Box Office — 0116 242 3595 — [email protected]
Fashioning a City
Fashioning a City's Belgrave group researched the history of the Ugandan Exodus. On the 9th September, they visited Curve to share their piece. See more images here.
Heritage Practitioner Madeleine Coburn worked with participants to research immigration to Leicester and the causes of the Ugandan exodus.
To find out more about the people who came to Leicester following Ugandan President Idi Armin's expulsion of the country's Asian population, Belgrave group members spoke with Broadcast Journalist Rupal Rajani who was just two years old when her family were forced to leave.
As part of their research into Belgrave's history, group members discovered the story of Bel the Giant, whose boastful leaps across the county resulted in the naming of towns and the area of Belgrave. Read the story here.
Belgrave group members spoke with their parents, cousins, aunties, uncles and grandparents to find out about their stories of moving to Leicester.
Belgrave participants took inspiration from real people to create their performance piece about the Ugandan Exodus. Read their stories here.
