'Southall and Beyond' - An Exhibition and Festival of British Asian Culture in Delhi, and community engagement workshops in Bangkok

该项目的目的是在AHRC资助的项目“南城故事：英国”小印度“的文化史”的活动和成果的基础上，在新的国际受众中创造重要和创新的参与和影响活动。该项目将于2013年11月在德里的印度国际中心(IIC)巡回展出《Southall Story》。此外，还将在IIC策划一个国际性的艺术节：‘Southall and Beyond：一个英国亚洲文化节’，该展览是其中的一部分。电影节将包括一个特别的英国亚洲电影节；一场由来自英国和印度的音乐家共同表演的音乐会，包括由Kuljit Bhamra特别委托制作的一首新作品；以及一系列工作坊。展览还将包括每天举行的“Southall Story”活动，社区和学校团体将与来自“Southall Story”项目的三名顾问直接接触和互动，他们将带领他们参观展览，并向他们讲述关于Southall及其文化的故事。艺术节将举行一场备受瞩目的开幕式，邀请了80位嘉宾，其中包括政府官员和英国高级专员。参与该项目的合作组织包括印度国际中心、英国文化协会驻印度办事处和英国亚洲艺术机构。除了在德里的这些活动外，该项目的PI和“Southall Story”的三名顾问还应曼谷朱拉隆功大学的邀请，与曼谷的印度侨民社区一起举办了一系列社区参与讲习班。讲习班将开始帮助社区创建一个口述历史项目，以“Southall Story”项目为榜样，使社区能够反思和交流自己的历史。这些活动将使大量用户群体受益，并将确保项目的持久性。目前正在与伙伴组织一起计划进一步参观展览和艺术节的活动。

The project is aimed at creating significant and innovative engagement and impact activities with new international audiences, following-on from the activities and outputs of the AHRC-funded project 'The Southall Story: a cultural history of Britain's "Little India"'. The project is to tour the 'Southall Story' exhibition to the India International Centre (IIC) in Delhi, in November 2013. Additionally, to curate an international festival: 'Southall and Beyond: A Festival of British Asian Culture' at the IIC, of which the exhibition is a part. The Festival will include a special festival of British Asian films; a concert featuring musicians from the UK and India performing together, including a new piece commissioned especially for the event by Kuljit Bhamra; and a series of workshops. The exhibition will additionally include daily 'Southall Stories' events, where community and school groups will have direct engagement and interaction with the three consultants from the 'Southall Story' project, who will guide them around the exhibition and tell them stories about Southall and its culture. There will be a high-profile opening event to the Festival with 80 invited guests, including government officials and the British High Commissioner. Partner organisations working on the project are the India International Centre; the British Council office in India; and the Asian Arts Agency in the UK. In addition to these activities in Delhi, the project's PI and the three consultants for the 'Southall Story' have been invited by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok to undertake a series of community engagement workshops with diasporic Indian communities in Bangkok. The workshops will begin to assist the communities to create an oral history project using the 'Southall Story' project as a model, empowering the communities to reflect on and communicate their own history.These activities will benefit a great number of user groups, and will ensure longevity of the project. Further tours of the exhibition and events from the Festival are currently being planned with the partner organisations.