Black History Month 2011
Name: Caribbean Cricket Legends - Celebrating Black History
Date: Friday 7 October until Friday 4 November
Time: Conference Centre opening hours
Location: Southampton Solent Conference Centre, Sir James Matthews Building, 157-187 Above Bar Street, Southampton
October sees Southampton Solent University embracing Black History Month where the culture and history of people of African descent are celebrated.
In partnership with the University, local cultural coordinators are holding a Caribbean Cricket Exhibition which remembers the sporting skill of past Afro-Caribbean players.
Hampshire’s strong links with the beginnings of cricket and Southampton’s housing of the world-famous Rose Bowl stadium offer an appropriate backdrop for the Black History Month’s exhibition which explores the relationship between white and black cricket players since the first Hampshire v West Indies game on 26th July 1900.
The exhibition is free and takes place in the foyer of the Conference Centre.
A reception will take place at the Southampton Solent University Conference Centre, Above Bar Street where His Excellency Anthony Smith Johnson, The High Commissioner for Jamaica, will officially open the exhibition.
Great players like Malcolm Marshall, Gordon Greenidge and Andy Roberts have played for Hampshire and are considered international heroes. Many of these players forged great friendships with local Southampton Caribbean people and spent time with friends in the Newtown area of the city. Such cricketers who made their mark in Hampshire are celebrated in the exhibition with recognition of Caribbean players and the cultural contributions that they made.
For Conference Centre opening hours call 023 8031 9602/9639
More information visit www.donjohn.co.uk| or email events@solent.ac.uk|