{"id":7560,"date":"2015-06-11T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/birmingham-celebrates-migrants\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:27:32","slug":"birmingham-celebrates-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/birmingham-celebrates-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Celebrates Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Exhibition Documenting Achievements of Migrants Displayed on Stratford Road<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/birmingham-celebrates-migrants-467x184.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">A photographic exhibition documenting the social history of the Birmingham&#8217;s migrant communities is being displayed on the city&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">The billboard-sized photograph measuring 2 metres in height, taken by photographer Vanley Burke, have been placed along Stratford Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">To celebrate the lives and achievement of the migrants, audio telling the stories of the people featured in the images are played by special sound pods designed by artist Brian Duffy.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">The exhibition, delivered by Sampad South Asian Arts, is part of a community heritage project called My Route which has researched and documented the social history around Stratford Road from the 1940s to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/birmingham-celebrates-migrants-y-250x200.jpg\"\/>One of the local residents featured in the exhibition is Mohammed Yousuf, who runs the performing arts company &#8216;the Awaaz Academy&#8217;, based in Sparkhill.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">Yousuf&#8217;s interest in Bollywood cinema led him to win the Asian Song Contest, a national event that was a forerunner to The X-Factor, before going on to set up a Bhangra group which saw an international tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">Also featured is business man Harish Wara who founded Monique Tailoring in the 1980s, where he&#8217;s been selling fine menswear ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition Documenting Achievements of Migrants Displayed on Stratford Road A photographic exhibition documenting the social history of the Birmingham&#8217;s migrant communities is being displayed on the city&#8217;s streets. &#13; The billboard-sized photograph measuring 2 metres in height, taken by photographer Vanley Burke, have been placed along Stratford Road. &#13; To celebrate the lives and achievement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}