Creativity With a Purpose

About Seven Winds

Seven Winds uses traditional and digital storytelling techniques as tools for activism and positive social change.  The Seven Winds Network brings together a diverse group of filmmakers, creative thinkers, academics, and community leaders to research, develop and distribute authentic grassroots stories.

Storytelling For Social Change

Seven Winds'creative projects and services focus on authentic grassroots storytelling because we want the 21st Century to be the People’s Century.  We want this to be the century in which the talents and achievements of everyday people are recognised. 

Seven Winds creative programmes are focal points for change in aspirations and skills, which equip people with the tools they need to live happy, fulfilling lives.  

 

Our Projects

Pathfinders: Sunday Best

About the Exhibition

An exhibition exploring identity, style, and the enduring power of being seen.

Sunday best. The phrase begins in church — your finest clothes, worn on the day of rest. But for Caribbean communities in Britain, it became something far richer: a cultural language, a declaration of dignity, a refusal to be diminished.

Pathfinders: Sunday Best explores how dress, colour, and self-presentation have been used by Caribbean communities to express pride, identity, and belonging. Through portraits, personal objects, archival photographs, and first-hand stories, the exhibition invites visitors to see Sunday best not as vanity, but as an act of authorship — the right to define how you are seen.

The exhibition builds on the legacy of the neighbourhood photo studios that documented the Windrush generation, reimagining the studio as a contemporary space of celebration. Visitors are invited not just to look, but to contribute their own stories and objects to the growing Pathfinders archive.

4 - 15 August 2026

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

Gallery 1

4 Brook Street,  St. Paul’s Square,  Birmingham B3 1SA

Hershe Emerald Zine

Hershe Emerald Zine is a community storytelling platform that shares the voices, experiences, and reflections of women from different walks of life. Through interviews, conversations, and creative contributions, the zine creates space for honest stories around identity, wellbeing, work, relationships, resilience, and personal growth.

The project brings women together to share lived experiences, helping others feel seen, heard, and supported while strengthening connections across communities.

Hershe Emerald Zine is a National Lottery funded project, supporting the amplification of women’s voices and creating opportunities for dialogue, learning, and community empowerment.

Stay connected through our website and social media to discover upcoming events and read the latest editions of Hershe Emerald Zine.

Pathfinders

A Community Archaeology Project

Pathfinder is a community archaeology project that commemorates and celebrates important  British Caribbean history.

The Pathfinder Project is an opportunity to uncover and share important stories, which deepen the public conversation about the past, present and future of modern Britain.

This community archiving project tells the stories of the communities, places, and events related to early and mid-20th century British Caribbean experience. 

Previous Projects

Pathfinder- A Hero's Welcome







Say It Loud!





Voices|Brixton



Rainbow Room





Our Services

Youth-led creative Mentoring
 
Train - Retain - Sustain

We help young people find new forms of storytelling through digital means. Participation, access, and inclusion are core pillars of what we deliver. We deliver blended skills training in digital storytelling to underserved members of the community.

Young people seeking a sustainable career in digital media and broadcasting receive skills meaningful training in key aspects of digital filmmaking.

Community Consultation
 
Together We Thrive

Seven Winds CIC acts as a voice of the people. We act as advocates for various community groups. We help people to speak with their own voice and tell their own stories.

Our Community Consultation service is a development of our work as consultants on community regeneration initiatives, including the Brixton Rec Regeneration Project.  

Creative Support
 
Fulfilling Potential

Seven Winds supports the most exciting, innovative and challenging creative projects.  We offer development, production finance and bespoke mentoring opportunities.

We commission new, ambitious, and substantial moving image artworks, with an emphasis on projects that have strong potential for national and international exhibition and distribution.

 

Seven Winds

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