BLACK EXPERIENCE ARCHIVE TRUST

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4536
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BLACK EXPERIENCE ARCHIVE TRUST
Date(s)	: 2006-2012
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: BEAT | Black Experience Archive Trust x Black Experience Archive Trust

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Black Experience Archive Trust (BEAT) is a national project working in partnership with local groups. Each local project feeds into the central project.

The West Green BEAT project was launched in 2006. It was a collaboration between filmmakers Migrant Media, the Park View Academy in West Green, and the London Metropolitan Archives. Pupils from the Academy were trained in digital media skills by staff from Migrant Media Limited, and encouraged to explore their community history, particularly the contributions of black people. They then conducted filmed interviews with members of the community, discussing their experiences of coming to and living in Britain.

BEAT Projects have included:

'music BEAT': ran from October 2008 - October 2009 at Highgate Wood School in North London. Students on the project learned research, filmmaking and journalistic skills and produced a 20 minute film on the history of black music in the UK as well as a series of exhibition panels. They explored how the music produced related to the struggles on the street that the black community engaged with over four decades (see 'Sounds of the Streets' LMA/4536/02/002).

Taken from the website: http://web.me.com/musicbeat/Site/musicBEAT.html

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Black Experience Archive Trust (BEAT), comprising interviews with members of the black community, conducted by pupils at Park View Academy, West Green, and promotional postcard and T-Shirt.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two series: LMA/4536/01: Promotional Materials; and LMA/4536/02: Audio Visual.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with a third party, Migrant Media Limited.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in June 2007 with subsequent deposits.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also Huntley Archives Advisory Group LMA/4463/C/06 for recordings made by BEAT of the annual Huntley Archives Conference.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June to August 2010 with additions August 2012.