A project telling the story of how members of a Somali community moved to a park in Bradford and went on public display has been recognised with an award.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Somali Village exhibition at Cartwright Hall explores how a group of 57 Muslim men, women and children from the Horn of Africa came to live and work in Lister Park in 1904 as part of the city’s Great Exhibition.<\/p>\n
The project has won the Cultural Knowledge Exchange Project of the Year Award at the Future Icons of Culture Knowledge Exchange Awards.<\/p>\n
Co-curator Abira Hussein said it was a “nice surprise” it had been presented with the award and \u00a31,000 funding, which will be spent on further research and community engagement.<\/p>\n
“We’re hoping that some of this can be more permanent and that there’ll be a permanent presence and a way for people who come to Cartwright Hall to be aware of this history,” Hussein said.<\/p>\n
“This is a starting point. We’ve had a lot of engagement with workshops, with exhibition tours, and a lot of schools being involved.”<\/p>\n
Hussein said it had been a challenging story to tell, but was “necessary” and had received positive feedback from visitors.<\/p>\n
“Initially, I had some concerns and worries. This is not an easy history to tell, particularly what’s been happening politically,” she explained.<\/p>\n
“But actually, a lot of people have said it’s important this history has been told.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A project telling the story of how members of a Somali community moved to a park in Bradford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-1189565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117223946054479722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}