Gardens of Babylon
Sheba Arts2005-2020
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Total copies: 1
This collection is digital and documents the stories of four individuals. The material consists of oral history audio and film interviews undertaken by Fereshteh Mozaffari, digitised photographs, digital scans and born digital photographs. The digitised photograph items originally date from 1934-2019
Title:
Gardens of Babylon
Creator:
Date of work:
2005-2020
Search dates:
01 Jan 1968 - 31 Jan 1968
Reference number:
GB3228.93
Level of description:
Collection
Includes:
Custodial history:
The material was collected and held by Fereshteh Mozaffari during the delivery of the Gardens of Babylon project until the time of donation
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into the following series by interview participant as received when donated by the project.
GB3228.93/1 Firoozeh Fozouni
GB3228.93/2 Chinar Mardohky
GB3228.93/3 Firoozeh Fozouni
GB3228.93/4 Haideh Ahmadzadeh
GB3228.93/5 Art, Music and Poetry
Source:
Transferred directly from the donor
Use restrictions:
Restricted
General notes:
Gardens of Babylon was a National Lottery Heritage Funded project by Sheba Arts, a non-profit organisation. The project focused on the first and second generation of Kurdish and Iranian migrants whose ethnic background goes back to an area once known as Babylon.
The project idea came from a solo show performed by Fereshteh Mozaffari, director of Sheba Arts which was performed at Manchester Museum as part of the Journey's Festival. Fereshteh was inspired to capture the stories and histories of Kurdish and Iranian refugees in order to record their experiences and also to record the rich culture of music, art and songs which form part of Kurdish and Iranian culture. The material focuses on the lives of four individuals who were born in the Iran/Iraq/Kurdistan area and who came to the U.K under different circumstances, but mainly as refugees. The material captures the rich art, musical and dance history which is embedded in Persian culture and the difficulties artistic expression faced during the Islamic Revolution in the 1970s. The interviewees who were forced to flee their home due an oppressive regime each share their personal truth about their childhood, family life, migration journey and settling in to a new life in Manchester, U.K. The aim of the interviews contained in this collection is to encourage understanding of second generation Iranian, Iraqi and Kurdish descendants and to counteract the negative and hostile attitude to migrants arriving in the U.K. Administrative/Biographical history has been written using information from the Sheba Arts Project Brief plan authored by Fereshteh Mozaffari.Catalogue created May 2021
Related material note:
Haideh Ahmadzadeh, 'My Life as a Persian Ballerina' (Lulu Books, 2007)
Extra material was produced during the projects delivery by Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre to support Sheba Arts digital exhibition in January 2020. The material consists of oral history excerpts, copies of photographs and a digital leaflet. This material will be catalogued as part of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust collection in the future.
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Language:
EnglishEnglish Farsi Kurdish
Record number:
17993866