英国曼彻斯特中央图书馆黑人不列颠人挂毯展11月11日开幕：展至2027年1月31日，免费参观
英国曼彻斯特报道 — 曼彻斯特中央图书馆11月11日开幕《黑人不列颠人挂毯》（Tapestry of Black Britons）展出，一件纪念第二次世界大战的挂毯与一件为曼彻斯特特别委托制作的照片横幅并置展出，展览位于图书馆一楼，展至2027年1月31日，免费入场，属曼彻斯特市议会纪念活动的一部分。
据图书馆节目介绍，展览聚焦军人尤顿·克里斯蒂安（Euton Christian），其人生连接牙买加与曼彻斯特。「疾风世代基金会」（Windrush Foundation）记载，克里斯蒂安出生于牙买加，1944年志愿为英国服役，战时学习车辆涂装与喷漆；牙买加《拾穗者报》2024年关于其蓝色纪念牌的报道称，他曾为皇家空军军人，1948年乘「帝国疾风号」返回英国，此后在曼彻斯特定居、工作、成家，并参与曼彻斯特牙买加协会工作、担任治安法官。其故居所在的乔尔顿（Chorlton）已立蓝色纪念牌。
该项目由创始人、挂毯设计者葆拉·奥贡·赫克托（Paula Ogun Hector）围绕非洲与加勒比社群对英国历史的贡献建立。开幕日适逢停战纪念日，展览与全市其他纪念服役人员的活动同期举行。
Tapestry of Black Britons Opens at Manchester Central Library on November 11 in England, Running Free Through January 31, 2027
MANCHESTER, England — Manchester Central Library opened its presentation of Tapestry of Black Britons on Wednesday, November 11, pairing a wartime tapestry with a specially commissioned Manchester photo banner. The display, part of Manchester City Council's remembrance programme, is on the library's ground floor through January 31, 2027, with free drop-in access.
According to the library's programme, the display features Euton Christian, a serviceman whose life connected Jamaica and Manchester. The Windrush Foundation records that Christian was born in Jamaica and volunteered to serve Britain in 1944, learning to paint and spray vehicles during the war. The Jamaica Gleaner, reporting on his Manchester blue plaque honour in 2024, identifies him as a former Royal Air Force serviceman who returned to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948, then settled in Manchester, where he lived, worked and raised a family, worked with the Jamaica Society of Manchester and served as a magistrate. A plaque was unveiled at his former home in Chorlton.
Paula Ogun Hector, the project's founder and the designer of the wartime tapestry, has built the wider project around African and Caribbean contributions to British history. The opening on Armistice Day places the display alongside other events marking wartime service and remembrance in the city.
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