Name: Project Launch: Narratives of Time/ ন্যারাটিভস অফ টাইম
Start: 2025-02-21T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-21T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Brady Art Centre 192-196 Hanbury Street, E1 5HU London, United Kingdom

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Join our project launch! Exploring Bengali drama, storytelling, playwriting and community progression in East London during 1963-2013.
Friday, 21 February 2025, 7.30 - 9.00 pm
Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street, E1 5HU
• Do you want to learn about the history of Bengali drama in East London?
• Do you want to understand how Bangladeshi playwright, actors, producers and audiences pioneered and developed the Bengali drama scene in the East End?
• Do you want to help document the lives of these people?
• Do you want to research the context and the evolution of Bengali drama and the Bengali community in East London?
If yes, book your free place now and learn more about the initiative and how to get involved.
Since the 1960s, Bangla Natok (Bengali Drama), has helped Bengali immigrants in London keep their connections with 'back home'. Bangla theatre increased after the independence of Bangladesh, spurred by its role during the 1971 war in raising awareness and support for independence. It developed further in the 1980s and 1990s, and in the early 2000s, as part of drama festivals such as the annual Season of Bangla Drama initiated by Tower Hamlets Council in 2003.
Titled Narratives of Time (ন্যারাটিভস অফ টাইম/সময়ের আখ্যান), the new HLF funded project seeks to capture the rich evolutionary history of Bangla Natok in East London through oral history and research. It will explore theatre, storytelling, playwriting, and community progression in East London from 1963 to 2013.
Narratives of Time will help reveal how a small group of people first kept Bengali drama alive when they first migrated to London. It will also explore experiences such as racism, decline of local industries, the closure of the docks, resistance, and rising unemployment.