BrickLaneCircle

For more than two decades, Brick Lane Circle has been working to help transform the intellectual landscape of the Bangladeshi community in the UK, so that we can confidently and critically engage with everything to do with the mainstream. We hope you will continue to take an active interest in our work.

East India Company Spice-War Stories (1600-1625)

We are pleased to announce an award of £59,913 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to explore Anglo-Dutch Spice-War Stories that unfolded during the first quarter-century of the existence of the English East India Company (1600-1625). During that time, these two powers competed violently against each other to control spices from Asia. Journals, treaties and letters at various British heritage institutions contain relevant materials. This project seeks to help interpret them imaginatively through fictionalised stories.

A new exciting historical fiction writing project by Brick Lane Circle

Painting/Drawing
Competition
Closing date: Friday 5 pm, 20 May 2022

Prizes (vouchers): First (£75), second (£40) and third (£25)
The winners will receive their awards at the launch of the new project where their works will also be exhibited.

Painting/Drawing
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Should Robert Clive’s statue in Whitehall fall?

By M Ahmedullah

Robert Clive’s colossal Bengal loot after the Battle of Plassey (23 /6/175)

23 June 2022, 7.00 pm London time

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robert-clives-colossal-bengal-loot-after-the-battle-of-plassey-23-61757-tickets-154191307351

Brick Lane Circle’s new monthly stand up comedy night is on 16 October 2021. Featuring Edinburgh/HBO star Darius Davies with The Impish Scribe, Sharlin Jahan, Gbemi Oladipo, Asif Baul MC and Ollie Fox

Knowing One Another Through Philosophy

A project for 2021/2022

This project aims to utilise philosophy and its various sub-divisions – such as logic, metaphysics, ethics, political thought and epistemology – to critically explore community cohesion issues in East London, including Covid-19 related prejudices that have been directed, by some, against the Chinese community, for example. The focus is on race, ethnicity, faith and culture.

For further details and how to get involved, please kindly email bricklanecircle@yahoo.co.uk. Click

Tears in Bengal and the Smiling Nabobs

A play for December 2021

The year, 2021, is very significant for Bangladeshis everywhere. It is the fiftieth year of the creation of Bangladesh.

Most people in Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Diaspora around the world, for anniversary remembrance, will focus on events and activities that unfolded during the nine-month war of liberation in 1971.

Any comments and feedback on the proposed project will be appreciated. Please email your response to bricklanecircle@yahoo.co.uk. Click