Join Us for a FREE Workshop on the First-Generation South Asian Migrant Experience in Dorset!
We are looking for people of South Asian heritage who migrated to Dorset from outside the UK in the last 30 years to attend a workshop that explores the first-generation migrant experience. We want to understand what it’s been like for you to move to this area and how your adjustment journey has felt.
The workshops are free of charge and will help performance poet Aanka Batta and stand-up artist Raj Adgopul to combine a range of authentic voices with their own experiences in a performance project they are developing together. The aim is that pilot performances will take place in early 2025, and participants at the workshops will of course be invited to attend.
You are invited to attend any one of two workshops:
- Sangam Sethu: संगम सेतू – A Workshop on Language and Communication Gaps
- Focus: Language and communication barriers between migrants and wider British society/institutions.
- Led by: Raj Adgopul
- Date: Monday September 2nd 2024
- Location: The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester DT1 1HF
- Time: 5.30pm (the workshop will last approximately 2 hours)
- Booking via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/957203069147?aff=oddtdtcreator or call 01305 266926.
For Raj’s workshop you are invited to bring stories and anecdotes which highlights the misunderstandings you have experienced when they first arrived in this country. The best story will receive a Dominos Pizza voucher!
2. When I Call Home – A Workshop on Memory and Nostalgia
- Focus: Memory and nostalgia of what one has left behind
- Led by: Aanka Batta
- Date: Tuesday September 3rd 2024
- Location: Gather, The Dolphin Shopping Centre, Poole BH15 1SZ
- Time: 5.30pm (the workshop will last approximately 2 hours)
- Booking via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/957204814367?aff=oddtdtcreator or call 01305 266926.
For Aanka’s workshop, you are invited to bring an object (a photograph, book, piece of jewellery or clothing, etc.) that reminds you of Home (whatever and wherever it may be for you).
Details:
- Age: 18+
- Incentives: A light meal and refreshments will be provided.
- Confidentiality: The material from the workshops will inform an arts-based project led by First Generation South Asian Immigrants in Dorset. Your names or any identifying features will not be used in the project, and anonymity will remain protected.
Interested in Attending? Please book your place for the session on Eventbrite using the following links:
Raj Adgopul workshop: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/957203069147?aff=oddtdtcreator
Aanka Batta. Workshop: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/957204814367?aff=oddtdtcreator
If you prefer, you can call Dorchester Arts on 01305 266926 and book your place over the phone.
This project is supported by Counterpoints Arts, a leading national organisation in the field of arts, migration and cultural change, and by Dorchester Arts, Activate Performing Arts and Artsreach.
