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Facing East

Posted by AndyEditor 91 days ago - Average Rating: 4 with 2 vote(s) (www.facingeast.co.uk)
Category: local history | Tags: london bromley arts history project

About the project

Taking place during Spring to Autumn 2008, The Facing East project will produce a 'portrait' of the community living in Bromley by Bow. Young people, old people, people with disabilities, Bangladeshi, English, Somali, Irish, Afro-Caribbean; Facing East is recording individual's stories, assembling a temporary museum of personal objects on the Three Mills Island Heritage Site, and creating a series of high-quality, individual, photographic portraits and audio recordings for potential broadcast.

The project will be a celebration of the heritage of this diverse community and an opportunity for learning and sharing in the context of the past and present, and a history of migration and the far-reaching changes now taking place locally and across East London. The individual portraits will be displayed and made accessible through the media, a dedicated website, brochure, an exhibition at Three Mills and potentially large-scale posters and projections; and will be a way that the diverse community and heritage is identified and celebrated not just in Bromley by Bow, but across London and more widely.
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