EULAC_6604 Port Of Spain, Trinidad "" This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693669. eulac3d Site TEXT University of St Andrews EULAC "" "Born on the 12th of March 1927, Aaron attended Combermere School after which he travelled to Trinidad to attend the Seventh Day Adventist College. He graduated from there in 1945, gaining a teaching posting at an elementary school in San Juan and Sangre Grande two years later. Two years at Port of Spain Secondary School prepared him for the post of Principal of Southern Academy. Two years later, he left to attend Long Island University in Brooklyn N.Y, where he majored in biology while working at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a technician in the blood laboratory.\r\nHe came to England in 1965 and at first taught biology and chemistry at Pollards Hill Secondary School before entering the field of Race and Community Relations. He served as senior community relations officer in Wolverhampton before moving on to the Community Relations Commission as Principal Development Officer. He held several posts in the Commission for Racial Equality, culminating in the post of Chief Executive.\r\nAfter retiring from the Commission, he functioned as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of The State of Black Britain Volume One, first published in 1983, which carries an analysis of the forces that governed the post-war immigration of black people into Britain. It covers the search for jobs and housing, the challenges faced in education and social services and how race became a volatile political issue. Volume Two picks up where Volume One concludes and begins with an analysis of the Thatcher years and their impact on the Black community. Together the two volumes represent a comprehensive, honest, insider\u2019s view of the struggle for equality in Britain" Person "One of seven siblings, Russel Henderson grew up in Port Of Spain, Trinidad, initially learning to play the piano, and subsequently steel-pan.\r\nBy 1948, at the age of 24, Henderson had achieved a fair amount of success with his jazz quartet in Trinidad and also began taking an interest in steel-pan, this being facilitated by meeting Beryl McBernie, who ran a theatre company and was championing steel-pan, an instrument hitherto stigmatised by its working class origins and association with gangs.\r\nOn coming to England to study piano tuning in North London he soon began playing in clubs, and also formed a small steel-band with Sterling Betancourt and Max Cherrie. This steel-band achieved considerable success in various formats in the succeeding years and was the first such combo to play for royalty. Other notable musical associations at that time were with the calypsonian Lord Kitchener and trumpeter Leslie Hutchinson.\r\nHenderson is also credited as one of the founding fathers of the Notting Hill Carnival, which started as a marching band festival in London's Bayswater Road and Queensway. In 1966 he and his band were instrumental in establishing the Carnival as a national annual event. Reflecting on its initial success years later Henderson joked, "That was fantastic, let's do it again next year!" He is remembered with a blue plaque on Tavistock Road.\u00a0" Person "Althea McNish FCSD (born c. 1933) is a British textile designer of Trinidadian origin who has been called the first British designer of African descent to earn an international reputation.\r\nAlthea Marjorie McNish was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, around 1933. Her father, the writer Joseph Claude McNish, was descended from the Merikin settlers in Trinidad. She painted as a child, was a junior member of the Trinidad Arts Society and had her first exhibition at the age of 16. Her influences included local artists Sybil Atteck, Amy Leong Pang and Boscoe Holder, and European modernists such as Vincent Van Gogh.\r\nIn the early 1950s McNish moved with her mother to London, England, to join her father there. She already had a place to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square but instead took courses at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art. \r\nIn her final year at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, she became interested in textiles with the encouragement of Eduardo Paolozzi, and chose printed textiles as her subject of study on progressing to the Royal College of Art, where her talent was recognised by Hugh Casson. On graduating, she immediately won a commission from Arthur Stewart-Liberty, head of the Liberty Department Store, sending her the same day to Zika Ascher, who commissioned her to design a collection for Dior. Successfully designing for such prestigious clients, McNish was the first Caribbean woman to achieve prominence in this field.\r\nShe was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in the 1960s, participating in CAM's exhibitions and seminars and helping to promote Caribbean arts to a British public. She took part in the art exhibitions of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) held in 1967, May 1968 and January 1971, exhibiting textiles as well as "plastic panels in laminate". For the Caribbean edition of the BBC TV magazine programme Full House, produced by John La Rose and transmitted on 3 February 1973, she brought together the work of CAM visual artists as a studio setting for CAM writers, musicians and film-makers. \r\nHer work is represented in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitworth Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt (Smithsonian Design Museum), among other places." Person "Samuel Selvon, in full Samuel Dickson Selvon, (born May 20, 1923, Trinidad \u2014 died April 16, 1994, Port of Spain), Caribbean novelist and short-story writer of East Indian descent, known for his vivid evocation of the life of East Indians living in the West Indies and elsewhere. He came to public attention during the 1950s with a number of other Caribbean writers, including V.S. Naipaul.\r\nSelvon worked as a wireless operator for a local branch of the Royal Navy during World War II on ships that patrolled the Caribbean; during a slack period he began to write poetry. In 1946 he went to work at the Trinidad Guardian. In 1950 he went to London, where he worked as a clerk for the Indian Embassy and wrote in his spare time.\r\nHis first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952), describes East Indians and Creoles in Trinidad, their prejudices and mutual distrusts, and the effect of this animosity on a young man. It was the first time that an East Indian author had written with such quiet authority and simple charm about the life of these people. Its sequel, Turn Again Tiger (1958), follows the protagonist on a journey to his homeland. In this novel, which is perhaps his best, Selvon made extensive and striking use of dialect. \r\nThe Lonely Londoners (1956) describes apparently naive immigrants living by their wits in a hostile city. His later works include a collection of short stories, Ways of Sunlight (1958), and the novels I Hear Thunder (1962), The Housing Lark (1965), Moses Ascending (1975), and Moses Migrating (1983), both sequels to The Lonely Londoners. Highway in the Sun (1991) is a collection of plays." Person 10.657908765044615 -61.5176010131836