Shade Home 2010 at St Nicholas Markets, October 4 2010
Shade Home 2010 has begun, with an exciting event at St Nicholas Markets; 40 people, including Shade crew, came together as guests and hosts to create a unique dinner and parade around the Markets. We thought about histories and food cultures, suits and music. Shade artists led a parade, and orchestrated the big social dinner event, collaborating with Markets staff and traders.
Steve Morris treated us to a historical overview of the Markets, Bill Wagay from Spice Up Your Life created a superb curry dinner for everyone, demonstrating a subtly spiced chicken dish as well, and Rose from Kalahari Moon provided music from her huge collection of Southern African music. What does Home mean to you? Many participants and contributors gave interviews, from recollections of Uncle Bonny’s Chinese R&B Club, a dance night at the Corn Exchange (now the covered Market space) in the 1960s, to explanations of contemporary Indian cooking. Our first event at the Markets created a new space of community in a popular Bristol institution, a space of diverse shared culture in a historical Market and Exchange.
Below you can see images from the event, and video clips from interviews and research Folake Shoga our filmmaker carried out before the event.
All photographs by Chandra Prasad, copyright Shade and Chandra Prasad 2010
All films by Folake Shoga, copyright Shade, Folake and Participants 2010
Shade Home; starters in the foyer, St Nicholas Markets
Shade Home began in the foyer of the Markets, welcoming our guests, introducing the Shade performers through Utt Da Zoy, the Tailors Lament.
Baljinder Bhopal, Shade Landowner and Poet
Franny and Gaie arriving for Shade: guests were asked to dress for dinner, however they wanted to
Utt Da Zoy the Tailors Lament: Jacky Puzey Shade Hostess introduces Hilary Ramsden, Shade Dandy
After the starters in the foyer, The Shade Dandy and Explorer led a parade round to the dinner table at the Glass Arcade, parading for style and exploring for shared territory.
Shade Parade
When we reached the dinner table, the Explorer Leiza led a sounding of the space. After everyone was seated for dinner, Bill Wagay demonstrated a marinated chicken curry.
seating for dinner
Bill and Bridget discuss the chicken curry recipe
During dinner, the Explorer Leiza became Explorer Ruth, returning with maps of new journeys. Landowner Baljinder issued blankets printed with Shade visas, and after the main course the borders were changed, as guests had new ID pictures taken and exchanged their blankets, red for blue and blue for red.
Explorer Ruth returns with maps
Guests decide their own ID photos
The dinner ended with a pineapple crumble, made by Shade Hostess Jacky Puzey, and a song by Shade Activist China Blue Fish
Activist China Blue Fish
Shade would like to thank all our guests and Markets staff who collaborated with us to make a great event!
The films below are by Folake Shoga from interviews and research carried out before the event. She worked with some of the Market Traders and Steve Morris, Head of Markets, asking them about the Markets, their role there, what home meant to them. She also collected archive images, and conversations with people who remembered the Markets, in different guises, such as Mike Tobin, who used to have the house band Mike and the Magnets, when the Exchange Market Hall doubled as a nightclub in the 1960s.
St. Nicholas Market, Bristol: now