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Roti Kapra Aur Makaan (Apna Arts)
Date: 1998 - Ongoing
With financial help from the Arts Council’s A4E Express scheme APNA Arts facilitated EKTA Luncheon Club to produce a book and an exhibition on the development of the South Asian community in Nottingham, seen through the eyes of six Asian senior citizens. Together with a description of Asian migration to Britain, these stories are a useful tool for the classroom and library, explaining the background to the Asian presence in Britain.
This project provided an important and significant ‘New Work’ in Nottingham dealing with the history of the presence of South Asian people. None of the contributors is particularly rich, or famous, but the stories are a testament to how ordinary people struggled to carve out an economic and political space for modern British born Asians. Everything that we achieve is built on what our parents and grandparents have accomplished, whilst holding on to their Asian cultures. Through the brief biographies in this book, and the accompanying exhibition, APNA Arts pays a small tribute to those who set up our communities in Nottingham.
In place of the original project title of Away from Home we felt we needed something more dynamic and appropriate. Roti, Kapra or Makaan, (Bread, Cloth and Shelter) encompasses the reasons these six South Asian individuals migrated from the Indian sub-continent. The title also relates to a 1970’s Bollywood film and to the political slogan used by the late prime minister of Pakistan; Zulfiqar Ali Bhuto during the 1970s.
2000 copies of the books were published and the exhibition toured various venue such as; OUR FESTIVAL OUR MELA 98, Angel Row Gallery, The Art Exchange and Elms Primary School in Nottingham as well as The Mega Mela in Birmingham and toured a series of venues in Worcestershire.
To develop the project further, APNA Arts in partnership with Elms Primary School produced an education pack with Activities for Key Stages 1 & 2. The pack supports the National Curriculum in the subject areas of Citizenship/PSHE, Literacy, history and art.
APNA Arts are currently working on an action research project with Djanogly City Academy to develop an education pack for Key stage 3 and 4 that can be used in conjunction with a book and exhibition.
For more information contact Apna Arts
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A free event for artists; arts practitioners; organisations and community groups working in, or interested in working in community and participatory arts.
The day is designed to give plenty of opportunity to network, discuss your work, ask questions, share experiences and find out more information about a range of subjects and issues affecting everyone working in participatory arts.
Including an in-depth session devoted to professional and project development subjects such as negotiating contracts, rates of pay and how to set up and run an event will be covered.
There is also be an facilitated open space session based around working in and across different arts forms, a presentation and open sharing session on International working and a presentation outlining current key trends and influences such as reforms in Public Sector funding, the Cultural Offer and Cultural Olympiad. Plus, this is your chance to influence future EMPAF work and events as each of the sessions is designed to bring out issues that are most relevant to you.
Registration and networking begins at 9.45am for 10.30am start. Lunch is provided and there is lots of time given to networking and finding out more about EMPAF, Cultivate and a wide range of other resources and sources of further information.
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EMPAF has been working to support an Arts Council England East Midlands initiative to help demystify recent developments in Local Area Agreements. ACE are running a series of mini events around the region for artists, arts practitioners and local authority arts officers to look at recent changes in terms of how they offer opportunities for arts and creative projects. The first event took place in Leicester at the beginning of June and EMPAF is publishing copies of presentation notes, supporting information and case studies used as part of all the events in the resources / essential publications section of this website (click on the title of this news item to go directly there). The next event will take place in Nottingham on 3rd July. Email info@empaf.com for more details.
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