A MARKETPLACE OF STORIES – Saturday 23rd of November at 4pm. Ten storytellers. Ten tables. Ten minutes to hear a miniature talk. Then a bell rings, and the audience move to another table to hear something new. It’s like speed dating, but with tales less…
Dear BritBanglaCovid friends, I am very grateful for registering and/or attending the BritBanglaCovid\’s British Bangladeshi Women: Past, Present and Covid, a Zoom public meeting. It was such a joy to hear from a diverse range of women\’s experience of British Bangladeshi origin…
Interview with Julie Begum chair of Swadhinata Trust
Happy new year! Our film launch event on Sat 22nd January at 4pm will be marketed via the university networks in Dhaka from this week (coordinated by our good friend and colleague Professor Shaila Sultana of the University of Dhaka…
This book of photography has been a long slow-burning project for the Swadhinata Trust, a volunteer led London based secular Bengali community group that works to promote Bengali history and heritage amongst young people. It started many years ago when we discovered…
History begins at home, and as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence, acclaimed artist Rahemur Rahman is working collaboratively with a group of artists as well as young people from Tower Hamlets to represent the living spaces…
Swadhinata Trust took part in the Being Human Event marking the 50th anniversary of Stepney Words at Great Hall, People’s Palace, QMUL in a panel entitled ‘Grassroots’, on the grassroots legacies of Stepney Words with the other panellists, Ken Worpole…
Wednesday 17 November 2021 2pm at Altab Ali Park £8/£5 concessions It was SOLD OUT! The annual Banglatown walk and talk for anybody interested in Bengali migration and settlement in the East End of London. It is an opportunity to…
Swadhinata Trust and King\’s College London presented Amra hori-hori takhmu killa zetu amra ekh-loge taki? (How can we live apart when we live together?): Sylheti conceptualisations of home during the pandemic Julie Begum, Chris Tang, Mark Cabling and Marie Thaut…
The London Arts & Culture Dementia Friendly Network are a group of cultural organisations passionate about being dementia-friendly. They work together to advocate for a dementia-friendly arts and culture sector in London. Swadhinata Trust was invited to take part as…