Category: Miscellaneous Information
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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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Sunflower seeds and tofu
Author: J.L (YY: J.L explains a special form of the Chinese language, xie hou yu, which combines a witty use of metaphor and pronunciation. She would also like to share a photo of her parents as considering these sayings makes her think about and miss her parents back in China.) Xie hou yu, known as…
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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:…
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DLiT: Participant Information Sheet
Please find below a downloadable copy of Participant Information Sheet.