFITH

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  • My Cultural Review of 2020 part two: Nos 11-20

     No11: Icon. David OlusogaI could award this for his Twitter feed alone. In a year of racial reckoning his insights and cultural crusade stood strong. Book. Talks. Essays. Bristol TV series https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b09l64y9/a-house-through-time and the BBC Obama interview. Peerless. No12: News. Christine Amanpour. CNNAn extraordinary year at home and abroad with podcasts and TV programme on…

  • My Cultural Review of 2020 part one: No 1-10

    No one needs reminding what an unforgettable year this has been. 2020 was the year health, race and economic pandemics joined the environmental pandemic a set of crises that I hope we will spend our futures overcoming collectively.Culture still stands strong as something that unites us all to enrich our mind, bodies and souls. The…

  • Windrush Generations: Digital Community Legacy Project

    Students and community members are being invited to help celebrate the Windrush Generation in Bristol in a joint project working with the local community from UWE Bristol. The collaboration will involve students working alongside generations of Caribbean community members to record and document the stories related to their lives in Bristol and Britain. The Windrush…

Articles by Roger

100 Years of Cinema: My Life On Screen, in Bristol Ideas

‘Bristol My Brizzle’ Poem  to celebrate Bristol’s 650th year incorporated as a city, Bristol Ideas

‘Tribute to Roy Hackett’ Personal Tribute to the life of Roy Hackett MBE, Bristol Bus Boycott champion

‘Lift The Rock of Racism’ Published Bristol Post following Colston statue removal, 16th June 2020

‘Statues of Limitations & Inspirations’ – Reflections post Colston on Roger’s encounters with the Good, Bad & Ugly with Statues, Monuments & Memorials  1st Sept 2020

‘Migrant Stories are Filled With Individual Heroism’ Published Bristol 24/7 – Windrush Day 22nd June 2020

‘Communities of Colour Are Ignored by the Environmental Movement’ Published by Bristol 24/7 14th June 2021

‘How BAME Groups have been disproportionately affected by Covid-19’

‘Take A To Remember The Fearless Campaigners.’ Remembering the anniversary of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott: 28th August 2020

‘Looking Black to Malcolm X’ Reflections on the life of Malcolm X on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

‘My Dreams, Hopes and Fears for 2021 in Bristol and Beyond.’ Published by Bristol 24/7 – 8th January 2021

Contributions

Projects and On-stage Productions

  • City Conversations

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/first-city-conversation-announced-part-1510162

  • Sisters With Voices I & Sisters With Voices II
  • 50 Voices for Malcolm X I & 50 Voices for Malcolm X II

https://www.bristol247.com/culture/theatre/review-50-voices-for-malcolm-x-bov

  • Soul Music Live with Radio 4 

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bbc-radio-4-ujima-radios-soul-music-live

  • Presenter as The G-Man Radio. Bristol’s Big Conversation & Old Skool Cruising Show

VIDEOS & YOU TUBE LINKS

·       See our YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@creativeconnex

Press Coverage and Interviews

·       Roger Griffith MBE on ‘What is Windrush?’ – Alive Activities, 15 June 2023

·       ‘Migrant stories are filled with individual heroism’ – Bristol 24/7, 28 June 2022

·       Bristol academy adopts diversity curriculum – BBC News, 16 November 2021

·       Bristol: Colston’s toppling sparked ‘vital’ debate in US – BBC News, 13 November 2021

·       Windrush Day: Bristol students’ art honours West Indian elders – BBC News, 22 June 2021

·       Telling the story of the Bristol Bus Boycott – Bristol 24/7, 17 November 2020

·       Being Bristol. Being British. Being Black – by Roger Griffith | M Shed 21 September 2020

·       https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/it-time-lift-rock-racism-4230523 – Bristol Post, 16 June 2020

Radio

·       Reflect w/ Roger Griffith– Noods Radio, 7 June 2021