Julie Begum, chair of Swadhinata Trust will be discussing the following with a panel of speakers including Denise Jones (Brick Lane Books), Sanjida Alam (Tower Hamlets Local Library and Archives) and Vanessa Pike (ELCAF) at Publishing is Power at Brick…
Writeidea festival 2022
Bengal Famine project event
The Banglatown walk and talk is for anybody interested in Bengali migration and settlement in the East End of London Tue, 15 November 2022, 14:00 – 15:30 GMT Location Altab Ali Park Adler Street London E1 1HD Please click on…
SET OUR FEET IN GLORY Free two day workshop on intersectional stories from the US civil rights movement and the UK for 6th form & university students Thursday 24 th and Friday 25 th November 10 am to 4 pm…
BENGALI PHOTO ARCHIVE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS + VOLUNTEERS Do you want be part of creating a new collection celebrating East London’s Bengali community life? We\’re looking for contributions to the archive as well as volunteers, with a variety of ways…
Julie Begum chairs discussion with Shahida Rahman at writeidea festival 2022. Shahida was born and raised in Cambridge, UK. Her late father, Abdul Karim moved to Cambridge from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1957. Shahida writes historical fiction, non-fiction…
East End Tales in the Secret Chapel: Historic Headlines, Community Action & Memoirs of A Cockney Sikh Dates November 24, 2022 – November 24, 2022 Times 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm Price £7.00 Location Oxford House Chapel Join us…
Today we\’re releasing the first of 5 short films combining oral histories by Bengali activists of the 70s with photographs by Paul Trevor Produced with @TRCdocumentary & volunteers, part of our Brick Lane 1978 project with @FourCornersE2 Watch…