Call out: Interviewees wanted to share Windrush Stories

Festus Market, 2023. Credit Alastair Brookes/KoLAB Studios

Coming to Trinity on the 20 March  The Grip explores the stories of family separation that are part of the Windrush experience. Created as a live radio show, featuring live performances, and interviews the Grip is a live production about families, separation and the Windrush

“Growing up in Jamaica, all my cousins knew their mother because they grew up with her – I was the only child that didn’t really have her mum around and it was an isolating experience. You know, I still haven’t overcome it fully“ The Grip interviewee

Get involved

The creators of the Grip, Strike A Light, are inviting Bristol residents to sign up to be interviewed for The Grip and share thier stories about Windrush. This could be about the lives of people left behind to those separated from family or friends for a significant period of childhoods/formative years.

If you are one such person, know someone who may be interested or you yourself are a child of this generation (born here in the UK or abroad) and would like to be interviewed as part of the project, then we would love to hear from you.

The themes can be broadly categorised in the following ways:

1. Those who were left behind

2. Those who had to leave children and loved ones behind

3. Those who were born in the UK and have siblings in the Caribbean who may or may not have joined them.

All interviews will be recorded and added to a Podcast (with the interviewees' consent). Extracts of two of the interviews will be chosen to be shared during the Grip event at Trinity on 20 March.

If you would like to take part please get in touch with Philippa Smith or Edson Burton by emailing: philippa@strikealightfestival.org.uk and edson@trinitybristol.org.uk or you can call the Trinity office on 0117 935 1200.