Arts Beat supports SAILING TO BRITAIN

Arts Beat is TARA’s young people’s theatre scheme. We are aged between 14 and 22 years and have been creating shows and developing arts projects with TARA since summer 2007.

There are over 15 young people in Arts Beat and we live and study in Wandsworth and south London. We love what we do at TARA Studio and so far we have been in three Shakespeare productions and two massive shows in Trafalgar Square for India Now and the Beijing Olympics Torch Relay last year.

The people at TARA listen to us and what we want to achieve. We met with Jonathan, Jatinder and Claudia from TARA earlier this year to talk about SAILING TO BRITIAN and the lascars project.

We are really excited about this project, Husnara Zaman one of our group is going to help with the marketing this year and some of us are on the steering group to help promote the project and decide what happens.

We will be involved in the workshops to research the history of lascars; going out to see archives, museums and find lascars stories from across London and we are really looking forward to creating the exhibition for Croydon Clocktower and learning about making a website. It will be great to work with other young people from across London as well.

We think its really important that young people from different cultures get to find out about our shared past so that we can learn from each other and get an understanding about what lascars actually experienced when they came to London.

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Pauline Nakirya, Justnara Shuma Zaman, Sarah Ball, Joanna Scott, Remaine Slight, Katie Brazier, Amal Ismali, Husnara Zaman, Joycelyne Praman, Illena Christoforou, Mukul Ahmed, Filiz Ozcan, Murat Ozcan, Ayshen.