Date
Summer + Autumn 2026
Image Credits
CB Plus
The Heritage Capes Project: What We Carried is an intergenerational creative heritage initiative celebrating the lived experiences of Barnet’s African diaspora communities. Through a series of illustration-based workshops, participants will explore migration, identity, belonging, and the heritage carried across generations.
Each participant will design a paper “heritage cape” as a personal map. The cape, a powerful metaphor for identity and tradition found in cultural garments, wraps around the wearer and represents heritage as something carried even when unseen. Using card instead of fabric ensures accessibility while creating a distinctive artistic approach.
Participants will fill their capes with drawings, patterns, symbols, family imagery, memories, and references to cultural objects, values, and rituals. They will be invited to bring meaningful items – books, crockery, fabrics, photographs – to inspire designs, fostering storytelling, memory sharing, and intergenerational exchange. The workshops will be photographed.
About CB Plus
CB Plus, a Barnet based award-winning independent community infrastructure and development organisation working on various social issues across several London boroughs. They support residents, businesses and grassroot charities, encouraging collaborative partnerships that lead to stronger and more resilient communities. Guided by their deep community knowledge, they address various social issues to empower people to thrive, their team offers inclusive, comprehensive services, including development advice, resources, and tools to strengthen capacity and leadership skills, enabling them to achieve sustainable and meaningful social impact.
Over 40 plus years, they have established solid partnerships with over 700 voluntary, community, and faith-based organisations. They have supported them with tools and guidance to be responsive and impactful in addressing the most significant needs of the communities they serve. As a result, they are able to reach and positively impact nearly 2.4 million individuals effectively.
They deliver mental health interventions to young people and adults through Young People Thrive and Barnet Wellbeing services respectively. Their track record of delivering services empower and amplify the voices of minoritised and seldom-heard communities.
Light + Flight is presented by Art in Barnet. It is supported by a Cultural Impact Award, part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture programme. It is made possible with additional support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England.