The Windrush Untold Stories outdoor exhibition will be on at Windrush Square, Brixton, London, until July 10th. It has been wonderful to read and hear your responses to the exhibition so far and we hope to hear more. Have you managed to pass by it yet?
Windrush Untold Stories is a photography and storytelling project that honours the legacy of the Windrush generation and their descendants and celebrates their enduring impact on British society. It launched as part of the Big Caribbean Lunch on June 22nd and runs until July 10th on Windrush Square, Brixton, London. It is a collaboration between @bigcaribbeanlunch , @friendsofwindrushsquare , @photofusionuk , @bornormade , @bcaheritage and @lambeth_council with portraits taken by Amit Lennon.
You can also view all of the portraits and listen to the full stories on our web gallery by following the link in the bio.
📸: @amitlennon
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A Mile in My Shoes is at HearSay26 this weekend! Taking place in the Irish mountain village of Kilfinane, HearSay International Audio Festival brings together audio disciplines to foster collaboration & imagination in seventeen venues across the village.
Find out more information at @hearsayfestival@ilovelimerick
Have you subscribed to our award-nominated podcast? We are six weeks into our series A Mile in My Shoes: ‘81 Uprisings, which brings together stories from people who lived through the uprisings that swept across Britain in 1981.
This year marks 45 years since this pinnacle moment in British history, and our storytellers felt the reverberations through homes, streets, and communities across the country in ways we all still live with today.
A Mile in My Shoes: 81 Uprisings was produced by The Empathy Museum and created with 81 Acts of Exuberance and the The Ubele Initiative, this series was made possible by the Royal Heritage Lottery Fund.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
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Last Thursday The Ear of Britain went to @crossstchapel to ask the people at @hey.festival if Britain was listening, what would you say?
If you weren’t there, you can lend the ear your voice through our WhatsApp and website earofbritain.org
Hey! Festival took place in collaboration with with @hardart.collective@english_manmetuni@aheadmmu and @thefeteofbritain
This week’s A Mile In My Shoes podcast episode is of Linda’s story.
In 1981, Black communities in Brixton rose up in bloody confrontation with the Met Police – against a backdrop of racism, severe economic recession and high unemployment. They followed on from similar events in Bristol the year before, and the summer of ‘81 brought further uprisings across England – including in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It was a critical moment in the movement for social justice in Britain, leading to landmark recommendations for police reform and local regeneration policies, as well as, crucially, a new sense of Black British empowerment.
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Our award nominated podcast A Mile in My Shoes: The Podcast returns with stories from ‘81 Uprisings. It re-launches today with Steadman’s story. Steadman’s shoes are black athletic cleats, with three white side stripes.
In 1981, Black communities in Brixton rose up in bloody confrontation with the Met Police – against a backdrop of racism, severe economic recession and high unemployment. They followed on from similar events in Bristol the year before, and the summer of ‘81 brought further uprisings across England – including in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It was a critical moment in the movement for social justice in Britain, leading to landmark recommendations for police reform and local regeneration policies, as well as, crucially, a new sense of Black British empowerment.
A Mile in My Shoes: 81 Uprisings brings together stories from people who were there at the time, and who felt the reverberations through homes, streets, and communities across the country – in ways we all still live with today.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
#AMileInMyShoes
As you may have seen in our newsletter, our weekly podcast is back! A Mile in My Shoes: The Podcast invites you to take 10 minutes out of your day to hear from people from all walks of life, with each story part of Empathy Museum’s audio projects - including A Mile in My Shoes, From Where I’m Standing, and Brixton Memories.
After a four year hiatus, the A Mile in My Shoes podcast returns with stories from ‘81 Uprisings, which were first heard in the A Mile in My Shoes shoebox at Windrush Square in 2021. The collection brings together stories from people who remember the ‘81 uprisings which took place across the country.
The podcast will return on 25 March, 2026. Search A Mile In My Shoes wherever you listen to your podcasts and subscribe to have it appear in your feed!
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‘In the latest blow to draconian restraints on the right to protest, six doctors and nurses linked to Extinction Rebellion were dramatically acquitted last week. A play about their trial aims to shine a light on a barely publicised case.’ — Claire Armitstead @armitsteadclaire writes about In Case of Emergency and the medics retrial in @the_nerve_news this week
You can read the full article on The Nerve’s website about the trials and the decision to showcase their story through verbatim theatre.
📷 @archieredford
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News: Jury returns a unanimous not guilty verdict at the retrial of six medics who took action against JP Morgan’s continued investments in Fossil Fuels.
In June 2024, six medics stood trial in Snaresbrook Crown Court for causing criminal damage, or, as they argued, for trying to preserve human life and prevent suffering. They were found not guilty.
A retrial took place this month, and on Monday 16 February, after deliberating for 4 hours, the jury returned the unanimous not-guilty verdict for all six defendants.
We know that many of you will have been following this retrial, and we want to extend our congratulations to the medics in sharing this news with you all.
Thank you to all those who came to see In Case of Emergency at @southbankcentre as well as the surrounding events. The thoughts, feedback and discussions that have followed this production have been incredibly insightful and interesting for us at Empathy Museum, and hopefully have been for our audiences also.
In Case of Emergency is a verbatim play written by April de Angelis and directed by Ian Rickson. It uses court transcripts to retell what happened when six medics stood trial in Snaresbrook Crown Court in June 2024. It raises questions around climate change, public health and protest.
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