F(o)ur women: portfolio of the play. placeholder image

Promotional portfolio of the play first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in May 1996. Details about the actresses, who include Patience Agbabi, Dorothea Smartt, Adeola Agbebiyi. Lost page of the Writers Project '95 showing copy of cheque payable to Yazmine Judd, 1994.

Correspondence and files on workshops; training courses; Black Writers Directory (1996); literature; projects; bibliographies and play text; Passport to Possibilities. The Work of Black Performance Writers in Britain by Michael McMillan for the NPT (1996). The current Awareness list for Asian and Afro-Caribbean Poetry, listing Afro and Asian bookshops and distributors, poets, libraries, competitions, organisations, publishers (The Poetry library); Writer's Project 1995 - Co-ordinator's report (July 1994); BTF correspondence related to the writers projects; theatre writing workshops.

Photographic negatives of workshop activities and office staff. placeholder image

Black and white documents showing female workshop leader and people in community centre. Please refer to BTF/P/T/4013 for prints.

Photographs of workshop activities and office staff. placeholder image

Black and white prints showing female workshop leader and people in community centre. Also visible are staff in office (possibly at the Oval House in South London).

Training performers, directors, managers. placeholder image

Workshops proposals; application forms; sponsor correspondence; course info; CVs from candidates.

Accent and Interpretation Workshops and others. placeholder image

The Raven Group theatre company. Rhodessa Jones's biography and play: The Couple in the Cage; Black Son - No Father, research and Newsweek press article on Black single parent families. The Authentic Voice workshop; photograph of Martina Lair; workshop booking forms; list of participants; booking slips; contact details of participants; workshop files on poems, accents and voice exercises on onomatopoeia include: Ugly Woman, The Roarding Lion (Raphael de Leon); marketing letters on workshops. Accent and Interpretation workshop: paperwork and correspondence; information on The Raven Group includes biography and press review on the Asian-American theatre company.

The Writers Project: contributors information and correspondence. placeholder image

Correspondence relating to the set up of the workshop and the Black Theatre Season festival

Writers' Projects: information on the workshop. placeholder image

Writer's course held at the Africa Centre, correspondence, listings and information on participants, workshop leaders, literary agents, feedback sheet, radio writing project letter, project from participants with covering letter and CV, workshop organisers include Bonnie Greer.

The Artist Within. placeholder image

Information on the course organised by the Forum and correspondence with cultural funding bodies, artists and co-ordinators. Coming Home, The Artist Within: A Course for People of African Diaspora (leaflet), dancers, painters, directors, poets, sculptors, performers, professionals and non professionals with Merle Van den Bosch; London Arts Board application form; the Centre for Expressive Arts: correspondence and information; hand-written notes.

Workshop and training. placeholder image

Extract of Blood, Sweat and Fear by Maria Oshodi: pages of the script (not complete); correspondence related to the Vocal Masterclass; press release on Vox Box training; correspondence; Dead-Lef by Roots Theatre company (photocopy of play leaflet).

Video Project by Anthony Ferguson (1993) and others. placeholder image

Visual Art listing art organisations. Video Project: joint project with the National Film Theatre; poetry: photocopy of article on Alfred Fagon (1986).

Marcio Meirelles's workshop. placeholder image

Marcio Meirelles's workshop July 7th - 9th: video workshop organised by Marcio Meirelles. List of participants and schedule for the week. List of attendees at reception for Marcio Meirelles and paper masks. Woyzeck Instituto Brasileiro de Arte e Cultura presenting work by Marcio Meirelles. Other poster and postcards and leaflet on the institute are enclosed.