Swadhinata Trust presents Bengali History Walk by Tower Hamlets Council’s A Season of Bangla Drama 2018 £5.00 Wednesday 21 November, MEETING POINT: Shahid Minar (Martyrs Monument), Altab Ali Park, Adler Street/Whitechapel…
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Directory launch for dealing with online & physical threats;- You are invited to the launch of a resource for dealing with online & physical threats to assist secular activists (online…
Julie Begum, Chair of Swadhinata Trust with be participating in Amnesty’s #StillMarching Festival on women making history, on Sunday 20th May 2018 at Amnesty International. We are very pleased that…
Explore Bengali history in and around Brick Lane OBJECT The walk starts in Altab Ali Park, named after a Bengali leather garment worker who was murdered in…
Aldgate Square Festival: Arts, music, performance and talks from Aldgate and beyond: This summer, the City of London is launching its new public square with a fantastic, fun-filled FREE festival…
Bengali spring festival: Saturday 31th March & Sunday 1st April Time: 12-4 pm
Swadhinata Trust presents Indian Suffragettes. Although popular Suffragette legend might have you believing only white women were entrenched in the cause for women’s suffrage in Britain, there were a…
This heart-breaking story about the death of Altab Ali oscillates between a village in Sylhet, Bangladesh and a flat in East London and dramatises the historic moment in 1978 when…
The BanglaTown walk and talk is aimed at anybody interested in Bengali migration and settlement in the East End. It is an opportunity to learn about the Bengali community’s history…
The Altab Ali Story film was screened on 20 May 2017 at the Kobi Nazrul Centre. The tragic racist murder of Altab Ali in May of 1978 sent shockwaves through the...
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