Songlines for Greenwich Black History 365 project May to July 2025

Songlines for Greenwich – Black History 365 project 2025

This mini walking festival links up different parts of the Borough, exploring Black Lives – those unique reclaimed stories and hidden histories – located in Greenwich’s diverse landscape. On these walking tours you will experience and celebrate unexplored Black History hidden in Greenwich’s historic building, its ghost traces, found buried in our National Monuments and Archives.

Together we are invited to experience, share in and celebrate unexplored Black History – walks led by local artists – that seek to uncover, then retell hidden, buried or untold stories from the Black British diaspora, through a festival of unique public walk events and performances. Over the next 3 months InspiralLondon researches, curates and creates a first BlackHistory walk festival – offering free open workshops – that offer a season of public walks and interventions across the Royal Borough of Greenwich in Greenwich Peninsula, Woolwich, Greenwich Historic Centre, Mottingham and Eltham.

Walks include: Spiral Sanctuary Magic Lantern Walk 16 May; Distant Sounds of Migration 24 May; Songlines of Greenwich 1 June; Retellings 12 July; and Remappings 19 July.

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InspiralLondon are delighted to be working with walking artist and creative learning practitioner Remiiya Badru, and other Global Majority artists on InspiralLondon’s Songlines for Greenwich. A Black History 365 celebration project funded by The Royal Borough of Greenwich, that seeks to uncover, then retell hidden, buried or untold stories from the Black British diaspora, through a festival of unique public walk events and performances. You can follow Remiiya ‘Smile in the River – Walking Tours/ artelieremiiya/ createngage – @remiiyariverambler.

 

To hear tell the extraordinary buried histories of Black sailors, Black adventurers, migration and exchange – stories of the Black British diaspora and of Greenwich’s rich complex history as the Thameside Maritime Borough.