The culmination of our Arts Council funded R & D project the Apna Heritage Archive : Forging Ahead took place on November 10th at Black Country Living Museum (BCLM) who were our main project partner. We were proud to host yet another packed out community celebratory event at BCLM & audiences were able to view the exhibition which is taking place at Dudley Archives Nov 1st -30th 2022. Participants from the Punjabi community along with excited and emotional students that BCVA worked with were able to share their stories from their working lives in the Black Country and came together to celebrate with food and fellowship and hear from BCVA about the achievements arising from the project. There were so many outcomes from the partnerhships taking place and we were able to share about their input into the overall project. Most of the details of this outcomes and outputs you can already read about here see in the year on this blog. It was so great to hear first hand from the participants and our partners the way in which we worked to co-create and co-produce a new dimension of work. The community appreciated seeing images from the working lives of the Punjabi’s presented at such a prestigous and histroically culutral event in the Black Country. We want to thank all our partners for their hard work in expanding our reach as we intended in to the Black Country & Beyond.
Photography courtesy of Dudley College students.