June 2011 INSIDE Who’s keeping an eye on College Green? The Memory Shed all our histories Music in Exile A taste of England Welcome to my home My favourite food… Kenya comes to Faith in the City Bristol City of Sanctuary Steering Committee Bristol City of Sanctuary Supporters CONTENTS June Burrough (Chair) Founder and Director, The Pierian Centre Co If your organisation would like to be Primary School ng 3 Letter to Bristol ratula added this lists, please visit Imayla International Organisation tions Lorraine Ayensu Team Manager, Asylum Support and Refugee In - www.cityofsanctuary.org/bristol for Migration Inderjit Bhogal tegration Team, Bristol City Council Churches Council for Industry and Alistair Beattie Chief Executive, Faithnetsouthwest ACTA Community Theatre Social Responsibility 4 Editorial Caroline Beatty Co-ordinator, The Welcome Centre, Bristol African and Caribbean Chamber of John Wesley’s Chapel Mike Jempson to Bris Commerce and Enterprise Kalahari Moon to Refugee Rights l – Jo Benefield Bristol Defend Asylum Campaign African Initiatives Kenya Association in Bristol 5 A movement gaining ground Adam Cutler Bristol Central Libraries African Voices Forum Kingswood Methodist Church Stan Hazell Afrika Eye Malcom X Centre Mohammed Elsharif Secretary, Sudanese Association Amnesty International Bristol MDC Bristol Elinor Harris Area Manager, Refugee Action, Bristol p 6-7 The Memory Shed ro Group Methodist Church, South West ud to b Reverend Canon Tim Higgins The City Canon, Eugene Byrne e Anglo-Iranian Society (Bristol) region a Bryony Hutt President, Student Action for Refugees, Bristol Uni - Anti-Slavery The MediaWise Trust versity Group Avon and Bristol Law Centre Modoto Ltd 9-10 At the heart of Bristol Latif Ismail Chair, Somali Forum Baker Brown Associates Movementor Phil Chamberlain and Mike Barnardo’s South West National Union of Journalists, C Maria Mapwashike Bristol Zimbabwe Association Jempson ity of Bedminster Quaker Meeting Bristol Branch Sanc St Nicholas of Tolentino t Fr Richard McKay uar Black Development Agency Off the Record y Naomi Millner Bristol Hospitality Network The Brigstowe Project One25 10-11 Sanctuary at the Seven Stars Christopher Orlink Trustee, Bristol Refugee Rights Bristol Action for Southern Africa Orange Street Creative Studios Mark Steed A message from Inde rjit Bhogal, the founde Robert Porteus Trustee, Bristol Refugee Rights Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Oxfam South West r and national chair of the City of Sanctuary m Rosa Ross Anglo-Iranian Society, Bristol Group Pax Pontis 12-13 A taste of England ovement Valerie Russell Emmott Bristol Multi-Faith Forum The Bristol Bike Project The Pierian Centre Mary Ingoldsby WELL done to a ll organisations Bristol Citizen Advice Bureau Radio Salaam Shalom represent and individuals Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw Coordinator, UWE Refugee Hub a tremendous com who are working Bristol Community FM The Rainbow Programme all r mitment to the hard in this dev esidents, but esp building of cultu elopment. You al Hazel Stark Co-ordinator, Refugee Women of Bristol 14-15 Welcome to my home ecially for those a res of welcome, l Bristol Community Housing Advice Reckless Orchard mong us seeking hospitality and s Dr Christien van den Anker Reader, University of the West of Sabrina Esuka safety from harm afety for Service Red Notes Choir Achievin , and sanctuary g the City of San . England and Migrants Rights Centre Bristol Bristol Darfur Association Redland Park Church blis ctuary standard sful peace. The C does not mean yo Bristol Debt Advice Centre Redland Quaker Meeting ity of Sanctuar u have achieved 16-17 My favourite food wide variety y standard is a s your ‘nirvana’ of local commun ignificant marke , a state of STAFF Bristol Defend Asylum Seekers Refugee Action (Bristol) Zahra Azari, Samsok ity groups and th r to reach, recogn e local council ha ising that a Campaign Refugee Women of Bristol No ve a shared visio Forward Maisokwadzo Development worker Phetnoi and Lisa Pearce w you must sust n for a shared fu Bristol District of the Methodist Roaring Success Communications ain this vision, a ture. Andy Waitt Volunteer administrator nd strengthen it. Church Rolls-Royce Injustic 18-19 COVER STORY: e, war, poverty a Bristol Drugs Project Royal West of England Academy nd persecution c ontinue to put liv Bristol Fairtrade Network Saint Bonaventure’s Roman Raj Rammohun Roy es in danger. Eve We all belong ryone wants to b Bristol Folk House Catholic Parish Prasun Sonwalkar and to each other. W e safe. other. T e all desire the fu he challenge is t llness of life. W Bristol Foundation Housing Shelter Housing Support Service Poushali Mitra b o tackle injustice e find warmth an uild harmonious and hatred that d shelter in each A warm Bristol Hospitality Network SHOP (Vintage Lounge and Arts and hospitable hurts us all, and tality, and communities in w to do all in our Bristol Multi-Faith Forum Venue) CIC are safe, and hav hich all are we power to 20-21 Music in exile e sanctuary. lcome, belong equ ally, have hospi- welcome Bristol Palestine Solidarity Cam - Society of Merchant Venturers In Anita Hummel the context of i paign Somali Development Group njustice and peop make money le desiring safety Bristol Refugee Rights South Avon Conservation and out of other peop it is monstrous t ing trad le’s misery. Hum hat there are tho to Bristol Bristol Somali Forum Amenities Society 22-23 City of opportunity e is today’s slav an trafficking a se who seek to y e trade. Hundred nd the associated Eugene Byrne ear from the car s of children tra sex and child tr Bristol Sudanese Association South West TUC e system (550 in fficked into the U affick- exposed an the last three and K are disappear Bristol Trades Union Council St Gregory’s Church, Horfield d ended. Protect half years). Su ing each Globe the most vulnera ch immigration c Bristol Zimbabwe Association St Nicholas of Tolentino School 24 : ble. rime needs to be Well done Bris British Red Cross St Nicholas Tolentino Oral history tol. The City of S Bristol NUJ congratulates Bristol City of Sanctuary movemen anctuary badge Churches Together in Greater Bris - St Pauls Advice Centre ts of people. takes you on in y in winning such wide support for its important work in Mary Ingoldsby our own history tol Staple Hill Methodist Church in relation to the welcoming refugees to the City. We have supported There is much Student Action for Refugees yet to be done. K City of Sanctuary since the idea was first raised and 25 OPINION: strength eep the conversa Clean Slate Training and Employ - Temwa of a shared visio tions and commu we are very pleased to see that you are spreading n to guide you. nication levels go ment Thinking people Tackling ing. You have the your ideas through this new magazine. We wish Re Clifton Diocese Transparency Research Marvin Rees main strong. Bristol Globe magazine every success and a wide Coconut Chilli Digital Tribe of Doris Inderjit Bhogal and appreciative readership. Coexist Trinity Community Arts Ltd. 26-27 Women writers in exile Community Resolve Trinity Henleaze United Reformed Iqbal Tamimi Bristol NUJ is the city's number one organisation for Create it! (Arts) Ltd Church BRISTOL GLOBE professional media workers. We have around 350 Crisis Centre Ministries Editor: Mike Jempson members in newspaper and broadcast journalism, 28 Faith in the city Forward Maisokwadzo Cube Cinema Bristol Ujima Radio is published by Deputy Editor: Forward publishing, web publishing, photography, PR and Easton Christian Family Centre Unchosen Bristol City of Sanctuary, The Easton Family Practice University of the West England, 29-30 Twinning: Bristol connections Alix Hughes Maisokwadzo more. Discover more about the union at c/o Refugee Action, 9 Hide Market, www.nuj.org.uk or visit the Bristol branch website at The Ethical Property Company Bristol Editorial Assistant: Andy Waitt West Street, Bristol BS2 0BH the address below. To find out more about the Elays Development Network UWE Unison 31 Kenyan athletes come to town Photographers: Claude Mouthy and Tel: 0117 941 5960 branch, email [email protected] Faithnet Southwest Victim Support-Avon and Somerset Forward Maisokwadzo Anita Hummel Foster Care Associates (Western) Volunteering Bristol Design: Chris Brooker First Bristol Voscur We’re at www.bristolnuj.org.uk 32 PROFILE: Mohammed Elsharif Email: [email protected] [email protected] GWE Business West World Development Movement Layout: Paul Breeden Happy City Initiative (Bristol) Mike Jempson Web: and you can follow @bristolnuj [email protected]/bristol Promotions Team: Mal Sainsbury us on Twitter: The Haven Young Bristol 33-39 Directory of local organisations Twitter @BristolCoS and Judeline Ross 2 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 3 Welcome to The movement BRISTOL GLOBE ‘We all gaining ground AM delighted to be editing the first edition of the BRISTOL enjoy the GLOBE. In 2007 I had the honour of editing a similar magazine amazing range of called Haven in . It was the brainchild of Gordon Doh I food, Fondo from Cameroon, who was part of the Exiled Journalists’ music, Network which had started life here in Bristol a few years earlier. As arts and Former HTV journalist Stan Hazell explains the with BRISTOL GLOBE the idea was to introduce newcomers to history the city and local citizens to their new neighbours. that origins of the City of Sanctuary idea That notion of hospitality is one of the goals of the City of Sanc - surround tuary movement, which is why I was also pleased to speak in sup - us’: Mike ANCTUARY! It is a cry that has re - Jempson Main picture : Bristol people march in support of City of Sanctuary port of Bristol’s bid for recognition at the Council House last verberated down the centuries from Inset : Siva Rajah, 26, a Tamil orphan from , has been in the November. As I told the assembled councillors, my mother’s family those seeking safety from persecu - found sanctuary here back before the end of the 19th century. My it will inspire other Cities of Sanctuary to produce their own ver - S UK for 12 years and now lives in Bristol with his two children. He tion or even death. Now, in 21st century sions. would be at serious risk of violence in Sri Lanka. He went on hunger Irish grandparents Julia McCabe from Tullow, County Carlow and Britain, tension and hostility often surround strike in protest at being sent back. But he could still be deported. John Dempsey from Rose Green, Co. Tipperary met here in Bristol. This one would not have happened without the efforts of another discussions on immigration. However, a They married in 1908 at Holy Cross Church in Bedminster. There exiled journalist, Forward Maisokwadzo from Zimbabwe. Publica - campaign to create a culture of welcome The UK has always had a tradition of pro - create such a city in Sheffield. Everyone I am with them (below left) aged 2 in 1949. They lived at 10 Hill tion of this pilot edition coincides with his becoming the first per - for refugees and asylum seekers in cities viding a place of safety for refugees, but the there signed up to the idea. Street (now Merrywood Close) in Bedminster where they brought son to receive the European Network against Racism Foundation’s around the country is gaining momentum. reality is that comparatively few are granted Within two years the local council had up seven children – award for outstanding achievement across Europe. It is a tribute to Supporters of the City of Sanctuary asylum and the stressful wait for a decision given its backing and Sheffield became Edward, Dermot, John, Mary (my mother), Gerald, Agnes and his hard work in establishing Bristol as a City of Sanctuary, and an movement, launched in Sheffield in 2005, can take years. Britain’s first designated City of Sanctuary. Sheila. award of which the city too can be proud. are keen to make clear that asylum seekers The City of Sanctuary idea was the initia - Bristol joined the growing list in 2009. The The war and work drew most of I must also thank all the others who have made this issue possible are not illegal immigrants and have been tive of Rev Inderjit Bhogal – a former presi - movement’s goal is to create a network of the family away from Bristol, but the – from the volunteer writers, photographers and designers to our granted the right to stay in this country dent of the Methodist Conference and towns and cities which are “proud to be city retains its magnetic charm. I re - advertisers and printers. This is not a commercial enterprise, and in while their applications are processed. himself a former refugee from East Africa places of safety”. Soon there could be 18 turned with my young family al - these straitened times it is exceptional for people to give up time Those seeking asylum – sometimes with who had long campaigned on asylum cities around Britain sharing that status. most 25 years ago having lived and and expertise without reward. They have shown the spirit we need their children – have fled political unrest, issues – together with a kindred spirit Craig Bhogal explains: “We don’t have an action worked for nearly 20 years in the to keep this initiative alive. wars, oppressive regimes and, in some Barnett, who became its first national plan. It is an idea that draws in all kinds of melting pot that is East London. We hope the city’s business community will support BRISTOL cases, torture. They come from countries organiser. people. I don’t even know who they all are.” Inner-city Bristol has a similar multi- GLOBE through sponsorship and advertising. Then it can become a like Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Eritrea A meeting in Rev Bhogal’s church at - “We have given a vision around which cultural mix and we all enjoy the familiar part of our heritage – offering a warm welcome to those and Zimbabwe, facing danger to cross seas tracted 60 organisations. He shared with people of all backgrounds – political, reli - amazing range of food, music, arts who come to live here, and a reminder to the rest of us about and borders in the hope of reaching Britain. them an idea from Hebrew scriptures about gious or non-religious – can work to pro - and histories that surround us. where we come from and what we can offer each other. Some end up in detention centres. cities of refuge and invited them to help vide a culture of welcome and hospitality BRISTOL GLOBE is about celebrat - Let us know what you like about the magazine, and what stories for asylum seekers.” A young Mike Jemp - ing all those things and the people you would like to see appear in future editions. Enjoy! The asylum process asylum seekers who are taking “reasonable steps” to He likens the movement’s philos - son and his Irish who bring the city to life. But it is leave the UK or have medical reasons for staying. ophy to that of Fair Trade, where grandparents, who met also about sharing lifestyles, achieve - Mike Jempson HEN asylum seekers arrive in the UK they Some, though, are terrified at the thought of being organisations, towns and cities have and lived in the city ments and ambitions. And we hope Director, The MediaWise Trust Wtrier the start of a complex process. returned home; they don’t even apply for Section 4 to hit certain benchmarks to be Sometimes they have arrived hidden in a lorry and and lose both their accommodation and support. designated a Fair Trade area. A pri - are dropped off not knowing where they are. Others Women who have broken free from arranged mar - ority for City of Sanctuary status is present themselves to police. They must all, within a riages are among those affected. They have lost their having local organisations support - few days, get to the Home Office centre at Croydon asylum status but can’t go home from fear of stigma - ing the idea and getting backing where their application for asylum starts. tism and violence. Many asylum seekers have mental from local authorities. The unlucky ones, who don’t pass the first UK Bor - health problems brought on by their experiences. The Rev Bhogal sees the movement der Agency interview, are sent to detention centres, prospect of returning to a hostile environment causes taking on a momentum for a in most cases to await deportation. But if the appli - some to take their lives. change in attitudes. “We want to cation is allowed to continue they will be dispersed A survey at the Welcome Centre run by Bristol create such an atmosphere of wel - to cities around the UK with housing and a weekly Refugee Rights showed 60 per cent of new attendees come and hospitality that it be - allowance of £35.50. They are not allowed to work were destitute. Manager Caroline Beatty says: “Some comes part of our culture,” he says. and, at any time, they may be detained by police. are in limbo for years. We don’t even know how many His final message comes from the The process can take six months, but it can be six there are. The authorities seem to ignore them.” Bible: “When I was a stranger you years or more – and can often involve an appeal. If Lost to the system, they rely on handouts from took me into your home” (Matt. ADVICE, INFORMATION, RESEARCH and TRAINING ON MEDIA ETHICS that fails they can be deported. agencies like the Red Cross and Assist. If they can’t 25:35). As a Christian, he says, A last hope of escaping deportation is Section 4 of find a bed in a fellow asylum-seeker’s house they can that’s all the motivation he needs. • www.cityofsanctuary.co.uk VISIT: www.mediawise.org.uk EMAIL: [email protected] CALL: +44 (0)117 93 99 333 the Immigration and Asylum Act. It provides accom - end up on the streets. modation and the weekly allowance – this time paid For a lucky few, there is light at the end of the tun - This is an edited version of an article WRITE: The MediaWise Trust, UWE, Oldbury Court Road, Bristol BS16 2JP, UK by a credit card only usable in selected stores – to nel – they will finally win refugee status. that appeared in Reform magazine of the United Reform Church in June 2010 4 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 5 Bristol’s brand new museum tells the story of Bristol through the lives of the people A look inside who have lived here, past and present, including those who came to the city in search of safety or just a better life, Bristol’s new reports Eugene Byrne

N CASE you haven’t no - Memory 5 ticed, Bristol has a brand spanking new Museum, The Joshi family arrived in I England in 1972 when down on the docks. The £27 million M Shed, set in a for - memory shed President Idi Amin ex - mer warehouse that was once pelled people of Asian and home to the city’s Industrial European descent from Museum, opened on 17 June Uganda. Mrs Joshi is pic - with a weekend of celebrations. tured with her son and M Shed has some fantastic husband shortly after they tales to tell Bristolians and visi - arrived. They went to live tors alike about the city’s past. in a refugee camp near We have over a thousand years Minehead. Mr Joshi be - of history, packed with colour - came a teacher and in ful personalities and dramatic April 1973 they moved to events. There are stories that Bristol, where they helped are noble and inspiring, and to set up the Hindu Tem - some that are shameful. Noth - ple in Redfield. “We had ing’s been covered up. to establish ourselves in a The museum has over 3,000 new country and new city. exhibits in three main galleries – It was hard work. Now as Bristol People, Bristol Places a family, we feel Bristol is and Bristol Life, using pictures, our home.” objects and stories taken from Memory 3 Memory 4 historical records and the mem - Kayse Maxamed is Reuben St Claire is ories of living Bristolians, to ex - Cranes and boats adorn Bristol’s new dockside museum Picture: Chris Bahn seen receiving a pictured with his plore the city’s history from certificate from wife, Ruth. His fa - prehistoric times onwards. Memory 1 Memory 2 former Bristol ther, Joseph, is be - There’s a lot of focus on social Lord Mayor Peter lieved to have arrived history – the lives of Bristolians, Maria and Luigi Po - Iva Williams is shown Abraham after in Bristol as a stow - rich and poor, down the years; licella are pictured with her husband on studying the work away from Barbados; their work, their homes, what around 1930 out - their wedding day. Iva of councillors. He he worked as a den - they did for fun. The bigger his - side the shop in moved from Jamaica arrived in the UK tist on Bristol Bridge toric themes are there as well – Marlborough Street to Bristol in 1962 to as a refugee from and married Mabel Stallard in 1913. Their Bristol’s long, long history as a where they lived join her fiancé. She Somalia in 1997. four sons ran Westbury Upholstery works. Memory 6 trading port, its wartime experi - and worked. They found it difficult to adapt and missed her family “People in Bristol were very friendly and Reuben became the first black platoon offi - ences, the slave trade, the arrived in Bristol in and friends as well as Jamaican food and sun - made me feel welcome. There are a few cer in the Home Guard; Vernon was a pris - Zyta Seulejewska is seen achievements of famous Bristo - 1919 but had left shine. At first, Iva and her husband faced dis - people who just don’t understand why we oner of war and Raymond was an artist. second from the right in the lians, and a surprisingly long rural southern Italy in 1909, along with many crimination and ‘dead-end’ jobs, but she soon are here.” Kayse settled in Bristol in 2004. Daughters Cleophus and Naomi (‘Sissy’) middle row in 1938 at her history of traffic congestion. of their compatriots. Luigi made the ice became a nurse at Frenchay Hospital where the He is now a mental health worker for the became well-known singers. Reuben’s son, primary school in Poland. You can meet Bristol’s very cream and would also sell it from a handcart people were friendly. Now she can’t imagine NHS and is studying for a degree. “Life in Russell, followed family tradition to become In 1940, the Russian Army own dinosaur and see some of packed with ice in the centre of Bristol. living anywhere else. “I grew up so much in Somalia had become impossible. I had to a dentist, while his daughter, Lindsay, is a forced her family to flee to the things invented or manufac - Picture © Di-Gesse Family Bristol that I now consider it my home.” get to a safe place and away from the chaos.” lecturer at Bristol University. Siberia. Zyta came to Eng - tured here, from the Bristol car land in 1948 aged 14. She and the Concorde engine, to son shelter or search for your Finch, Bristol’s head of Muse - ent day. Museum staff want to throughout the museum of peo - the people of Bristol wanted a ence more of what the city has attended Bristol University Fry’s chocolate and Wallace and home, school or workplace on a ums and Archives. get us involved in discussions ple who have come from all city history museum,” she says. to offer.” and became a teacher here. Gromit. You’ll be able to mix giant floor map of the city. While there are plenty of around everything from, say, over the world to make Bristol “We will of course measure our • M Shed is at Princes Wharf, “I’ve made my home and music to make your own ‘Bris - “Some of the most surprising hi-tech toys and displays, M transport, shopping and envi - their home,” explains Julie. success through visitor num - Wapping Rd, Bristol BS1 4RN. Ad - life in Bristol. I was happy, tol Sound’, ride the Lodekka things in the museum are the Shed aims to be interactive in a ronmental “Objects, archive film footage, bers, visitor experience and sat - mission FREE; open 10am to 5pm scared, excited – but I knew bus and listen in on people’s little known stories about the wider sense, too. issues all the way to broader photographs and memories will isfaction – but for me it will be Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 6pm that my life would be easier.” conversations. You can dine at a history and people of the city Visitors will be invited to take questions of how we make all play a part in telling these that visitors to the museum Saturday and Sunday. Closed Mon - • Pictures for Memories 5 and table where history comes to that have come to light during part in events and debates on Bristol a better place to live. important stories.” come away inspired, challenged, day. Bank Holidays 10am to 6pm. 6: © Bristol Museums, Gal - life, step inside a WWII Ander - the years of research,” says Julie important issues from the pres - “Fascinating stories are told “We know from research that surprised and wanting to experi - 0117 352 6600; www.mshed.org leries and Archives 6 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 7 PHIL CHAMBERLAIN and MIKE JEMPSON stroll back into the history of old Brigstowe and find that the past is there to be discovered

TANDING at the highpoint of Castle Park, beside St Peter’s Church, left Sroofless and empty as a memorial to those who perished in the 70 years ago, you are surrounded by reminders of past conflicts. Trees commemorate the D-day landings, the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Anne Frank, murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Even the remnants of the castle itself, built first with timber then stone during the Norman con - quest of England, speak of its destruction by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War. In today’s happier times new wooden bat - Exciting contemporary plant displays featuring Mediterranean flora, rare tlements house a popular children’s play local native plants, unique Chinese medicinal herb garden, plant evolution park. And when Bristol first hosted a tradi - Temple church: Like St Peter’s nearby, it is a memorial to displayed in a dramatic dell, glasshouses, home to the giant Amazon wa - tional German Christmas terlily, tropical fruit, medicinal plants, large collection of orchids, cacti and market with its exquisite sea - carnivorous plants. sonal smells, it was in the Open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday 10am - 4.30pm April - Octo - shadow of St Peter’s. ber plus Saturdays June, July, August and September. Admission £3.50 Chil - A thousand years ago the dank smells of marshland A walk through time dren up to age 16 free. For winter opening times check website. Refreshments available Saturday and Sunday would have wafted up this hill, which has long been a June to September. place of safety. In Saxon times Street maintains the celebratory tradition. It it would have been a key water source it was an easily defended settlement almost Tours available to garden clubs and societies is now Bristol’s Register Office, where citi - within the city walls. Further down Broad entirely encircled by the Avon and Frome, zenship ceremonies are held to welcome Street there is another which was once in - For all details please see our website: before the smaller river was shunted under - www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/BotanicGardens those from overseas who settle here. side the city walls. Pass through St John’s ground to emerge in the today’s Centre. Walk down Broad Street and on the right Gate, the last surviving castle entrance Conveniently located in Stoke Bishop adjacent to Brigstowe – the place by the bridge – bore you come across a site that has offered hos - which once welcomed Queen Elizabeth 1, Durdham Downs and only 1.5 miles from the city no comparison to its nearest neighbour 15 pitality for generations. The Grand Hotel and turn right. Poking out of the wall and centre. miles to the east. Bath, with its grand has replaced the Bristol Inn, and in its base - guarded by a lion’s head, is a tap. St John’s Abbey and spiritual hot springs, had been ment bar a medieval well was rediscovered Conduit draws water from a spring on Stoke Park Road, Stoke Bishop the heart of the West Country since Roman in 1973, It is almost 57 feet deep and though Brandon Hill via a system devised more Bristol BS9 1JG times. But the tide turned in Bristol’s favour lit at the top it is impossible to see the than 500 years ago by Carmelite monks as it began to take advantage of the protec - 15,000 gallons of water said to be at the bot - from a monastery on the site of today’s tion afforded by the Avon gorge. It allowed tom. Thought to date back to Saxon times new Colston Hall. For a time during World traders from far and wide to reach a pro - War II this was the only source of fresh tected inland harbour, and the city pros - water for people living nearby. Staple Hill pered for centuries as an engine of both Welcome to Bristol Globe magazine! Returning to the medieval crossroads you empire and enterprise, with slavery, spices Methodist and tobacco playing a crucial role. pass a Royal Bank of Scotland building on your left. The exterior has an astonishing

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o and the BRISTOL P GLOBE magazine. the walls are decorated with friezes which In those days Bristol – now better known tell of Bristol’s trade with the West Indies. for its media companies – was a thriving Our congregation Food and crafts from many nations can be centre of printing, and home to one of the has actively sup - found in stalls and kiosks. Haphazard rede - oldest provincial newspapers in Britain. The velopment of the gaps left by wartime ported an asylum- Bristol Times and Mirror building round bombs has made a hotch-potch of the city, the corner in Corn Street was built at the seeker to obtain but if you explore the narrow, twisting al - same time as Everard’s and housed the first leave to remain in leyways in this area you get a tantalising the UK and is glimpse of what the city was once like. telegraph office in the city. As a carving committed to mak - The crossroads where Broad Street, High above the door explains, the paper began The Pierian Centre offers heart-felt support to Bristol Globe magazine ² ing our community Street and Corn Street meet Wine Street is life as the Bristol Post Man in 1713. It was DQGWR%ULVWRO·VQHZVWDWXVDVD&LW\RI6DQFWXDU\ a welcoming place where proclamations, executions and cele - preceded by the Bristol Post Boy, published www.pieriancentre.com for others. brations used to take place. The splendid St John’s Gate, the last remaining by printer William Bonney from 1702-1715. Old Council House on the corner of Corn medieval entrance to Bristol Castle Continued on page 10 8 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 9 A walk through time Continued from page 9

Communication is vital in a growing city, especially when its population expands and changes. Reminders of those who came to help form the city are everywhere. To the north east of Castle Green, be - neath the shopping mall, was Irishmede, where immigrant workers lived until Norman times. Small Street housed a Jewish quarter until the 14th century when it was attacked and moved to Wine Street. Tax returns from the 1520s record an Italian Francesco Borsa living on High Street, and a French servant John Mottons living by Bristol Bridge. Cross Baldwin Street below Bristol Bridge and you come to Welsh Back, so-named for the trade from Wales which drew up here. You are greeted by the grand West India House, a Grade II listed building now con - Bristol Radical History member MARK Above : Richard Hart unveils the verted into apartments. Further along to Clarkson plaque at the Seven the right you catch sight of a magnificent STEEDS, himself a pub landlord, recalls how Stars, 1 May 2009 example of Bristol Byzantine style, the an act of hospitality shaped world history Picture: Michael Lloyd Granary, now a fish restaurant and flats. Look right down cobbled King Street and F EVER there was a place where you on the left you’ll see the timbered Llan - Right : Artist Mike Baker at work can drink in the past then the Seven creating the commemorative doger Trow, named after the flat-bottomed IStars in Redcliffe is it. plaque in the Great Western Bristol Radical History Group (BRHG) Cotton Factory, Barton Hill members reckon that “the pub that changed the world” should be a World Heritage site, despite its small size. Tucked away in an old medieval side street next to St Thomas the Martyr church, the Seven Stars has one of the few tangible legacies of Bristol’s Abolition 200 Cry for freedom at the Stars year – a narrative plaque commemorating Ornate: King Street almshouse the pub’s association with the campaign against slavery. Welsh barges that once plied here. The pub The central figure is radical cleric Quaker Abolitionist friends put him in ises a major injustice. Full emancipation in Steve Niven and Katie Hardwick. The pub cess for Bristol Radical History Group, dates from 1660 and appears as the Admiral Thomas Clarkson who came to Bristol in touch with landlord Thompson of the the British Empire didn’t come until the is now run by Steve Wratten. which began as a loose collective of inter - Benbow in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treas - 1787 to investigate the horrors of the Seven Stars, which became the base for his 1830s, and in order to achieve it compensa - Together with donations from the TUC, ested individuals keen to make more of ure Island . It is also where Daniel Defoe is ‘African Trade’, and found sanctuary at the enquiries. tion money had to be paid to the planta - the Milliband Fund and Bristol Civic Soci - Bristol’s, and Britain’s, less widely por - said to have met the shipwrecked Alexander Seven Stars, then a sailors’ pub in St His discoveries changed public opinion tion owners! Part of this money was used ety, they raised the £4,000 needed to com - trayed past. So when you visit the old pub, Selkirk who inspired Robinson Crusoe. Thomas Lane. and paved the way for Abolition a full 20 to construct railways around the world in - mission a large-scale narrative plaque from drink a toast to them as well as to the abo - Opposite is the world famous jazz pub the A driven man, Clarkson was inspired, like years later on. cluding the new Bristol to London line. Mike Baker of Living Easton Trail fame. lition of slavery. Old Duke, named after Duke Ellington. two of Bristol’s other radicals, John Wesley On the plaque he is depicted centrally When I discussed the pub’s early history Either place makes a great spot to reflect and Edmond Burke, by the writings of and, bottom left, with landlord Thompson n the eve of the Abolition 200 events at one of the early BRHG events, Ameri - upon Bristol’s international connections, Anthony Benezet, a Quaker of Huguenot outside the inn, discussing their areas of re - Oin Bristol, Bristol Radical History can academic Peter Linebaugh pointed out past and present, and to start another walk descent who had fled France to Pennsylva - search – the notorious dockside inns where Group launched the first of its History that the Seven Stars symbol had great sig - exploring its nautical history. But that will nia. As a young man Clarkson won a semi - devious ‘crimpers’ tricked men into service Weeks, in November 2006, billed as ‘Nine nificance in the United States as it was have to wait for another day ... nal essay ‘On the Slavery and Commerce aboard ship. Above left we see him inter - days of commemorations, public debates, used to lead escaped slaves to freedom in of the Human Species, Particularly the viewing a hard-pressed sailor who had wit - films, gigs and exhibitions featuring riot - the North. This link was investigated and Pictures by Phil Chamberlain African’, strongly influenced by Benezet’s nessed first-hand the atrocities of the trade; ers, rebel slaves, pirates, mutineers, Jacobin added to the plaque story, sparking other • Bristol Ramblers and Bristol City Council work. He then helped set up the Abolition bottom right depicts the Seven Stars inn plotters, radical preachers, raunchy ranters amazing coincidences along the way, not produced Bristol Backs – Discovering Bristol Committee in London. sign – coincidentally the sign in the night and revolutionaries ...’ least the North Star connection. on Foot in 2002. Eleven walks can be down - It was essential for the Committee to get sky that guided escaping slaves in America. The Seven Stars pub already enjoyed a The plaque was unveiled on 1 May 2009 • The 2nd edition of the Cry Freedom, Cry loaded from the City Council website. facts and figures on a business that coveted Finally, above right, the North Star logo of modest blue plaque but the radicals by Richard Hart, a leading Caribbean Seven Stars pamphlet is available in the pub • There are plenty of books about Bristol’s secrecy and misinformation and, risking the Great Western Railway, amazingly the wanted to make much more of its place in scholar, trade unionist and political activist and at BRHG events history. Try The Bristol Story by Eugene life and limb, this is what Clarkson did. most popular of the railway’s first trains. It history. To raise awareness they commis - who had one been on America’s most • See also Richard Hart’s From Occupation Byrne and Simon Gurr, published in 2008. Coming first to Bristol to investigate the has double significance for us as not only is sioned their first pamphlet Cry Freedom, wanted list after the US invasion of to Independence on Caribbean history You might also like Bristol: Ethnic minorities Slave Trade and all of its injustices, making it named after the ‘Freedom Star’ that the Cry Seven Stars , and organised fund-raising Grenada in the 1980s. • The Seven Stars, Thomas Lane, Redcliffe and the City, 1000-2001 by Madge Dresser friends and contacts that would endure, his Seven Stars points too, but it also symbol - events supported by far-sighted landlords, The Seven Stars project was an early suc - BS1 6JG. 0117 927 2845; www.7stars.co.uk and Peter Fleming (2007). Check your library. 10 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 11 First impressions of a new place to call home

Arriving in a new country can be a chal - “When I first arrived I went to a primary school for Year 6. They said The Persian tailor who walked day and night lenging experience. Three young people ‘What’s your name?’ and I knew The First Born project has also been collecting adult what it means because I learn that immigration stories, such as this remarkable journey at Bristol Metropolitan Academy de - in France, and then I say ‘My name scribe their reactions to MARY IN - is Barwaago’. And then they said ‘Where do you come from?’ And Eight places to GOLDSBY, while an tailor from Iran then I said ‘No, no’ because I didn’t live – but now know what to say. I’ve arrived Hassan: reveals an adult perspective “I prefer it here because more ‘The teachers are supporting you. In this people From Somalia via France school teachers speak Romanian, are very Somali, Polish everything. In France difficult but WELVE-year-old Barwaago I was the only black girl in my class, when Suluub arrived in Bristol in so people were being racist and stuff. they get 2010.“I have got four sisters. to know T “I thought it might happen again We were all born in France. We Basia you, came because people were fighting in England, but my heart says be Klamczynska: they re - in Somalia. friendly and forget about it if you “The first week spect “We moved from France to Eng - are the only black girl, but there are was the you a land because France was a little bit lots of black children here and I feel hardest part” lot’ racist, they didn’t allow you to wear comfortable.”I would say come to ASIA Klamczynska is 13 years England two years ago. I thought it ASSAN, who owns and runs Hassan’s scarf and dresses. Bristol because loads of people are old. She arrived in England in would be really hard, and I wouldn’t Persian Tailoring in Jacobs Wells Road, “My Dad stayed in France because helping you to speak English, I Bristol, left Iran in July 2000 to seek asy - would say Bristol is better. 2009. know anything because I didn’t know H he has work there, every month he B lum in the UK. He walked from Bosnia through “I was living in about eight places in the language, but it wasn’t. comes to see us. I speak to my Mum “My mum says Bristol is good be - Barwaago Suluub: “I prefer it here be - Poland; I can’t really remember them “My Mum’s friend said that the hard - Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and France before hiding cause more teachers are supporting you.” and my sisters in French, and my cause in Somalia my cousins don’t because there were so many. I came to est part was the first year, but for me on a lorry on the ferry to Dover. Pictures: Claude Mouthy Mum replies to me in Somali. have a school.” and my Mum it was actually the “When you decide you want to do something, to first week. I really like this country change your life, you can’t see any dark, you see Two-year wait to join Mum but sometimes there were bad only happiness, and you can see it is dangerous DINA Olteaneu is 17. Her mother came to things and sometimes some peo - but you want to try it. England from Romania in 2007 and Adina ple didn’t understand us. “I threw everything away. I just had a shirt, joined her two years later. “When I was going to my first trousers; I threw everything of my memory, even A fantastic pictures from my childhood, just gone. “England I think is the best country for me. When I house from the airport, it wasn’t came here for the first time it was really, really good. really different from Poland. I was “We walked one day for 24 hours, not eating or The people were so nice, I can’t believe it. In my shocked that there was no electric - drinking. Another journey was two days and two country it is not like that. ity in bathrooms, and that there nights walking. By the end of the night I was “Yes, some people have been horrible. When I came were two taps. It was annoying, longing to die because I had had an operation on here and I didn’t speak English some people they ask and then it was normal. In Poland my legs. I was lying down, I was counting the me something and I don’t speak because I don’t un - my family said it was going to be stars. A woman made me get up. She said ‘Come, BRISTOL REFUGEE RIGHTS derstand or I can’t explain and they think I am stupid, hard because there is no Polish you can do it’. I started again.” and they don’t want to talk to me. But it’s not true, I food, but actually I prefer English Hassan was refused asylum three times; he re - Bristol Refugee Rights manages a drop-in Welcome Centre in don’t talk to them because I do not speak English. food to Polish food. turned to Iran in 2004. The British Embassy in Easton, four days each week, for sanctuary seekers in Bristol “I came here in year 11 and in that year I had an “Nearly every weekend, me and Iran granted him indefinite leave to remain in the and South Gloucestershire. Volunteers and members work to - exam and I didn’t understand anything, but by the my Mum and Stepdad are going UK in the summer of 2005. gether to provide hardship support for destitute asylum seekers, end of the year I had GCSE Maths. Bristol Met is like, to new places in Bristol. I never “A friend who I had met on the way from Bosnia food and clothing, advocacy and information, life and language I guess it’s the best school in the world, I (haven’t knew there were so many things invited me to visit Bristol to see the Balloon Festi - classes, and a social community offering many activities in the been) to another school, just here and in my country, in one city and I still don’t know val. I loved Bristol. It was my dream to get a shop centre and the locality. but if I say like it’s a big, big difference. In my country everything and am living here for and start a business here. the teacher is not like here. It’s so important to have a two years, and it’s like ‘Wow!’. Please visit the website for more information – or visit us on the “The people are very difficult, but at the same good teacher. If you have a good teacher and you feel “It is hard to live in a new coun - first Thursday of any month. time they are really nice. When they get to know comfortable with your teacher, this is the best. try because it’s like the language you, they respect you a lot. I like them, I like them “I would say don’t be shy because if you are shy you and everything, but people in Eng - www.bristolrefugeerights.org so much. I think I am at home now.” won’t learn anything. So be strong and be comfort - land are really nice and always say - email: [email protected] Adina Olteaneu: “I would say • To view all the material collected by the First Born proj - able in this country. The people are so nice. The peo - don’t be shy because if you are ing hello. I think it is OK for me to ect visit http://web.me.com/firstbornstudios/firstborn - ple they help you.” shy you won’t learn anything.” live here. I like this country and studios/home.htm2 my city and my school.” 12 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 13 SABRINA ESUKA discovers that different cultural ‘If you give something approaches to domestic hospitality spell a variety of ‘Eating from the same plate shows with love, God will give you back a lot’ ways of making guests feel like they belong love and the spirit of giving’ Therese Mashala, INCE the beginning of the world different cultures have Democratic always behaved in different ways towards each other. Of Republic of Congo Scourse circumstances differ and much may depend upon the individual and the closeness of relationships. Ali Yusuf To begin my exploration of what guests might expect when visit - Mohamed, ing someone’s home for the first time, I interviewed Somalian Ali Somalia Yusuf Mohamed, Bristolian Sharon Hooper and Therese Mashala from the Democratic Republic of Congo. hol. While you are eating Somalian songs may be played, or TV Ali Yusuf told me that when you knock at the door in Somalia the soaps on the video. first thing the host will say to you is ‘Asalamaleko’, the Muslim When you are ready to go, the host will conduct you to your car greeting ‘Peace be with you’ which is used in much the same way and wave you off. Ali said the host might give a farewell gift of as ‘Hello’. A man will shake another man’s hand and women may clothing but it depends on the relationship. Sabrina Esuka hug each other, but there is no shaking of hands if you are of the His account was in stark contrast to the English customs de - (seated, left) opposite sex. enjoys a meal at scribed by Sharon Hooper, a fitness instructor at Easton Leisure After the greeting the guests will take off their shoes at the door, the home of Centre. but there are usually some spare slippers provided. Therese Mashala She told me that, for her, the first thing she needs to know is what Then the host will say “Welcome to our house”, and the guest from the DRC time the guest will be coming. This will help her to be ready and (seated, second will follow into the guest sitting room or upstairs into the women’s clean her house. She doesn’t like people to turn up out of the blue. right) area. It is not usual for the guest to bring a gift. Sharon explained that her Once seated, the host will bring the guest a traditional Somalian greeting depends on the cul - tea of black pepper, mint and cardamom and a special biscuit. ture of the guest. With Euro - Washing your hands is expected in Somalian culture. You will be pean people she will kiss served samosas with lamb, rice, mixed vegetables and banana, them on both cheeks, with which you eat altogether with your fingers, from the same plate. African and Asian people it It’s my way of saying welcome “This shows love and the spirit of giving,” Ali explained. will be by shaking hands or You will be given a lemonade, juice or tea to drink, but not alco - hugging. The nature of the greeting will depend on how with them. They should not have to cook in their own home the fol - well you know and like the person. If a policeman came to your lowing day. She added: “If you give something with love, God will Help to get you a happier door you would not greet him in this way, for example. give you back a lot.” and healthier lifestyle If the guest were someone whom you were expecting, you would Whether you are rich or poor, the way you treat your guest is no offer something to drink. During the day that might be a soft drink, different, she said. For Congolese people the slogan is always “Give The inner city health improvement team aims to improve the health of people from local communities through supporting them to adopt and tea, or coffee with a biscuit or cake. At lunchtime she might offer your best to your guest; show them love.” homemade soup with bread or maybe a pasta dish. For dinner, it maintain healthier lifestyles. They are working to provide tailored health A special towel and a bowl with clean water are provided for wash - intervention projects in order to reduce and eliminate health inequalities. might be roast chicken or beef with jacket potatoes. With the food ing hands, and before starting to eat the hostess will say a short Who are they? she would serve beer or wine. In England guests coming for a meal prayer. Congolese rumba music may be played while the guests eat. might bring along wine, beer, chocolates or flowers as a gift. Health community development workers work with local people to set Therese is never disturbed by having guests in her house. When up or support community groups (mothers and toddlers groups, During the winter Sharon would expect guests to take off their guests are ready to leave, she will thank them for coming and give healthy eating and weight loss groups, emotional support groups), to shoes so as not bring mud into the house. In the summer it would them an expensive bottle of beer, food and maybe a gift of perfume. deliver health-related projects. not be a problem if the guests kept their shoes. She added that she Health trainers are people from your community who can support you, In DRC as you depart your hostess will say “Go with the peace of either one-to-one or in a group, in adopting a healthier lifestyle. loves the guest who does not stay too long. God” or something similar, hug you again and take you to your car, When it is time to go she may accompany her guests to their car, waving until you disappear from view. How can they help you? Where are they? but she said it is not usual to give a farewell present. It is one of life’s pleasures that there are so many varieties of hospi - ♥ Talking and listening to you and understanding your difficulties. Lawrence Hill team tality to be explored … ongolese culture is different again. In Kinshasa, where I came ♥ Supporting you, your group or Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, • Sabrina Stamela Esuka was formerly a journalist with Congolese TV and from, the guest is always treated like royalty. We are raised friends in health promotion activi - Barton Hill, 0117 304 1436. C ties (weight loss, walking, group Ismail Omar 07789943154 with a ‘Porte ouverte’ or ‘Open door’ approach to hospitality. If Radio RDC. She presented a thrice-weekly TV show called Congo Folk which introduced the public to the 450 tribes and languages of the RDC. swimming activities) and provide Tamadour Saliem 07785 973760 you are visiting somebody for the first time in Africa, especially in regular health checks. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), you always take a gift with ♥ Help you to develop a healthy Easton team you, for example beer or food. ‘Guests coming for a meal lifestyle plan. Easton Community Centre The arrival of guests at your door means that you are blessed or might bring along wine, beer, ♥ Help you prevent long-term Morowa Selassie 07789 943146 lucky. As a host you have a duty to make them feel at home by hug - problems like obesity or diabetes. Teresa Cirant 07785 971918 ging and giving three big kisses with a warm big smile on your chocolates or flowers as a gift’ ♥ Organise local health promotion Hannah Robert (older people) events and campaigns. 07785 975936 face. If your guest is an old man, you bend you knee as you shake ♥ Direct you to local projects and hands to demonstrate respect. support groups that will help your St Paul’s team My countrywoman Therese Mashala told me that on their first physical and emotional wellbeing. Hayley Milla Coggins visit she offers guests an expensive variety of foreign or Congolese ♥ Offer lifestyle advice in nutrition, 07785 996949 / 0117 914 4418 physical activity, breastfeeding, al - beer. For food she will prepare Congolese vegetables mpondu (cas - Sharon Hooper, Morowa Selassie sava), spinach with fufu, manioc or maize, rice, kwanga, plantain, cohol, smoking, sexual health, 07789 943146 / 0117 914 4418 England mental health and obesity. chicken, fish like tomson or makayabu, and beef. She explained Pictures: ♥ Job opportunities with Primary that she cooks so much food so that the guests can take some away Sabrina Stamela Esuka Care Trusts or other sectors. 14 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 15 Feel the flavour of all our different communities

Next time you say ‘Come dine with (canned, or soak overnight and boil) VEGETABLE SOUFFLE (Koko sabzi) To make pastry 100 grams each of coriander, dill, leeks, In a bowl, rub flour and butter together to a me’, why not try some new tastes parsley and spinach. Ingredients ‘sand’ consistency. 300 grams parsley Add sugar and salt and enough water to from our guest chefs? salt (to suit your taste) 200 grams coriander form a ball (firm but not sticky). Place in re - 2 teaspoons turmeric 4 eggs (beaten) frigerator for at least 30 minutes. 2 red chillis 1 teaspoons turmeric HE ingredients for all these recipes are ½ cup cooking oil Salt & red chili (to taste) Filling Treadily available in Bristol; if they are 50-70 grams crushed walnuts Peel and slice pears in a bowl. not in your regular local shop, try some of spinach 100 grams ½ cup oil Add berries and 1 tablespoon sugar, orange those specialising in international products. rhubarb 200 grams zest, orange juice and cinnamon. noodle 200 grams Oventop version Dust fruit mixture with 1 tablespoon flour. IRAN: RHUBARB SOUP & (Can also be cooked inside the oven) Leave to macerate. 2 teaspoons dry mint Chop parsley & coriander into tiny pieces. Roll pastry to about an 11 inch circle; place VEGETABLE SOUFFLE 3 dessert spoons vinegar Add salt turmeric and red chilli. Add the on a greased and floured baking sheet. 3 cups cold water eggs & mix together. Heat the oil on a Place fruit in the centre of the disk leaving a From Zahra Azari , born in Abadan, Iran; medium heat in a frying pan, add half the 1 1/2 inch border. mother of two. Chop and fry onions in the oil until golden. Zahra Azari mix, then add walnuts, and then the other Samsok Phetnoi Add coriander, dill and parsley; fry briefly half of the mix. Leave covered on a low Topping RHUBARB SOUP then add chilli and turmeric. Continue to cook for 10 minutes. Add noodles and allow heat for 10-15 minutes. well. Add the meat and pea egg plant; cover In a bowl combine the 1/4 cup of flour Ingredients fry gently for 2-3 minutes. Add the chopped to cook for 50 minutes on low heat, then Cut into four/six and turn over with a slice. and cook for five minutes. Add the beef with 4 tablespoons butter. rub together to a 2 onions rhubarb, leeks, spinach and 3 glasses of add vinegar (to taste) and turn off heat. Cook slowly for another 10 minutes. stock and the rest of the coconut milk. ‘sand’ consistency, add ½ cup sugar, then 200g rhubarb (chopped) water. Leave covered on a low heat for 30 Turn down the heat down and simmer for squeeze together to a rough rubble. Sprin - 200g noodles minutes or until vegetables are cooked. Decorate with fried chopped onions and Serve hot with tomato salad or bread. 15-20 minutes. kle over the fruit and fold up the pastry bor - 100g each chickpeas, lentils and navy Beans Add chickpeas, lentils and navy beans, and dried mint before serving. Add the sweet basil and kaffir and stir. der. It does not need to be neat – this is Turn off the heat immediately but keep the home cooking, and it’s nice to see the fruit :ROAST BEEF CURRY lid on. bubble over. Serve with rice and a fresh salad. Place in pre-heated over at 180C (gas mark Bristol City Council was happy to endorse Bristol as From Samsok Phetnoi , the first Thai to Enjoy your meal! 4) for about 25 minutes (depending on firm - a City of Sanctuary in November 2010. receive British citizenship at a Bristol Regis - ness of fruit). ter Office ceremony. ENGLAND: FRUIT CRUMBLE PIE Serve at room temperature, with cream… We look forward to welcoming partners and support - Ingredients Yum, yum. 1 handful of chopped galangal ers of City of Sanctuary to the launch event on 22 1 handful of chopped lemongrass From Lisa Pearce , mother of three, Bristo - June 2011 at The Council House and to the unveiling 4 birdseye (small, red, hot) chillis (or more lian by birth, Cornish father. of the plaque that will mark this important date for if you like!) 3 cloves garlic Ingredients the future. 1 shallot Pastry 10 black peppercorns 2 cups plain flour 1/2 teaspoon salt ¼ cup caster sugar The city council is committed to equalities and com - 1 teaspoon shrimp paste ½lb (225 gr) unsalted butter munity cohesion and to working with the voluntary 6 tablespoons cold water (approx) 400g of roast beef (well done, and sliced Pinch of salt and community sector and other partners to reduce into slithers] inequality and promote community cohesion. 4 handfuls of pea egg plant (Turkey berry) Filling 400ml of coconut milk 1lb (450 gr) firm (Conference) pears 6 kaffir leaves [chopped] 1 small punnet blackberries/blueberries If you would like more information please go to 10 sweet (Thai) basil leaves pinch of cinnamon www.bristol.gov.uk/equalityanddiversity 200 ml beef stock 1 tablespoon plain flour One tablespoon of vegetable oil 1 tablespoon sugar or contact the Equalities and Community Cohesion ¼ tablespoon grated orange zest Team on 0117 922 2329 Grind the galangal, lemongrass, chilli ,gar - 2 tablespoons orange Juice e-mail : [email protected] lic, shallots, black peppercorn and salt into a paste. Add shrimp paste and mix. Heat Topping (medium) one tablespoon of vegetable oil ¼ cup of plain flour in a pan. Add 200ml of coconut milk; heat 3 tablespoons of cold unsalted butter for one minute. Add the paste and stir in ¼ cup sugar Lisa Pearce

16 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 17 Raja Rammohun Roy: The Indian celebrit y who still watches over College Green

PRASUN SONWALKAR and POUSHALI MITRA SARKAR tell TIMELINE: Raja Rammohun Roy the story of a great Indian reformer of world renown August 1772: Born to a Hindu family in Rad - hanagore, a small village in Bengal. whose memory is preserved in Bristol 1803 - 1815: Employed by East India Com - pany as a district official. 1812: Campaigns against Sati – immolation HAT links a statue in College Green, a tomb in the of Hindu wives on their husband’s funeral Arnos Vale Cemetery, a life size portrait in the City pyre. The campaign ended in 1832 when the Privy Council in London upheld a Museum, and life in early 19th century India? Answer: W ban. Roy also urged property inheri - Indian reformer Raja Rammohun Roy, the first Indian thinker to se - tance rights for women and fought riously engage with the challenge of the West. polygamy and child marriage. The Raja was already a celebrity in Victorian England when he Sept 1821: Publishes Brahmuni - arrived in Liverpool in April 1831, thanks to his liberal and interna - cal Magazine to protest against at - tionalist views. tacks on Hindu religion by the Baptist He came as the ambassador of the Mughal Emperor Akbar Shah missionary press in Bengal. II. In 1832 he visited Paris, returned to England the same year, and Dec 1821: Launches Sambad arrived in Bristol at the invitation of Unitarian minister Dr Lant Koumudi, a Bengali weekly newspaper. April 1822: Launches Persian journal Carpenter and lived in the Beech House, Stapleton Grove. During Mirat-ul-Akhbar. his visit he worshipped at the Lewin’s Mead Unitarian Chapel. 1829: Emperor of Delhi, Akhbar Shah II, A few days after his arrival in Bristol, he contracted meningitis makes Rammohan Roy an honorary Raja, and died on 27 September. then sends him to England to lobby for Few may be aware of the ways Bristol has preserved his legacy. higher benefits from East India Company. The city has several items and symbols associated with the Raja, in - April 1831: Arrives in Liverpool. Attracts cluding the life-size portrait by Victorian painter Henry Briggs in criticism from orthodox Hindus, who be - the City Museum, his bust in the City Council reception, and im - lieved travel to foreign lands was taboo. ages of his visit in the fresco at the Stapleton Road train station. 1831-1833: Receives wide coverage in the British and Indian press. Every year, a representative of the city council attends an event 27 Sept 1833: Dies of meningitis in Bristol. celebrating the anniversary of his death at the Arnos Vale cemetery, His last rights were performed with the help of where an intricate Hindu-style tomb was erected above his remains Bristol social activist Mary Carpenter who is in 1843. The tomb, one of the most visible structures in the ceme - also buried in the Arnos Vale cemetery. tery, was designed by architect William Prinsep, and built by Nov 1997: Statue of Roy is unveiled in College Main picture: Roy’s ornate tomb in Arnos Vale ceme - Rammohun Roy’s commanding statue in College Green Dwarkanath Tagore, a wealthy liberal businessman who, along Green to seal link between 19th C India and Bristol. tery. Inset: historian Carla Contractor Pictures: Claude Mouthy with Roy, founded the socio-religious reform movement Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta. France and condemned the British who were inflicting miseries on great natural talents he united through mastery of many languages and movement. All Indians can take pride in what the city of Bristol has Ireland. early distinguished himself as one of the greatest scholars of his day. His done in memory of the Raja and be proud too of their own roots in orn in 1773 in Bengal, the first province to come under British As historian Christopher Bayly writes, “What was most remark - unwearied labour to promote the social, moral and physical condition of the Indian subcontinent.” Brule, Roy saw in the presence of the foreigner an invitation to able about Roy was his dispassionate concern for other peoples the people of India, his earnest endeavours to suppress idolatry and the Carla has worked closely with the Indian high commission and re-examine the presuppositions of his own society. On the one around the world. He wrote with feeling of the cause of the Italian rite of suttee and his constant zealous advocacy of whatever tended to ad - others to preserve and cherish Roy’s association with Bristol. She hand, he sought to reform his native faith of its ugly and exploita - and Spanish revolutionaries of the 1810s and of the Irish. All peo - vance the glory of God and welfare of man live in the grateful remem - said after overseeing the tomb’s first major restoration since 1883: tive aspects; on the other, he demanded of the white-dominated ples, he believed, should have local forms of political representation brance of his countrymen. This tablet records the sorrow and pride with “This is very important to me. It has taken 20 years to get to this East India Company democratic rights that were granted at home which were appropriate to their characters. which his memory is cherished by his descendants.” stage. I am delighted that at last this major monument in Bristol has but denied in colonies. “At the apex of their international influence, none of the vaunted been repaired and conserved.” In both respects, Roy set the tone for later political activists like ‘great thinkers’ of the Western intellectual tradition, by contrast, he tomb was repaired in 2008 with financial support from In 1997, the 50th year of India’s independence, a statue of Roy Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and campaigns that ulti - were entirely able to rid themselves of the assumption of Western TAditya K Poddar, an Indian entrepreneur, and the efforts of funded by Indians was installed by the then High Commissioner mately led to India’s freedom in 1947. In the early years of the 19th racial superiority or to think creatively beyond the bounds of the local historian Carla Contractor who has worked tirelessly over L M Singhvi at College Green. The West Bengal Government pre - century, he argued for free trade and the abolition of the East India European world.” many years to promote Roy’s legacy in Bristol. sented Niranjan Pradhan’s magnificent statue to the Bristol City Company’s monopoly. He also developed the first constitutional The tablet on Roy’s tomb in the Arnos Vale Cemetery reads: Carla, who is married to Phiroze Contractor, a Parsi from Mum - Council. The 8.5ft, 900 kg bronze statue cost £13,000, and today theory of resistance in modern Indian history. “Beneath this stone rest the remains of Raja Rammohun Bhadoor, a con - bai, said: “The Raja was a remarkable man in his day. He fought for stands between the Council House and Bristol Cathedral. Roy was an internationalist and supported the cause of freedom scientious and steadfast believer in the unity of godhead. He consecrated women’s rights and for the reform of legal and fiscal services in • Dr Prasun Sonwalkar is currently working on a biography of everywhere. He celebrated the success of the 1830 Revolution in his life with entire devotion to the worship of the divine spirit alone. To India. He was a humanitarian and founder of the Brahmo Samaj Rammohun Roy 18 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 19 WKeyboard player and singer :PTIJOP4IJHJIBSa, originally from Kyoto, is part of Zun Zun Egui, a multicultural collective. Founded by artists from Asia, Europe and Africa, their music is a curious mix of alternative rock and ethnic sounds. Singer Kushal Gaya came to Britain from Mauritius; bassist Luke Mosee and drummer Matt Johns are both Brits. They were brought together by their fascination with African rhythms. The band’s name is a testament to their collective energy – in Japanese, “zun zun” means going forward SDancer (Sabar), singer and songwriter #BUDI(VFZF comes from a musical quickly, and “egui” means family in Senegal - his mum is a singer, his grandma a singer and dancer and really weird. his uncle a musician. He rst came to Europe with the prestigious dance show Africa, Africa, but hurt his back. After a gig in London he realised S$FDJMJB/EIMPWV, a singer and performer from Zimbabwe, has been people liked his songs. “If I can dance, people are happy; if I can sing, people in Bristol for the last seven years. She sings, dances and plays the mbira, are happy. I’m gonna do it!” Batch supports his family back home - three a Zimbabwean instrument sometimes called a thumb piano. She also brothers and three sisters. plays with the band Bulawayo and has been touring the UK playing Ndebele and Shona songs. T+JN,BNBSB dances at the St Werburgh’s procession. Born in Sierra Leone, he grew up in Ghana and came to the UK 15 years ago. “Dance for me is a form of expression. I’m not a very emotional person in life so I tend to use dancing as a way of letting my emotions ow. The rhythms remind me of my birthplace and it helps me connect spiritually with my ancestral land.”

S-PVJT3PHFS&CPB, dancer, says: “My style of SRon Phelan from Dublin left Ireland in 1997 and moved to dance is African. I use a lot of expression in my Bristol in 1998. Ron started playing the bass because everyone movement and most of that involves hips and chest. played electric guitar. “Irish people have a di erent relationship with Dance is like a dream come true, giving people a music. Growing up in Ireland music is quite a social thing. It’s quite chance to appreciate what I’m doing, speaking to common for people to play an instrument at parties and for people to MUSIC IN EXILE people not with my words but my body. The best join in, which is something I don’t see in England that much. It gives thing that ever happened to me is coming to Europe. you a di erent perspective on the music. You can see the band as a Here people appreciate what I’m doing.” Louis-Roger whole rather than you playing with other people.” Ron plays with ONE of the most exciting contributions to local culture in recent years has come from exiled musicians, bringing sounds, teaches dance at Bristol Community Dance Centre. the Dancing Bear Trio and tours with the No Fit State circus. skills, moves and ideas that can only ourish in Bristol’s already fertile music scene. Many let their music tell the stories of those now separated from home – keeping their spirits alive and enthralling new audiences. Anita Hummel Photographer "/*5")6..&- set out to capture some of the extraordinary personalities and spectacular performances Currently studying for an MA in Human Rights at the University of the TV Studies from Aberystwyth, and a Diploma in Photojournalism from at local venues and during the popular Migrations world music seasons at St George’s. West of England and volunteering at the Bristol Migrant Rights Centre, Cardi . She has worked on documentaries in Mexico, Spain and Zambia. Similar striking images to those featured here appeared in her exhibition Music for the Eye displayed in the Crypt Gallery Anita Hummel originates from Germany and has travelled widely. Anita at St George’s, o Park Street, from January to April 2011. has an MSc in Agro-forestry from Bangor University, a BA in Film and r4FFNPSFPGIFSXPSLBUXXXEWDPVL 20 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 21 John Cabot George Conrad Finzel Muller Robert (1450?- 1499) Real name Recorde (1793-1859) German sugar Zuan Caboto, from Genoa refiner who pioneered a in Italy. He chose Bristol as new steam-driven system a good starting point for John Cabot Norman for the production of sugar his voyages of discovery. Beaton in his Bristol factory – the Cabot and his Bristol crew largest of its kind in the were the first recorded Eu - world at the time, and pay - ropeans to set foot on ing the best wages. mainland America, landing on Newfoundland. George Müller (1805-1898) German-born Richard Ap Meryk or philanthropist and evangel - Ameryke ist who set up orphanages (Late 15th century) Welsh- in Bristol (Muller Road was born city official who was named after him). ordered by King Henry VII to pay John Cabot a pen - Isaac Rosenberg sion for his exploits. (1890-1918) Artist and poet, There’s a Bristol legend Isaac reckoned one of the finest that America was named in Rosenberg British poets of the First honour of Ameryke. It’s Henry Morgan World War. Born in Bristol probably not true, but all to Jewish parents who had Bristolians like to believe it. Isambard emigrated from Lithuania. Alexander Kingdom Selkirk Robert Recorde Brunel Paul Dirac (1510-1558) Welsh mathe - (1902-1984) The Nobel matician who lived in Bris - Prize physicist was born in tol for a while. The first Bristol of a Swiss father Briton to use the plus and and Bristolian mother. minus signs and invented Talent flowing in from far and wide the equals sign because Kassam Ismail Majothi nothing can be more equal (1924-2002) Arrived penni - than two parallel lines. counties of Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wilt - Cities like Bristol would not exist without people from the rise of the slave trade. It’s a myth that huge tially arrived during World War II but who de - less as a refugee from shire. They also came from Ireland and Wales, numbers of slaves were shipped to Bristol – they cided to stay on. Bristol also became home to Uganda in 1972 and other parts of Britain and the world contributing their too, because of the city’s sea-trade. Alexander Selkirk were taken straight from Africa to the sugar plan - Hungarian refugees after their country’s abortive founded one of Bristol’s skills, ideas and contacts, explains EUGENE BYRNE Medieval Bristol also had a thriving Jewish set - (1626-1723) Scottish-born tations in the West Indies. But some did arrive as uprising against Soviet domination in 1956. best-loved local shops, the tlement. Forbidden by law from most trades or pirate marooned (and later personal servants to grandees, such as Scipio Bristol Sweet Mart. rescued) by Bristol ships to T’S not always obvious nowadays, but for professions, they would have been attracted to Africanus, buried in Henbury, and Pero, servant to he main contribution of incomers to Bristol become the inspiration for most of Bristol’s history its most important the city by business opportunities. In Jacobs Wells John Pinney, now memorialized in the footbridge Twas as labourers or entrepreneurs, but more Norman Beaton Daniel Defoe’s novel Robin - business has been its port. there are the remains of what was probably a in the Harbour. recently, the children and grandchildren of immi - I (1934-1994) Guyana-born son Crusoe . Even today, huge quantities of goods come in mikveh (ritual bath), while the textbooks high - The position of Africans in Bristol during this grants have been a key element in Bristol’s most and out of the vast docks complex at . light the precarious nature of their existence. In period was often complicated; some were slaves, successful cultural phenomenon. The so-called actor and writer, most Henry Morgan But for hundreds of years before that, the docks 1183 Jews in Bristol were accused of killing a others servants, but others were free. Some were Bristol Sound of the 1990s was coined to describe famous as star of TV sitcom in the centre of the city were the whole reason Christian child, while in 1210 King John imposed sailors or became tradesmen. the works of Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Desmond’s . Lived in Bristol (1635?-1688) Bristol-based the city existed. a huge tax on a Bristol Jew named Abraham. The Victorian period saw the arrival of huge Roni Size and Raprazent and others. in 1960s. Welsh pirate, later From Anglo-Saxon times, the harbour saw the numbers of immigrants from Ireland both before These musical acts were a product of cross polli - knighted and a pillar of the import and export of food and raw materials, ing Edward I expelled all Jews from England and after the potato famines. The Irish in 19th nation of different musical cultures – guitar-loving Isambard Kingdom Brunel establishment. wool, wine, finished cloth, dyes and much more. Kin 1290. Cromwell let them back in again in century Bristol had a pretty rough time. Often white kids and reggae-loving black kids, to start (1806-1859) The designer Just as Bristol imported and exported goods, it 1656 because he believed that the second coming desperately poor, they were ready to work for with – to produce something completely new. of the Clifton Suspension Edmund Burke also imported and exported people in very large of Christ couldn’t take place until they were. His - lower wages than their English counterparts, World-famous street artist is said to be a Bridge, Bristol’s best- (1729-1797) Irish states - numbers. It could not have existed without large torians believe that Bristol’s thriving glass indus - which caused a bitter resentment made worse by white bloke who had a private education, but his known landmark, Brunel man, political philosopher numbers of new people coming to live and try of the 1700s was started by Jews from Italy. anti-Catholicism in those more religious times. art probably wouldn’t exist without the unique also built the railway line and Bristol MP. There’s a work – and business people, people with new Also arriving were Protestant refugees from Others who came in the 1800s included Eastern mix of cultures and ideas Bristol has produced. from Bristol to London, as statue in the city centre. ideas for making money. France. The Huguenots fled when the Catholic European Jews fleeing persecution and surpris - And don’t forget that any of the city’s most in - well as the ss Great Britain. Until the mid-1800s it constantly needed to top King Louis XIV banned freedom of worship, and ingly large numbers of Germans and Italians. fluential civic, business and artistic figures of His mother was English John Loudon McAdam up its population with incomers because it was a sizeable community sprung up in Bristol. For These movements of people into Bristol were whatever ethnicity were not born in Bristol, but but his father was French – many years they worshipped at what is now the every bit as visible in their day as the arrival of in - chose to settle here. (1746-1836) Scots engineer such a chronically unhealthy place. Disease and he had fled his country Lord Mayor’s Chapel. Many were industrious arti - comers in more recent times. People from Ire - • Journalist and author Eugene Byrne (born in Ireland) and inventor of modern accidents killed large numbers of people each fearing political persecu - sans, craftsmen and entrepreneurs, active in weav - land, the Caribbean, India and Pakistan, China has lived in Bristol for 30 years. His book The Bristol roads. Did much of his pio - year - but there was rarely a shortage of people tion. So the most famous ing, silk, paper-making and banking. and, in more recent times, Africa have come in Story (2008), illustrated by graphic artist Simon Gurr, neering work in and wanting to come here to make a new life. Bristol figure of all was the So Bristol’s tradition of welcoming asylum-seek - sizeable numbers. There have also been smaller was designed to make Bristol’s history simple and fun around Bristol. The first immigrants simply came in from the son of an asylum-seeker. surrounding countryside, from the neighbouring ers is a long one! The 17th and 18th centuries saw infusions along the way, such as the Poles who ini - to read. Copies are available from your local library. 22 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 23 Left : Bus boy - MARVIN REES says it’s time we all faced up to the complexities of ing class on our housing estates and forces us to look at our deci - cott sion makers from our middle and upper classes and the impersonal campaigners, racism, listened to the experiences of all disadvantaged communities, forces that shape our social institutions. Rather than a simplistic, from left, and worked together to change attitudes and institutions and politically convenient, approach to racism that would talk Audley about a few socially uncouth bad apples in an otherwise hon - Evans, Paul ourable barrel, we would have to accept that this is part of a com - Stephenson N THE 18 years since the murder of Stephen Lawrence, more and Owen than 90 people have been killed in the UK in attacks which had munal narrative of which we and our institutions are a part. If such Henry Iracial overtones. The brutality of such cases is always shocking. events could be put down to individual acts of evil, life would be Picture: Bristol Unfortunately, to many people in Britain’s Black and Minority Eth - much easier. We have to accept that to understand them properly, Evening nic (BME) communities, such events may be shocking but they are racist events have to be seen in context; that these acts are out Post/Bristol not surprising. Navigating the national ambivalence toward living workings of the context we are simultaneously shaped by and shap - City Museum with difference at its levels of intensity is just part of life. ing. The Bristol reactions to the BBC Panorama expose of thuggish This broader approach makes the challenge of tackling racism Right : Evadney more difficult for activist and politician alike. Racism becomes a Hartley racism in Southmead in 2009 exemplifies this. Many of our city’s Picture: Claude political and institutional leaders ex - force behind which you will not Mouthy pressed shock while people in our OPINION: Tackling racism necessarily find an evil individual or - BME communities asked “Why the chestrating injustice. You may actu - MARY INGOLDSBY has been collecting personal surprise?” For them, the apparent ally find nice people making bad memories of the Bristol Bus Boycott for the absence of hot racial conflict was decisions, or no decisions. We cease When Bristol led the way never taken as evidence of the pres - to have a “Me good, you bad”, “You Firstborn Studios oral history project. ence of peace. The issue became aggressor, me victim” situation. one of why leaders were so sur - Related to this is the possibility ACK in 1963 the Bristol Omnibus prised and this became representa - that this is just the way the system Company faced a passenger boycott tive of the race and class fractures works, an impersonal political eco - against 60s prejudice nomic order that encourages and Bfor refusing to employ black or that still divide us, and the invisibil - Asian drivers and conductors. It is recalled ity of their lives and challenges. enforces inequality – meaning if you as the first black protest in the UK and con - Evadney Hartley came to the city in 1963. with me. There was a bus every five min - That’s not to say there is no differ - happen to be born poor you will tributed to the Race Relations Act of 1965. “We were treated harshly in England, even utes and they were all full. The only person ence between what it means to live probably die poor irrespective of The Commonwealth Co-ordinated Com - though when I got off the plane I loved the that gets on my bus when I was a driver is as a BME person in 2012 and what it your innate talent. The extension of mittee, formed by Roy Hackett and Owen place. We learnt about England in school those that don’t look at the cab. meant in the Seventies. Things are this is that we then also have to talk Henry in Easton, which backed the boycott but I thought everywhere was like home, I “I only laughed after these things. I couldn’t different. The prevailing culture is about class because poor white peo - Verbal and physical ple also contend with this social im - against the Bristol Omnibus Company, didn’t know there was a thing called winter. understand of all the people in the world less tolerant of overt racism. Love it went on to set up the St. Paul’s Festival “I thought I would soon be dead, because the British behaving in this foolish manner. or loathe it (but I urge you to define mobility and theirs is a story that for Committee in 1968. the cold was something. “Those things strengthened me. I was the it) we have ‘political correctness’. the sake of political integrity and Owen Henry was one of the young West “I went to the butcher’s shop one day and only black driver in Bristol for nine months We have legislation such as the abuse is only a small strategy we must respect. Indian men who organised the boycott in the man says ‘Here comes another’, so I or a year. They were saying that I didn’t Criminal Justice Act 2003. In Bristol 1963. He worked for his community looked at him and I said ‘What do you shut the door, didn’t wait until the passen - we have the Hate Crime Monitoring nd so we have to walk the throughout his life, and died in 1989. Here mean?’ ‘You are not one of us, are you?’ So I gers sit down, all kinds of things. Group and a vision to be diverse Atightrope of talking about he describes his living conditions when he said, ‘Who is one of you? And he said “My wife was afraid because of the teddy and international. And we have a part of the way racism racism and talking about class as in - first reached Bristol in 1956. ‘You’re a foreigner’, I said ‘Yeah, go on. boys who were reputed to nail a cross on Community Cohesion Strategy separable while recognising that “Things were very rough for us in those What are you going to do about it?’ your front door and try and burn you out. which aims to get us living better each means of categorising people days for us. We couldn’t find living accom - “The worst thing was that when you had She wanted me to give up working on the together. All around us we see evi - commits violence has unique features that cannot be modation very easily. There were a few to pay they didn’t want their hand to touch buses but I said: ‘If I do that they will win dence of a local and national cul - addressed if we try to conflate white people who were prepared to take us yours. I thought ‘My God, how can they and our children will suffer the same fate.’ tural and political desire to progress. them. It comes together to make racism in all its fullness much more difficult to pin down. in but this would mean losing the friendship think we’re not human?’ So you have to do something to educate It is difficult shift but necessary. I often remind people that Dr of their neighbours. I was in lodgings in “In Bristol you get less pay from the Eng - these people. They are different now.” o the challenge is to accept the ongoing presence of these com - peting forces. At the same time we have the possibility of work - Martin Luther King’s movement to unpalatably radical politics ac - Campbell Street; there were six of us shar - lish people when they are doing the same • For more memories of those days see S celerated when he went to Chicago in the North of the USA to ing toward great visions of what we could be together while also ing a room. The landlady was very nice, work as you. But growing up into a Chris - http://web.me.com/firstbornstudios/firstborn - begin look at black poverty. Things had been relatively straight for - very helpful. The furniture wasn’t much tian household I learnt that it is just igno - studios/home.html or carrying the possibility of doing our worst. And it is to accept that ward in the South. Legislated segregation, the Klan, a sheriff, police good and they didn’t change the bed linen. rance, because I realised that the people • www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Cul - both forces will constantly be finding expression to different de - brutality; evil exposed, moral high ground taken, political force ex - “But I was glad to be there, the rest of the who didn’t travel, they didn’t understand. ture/records-and-archives/bristol-black- grees and in different ways in the many different micro contexts erted, change followed. But the North was not legislatively segre - people in the room were quite friendly. In “I was going to study to be a doctor. I gave archives-partnership.en?page=2 that constitute our modern UK life. gated. King sat around the table with Democrats. Everyone said the our free time we would sit down and play it all up, because I was not going to leave • www.emas4success.org/TeachingMaterials/ But any discussion on racial violence should come with a health right things and no-one said the wrong things. Promises were draughts or ludo. There were Irish chaps, my children. Life turned over because I was • Also Black and White on the Buses: The 1963 warning and it is this: that overt verbal and physical abuse have only made. Change did not come and tens of thousands of African Americans remained confined to the squallier of the projects. West Indians and Africans in that house. determined. My daughter told my grand - Colour Bar Dispute in Bristol by Madge ever been a small part of way racism does violence to BME people. daughter that ‘Hartleys don’t quit’.” Dresser (Bristol, 1987) For every life year lost through a racially aggravated killing, many It took King on a journey from local to national to international “Hardly a week passed by without a police politics and a radical critique of inequality and capitalism. It took more are lost to BME people by virtue of the fact that they are interruption – either that they had reason to his criticism beyond merely looking at individual actors to looking believe that someone was hiding in there he Bus Boycott of 1963 won black peo - born with lower life expectancies. For every day of a flourishing life at whole systems. And very importantly, it increased the urgency he who stole things, or that the radio was play - Tple the right to work on the buses as ‘Those things lost to BME communities because racial harassment made them a felt for building coalitions of all poor people, whatever their back - ing too loud. In the end they took one of drivers and conductors, but there was still strengthened prisoner in their own home, thousands more are lost through over- ground, without them having to abandon the distinctiveness of my mates to court and fined him £10 under prejudice as Norman Samuels, Bristol’s first me’: representation in our prisons and mental health institutions or be - their particular story. Let’s do the same. Norman the Noise Abatement Act – a little radio, a West Indian bus driver, discovered. cause they are locked into lives of under-achievement and limited • Anyone witnessing a racist attack or abuse should dial 999 or report it Samuels battery radio that was playing.” “When I was a conductor no driver opportunity by substandard educational experiences. online at www.avonandsomerset.police.uk Life remained difficult for West Indians wanted to work with me, and after I be - Picture: Claude Accepting this line of argument has implications: it expands our Racist incidents should also be reported to Support Against Racist Inci - who arrived in Bristol during the 1960s. came a driver no conductor want to work Mouthy conversations of what we might call the overt racism of the work - dents (SARI), PO Box 2454,Bristol BS2 2WX; tel: 0117 942 0060 24 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 25 The impact of exile: how writers cope with the challenges and opportunities of living away ad for haven magazine:Layout 1 19/05/2011 11:24 Page 1 Stimulation or sterilisation? Bristol-based Palestinian and novel writing to campaigning journalism and political writing; others create big projects to pro - journalist IQBAL TAMIMI is investigating the impact of tect their identities and heritages. Those who re - exile, in particular on women writers. What follows is an main faithful to their original field of creative edited extract from the draft introduction to the book writing generally change their choice of subjects and the way they tackle certain issues, affected by she is currently working on their new experiences and the changes in their audi - ences. IVING in the Diaspora can have different Different factors may influence the writers’ effects on different writers and on their choices, which lead to changes in writing styles and ‘Exiled writers Lworks. Exile can create a sterilizing effect – preferences. have to work or it can have a stimulating effect leading to develop - Some feel under pressure to write explaining why harder than ing new species of writing altogether, since literary they were uprooted and why they are not home their native writing skills can change as the writer changes in where they are supposed to be; there is ample evi - colleagues’: warming bristol consequence of being displaced into another society, dence that the majority of refugees, exiles and those Iqbal Tamimi, living under new conditions and new sets of societal who are living in the Diaspora are treated as unwel - pictured at communities and cultural norms. come guests in their new societies. Some experience BCfm In general, exiled writers have to work harder than the feelings of being treated as a second class citi - community radio station their native colleagues. They struggle hard to prove zen, or feelings of rejection because the media paint We help people from minority ethnic themselves and compete for jobs and a place in the them as ‘intruders’. communities who find it difficult to pay their publication field that most of the time, situates Exiles and those who are living in the Diaspora ex - gas or electricity bills, are in debt to an them beneath the bar of their past works, achieve - perience pain because they believe that they have a ments, aspirations and experiences. responsibility towards both societies. They feel they Working in energy supplier or live in a cold, damp home. They are forced to start all over again on the same are the umbilical cord that links the womb of their level as amateurs, where the old metaphors don’t homeland with the new host. They feel obliged to partnership for We work with volunteers from your quite work any more, and everything in their new nourish the host with their own perspective of civi - sanctuary since 1981 community who understand you and the world has to be renamed and translated. In addition lization, literature and culture and prove that they they have fresh personal struggles, perhaps becom - can contribute to their new societies. They must Working with refugees to build new lives everyday issues you face. ing the sole breadwinners for their dependants, fac - share their history and a cultural wealth with the ing hostility, isolation, depression and loss of self new communities, while at the same time they have Call us free on 0800 512 012 esteem. a duty towards their own people left at home. Refugee Action in Bristol: Or email [email protected] If they were brought up to believe in the strength Ƚ$GYLFHLQIRUPDWLRQ DGYRFDF\ of the group, as in Arab and African communities inna Nyberg Sarensen from the Danish Insti - Ƚ0HQWRULQJIRU ZLWKUHIXJHHV where the clan and the tribe means a great deal, Ntute for International Studies explains: Ƚ7UDLQLQJIRURWKHUV they may bury themselves in their own self- created “Diasporic involvement can range from exclusive Ƚ$ZDUHQHVVUDLVLQJ cocoons. maintenance of family ties in the homeland to xCommunity Group Development Living in the Diaspora affects not only the writers’ establishing political connections that may lead to ac - Ƚ9ROXQWHHULQJ YROXQWHHUVXSSRUW personal and social life, but the genre of writing and quiring positions of power. In this regard at least four Ƚ&DPSDLJQLQJ their choice of subjects. Many switch from poetry All images from www.istock.com | L to R: Juanmonino; Anandha Krishnan; Debi Bishop; Herb Klein kinds of involvement can be observed at family, com - munity, social and political level. In most cases, mi - General advice & information: 0117 941 5960 grants maintain family ties and some community and email: [email protected] We aim to equip people with the skills social connections with the home land. 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26 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 27 The faithful want to help – but do they get the right support?

Faith communities are an under-utilised resource whose skills, them and can access them. The reported lack of knowledge about, and frustration in trying to access, Bristol City Council services on capacity and willingness to contribute to public life are not always the part of many faith groups suggests that the council must review recognised, according to a 2004 Home Office report. Here FORWARD the way it provides information on its services. Such a review MAISOKWADZO reports on more recent findings from a city-wide audit. would need to include not only the types, forms, and languages in which information is available, but also the routes for dissemination. HE ability and willingness of religious groups to contribute he report confirms the findings of a pilot faiths consultation to public life is not always recognised or utilised. So said the in Leeds – that effective communication with faith communi - Home Office report Working Together, produced in 2004. T T ties can be difficult to negotiate, and there is no one model or ap - But what of the local picture? Bristol is a diverse city, in fact the proach which suits all faith groups. It would be helpful to map the city with the fastest growing diversity in the country. One signifi - internal and external communication structures of faith groups. cant consequence is an equally varied range of faiths in the city. The report shows that faith communities are tremendously im - A faith audit of Bristol report produced by Bristol’s Multi-Faith portant to our cities and highlights the major contribution they Forum (BMFF) and entitled Faith Related Community Activity in Bris - make to urban life by building social and ‘faithful’ capital. This tol was published earlier this year. helps to build cohesiveness as well as helping the vulnerable and Simon Bale, BMFF Chair, said: “The faith audit demonstrates that marginalised as demonstrated by other faith groups such as the Cri - there is much to be done to draw people of faith into civil society; sis Centre ministries and many others. at the same time, those agencies who already occupy that space Most groups contacted for this study expressed a high level of in - need to be ready for the opportunities that faith brings.” terest in relationship with the government, especially the council. Throne of Weapons: A sculpture created for Bristol Museum by Mozambican artists Picture: Christian Aid The faith groups who participated in this study engage large num - In general they felt that it was very important. Other comments in - bers of citizens, many of whom do, and would be, willing to work cluded: “We need to be informed”; “They are our service for the common good of the city. There is evidence of goodwill to - providers”; “Dialogue is essential”; and “It is important to be an in - wards Bristol City Council, an understanding that a relationship tegral part of any city to which one belongs.” with local government is important, and a desire to relate well. The Bristol connection: making The report highlights difficulties in communication, gaps in knowledge and provision, policy and practical issues of concern to Faith in the city – The data faith communities, perceptions and experience of religious intoler - ance, and a dearth of energy and commitment to inter- or multi The 2001 census (now a decade out of date) recorded faith activity. the following: Providing the best possible services as a local authority is only use - 62% Christian 24.5% no religion friends all around the world ful if those to whom the services are directed have knowledge of 2.0% Muslim 0.6% Hindu 0.5% Sikh 0.4% Buddhist 0.2% Jewish   Bristol International Twinnings Association Co- former Soviet Union as a way of supporting tion and asylum seekers. Young people Muslims now make up 7% of the Bristol population, ordinator ALIX HUGHES explains the benefits of peace initiatives. from Bristol have made two-hour feature according to Bristol Muslim Cultural Society whose During the 1980s twinnings with Puerto films about integration with partners in 2007 figure put the number at 30,000. In the same close ties with communities across the globe Morazan in Nicaragua and Beira, Mozam - Hannover and its Polish twin Poznan.  year a Bristol City Council Employee Survey revealed bique, were set up as a way of supporting  that its workforce was comprised:  RISTOL has a special relationship social justice and development in the ‘third he educational benefits of twinning are 44% Christian 36.3% no religion            world’. And finally, 10 years ago, we linked enormous. Each year youngsters in             1.1% Buddhist 0.5% Muslim with seven cities around the world. T     0.3% Hindu 0.2% Sikh Some of the commercial links such up with Guangzhou, China’s third city, to South Bristol primary schools are intro -  B support economic development. duced to French by Bordeaux trainee teach -           0.1% Jewish as the wine and port wine trade with Bor -  deaux in France and Oporto in Portugal go Over more than sixty years of successful ers through songs, games and stories.  !            " There are estimated to be 15,000 EU migrants in Bris - back over 250 years, but twinning in Bristol twinning, tens of thousands of young Bris - Coffee producers from Nicaragua spend  tol, the majority of whom are Roman Catholic. tolians have taken part in exchanges with Fairtrade Fortnight in Bristol and work with #       $ % started in 1947.            & After World War II local people felt it was counterparts in Bordeaux and Hannover. over 1,500 school pupils. Mozambican       !     '(      There are some 230 places of worship including important to avoid hostilities happening These initiatives go beyond learning a lan - dancers, musicians and storytellers share    " • 1 Bahai centre  guage and into cultural exchange and per - their culture with hundreds of children. • 1 Hindu temple again so a link with Hannover was set up to ) * !     &   !  sonal development. There are now families A school-to-school linking programme al -          • 2 Jewish synagogues build a new relationship with Germany. % " Similar humanitarian thinking was behind in Bristol who have been exchanging with lows teachers to gain personal and profes -  • 4 Sikh gurdwaras +   !      • 12 Muslim mosques the links with Bordeaux and later, in 1988, their Bordeaux or Hannover partners for sional development, from which pupils too  • At least 200 Christian churches three generations. benefit. Working with the Nicaraguan min -         % with Tbilisi in Georgia. At the time people  Faith communities also provide Bristol with at least 94 feared a possible nuclear war and so it was Some youth exchanges focus on a particu - istry of education, Bristol teachers have    ,     -  % community halls and rooms.  decided to get to know our ‘enemies’ in the lar issue; recent examples include integra - Continued on page 30  28 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 29 A community united: An eye-catching mural in Stapleton Road, Easton Hannover Picture: launches Claude Mouthy as a Fairtrade city –a project launched with The West is on track to provide super advice and support from Bristol opportunities for top African athletes Friends around the world associations and attend their social and cul - tural events. There are plenty of activities, Twinning facts Continued from p29 from fundraising to taking part in an ex - provided professional help to pre-school • Call or email Alix Hughes at Speaking at the launch in 2010 at Ashton change visit or learning a new language. 0117 3284450, With the Olympics and Paralympics only a teachers, as well as teaching materials, and Park School, which is twinned with a Hundreds of volunteers are take part, [email protected] Or visit year away some of East Africa’s leading two small pre-school buildings have been school in Kenya, he said the honour be - bringing hundreds of visitors to Bristol each www.bristol.gov.uk/twinning funded. Children from Bristol schools have athletes will be making the West Country longed to the people of Kenya and Bris - year and raising thousands of pounds for had fun fundraising for latrines, wells and tol, and all children who strive to be the each twin city association. • Bristol Beira Link capital their home from home, reports water tanks, as well as collaborating with www.bristolbeiralink.org best in the world of sports. Bristol International Twinnings’ Associa - FORWARD MAISOKWADZO their partner pupils far away, learning about • Bristol-Bordeaux Associa - “It is these young people that we have to tion (BITA), set up in 1992 to link all seven the water needs of developing economies. tion [email protected] think of. It is their future that matters to voluntary twinning associations, manages Undergraduates studying Portuguese at • Bristol China Partnership HE Olympics and Paralympics us and we have a responsibility to protect the community elements of twinning and Bristol University undertake projects and www.bristol-china-partnership.com provide a great opportunity for and nature them,” said Keino, who chairs organises educational, cultural, commercial • Bristol Hannover Council teach in schools in Beira, and both the city’s international engagement. The Kenya’s National Olympic Committee. and social events. www.bristolhannovercouncil.org.uk T universities recruit from Guangzhou’s six holding of the 2012 Games in London The Kenyan team will train at the acad - In 1997, BITA and Bristol City Council •Bristol Link with Nicaragua universities. Each year the University of the prompted the Bristol-Kenya 2012 Project, emy’s stadium and stay at nearby were awarded a plaque by the Council of bristolnicaragua.wordpress.com West of England and Bristol firm DPS sup - Umoja (Swahili for unity), apartnership College. It will be the first time the Europe for their work on European integra - •Bristol Oporto Association port an officer from Guangzhou’s city inter - www.bristoloporto.f9.co.uk which will bring the East African Olympic tion. BITA and the City Council won the Kenyan team has trained in the host national relations department to study for a •Bristol Tbilisi Organisation hopefuls to train in the city early next National Award for City Twinning in 1989, country prior to the Games, and Keino one-year masters degree in business here. www.bristoltbilisi.org year. and were finalists in 1994 and 1995. believes it will help boost his country’s DPS has signed multi-million pound gas The Umoja partnership was signed by chances of medals outside their tradi - Kip Keino wins gold in the exploration deals with China, helped by the legendary Kenyan athlete Kipchoge ‘Kip’ tional athletics events. 3,000m steeplechase at the Bristol China Partnership. This organisation Dancers from Keino and the Mayor of Bristol Peter “After the Beijing Games, we were Munich Olympics in 1972 has supported local companies’ forays into Tbilisi Abraham in 2007, the year Keino was thinking, as Kenyans what we could do to the Chinese market, and several UK govern - performing in awarded an honorary Doctorate by the improve the standard of some other Bob Reeves, Special Projects Manager at the Twinning ment funded trade delegations have visited . sports in our country? And I see that this Bristol University, partnerships are being China using Bristol’s contacts with Zone at Bristol’s Kip Keino came to the world’s attention is a place where we are able to establish developed between schools in Bristol and Guangzhou City Council. Harbour when he won gold in the 1,500 metres on friendship in sport,” said Kipchoge, who is Kenya including a Healthy Schools initia - Twinning also involves many other kinds Festival a warm summer evening at the Mexico also a member of the International tive. of activities. Bristol’s Arial Rowing Club re - Olympics in 1968, and claimed gold again Olympics Committee. Kenya ranked 15th Student exchanges and other commer - cently competed on Hannover’s famous ar - in the 3,000m steeplechase in Munich in the Olympic medal table in 2008 with cial and cultural opportunities are also tificial lake, the Maschsee; Bristol scouts four years later. five gold, five silver and four bronze. being explored. Promising young athletes walked a section of the European north- He is regarded as a humanitarian cham - “As Kenyans, we can’t rely only on track from Bristol will get the chance to train at south trail with their Hannover colleagues, pion as well as an inspirational athlete, events and the marathon. We need to di - Kip Keino’s IAAF Athlete Performance and the Cathedral School Choir performed having founded an orphanage and two versify. There are tremendous facilities Centre in Eldoret, Kenya. in the celebrated Lutheran Marktkirche and schools. In recognition of his life’s work here for squash, badminton, hockey, There are plans for Bristol’s professional several other churches in Hannover the new athletics stadium on the £30m swimming, rowing, and canoeing. And football, cricket and rugby clubs to set up Anyone who wishes to can help shape Bristol Academy of Sport campus in you have the coaches in these sports too.” coach and player development activities Bristol’s international relationships. You can Picture: Jo Stoke Gifford has been named after him. Under the Umoja scheme, fronted by with their Kenyan counterparts. become a member of any of the twinning Hansford 30 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 31 PROFILE BRISTOL GLOBE DIRECTORY A selection of organisations offering Email: [email protected] [email protected] MOHAMMED ELSHARIF talks to Membership organisation represent - Arabic language and culture classes activities, advice and support for MIKE JEMPSON about being forced ing for African and Caribbean busi - for children and adults, plus social recent arrivals and black and minor - nesses in the UK. Works closely with activities. to leave his home in Sudan and other business support groups. ity ethnic communities in Bristol starting a new life in Bristol Asian Arts Agency (AAA) African and Caribbean Young En - Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Ave, With thanks to Bristol City Council, terprise (ACYE) OHAMMED Elsharif must be BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 929 1110 Refugee Action and VOSCUR 97-107 Wilder Street, BS2 8QU Tel: one of the busiest men in Bristol. Email: [email protected] He combines a part-time job 07951306951 M Supports Asian arts in Bristol area. with the NHS promoting healthy lifestyles, If your details need updating or we Advice and training for developing with teaching Arabic, lecturing at the missed out your organisation and local enterprise. University of the West of England and Asian Health and Social Care you would like to be included in the numerous voluntary activities including a Association next edition, please email: African Initiatives weekly show on community radio station Asian Day Centre, c/o Easton BCfm. bristol@cityofsanctuary. org.uk York Court, Brunswick Square, St “My approach always is to have a part- Pauls. Tel: 0117 916 6452 Email: Community Centre, Kilburn Street, time job combined with freelance work, to deved@ african-initiatives.org.uk Easton, BS5 6AW Tel: 0117 954 0178 keep my teaching skills up to date. My com - A Training and resources for teachers Email: [email protected] munity work is a way of giving back to the and young people on global citizen - Day Centre for the South Asian city and country that has given dignity, Aashyana Housing Association elderly communities of Bristol and respect and freedom to me and my family,” Limited ship issues. he explains. Never resting: Mohammed Elsharif, his wife Muna and sons Awab, 8, South Gloucestershire; vegetarian Karim, 7, and Faris, 1 Picture: Claude Mouthy 2 Pritchard Street, BS2 8RH “My wife Muna is supportive and does lots African Voices Forum lunch, keep fit, yoga, board games, Tel: 0117 939 3911 of community work 97-107 Wilder Street, Ujima House, excursions, health and well-being Asian-led, providing affordable too. It is integral to our St Pauls, BS2 8QU. Email: advice. lives. My son Awab homes for those in need. comes with me to the [email protected] www.africanvoicesforum.org Asian Women’s Health Project radio station and is Community spirit is Access to Leisure Scheme working hard to have Bristol-based network of African (Sehatmand Aurat) Gym membership for 6 months at his own show.” and African-Caribbean community 6 West Street, Old Market, BS2 0BH Awab, 8, and his Easton Leisure Centre for adults re - organisations working to empower Tel: 0117 941 2983 Email: brothers Karim, 7, and ceiving NASS support in Bristol. [email protected]. uk Faris, 1, were all born Africans and African-Caribbeans to From Bristol Refugee Rights, Wel - take active part in policies and initia - Health advice, counselling, educa - after Mohammed ar - come Centre at Newton Hall, rived in England in tives that concern them. tion and support in English and 2000. He left Sudan my real inspiration Thursdays 11.00-15.00. Tel: 07740 Asian languages. feeling that he was 762356 All Nations Community Services abandoning his mother, 359-361 Fishponds Road, Fish - brothers, sisters and friends, but his work as lected rubbish from doorsteps. This back - war, Sudan is about to divide into two new Advice Services a journalist, covering corruption and lack of ground helped me to cope with the enor - countries – often referred to as the ‘Muslim ponds, BS16 2AQ freedom, had become too dangerous, and mous transformation in my life.” North’ and ‘Christian South’. Mohammed http://advicewest.org.uk to find out Tel: 0117 9398130 made him many enemies. He believes it also made it easier for him grieves for those in the disputed region of about Bristol advice centres on con - Accommodation and support serv - to engage in community action and to inte - Abyei and South Kordofan, now caught up sumer, debt, disability, discrimina - ices for refugees, displaced and e found Bristol a welcoming place – grate. What lessons has he drawn? in a fresh outbreak of violence. tion, employment, housing and other homeless. Hand compared it favourably to his home “I have learnt that the UK is great and “I am heartbroken to see a great country welfare rights. Interpreters provided. town in a poem about their similarities. civilised, not because of its power, wealth splitting in two, for no reason other than AVF offers support “I grew up in a lovely town on the Nile and buildings but because of its tradition of the government’s failure to value our racial Anglo-Iranian Society (Bristol) called Omdurman. When I was kid I used freedom, its value of equality, and its pro - and religious diversity,” he says. AffirmARTive for LAFTA 8 Ashley Down Road, Horfield, to Bristol Globe to swim in the Nile with friends. Ours was a tection and appreciation of minorities. I Mohammed is Secretary to the Sudanese 67b Freemantle Rd, Cotham, BS6 6AZ BS7 9JW Tel: 01179245525 town of different faiths and races, home to have also learnt that is it not geography, Association, Vice-Chair of the Building Tel: 0117 924 8090 Email: [email protected] magazine – and to most of Sudan’s Christian Copts. Whether race, culture or where you were born that Bridges Project and a MediaWise Trustee. Art project exploring cultural, his - Muslim or Christian we lived in harmony. defines your identity, but what you stand for. He was the first chair of the Exiled Journal - www.aisbristol.org.uk/ Bristol’s new Those values really shaped my life,” he says. “I am inspired by many ordinary people ists’ Network , and his contributions to the torical and identity issues for young Advice, cultural, educational and “As young people we used to organize lots who give of their time and resources to sup - NHS have won the national NHS Alliance people. social activities. status as a City of of community events, helped kids with port the vulnerable. My greatest admiration Acorn National Award for excellence and Sanctuary! their school work and taught illiterate is for Sue Njie, a Bristolian with a golden the NHS Bristol Customer Service Award. African Caribbean Chamber of Arabic Classes (Bristol) heart.” Sue, who died in 2009, was the inspi - However, with typical modesty adults to read and write. We launched Commerce and Enterprise Andalusia Academy Bristol, neighbourhood campaigns to keep the ration behind Bristol Refugee Rights and Mohammed says: “My most important per - streets clean, cleared sewage pipes and the Refugee Welcome Centre. Six years sonal achievement is winning the trust and (ACCCE) 168 Muller Rd, Horfield, BS7 9QX www.africanvoicesforum.org flood drains for the autumn season, and col - after the ceasefire that ended its long civil friendship of so many people in Bristol.” 97-107 Wilder Street, BS2 8QU Tel: 07074 536 360 Email: 32 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 33 BRISTOL GLOBE DIRECTORY BRISTOL GLOBE DIRECTORY

Asian Youth Project (Masti Group) Barnardos: Mon/Wed/Thurs Tel: 0117 314 4664 Bristol Multi-Faith Forum tre, Collins Street BS11 9JJ West St, BS2 0BH 404 Stapleton Road, Easton, Tel: 0117 9551703 Advocacy, information, respite care, c/o 404 Stapleton Road, Easton, BS5 Tel: 0117 982 8549 Tel: 0117 941 5960 Email: BS5 6NQ Tel: 0117 935 4528 Refuge Action: Tues support and training for Black carers Encourages dialogue between faiths, NHS service for Black and minority [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: 0117 9415960 i n B r i s tol. and develops leadership in the faith ethnic people affected by cancer. Part of national movement to build Activities, courses and trips for 5-25 communities. Meetings rotate a culture of hospitality for people year olds. Bath Centre for Psychotherapy Bristol Defend Asylum Seekers around Bristol’s churches, mosques, Chinese Women’s Group (Bristol seeking protection in the UK. and Counselling Campaign synagogues, temples, etc. and Avon) www.cityofsanctuary.org/bristol Awaz Utaoh (Raising Voices) www.bcpc.org PO BOX 2540, BS6 9AX Tel: 07832 377745 / 07970 936325 St Agnes Parish Church, Thomas St, Twitter @BristolCoS. 415-417 Stapleton Road, Eastville, Access to specially trained counsel - Tel: 0776 643 2413 http://www.bristolmultifaithfo - St Agnes, BS2 9LL BS5 6NE lors and psychotherapists in Bristol www.asylumbristol.org.uk rum.org.uk/ Tel: 0117 935 1462 Email: D Tel: 0117 9354528 and Bath. Interpreters provided. Campaigns for the rights of asylum- [email protected] Dhek Bhal Email: [email protected] Referral Service: 0845 223 5267 seekers and refugees. Meets every Bristol Sickle Cell and Activities, advice and support for c/o Barton Hill Settlement, Advice, counselling, empowerment Email: [email protected] first Tuesday 19:00-21:00 at the Mal - Thalassaemia Centre Chinese women; promotes 43 Ducie Road, Barton Hill BS5 0AX and training for the Asian commu - colm X Centre, Ashley Road, St 256 Stapleton Road, Easton BS5 0NP understanding between the Chinese Email: [email protected] nity. Black Development Agency (BDA) Pauls BS2 Tel: 0117 951 2200 Email: info@ community and others. Tel: 0117 955 6971. Advice and sup - 5 Russell Town Avenue, Redfield oscarbristol.co.uk port, especially for those disadvan - BS5 9LT Tel: 0117 939 6645 Bristol Hospitality Network Advice, information, support and City of Sanctuary (CoS) taged because of their culture, B Email:[email protected] Offers destitute asylum seekers training to carers and parents, and c/o Refugee Action, 9 Hide Market, language or religion. Black and Ethnic Minority Support and services to Bristol’s somewhere to stay. Contact via the health care, teaching, housing and Advocacy Clinic (BAC) Black voluntary sector. Refugee Rights Centre ( see separate welfare professionals. Confidential 21 Seventh Avenue, Filton BS7 0QD entry in these listings under R ) on counselling by appointment. Email: [email protected] Bridge of Peace Thursdays. Empowerment and advancement 103 Locking Road, Weston-super- IMMIGRATION AND British Red Cross through advice and support to indi - Mare BS23 3EW Bristol Islamic Schools Trust Unit 41 Easton Business Centre, viduals and groups. Tel: 01934 625428 Email: (BIST) Felix Road, Bristol BS5 0HE [email protected] NATIONALITY Andalusia Academy, Halston Drive, www.britishredcross.org.uk Bangladesh Association Bringing people together to cele - ¾ Spouse/ Fiancé Visa ¾ British Passport St Pauls BS29JE Services for refugees and asylum- Bangladesh House, 539 Stapleton brate diversity and work co-opera - ¾ Visa Sponsorship ¾ Attesting Documents Tel: 07074 536 360 seekers include: Road, Eastville BS5 6PE tively. Statements ¾ Home Office Travel Runs Andalusia Academy, a full-time • Clothing Vouchers free secondhand Tel: 0117 951 1491 ¾ Visitors/ Family Visa Documents primary school for boys and girls, clothing and household goods. Tues Email: info@bangledeshassocia - Bright Project ¾ Visa Extensions/ ¾ Employer or Educational and a secondary school for girls, 13:00-16:00; Wed 13:00 – 15:30; Fri tion.org.uk c/o Black Development Agency, Transfers Sponsor License teaching the National Curriculum in 13:00-16:00. Tel: 07740 762 356 Advice in Bangla, English and 5 Russell Town Avenue, Redfield ¾ Dependants Visa ¾ APPEALS: Referral Panel an Islamic environment. • Hardship Fund Tel: 07740 762 356 Sylheti; food and hygiene training. BS5 9LT ¾ Indefinite Stay Visa ¾ Home Office Related Tel: 0117 9396645 Email: • International Tracing and Message Bristol Jewish Welfare Association ¾ Students – Points Based Correspondence [email protected] Service Wed 13:00 – 15:30 and Thurs Bristol Bangladeshi Women’s Or - 10 Oakhurst Road, Stoke Bishop, System ¾ Home Office Related Advice and support for BME volun - 15.30- 16.30. Tel: 0117 955 9810 ganisation BS9 3TQ ¾ Certificate of Approval Research tary sector advice organisations in • Orientation Service Help for new 35 Mivart Street, Easton BS5 Tel: 0117 968 4013 ¾ Work Permits – Points ¾ British Nationality Bristol and S. Gloucestershire. refugees on accessing services and Tel: 0117 9519 777 Email: [email protected] Based System entitlements. Tel: 07740 762 356 ¾ FREE ADVICE DURING SURGERY TIMES Email: Provides help to members of Jewish European Nationals (EEA) Brigstowe Project • Skin Camouflage for those with scar - MONDAY AND SATURDAY BETWEEN 10-12 [email protected] faith. 176-178 Easton Road, Easton ring or disfiguring skin conditions. Advice, cultural, educational, em - BS5 0ES Tel: 0117 301 2631 CONTACT: MR ZAHEER SHABIR LLB (HONS) ON 07711957425 powerment, training and social serv - Bristol Muslim Cultural Society Tel: 0117 955 5038 By appointment only. ices for Bangladeshi women and (BMCS) All instructions are fee paying and confidential. Email: [email protected] • Positive Images Interactive work - children. 404 Stapleton Road, Easton BS5 www.brigstowe.org shops for schools and youth groups 6NQ Tel: 0117 9521802 Advice, information and support for to challenge negative stereotypes. Barnardos and Refugee Action Email: [email protected] people living with or affected by Refugees and Asylum Seekers HIV or AIDS. Educational, employment recre - Family Support Project ational and training opportunities C SUITE 14A, THE OLD CO-OP SHOP, 38-42 CHELSEA ROAD,

Advice and support for children, Bristol Black Carers for young Muslims. Youth Club Cancer Help for Ethnic EASTON, BRISTOL BS5 6AF young people and families on educa - The Old Library, Trinity Road, St every Saturday evening at the Communities (CHEC) T: 0117 9413991 E: [email protected] tion, health and social issues. Pauls BS2 0NW Whitefield School, Fishponds. 1st Floor, Avonmouth Medical Cen -

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Disability Equality Forum F Horn of Africa Forum (HOAF) and values to the Indian and wider Khalsa Heritage Trust Midlands and Bristol Refugee St Pauls Fam ily & Learning Centre, Full Circle Tel: 0117 941 4432 community throughout the Avon c/o 491 Stapleton Road, Eastville Housing Grosvenor Road, BS2 8XJ. 62a Halston Drive, St Pauls BS2 9JN Umbrella group linking the Somali area. BS6 6PQ Tel: 0117 9515262 24 Lower Ashley Road, BS2 9NP Email: [email protected] Tel: 0117 907 7164 community with statutory and Email: [email protected] Tel: 0117 914 0486 voluntary agencies dealing with www.bristoldef.org.uk/ Email: [email protected] International Organisation for Sol - Promotes culture history and values Email: education, employment, health and Campaigning group offering train - Youth and parenting service for St idarity and Social Action (IOSSA) of the Sikh faith through sports, [email protected] racial harassment. ing and Equalities Impact Assess - Pauls and surrounding area. 8 Champneys Avenue, Henbury community involvement and educa - Housing services for Somalian ments and policy advice for Monday Girls Club; Tuesday Boys BS10 7LF tion, Caters specially for young peo - refugee families. Humdard statutory and voluntary bodies. Club; sports clubs all week; Saturday Tel: 07877 232702 ple, women and seniors. Active in The Community Flat, Halston Play Club. Email: [email protected] multi-faith culture and education. Migrants Rights Centre E Drive, St Pauls BS2 9JN Tel: 0117 Promotes community cohesion, c/o Pierian Centre, 27 Portland 955 0895 fights social deprivation and pro - Square Bristol BS2 8SA Easton Learning Centre G Email: [email protected] L motes peaceand harmony among Email: 276-282 Stapleton Road, BS5 0NW Global Hope Academy Bi-lingual advice, educational, and Legal Advice religious groups in Bristol. [email protected] Tel: 0117 902 2288 recreational facilities for women of The Legal Aid immigration special - St Pauls Kulmiye Centre, 22-24 City Listening, support, and signposting Email: Asian and Somali origin and their ists in Bristol are: Road, BS2 8TP Irish Society for vulnerable migrants. Drop-in [email protected] Tel: 0117 948 9998 children in St Pauls and surrounding South West Law, 1 Hide Market, http://bristolirishsociety.org/ West St, BS2 0BH centre: Fri 10:00 – 12:00 Business, employability, English as Email: info.globalacademy areas. Creche facilities. After School second language, literacy and Club and Holiday Play Scheme for Non-sectarian membership organi - Tel: 0117 314 6400 www.southwest - @gmail.com Muktomoncho Cultural Society numeracy courses. 5-11 year-olds; Young Women’s sation promoting Irish culture law.org.uk Educational service for young c/o St Werburghs Community Cen - Group for 11-19 year-olds Sat 13:00 – through educational and social Drop in session: Wed: 10:30 – 12:30 Somali children in Bristol. Encour - tre, Horley Road, St Werburghs BS2 Easy-Translations 16:00 events and supporting the needs of • For other specialist legal aid immi - ages integration through cultural 9TJ 11 Baynton Meadow, Emersons Irish people in Bristol. gration solicitors, visit: Tel: 0117 9551351 Green BS16 7EL and social events. http://legaladviserfinder.justice.gov. I Email: offi[email protected] Tel: 0845 200 7832 uk/AdviserSearch.do Imayla K Promotes Bengali and South Asian Email: [email protected] Gurdwara Guru Nanak Parkash Enter ‘Bristol’, click on ‘Immigra - 4 Floor, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Kuumba arts, culture and literature. Music Singh Sabha tion’; then ‘Specialist level’ and Low cost translation and interpreter Croft , BS1 3QY 20-23 Hepburn Road, St Pauls classes, performances, and festival 71-75 Fishponds Road, ‘Legal Aid’. If you can’t find a solici - services, including telephone inter - Tel: 0845 345 7533 BS2 8UD events, working closely with Asian preting, text- to-voice service, and Eastville BS5 6SF Email: [email protected] Tel: 0117 942 1870 / 944 7503 tor in Bristol, try Cardiff, Newport or Swansea. Arts Bristol and Bristol Indian Classi - help with Braille, Large Print, Audio Tel: 0117 902 0104 Imayla = urban - rural - creative – Email: kuumbanew010@ cal Music Society. and Video formats. Caters for cultural, educational and connections. yahoo.co.uk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and religious needs of Sikhs living or Inner city multi-cultural arts events Afrikan and Caribbean performance; Transgender Forum Multicultural Toy Library Equalities and Community Cohe - working around Bristol. and courses, survival skills camps; school and youth club performance Bristol LGB Forum, Create Centre, (Bwerani) sion Team (Bristol City Council) research, consultancy and commu - and arts activity workshops exhibi - Smeaton Road, BS1 6XN Unit 12, 20-23, Hepburn Road, St Room U16, The Council House, nity development. tions, events and seminars. H Tel: 0117 353 4621 Email: Pauls, BS2 8UD. Tel: 0117 915 9805 College Green, BS1 5TR http://www.imayla.com/ Sankore lending library of books The Haven [email protected] Email: Tel: 0117 922 2329 and videos about Afrikan Caribbean Montpelier Health Centre, Bath Immigration Advisory Service www.facebook.com/pages/Bristol- [email protected] Texbox: 0117 357 4444 experience. Buildings, Montpelier BS6 5PT Unit 7, Hide Market, West Street LGB-Forum/119032009987 Multicultural and inclusive play and Videophone: IP: 193.35.234.102 Jumoke Day Nursery (30 places for Tel: 0117 9426811 for appointments (entrance in Waterloo Road), St Twitter hashtag: @blgbtf educational resources for 0-16 year Email: 2-5 year olds). (08.30 – 12:30) Phillips BS2 0BH Challenges discrimination. Office olds. Consultancy, training and mul - [email protected] ticultural arts and craft activities. www.avon.nhs.uk/haven Tel: 0117 9557300 days Wed and Thurs. Khaas Medical service for newly arrived www.iasuk.org EMAT – Ethnic Minority Achieve - Horley Road, St Werburghs BS2 9TJ Muslim (1st Bristol) Scout Group asylum-seekers. Drop in sessions: Mon, Thurs and ment Team Fri, 09:00 – 11:00 Tel: 0117 955 4070 M 70 Grafton Road, Oldbury, West Tel: 0117 903 1365 Health needs assessment for adults Email: [email protected] Mauritian Association (Bristol) Midlands B68 8BJ and children, GP registration, refer - Part of the local education authority, Indian Community Association Khaas - ‘special’ - caters for Asian 84 Stoke Lane, Stoke Lodge, BS34 Tel: 07957 147 245 Bristol City Council. rals to mental health and specialist (Avon) special needs children, and their 6DS Tel: 01454 898 268 Scout group and community organi - Support to new arrivals and their services. 199 Filton Avenue, Horfield S7 0AY families. Emotional advice and prac - Runs cultural, religious and social sation catering for children and parents/carers and to other BME Information and training for health - Tel: 01275 375601 tical information and assistance in events. Provides emotional and adults from ethnic minority back - students. care professionals and students. Promotes Indian culture, heritage mother tongues. financial support for members. grounds. 36 June 2011 Bristol Globe Bristol Globe June 2011 37 BRISTOL GLOBE DIRECTORY BRISTOL GLOBE DIRECTORY

O BS2 8QU Email: Refugee Women of Bristol Signpost and Rite Direkshon Student Action for Refugees c/0 35 Woodside Road [email protected] St Nicholas of Tolentino Community 176-178 Easton Road, Easton (STAR) Downend, BS16 2SR Our Stories Make Waves Learning business and career devel - Hall, Lamb Street, Easton BS5 0QZ. BS5 0ES. Tel: 0117 955 9987. Email: www.star-network.org.uk c/o 69 North Road, St Andrews opment opportunities for 16+ year Email: [email protected] [email protected] Part of a national network of Womankind BS6 5AQ olds who have suffered deprivation Tues: 10:00 – 15:00: Assists women Afrikan Carribean community student groups working to improve Tel: 0117 944 2004 Counselling service for refugee and and disadvantage by virtue of their with form-filling, reading letters, development group for people expe - the lives of refugees in the UK. Bristol-based African diaspora asylum-seeking women who have culture, race, disability, sexual orien - making appointments, interpreting riencing social and economic exclu - Bristol University STAR email: artists’ collective developing creative experienced trauma and exile. tation, gender, age, religion or be - and translation, housing, health, ed - sion. [email protected] projects for public performance, ex - Helpline: 0845 458 2914 liefs. ucation and employment advice. Advice, information, social educa - hibition and education. Free creche. tion and support for individuals and Studio Upstairs Women’s Forum Overseas Chinese Association R families. Units 1 and 2, Albion Dockside Es - Bristol Women’s Forum, Commu - Right Track (The Children’s 9-15 Lower Ashley Road, St Agnes Refugee Action tate, Hanover Place, BS1 6UT nity Engagement Team Society) Somali Advice Project BS2 9QA Tel: 0117 955 5225 Email: 9 Hide Market, West St, BS2 0BH Tel: 0117 930 0314 6 York Court, Wilder Street, Unit 65-66 Easton Business Centre, Malcolm X Centre, 141 City Road, overseaschineseassociation@south - Tel: 0117 941 5960 Email: St Pauls BS2 8QH Felix Road, Easton BS5 0HE Tel: St Pauls BS2 8YH west.fslife.co.uk Email: swandwales@refugee-ac - [email protected] FREEPOST BS 6935 0117 935 1515 Tel: 0117 9413889 Email: ssomaliad - Advice and support for ethnic Chi - tion.org.uk Arts-based therapeutic community Tel: 0117 922 4562 / 922 2217 Email: [email protected] [email protected] nese community. Sunday Chinese www.refugee-action.org.uk encouraging emerging artists to Textphone: 0117 357 4444 Advice, mentoring and support for Advice and support for the Somali Language School. Specialist advice by appointment on become independent, especially Independent campaigning group BME children (10 – 17) at risk of or community. NASS applications, Section 4 sup - those dealing with mental distress, run by volunteers promote women's already involved in the youth justice port and appeals to Asylum Support or in drug and alcohol recovery. equality. P system. One-to-one and group activ - Tribunal. Information and advice on Somali Education Development Pakistan Forum (Bristol and South ities. Consultancy and training to South of Bristol (SEDSOB) Support Against Racist Incidents Assisted Voluntary Return (Freep - World Jungle Gloucestershire) other agencies. 10 Church Road, Lawrence Hill (SARI) hone: 0808 800 0007) 20 Davey Street, St Pauls, BS2 9LY 8 Sutherland Ave, Downend BS16 BS5 9JA. PO Box 2454,Bristol BS2 2WX 6QJ Tel: 07971 471262 Consultancy advice for other agen - Tel: 0117 942 1085 Tel: 0117 955 4426 Tel: 0117 942 0060 Cultural, educational, recreational cies on asylum seekers’ rights. Train - S A non-profit company using music, Volunteer-run after school classes Recording racist incidents and chal - and social activities within the Pak - ing on asylum issues. Development Savannah Development dance, play, arts and the environ - for BME children and supplemen - lenging racism in Bristol. istani community. work with refugee community or - Foundation ment to develop cultural awareness ganisations. Volunteering and men - Easton Business Centre, Felix Road, tary school for children learning English, Maths, Science and Somali and understanding of diversity and Pakistani Community Welfare Or - toring opportunities. Easton BS5 0HE U language. identity issues. ganisation Freephone information line for Tel: 0117 9078901 Email: United Housing Association 454 Stapleton Road, Easton BS5 asylum-seekers and refugees: [email protected] 174 Cheltenham Road, BS6 5RE Somali Mental Health and Drugs 6NQ 0808 800 0052 Support, assistance and employment Tel: 0117 944 0549 Y Tel: 0117 952 3031 Mon and Tues: 10:00 – 12.30 and self-esteem skills training for Project Social housing for people from Young and Free Wed: 14:00 – 16:30 African and Caribbean elders to Wellspring Centre, Beam Street, diverse communities. 19 Carnarvon Road, Redland BS6 The Peoples Cultural Palace Interpreters provided access mainstream services. Training BS5 9QT. 7DT Tel: 07776 252 320 22 Glaisdale Rd, Fishponds BS16 and volunteers for local organisa - Tel: 0117 370 9685 V Social befriending service to enable 2HZ Tel: 0117 965 2911 Refugee Rights Welcome Centre tions supporting the disadvantaged. Support for people of Somali origin physically and/or sensory disabled Vision BME Promotes art, culture, music and Tel: 0117 908 0844 experiencing mental health prob - young people (18-30) to build a The Gatehouse Centre, Hareclive performances from the diverse com - Email: [email protected] Scottish Club (Westbury, Bristol) lems and those with drug depend - social network of non-disabled Road, Hartcliffe, BS13 9JN munities of Bristol. www.bristolrefugeerights.org http://www.wscbristol.com/ ency issues. Tel: 0117 330 1525 friends. Twice monthly group social Activities, advice, conversation, Scottish Country Dancing for begin - Email: events and outings. The Pierian Centre crèche, friendship, information, lan - ners and for the more experienced. Somali Resource Centre [email protected] 27 Portland Square Bristol BS2 8SA guage classes, refreshments and sup - Beginners’ class: Tues nights, The 43 Ducie Road, Barton Hill Aims to represent the BME commu - Tel: 0117 924 4512 port for asylum-seekers, refused Leonard Hall, Trinity-United Re - BS5 0AX Z nities living, working and learning in www.pierian-centre.com asylum-seekers and new refugees. form Church, Waterford Rd, Hen - Tel: 0117 907 7994 Zimbabwe Association (Bristol) Hartcliffe, Withywood and Knowle Activity centre, supporting many Newton Hall, Newton Street Easton leaze, Bristol BSN 4BT Email: [email protected] c/o Refugee Action, 9 Hide Market, West. local groups and working closely BS5 0QZ: Mon and Wed: 10:00 – Intermediate class: Tues nights, St Advice, information and training West Street, BS2 0BH with refugee welfare organisations. 12.30, Thurs:: 10:00 – 15:00 Peter’s Church, The Drive, Hen - services for hard-to-reach communi - http://www.bristolzimbabweassoci - St Nicholas of Tolentino Commu - leaze, Bristol. 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