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Multicultural exhibitions and learning resources available free for libraries, schools and community groups
15th December 2005
The Refugee Communities History project is working with fifteen refugee communities to collect 150 life histories of individual refugees in order to highlight the positive contributions they have made to London and the UK. In the first year the project has worked with the Tamil, Latin American, Afghan, Iraqi, Former Yugoslavian and Kurdish communities as well as refugee academics. These communities have produced a variety of learning resources and mobile exhibitions which are now available free of charge to libraries, schools and community groups.
The resources available include mobile photographic exhibitions of the Tamil, Latin American, Iraqi and former Yugoslavian communities; 'The Way We Are in London' a film showing the lives of ten refugees from the former Yugoslavia; interactive CD ROMs which combine photos with extracts from interviews with members of the Iraqi and Afghan communities and an interactive CD ROM entitled Childhood Landscapes which includes childhood memories and stories from around the world in a variety of languages. Currently Barons Court Library in West London is hosting the Iraqi mobile exhibition and in January 2006 East Ham library will be hosting the Tamil exhibition.
These resources have been produced as part of the Evelyn Oldfield Unit's Refugee Communities History Project. The Project is working in partnership with the Museum of London, London Metropolitan University and 15 Refugee Community Organisations to collect 150 life histories of individual refugees in London showing the positive contributions they have made to the capital. The project is funded by the Heritage Lottery and Trust for London.
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Notes for Editors
- The Evelyn Oldfield Unit provides professional support and training for Refugee Community Organisations to enable them to adequately tackle the pressing needs of the communities they serve.
