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Activities
We address Asian Women's varied needs through;
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| Seminars |
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| Workshops |
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| Symposiums |
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| Literary Activites |
Previous Activities
We have organised conferences, seminars, stage plays and workshops in the following areas;
- Domestic violence & Mental Health
- Drug awareness
- Physical disability
- Depression
- Pre-Menstrual Stress Syndrome
- Communication Problems between Parents & Young People
- Forced Marriages
AaGhee has participated in Readers and Writers Festivals and National Poetry days.
A creative writing project was funded by the national year of reading in 1998. As a result of 14 bilingual workshops, an anthology of young Asian Women Writers in Birmingham was compiled and launched by the then Lord mayor of Birmingham Susan Anderson.
Click here to view pictures from these events.
Literary workshops were facilitated by:
- David Hart - Birmingham Ex-Poet Laureate
- Adeem Hashmi
- Cybil Ruth - Birmingham Ex-Poet Laureate
- Talat Saleem
- Razia Ismail
- Satinder Kohli
- Judy Tweddle
In other literary events famous Pakistani poets Adeem Hashmi, Saleem Kauser, Dr Shahnaz Muzammil & Farhat Abbas Shah were introduced to the local Urdu poetry lovers.
Poets from London, Nottingham, Bradford, Birmingham and Coventry took part in the various literary events.
Participants of other social and cultural activities included
- Dr Furrakh Hussain (Canterbury)
- Dr Safat Alvi (Bradford)
- Dr Shamim Qureshi
- Dr Farhat Hafeez
- Dr Yasmeen Qureshi
- Dr Eva Pasha
- Sobia Irfan
- Naila Ahmed
- Nayyar Janjua
- Dr V Saeeda
- Dr Mamoona Sultan (Pakistan)
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