Birmingham’s Heritage of Child Migration wins HLF support / The GAP / West Midlands

Birmingham’s Heritage of Child Migration wins HLF support, The GAP

• LocationWest Midlands
• Type
• Salary
• ArtformHeritage, Community, Culture
• ContactCeri Townsend admin@thegapartsproject.co.uk

Description

The GAP has received £48,700 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its CHILDREN IN MOVEMENT project. Led by young people from all over the city, the project will focus on unearthing the stories of individual citizens who migrated to Birmingham as children.

The GAP is a Birmingham youth arts charity that creates space and time for young people to make sense of the world through creative & cultural action. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, it will train more than 50 young people to interview and photograph a large number of local residents, some of whom came to live in Birmingham as early as the 1930s on the Kinderstransport, which brought Jewish children fleeing Nazism in Germany, as well as some who arrived as recently as 2016 from Syria via the Calais jungle, and many more in the decades between.

Participants will produce an exhibition during National Refugee Week, June 2018, and the stories and photographs will be published in a book documenting what it was and is like to be a child migrant, and how experiences might have changed over the decades.

Commenting on the award, Ceri Townsend, Director of The GAP, said: “Birmingham is a fascinating and forward-looking city, due in no small part to its diverse migrant communities and its youthful population – features it is widely renowned for. We are thrilled that we have the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund because CHILDREN IN MOVEMENT brings these two core strengths together in such a way that will benefit the whole community, and build understanding of our shared heritage and aspirations as a global city.”

The project starts in May and is open to any young person 14-25 in Birmingham to get involved. For former child migrants to the city, this is a rare opportunity for personal accounts and memories to be shared, recorded and archived for posterity in the New Library of Birmingham. The GAP would love to hear from anyone who would like to take part in the CHILDREN IN MOVEMENT Project. Email us at admin@thegapartsproject.co.uk

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Birmingham’s Heritage of Child Migration wins HLF support / The GAP / West Midlands