With Constructed Geographies artist Amanda Jobson; Jo Seaman, Heritage Manager, Eastbourne Borough Council; and Jenny Williams, Director, Take the Space
General admission £5 + booking fee
Free for Devonshire West residents
Tickets available from DC1 Gallery
THURSDAY, 22 NOVEMBER at 19:00
Devonshire Collective
67-69 Seaside Road, BN21 3PL Eastbourne, East Sussex
Eastbourne Borough Council Heritage Manager Jo Seaman will be looking at the fascinating archaeological detective work that has revealed the story of ‘The Beachy Head Woman’ and he will also discuss the continuing research into her life and death in Romano-British Eastbourne.
Take the Space is an Eastbourne-based arts and heritage CIC. For the past year, Take the Space has been developing Who’s that Girl? in partnership with Heritage Eastbourne. If successful in its bid to HLF, the project will seek to discover further information relating to the Beachy Head Woman’s skeleton, the oldest known Black Briton who grew up in East Sussex circa 200AD. Alongside, the project will be working with Yorkshire Museum to deliver a programme of engagement around the Ivory Bangle Lady, thought to be a high-status, mixed-race woman from Roman York, and whose skeletal remains date to the second half of the fourth century.
The aim of the exhibition and events are to honour and celebrate Eastbourne’s rich cultural heritage and diverse communities in the area, where over 50 different languages are spoken in the Devonshire Ward of Eastbourne, where the DC1 Gallery is based.
Devised by Writing Our Legacy, the programme is part of a wider project seeking to capture people’s stories about coming to or growing up in Sussex and will form the first Hidden Sussex anthology, due to be published in June 2019 and supported by Arts Council England.
Produced by Writing Our Legacy, with support from Heritage Eastbourne, Brighton & Hove Black History, African Night Fever, Diversity Lewes, Take The Space and This Too Is Real.
Funded by Devonshire West Big Local and Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant.
