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Bricktop!
Photos by Man Ray, 1928
Thank you to deviatesinc for unearthing these gorgeous Man Ray portraits of the inimitable Ada “Bricktop” Smith, nightclub owner and entertainer who was a mainstay in jazz age Paris.
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Ethel Waters, singer & all around performer, in On With The Show, 1929.
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FREENESS!! Soho: The Negro Quarter of Central London 1919-1939
The lovely people at the Equiano Centre’s Drawing Over the Colour Line project have just completed new research into the cafes, bars and clubs of London’s Soho between the wars.
The map is wonderful insight into the diverse nightlife and cafe society of interwar Soho thought of as “the negro quarter of central London” in the 1930s.
It explores 13 venues, from the Florence Mills Social Parlour opened by Pan-Africanist political activist Amy Ashwood Garvey (first wife to Marcus and FEARLESS BOSS LADY!!) to the Cafe de Paris, at the time London’s most fashionable venue, frequented by the rich and royal.
The map isn’t available to the public yet but they’ve let me a couple of copies to give away. If you’d like a one, drop me a line at lasca.sartoris@gmail.com and I’ll post it out to you.
We all like a bit of freeness innit!?!
“About Soho we went before the light;
We went, unresting six, craving new fun;
New scenes, new raptures; for the fevered night
Of rollicking laughter; drink and song, was done.”
- Claude McKay, La Paloma in London, 1922
Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London, 1919 – 1939
Black British Jazz Pioneers
Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson and Ken “Snakehips” Johnson
and Chiwetel Ejiofor looking flipping gorgeous in white tie and tales in BBC drama Dancing on the Edge, 2012.
UCL / Equiano Centre Lunchtime Lecture - Dr Caroline Bressey, Oct 2012
What role did individual Black and Asian actors play in the changing artistic, social, cultural and political scenes that emerged in inter-War London?
Dr Bressey’s current research project examines the archives of art collections as well as personal papers, autobiographies and memoirs to recover the lives of Black and Asian men and women who worked as artists and artists models in London between 1919 and 1939.
Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939
![For those of you in London…
[event] London Art in the Age of JazzSat 20 Oct 12-4pm @ Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, Holborn Library.
“Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbzbk4JqKT1qi6n8yo1_500.jpg)
For those of you in London…
[event]
London Art in the Age of Jazz
Sat 20 Oct 12-4pm
@ Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, Holborn Library.
“Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939”
“The Creole” (aka Portrait of a Negress – Hélène Yelin) by British artist William Patrick Roberts, 1923.
The model for ‘The Creole’ was mixed race Londoner Mrs Helène Yelin, who also posed for a bust by Epstein of 1919. The same model appears in Roberts’s ‘The Joke’, 1923.
“Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939”
(Source: BBC)
