Appleby Fair: Clip from Coming and Going

'Coming and Going'

Aspects of identity

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History and Culture

Filmed in and around the 2008 GRT History Month, 'Coming and Going' takes a broad look at Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History.

The centuries of hardship and persecution have forged an iron resolve to protect and celebrate the culture through music, storytelling, art and song.

'Coming and Going' has been designed as an educational resource to inform young adults about the depth of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History and Culture.

'Coming and Going' features interviews with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers as well as with Gypsy historian Janet Keet-Black, Aaron Devall, Arthur Ivatts OBE, Lord Avebury, Shirley Collins MBE, Lord Adonis and Gypsy storyteller Richard O'Neill.

The DVD will help counter the negative attitudes, that exist within our society, towards the Gypsy community.

'Coming and Going' is the original concept of Jackie Whitford, Head of the East Sussex Traveller Education Team. The DVD was produced by alembic.tv who also produced 'Sticks and Stones'.

The programme is dedicated to Maurice McMahon who gave us the title of the film ' if you don't know where you've come from don't know where you're going'. Maurice died in a road accident shortly after being interviewed. He appears in the DVD together with his grandfather Aaron Devall.

Copies of the 'Coming and Going' DVD can be ordered from:

East Sussex Traveller Education Service
C/O Marshlands Primary School,
Marshfoot Lane. Hailsham
East Sussex. BN27 2PH
email: jackie.whitford@eastsussex.gov.uk

Category:

Education

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• Appleby Fair
• Richard O'Neill
• Breda Doran
• Irish Traveller Movement
• Joe Hurn
• Robert Giles
• Jackie Whitford
• Alembic TV
• Mark Dobson
• Biddy O'Connor
• GRTHM