The Dominican Front Room at Watershed
It can be seen through the window of Watershed walkway
A special installation is currently taking place in Bristol as part of Black History Month.
The Dominican Front Room project has been installed in the Watershed walkway window. It lets us peek into a 1960s front room full of Caribbean keepsakes and belongings. They have been contributed by the families of the Windrush generation who settled in Bristol.
The Front Room was the space where precious objects were put out and families gathered on special occasions. For the Windrush generation, it would have been a space for memories of home.
The installation aims to evoke discussion around identity, hope and resilience. The project comes ahead of a Windrush celebration festival in Bristol next year which will see storytelling, discussion, cinema and theatre.
The Dominican Front Room been curated by broadcaster Sherrie Eugene-Hart and the longest serving former Black Police Officer Beverley Douglas.
It’s been 78 years since Empire HMS Windrush arrived in Tilbury Docks London with 492 Caribbean passengers. It was the first boat of West Indian immigrants to arrive in the UK. Rather than the warm welcome they had been promised, they met with racism and discrimination.
The Dominican Front Room celebrates the strength and resilience of those people, honouring them and the contribution they made to Britain.
The Dominican Front Room at Watershed will be in place until Friday 30 October 2026
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