Eid festival is celebrated by Muslims around the world to mark the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan.
This year an Eid party was celebrated in the Boomerang Community Centre. The evening was celebrated with music, dance, and authentic middle eastern food, with our very own in-house DJ Dana entertaining the crowd with her mixing skills.
Watch the video below to see how we celebrated Eid.
Eid Party 2016 from Parv K. Jessy on Vimeo.
Fire at Sea is a new documentary by Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi about life on Lampedusa, the small Mediterranean island which has become the epicentre of life and death for thousands of people desperate for a new future in Europe.
Windswept and sparsely populated, Lampedusa has around 6,000 permanent inhabitants. A tight-knit community, families have lived on the island for generations. But in the past 20 years, 400,000 migrants have passed through this community and more than 15,000 died on its coastline.
Ordinary life continues on the island and Rosi’s tour guide is the precocious Samuele, a nine-year-old who still plays with his slingshot and slurps down his spaghetti. He seems untouched by the horror that surrounds his island home. For others, like the kind local doctor, the experiences of death and desperation are impossible to forget.
Rosi, who lived on Lampedusa for a year during the making of the film, juxtaposes these scenes with astonishing footage of the Italian naval rescue operations desperately trying to reach a boat in distress. The harsh reality of conditions on the boats is shown in unflinching detail, as is life in the detention centre, where those who survived the crossing must start again.
Fire at Sea won this year’s Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The documentary will be screened from 17th June to 23rd June 2016 at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Book your tickets here.
Watch the official trailer teaser below :
“Women’s rights are human rights” – Hilary Clinton 1995
In 2016, International Women’s Day was Tuesday 8th March. On this day we focus on our global achievements!
These include the following:
Globally, the theme for IWD 2016 is “Planet 50-50 by 2030. Step it up for Gender Equality”
The idea of this theme is to consider how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals especially goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and number 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.
Locally… we celebrate the global achievements of women and begin our continuous #pledgeforparity
http://www.dundeewomensfestival.org.uk/
4 main ideas promoted by International Women’s day with Dundee and DIWC
Going back to point 2; Dundee’s theme of the year is Women making a difference…
Celebrating and supporting women in science, technology, engineering and maths: the world’s only festival doing this!
Promoting careers in science
Supports professional women to develop their careers
Showcases talented and exciting research taking place across Scotland
Dundee Women’s Festival is created in partnership with over 25 local women empowering organisations, including DIWC.
At DIWC there was focus on cultural education, skills and mixing women from different cultures.
An Indian banquet was on the menu for an empowering international womens day at DIWC. We made Sheesh Kebabs and taught women how to make them and held Spice classes, where we taught women the different use of spices.
This tribute is recognised and reflects the progress in women’s rights to education and cultural freedom.
Author: Caroline Brysting
After months of frustrating driving in the city centre, the roads congested with changing traffic lights, lanes, traffic cones, fences and workers, the long-anticipated construction of the Victoria and Albert Museum has finally begun. Originally budgeted at £45 million, the long-delayed project, initially meant to open in 2014, but now predicted for summer 2018, is now estimated at £80 million, nearly doubling in price and threatening a repetition of the infamously over budgeted and long-deferred Edinburgh Trams fiasco.
Pull Quote: “predicted to bring hundreds of thousands of tourists into the city, investing millions of pounds back into the economy.”
£25 million of the budget for the museum is being paid for by the Scottish government, who according to Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop is still fully committed to seeing the project through. Also, tackling the raised budgets, Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma changed the location of his design, moving the building fully inland as opposed to the initial site which extended the prow over the River Tay. As well as keeping costs down, Kuma’s motivation for bringing the ship back to shore was to ‘strengthen the connection between the river and the city centre.’
An international centre for design, the V&A is the UK’s first design museum outside London, and already has teams of workers selecting items to display from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London’s collections, the majority of which will relate to Scotland’s design history. But, Kuma’s winning design is just the first instalment in the city’s redevelopment of Dundee’s waterfront, set to cost £1 billion overall, but predicted to bring hundreds of thousands of tourists into the city, investing millions of pounds back into the economy, as well as generating up to 7,000 jobs through the project.
As well as the building of the V&A, the city’s waterfront will also include a new Railway Station and Hotel, central open green spaces, the construction of the Seabraes Bridge across the railway lines and the addition of Riverside Apartments.
Already awarded the UK’s first UNESCO City of Design, we can only hope that the V&A, the centrepiece of Dundee’s Waterfront redevelopment scheme, will bring the city more acclaim, bringing us even closer to winning Europe’s City of Culture as after seven years of planning construction has finally commenced.
