Black History Season at Hackney CVS

2025

Black History Season

We invite you to join us for Black History Season, starting with an event on Wednesday 22 October.

We will have important debate, knowledge and power sharing for our communities and partners. This will be followed by African music, dancing and a hot Caribbean lunch. This is not to be missed!

Festival of flags

We are asking all of you to contribute to our Black History exhibition. In response to the current divisive campaigns using the Union Jack and St George flags, we would like you to contribute as many flags from African and Caribbean countries as possible, to create a display of unity and love.

We are now accepting flag contributions for an exhibition, which will be installed by 16 October.

Please put the name of your organisation on the flags so that they can be returned to you.

We welcome a written message on the flags as well to strengthen the meaning of the exhibition.

For any queries on contributions to the exhibition, please email our reception team.

Black History event

Join us for our event on 22 October.

Agenda

11am – Welcome and introductions.
11.30am – Health and Wellbeing in Black communities.
Janet Murungi from African Community Network – Bowel cancer in the African Community.
Deryck Browne from African Health Policy Network – Sickle cell anaemia.
12.30pm – Break with African music.
1pm – Climate justice and the fight for racial justice
Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins, War on Want.
Leon is an academic at the University of Warwick. His work centres on the social and political relations of climate breakdown, with a focus on the Caribbean region.
2pm – Music, dancing and lunch.

When: Wednesday 22 October 2025, 11.30am-3pm.

Where: Hackney CVS, 24-30 Dalston Lane, Dalston, E8 3AZ.

View images from previous Black History events below.

This will be another fantastic celebration of Black History at Hackney CVS – and look out for future events throughout the season.

See you there!

2025