Who We Were; Who We Became

**Please note this event has been postponed and will now take place on Saturday 25 November at SADACCA.

However, a free public screening will still go ahead on Saturday 28 October, with the film projected onto Sheffield Town Hall between 7pm-9pm in the Peace Gardens.**

Original event info: Poetry commission, Who We Were; Who We Became, is a love song threading together the memories, faith and culture of the Windrush generation.

It captures their final moments before embarking on a journey in pursuit of a new life.

Danae Wellington and Darshan Gajjar have made a short poetic film around the piece that forms a window into the Caribbean immigrant story.

It details the musical riddims and the joy-making that helped newly arrived West Indians survive brutal racial violence and discrimination in post-war Britain.

Come along for poetry, song, film and music at this event marking Windrush 75. The film will be projected onto the back of the Town Hall (from the Peace Gardens) between 7pm-9pm and also at SADACCA, 48 The Wicker, Sheffield S3 8JB on Sunday 15 October between 4pm-6pm.

Danae Wellington is a Jamaican-British poet and the Sheffield Poet Laureate. Supported by Arts Council England.

**Please note this event has been postponed and will now take place on Saturday 25 November at SADACCA. However, a free public screening will still go ahead on Saturday 28 October, with the film projected onto Sheffield Town Hall between 7pm-9pm in the Peace Gardens.**