WINDRUSH DAY 2020

‘Celebrate The Windrush Generation With Us Through Creativity’

To mark this years Windrush Day, due to Covid-19 we are going digital with an online project to celebrate the Windrush Generation.

Launching on 22 June 2020 is our Just Type x Windrush Day Project to celebrate and raise awareness of the great sacrifice and hardship, the Windrush Generation and their descendants have played in making Britain stronger, culturally richer and more inclusive.

Building on the success of the inaugural national Windrush Day last year, our online event will coincide with projects across the country to mark Windrush Day 2020 and commemorate the seminal moment nearly 72 years ago when the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks.

Windrush Day marks the anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush at the Port of Tilbury, near London, on 22 June 1948. The arrival of the Empire Windrush nearly 72 years ago marked a seminal moment in Britain’s history and has come to represent the rich diversity of this nation.

Those who arrived on the Empire Windrush, their descendants and those who followed them have made and continue to make an enormous contribution to Britain, not just in the vital work of rebuilding the country and public services following World War 2 but in enriching our shared social, economic, cultural and religious life.

Overcoming great sacrifice and hardship, the Windrush Generation and their descendants have gone on to lead the field across public life, in business, the arts and sport. Britain would be much diminished without their contribution.

The MV Empire Windrush docked at the Port of Tilbury on 21 June 1948. However, passengers disembarked a day later on 22 June 1948 – hence why this has come to be known as Windrush Day.

To take part in our project and create an online Windrush Day gallery on this page, all you need to do is download the ‘Windrush Day’ work created by Lana Hughes and share with us your creativity by using any medium to create a Windrush theme artwork on Lana’s design with a chance of winning a prize courtesy of Posca UK, Uni-ball and GreatArt in our two categories of favourite from Tower Hamlets and favourite from Rest of the UK.

Submit your work by email to hello@trappedinzoneone.com as a landscape format image, with your name, location and description to how your work relates to the Windrush Generation.

The online submission is open till 12 July 2020, with Lana Hughes judging all the entries received and picking two winners which we’ll be announcing on our social media platform based on our two categories of Tower Hamlets and Rest of the UK.

This project is funded by Tesco Bags of Help community grant scheme, with support from GreatArt, Posca UK, GoodGym and GoodGym Tower Hamlets, Mile End Community Project, Inspiring City, The People Speak, Cut Glass Studio, Tower Hamlets Council and Love East Magazine.