Historycal Roots were very pleased to attend a meeting at the Guyanese High Commission in London recently. We were there to meet the High Commissioner and to support Arthur Torrington of The Windrush Foundation. Arthur was seeking to gain the High Commissioner’s support for hosting an exhibition at the High Commission about the life and work of Cy Grant.
Cy, born in British Guiana in 1919, lived a full and varied life: flying with the RAF during World War Two; qualifying as a barrister after the war; before moving on to a career on television, in films and as a singer. He also wrote prolifically and was an activist, playing a leading role in setting up the DRUM Black Arts Centre in London.
The exhibition, ‘The Life and Times of Cy Grant’ is currently on display at Hornsey Library and will shortly be moving to The London Metroplitan Archive in Clerkenwell – well worth a visit if you are in the vicinity.