Yaa Asantewaa Video Collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

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Title: Yaa Asantewaa Video Collection

Date(s): 1980 - c.1995

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 35 video cassettes

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Name of creator(s): Shabaka Thompson, Director of Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre

Administrative/Biographical history: Founded in 1974 as a community centre for the work of the Maryland Neighbourhood Residents Association the Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre (located in Paddington, London) – and known locally as 'The Factory' until the mid 1980s – is a meeting place and performing arts venue for local artists, writers, musicians, carnival participants and community organisations; specifically Caribbean peoples of Dominican, St Lucian, Trinidadian and Montserrratian descent, but also other African-Caribbean peoples and peoples of Portuguese and Irish origin with a long history of residence in the Paddington area. From 1986 onwards the Management Committee of the Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre, led by the Centre’s director, has been responsible for the day-to-day administration of Yaa’s activities, the content and delivery of its annual arts event programme, educational workshops and community-based initiatives. Much of this activity has been recorded on video tape to illustrate aspects of Yaa’s work since its inception.

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This collection comprises recordings of YAA activities. Titles include: Jah Jah Drumming Class (date: 30/07/91); Yaa Asantewaa Calypso tent (date: 7/8/92); Jazz in the Main Space (1990 & 1992); Caribbean reminiscences; Carnival Launch: Roots (1980); Carnival Mas Camp (1990); and Malvtu at Yaa Asantewa (1991). Other titles include: Children of Wedada School; Dance workshop; Sistren of Wadada; Carl Campbell Dancers; UWA Domnik (unedited master copy); and Kids dance class (all undated).

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Language/scripts of material: English

Physical characteristics: Video cassettes

Finding aids: None

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April 2002

Interest: Caribbean, Black

Specific group: African-Caribbean peoples

Subjects

African-Caribbean peoples

Carnival arts

Music

Education

Ethnic groups

Cultural events

Personal/Corporate names

Association of British Calypsonians

Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre

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London, United Kingdom