Bookfair 89 (Peckham Bookplace Bookfair) Part 3
digital file Colour Sound 1989 60:54
Summary: Part 3 of 3 of "Bookfair 89 (Peckham Bookplace Bookfair)", a record of the annual Bookfair organised by The Bookplace and Peckham Publishing Project, based on Peckham High Street.
Title number: 21851
LSA ID: LSA/28555
Description: 00.00 Opening title: Book Fair 89 Going Home & music (‘Caribbean Queen’) Montage section, GVs outside tenants’ hall. Face painting. 07.55 Ext. GVs of visitors outside. London All Star Steel Band playing and cutaways of resident enjoying music. 11.40 Int, Margaret Russell [from Southwark Black Consortium] storytelling with children, 16.57 title card: Book Fair 89, Dance Workshop. Cut to children dancing in to drums. Carole Pollard dance workshop with children. Musician playing bongo drum and clapping with children. 28.06 Tap Dance session [Dance Co 7] (background music) . 28.12 Title card: book Fair 89 Tap Dance. Children are taught seated in the round, clapping and chair exercises followed by standing dancing and exercises together [some backing track music, check rights]. 51.17 GVs outside of Tenant’s Hall (Camden Estate, Peckham) and slow pan LR over estate shops fronts. 51.40 - Closing event - Judy Leslie thanks everyone and introduces new Mayor Tony Ritchie to say a few words. Judy also thanks Cllrs Winston Stafford and Debbie Welch for coming. Mayor Tony Ritchie pays tribute and thanks to The Bookplace for putting on the event and with over 500 children attending. "It shows very clearly what the community can do for the community... I have known The Bookplace for a numbers of years now, and there is no other body in this borough that has done more for grassroots development than The Bookplace has. As long as I am Mayor of this Borough, I will do all in my power…to ensure that The Bookplace is adequately and continuously funded into the 1990s…” 55.33 Title card: Book Fair 89, Outro music (‘It takes Two’ by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock) 56.05 I/VslLocal residents speaking about the success of the event, GVs outside. [possibly Cllr Hassan Vahib speaking? later chair of Race Equality in 1992].
58.57 Credits (& music ‘Redemption Song’ instrumental) Organised by Judy Leslie, Richard Gray Also Bookplace staffs Carole Dennis, Gayle Noel, Betty Hammond, Annette Wilson. Book Place Programme 1989 1.00.51 Carl-Video Production 1.01.01 ends
Credits: Carl-Video Productions (Filmmaker)
Cast: London All Star Steel Band; Lorraine Simeon; Carole Pollard; Dance Co 7; Black Mime Theatre; Richard Gray; Judy Leslie
Further information: This is an extract from the video "Bookfair 89 (Peckham Bookplace Bookfair)" (LSA/28555). The original film is a record of the annual Bookfair organised by The Bookplace and Peckham Publishing Project, based on Peckham High Street. The fair took place at Camden Estate tenants’ hall in Peckham over three days, and featured live performances and entertainment for local residents including lots of families and children. The performances include music from the London All Star Steel Band, poetry readings by Lorraine Simeon, a dance workshop by Carole Pollard, a tap dance workshop by Carl Campbell’s Dance Co 7, theatre performance by Black Mime Theatre, and childrens’ entertainment and storytelling sessions facilitated by Bookplace workers Richard Gray and Judy Leslie.
Keywords: Theatre; Children; Arts; Storytelling
Locations: Camden Estate, Peckham
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