Join us for this special South Asian Heritage Month event with True Form Projects and the East in West Vinyl Archive.
With a listening session of music from True Form's South Asian vinyl archive spanning from 1940s to 1990s, join us for an afternoon of songs, share stories about music and local community over tea, and connect through music.
We will also be hosting an art-making and collage workshop, creating artwork inspired by and in-response to some of the albums and themes of South Asian culture, spanning from the collection’s origins in Birmingham, across the UK and South Asia.
You can drop by anytime from 4.30pm and 6.30pm to make art, listen to music and explore the archives!
About the East in West Vinyl Archive
The East in West Vinyl Archive is a project exploring, interpreting, and providing access to a unique archive of more than 3,000 South Asian vinyl records and artifacts, rescued from Birmingham’s iconic Oriental Star Agencies.
This is a National Lottery Heritage Funded Project with the mission to make the archive accessible, celebrate the collection and ignite discussions about its content, memories and inspire new generations.
About True forms Projects
True Form Projects CIC as set up in 2012 provides a variety of benefits to communities specialising in, but are not specific to, the diaspora communities from South Asia in the UK.
They collect oral histories, capture people’s experiences and talk to them about their lives. They photograph, film, interpret and create content that is exciting and undiscovered. They curate groundbreaking work and make sure that those they engage with feel respected.
About LSE Library
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