Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind at Easton Community Centre
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"Sell out warning! Free entry documentary telling the painful emotional legacy of Windrush on the Caribbean children left behind while their parents went off to forge a ‘better life’. The promise, heartache and reconciliation captured by the Independent’s trailblazing journalist Nadine White."

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A event on Friday 13th October. The event starts at 18:00.


A stellar debut film from award-winning journalist Nadine White, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind peels back the layered tales of Caribbean youngsters who grew up away from their parents before migrating to join them in Britain.

The story of Windrush has come into painfully sharp focus in recent years but what is less well-known is the story of the children of these pioneers whose parents left to rebuild Britain and they only knew of through the ‘barrel' care packages sent back.

These are the children’s stories of reconciliation and rediscovery within a new world that made little sense to them.

Director: Nadine White

Featuring: Blacker Dread, Evadney Campbell, Neil Kenlock, Burchell Davidson, Merlyn Rhone, Samuel Nelson, Jennifer Pringle, Dr Elaine Arnold

Duration: 60 minutes

Certificate: U

Screening partnership: Come the Revolution, DET Entertainment, Eastside Community Trust, Creative Connex, Caribbean Kitchen Research Network, University of Bristol, UWE Bristol, Brixton Heights

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