Category: Events and News
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Celebrating “Diaspora in Translation”: Highlights
DLiT held its final public event on 3 July. It was an absolute delight to have the Chai & Chat ladies from Belgrave. They sang their childhood songs, one in Gujarati and another in Hindi, and shared their memories from India, Uganda and Ghana. We also had the pleasure to welcome Cllr Manjula Sood, the…
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Celebrating “Diaspora Leicester in Translation”: Sharing our Sayings, Poems, and Songs
Date: Wednesday 3rd July 2024Time: 3:00 – 4:30 PMVenue: Sir Bob Burgess 0.03, University of Leicester (https://www.le.ac.uk/maps/) Building on the success of our launch event on 15th May, we have been thrilled by the support and contributions from local communities. Come and join us for this in-person event, accompanied by light refreshments. In a wide variety of…
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DLiT Launch Event
Does your family have some favourite words and sayings inherited from parents and grandparents in another language? Do you want to find out more about some poems, rhymes and songs intimately embedded in the memory of your older generations in another language? Or perhaps you want to pass yours on to your younger generations? Diaspora Leicester in Translation:…