WEA news – HIDDEN HISTORY OF TYNESIDE
Hengameh Emami, project worker with the Islamic Heritage Project, will introduce the work of the project in collecting life stories from Muslim people living in the North East. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project will gather testimonies from people about their childhood, work, lifestyle, education, family, traditions and culture. The results will be lodged with the Tyne and Wear Archives for the social and educational benefit of the whole community.
There are also opportunities for people to become involved with the project as volunteers and be trained in how to undertake oral history alongside professional historians.
The project is managed by the Pakistan Cultural society, one of the leading ethnic arts voluntary organisations in the North East, and the Hidden History event has been organised by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA).
Nigel Todd, WEA North East Regional Director, said: ’Black History Month has been celebrated across the UK every October for over 30 years, each year growing from strength to strength. Black History Month is a time for highlighting and celebrating the achievements of the black community and uncover hidden history.
This event will introduce some of the ‘hidden’ history and explore ways in which the histories of Black and Asian people can be recorded and made more well known.’
This free event takes place on Thursday, 29 October 2009 at Nuns Moor Children’s Centre, Studley Terrace, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle, 7.30-9.00 pm
All welcome. For more details contact WEA on northeast@wea.org.uk or 0191 212 6100
