1-Day Symposium at the LSE (including Keynote by Professor Anoop Nayak, University of Newcastle) Wednesday 6 June 2018, 10.30 – 5.00 (exact times TBC) In May 1978 a…
2018 sees the return of the Boishakhi Mela to Weavers Fields, highlights of which will include an amazing main stage programme, spectacular parade, Mela Family and Arts Zone and a…
Julie Begum, Chair of Swadhinata Trust with be participating in Amnesty’s #StillMarching Festival on women making history, on Sunday 20th May 2018 at Amnesty International. We are very pleased that…
Explore Bengali history in and around Brick Lane OBJECT The walk starts in Altab Ali Park, named after a Bengali leather garment worker who was murdered in…
Aldgate Square Festival: Arts, music, performance and talks from Aldgate and beyond: This summer, the City of London is launching its new public square with a fantastic, fun-filled FREE festival…
Dear Friends and Participants in our project, We are very pleased to tell you that the interviews you gave last year for our project “Bengali Music and Musicians in the…
Bengali spring festival: Saturday 31th March & Sunday 1st April Time: 12-4 pm
Swadhinata Trust presents Indian Suffragettes. Although popular Suffragette legend might have you believing only white women were entrenched in the cause for women’s suffrage in Britain, there were a…
This heart-breaking story about the death of Altab Ali oscillates between a village in Sylhet, Bangladesh and a flat in East London and dramatises the historic moment in 1978 when…
The BanglaTown walk and talk is aimed at anybody interested in Bengali migration and settlement in the East End. It is an opportunity to learn about the Bengali community’s history…