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Exhibition celebrating the Tamil Community's contribution to London to be held at East Ham library
15th December 2005
East Ham library will be hosting an exhibition highlighting the positive contribution that Tamil refugees have made to London through work and business, arts and culture and community and voluntary work. The exhibition features photographs of the Tamil community in London and extracts from life history interviews with ten refugees from the Tamil community. The interviewees include Newham Councillor Paul Sathianesan as well as other members of the Tamil community both in Newham and Greater London. The exhibition will be on display at East Ham library, High Street South, East Ham from 9th January and will coincide with Pongal, the Tamil Harvest Festival which takes place on 13th and 14th January.
The exhibition has 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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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.
