During January and February, Sampad’s learning team brought South Asian arts and cultural experiences into classrooms, libraries and community spaces across Birmingham. Through dance, music, storytelling and visual art, children and young people were introduced to new creative forms while exploring the cultures and histories behind them. Across the term, the From City of Empire to City of Diversity schools exhibition was placed with Kings Norton Girls’ School and Elms Farm Primary School in Sheldon. The exhibition invited students to…

Children have fun and look into their heritage at Sampad’s Drama Summer School “ The children really touched my heart with what they shared and how this taught them so much about Birmingham, their own heritage, others heritage and also about society in general.” Grandparent Our Story, Our City, took place at Mac Birmingham for a week in August 2021 with drama sessions influenced by images from the Dyche Collection. The collection contains historic photographs of people who migrated to…