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Mr Tony Fairweather, born 1958 Clapham South London of Jamaican (Windrush) Parents. Tony is an award-winning Marketing Director, Event Manager, Windrush Artifacts Collector, Curator and Author.

Tony has achieved numerous accomplishments:

  • Winner of the Lambeth business award  
  • Winner of The Diversity award
  • Manager of the Voice newspaper book club, the largest black book club in the UK. 
  • Marketing Manager, The Voice Newspaper 
  • Residential Social Worker  
  • Founder & CEO of Narada Books, Art Gallery and Gift Shop in Brixton 
  • Founder & CEO of The Write Thing,Black literary events company 

The Write Thing produced black literary tours for: 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The most Honorable Mr Michael Manley, Jamaica Prime Minister, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Dr Maya Angelou, Terry McMillian, Iyanla Vanzant, Bernardine Evaristo OBE, Alex Wheatle, Jacky Holder, Marjorie Blackman, Courttia Newland, Caryl Phillips, Baroness Benjamin DBE DL, Mike Phillips, Ben Okri, Susan L Taylor, Octavia E Butler, Nikki Giovanni, Rosy Guy, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, Glora Naylor, Be Be Moore Campbell, Pearl Cleage, Eric Jerome Dickey, Sapphire, John Edger Wideman, Margaret Busby, Rosa Guy, Jean Binta Breeze, Gloria Naylor, Walter Mosley plus many more.

Founder & CEO Fairweather Productions, Events Management Company

Produced events for:

  • The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
  • African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT)
  • Toured the USA with Essence Magazine CEO Susan L Taylor
  • Croydon Windrush Dinner & Dance
  • Curator of Croydon Windrush Exhibition
  • TWT Brixton outdoor Book Fair
  • Co-Produced the “Atlanta Book Fair ‘in Atlanta
  • Co-Produced the Olympics London link-up with Jamaica 
  • Produced “In Celebrations Of My sisters” (ICOMS) – 26 years in production London & the UK, South Africa  
  • Founder & CEO – The Windrush Collection and Exhibition 
  • Former Chair of The Balham & Tooting Sports & Social Club Building Committee, The oldest Caribbean club in the UK 
  • Founder of The Jerk Cookout
  • In Celebration Of My Brothers
  • Co-founder of the Celebration of film Art & Books  
  • Founder of the music tours: “The Queens of Lovers Rock” and “The Kings & Queens of Lovers Rock “  
  • Author of Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings, A Windrush Story