Bangladesh Cyclone Relief: Fund-Raising Dinner

  - At the Kashmir Curry Centre, Spital Hill, Sheffield S3, At 6pm on Sunday 16 th of December 07

The poorest of the poor communities in Bangladesh have had the misfortune of experiencing a second major natural disaster in the space of less than five months this year. Thousands have been made homeless and entire communities have been wiped out. People desperately need your help to be able to get basic medicines, shelter food and clothing. The situation of children, women, and the elderly is particularly desperate.

The management of the Kashmir Curry Centre has kindly agreed to host this fund raising meal. The cost of the meal (a three course Thali meal, with meat and veg options) is £12 per head and the curry centre will donate half of this i.e. £6 per meal to the relief fund. The money will be given to the Oxfam South Yorkshire Bangladesh Cyclone Relief Fund

PLEASE COME AND JOIN US IN THE SUPPORT OF VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND THE SUFFERING PEOPLE OF BANGLADESH – Bring Friends and Families along – Also an opportunity to network with other like minded persons.

Please let us know on 0114 2756815 or 2812320 and speak to Juthsna Begum or Yasmin Ahmed or Amineh Salehi to confirm. A pre-booking by phone or email will be greatly appreciated ( spatc@hotmail.com )

The Event is Sponsored by Sheffield Positive Action Training Consortium (SPAT-C). in partnership with local Bangladeshi community and SHEBEEN (Sheffield Black and Ethnic minority Environmental Network).

The ‘Explosion of colours' Art Exhibition at SPAT-C from 9 th November to 16 th November 06, celebrates the artistic skills that refugee communities bring to their new homeland. The artistic creations of Meghedi & Maryam, two young Iranian women artists, adds new vibrancy to community artistic endeavours in Sheffield .

Sheffield Positive Action Training Consortium is pleased to host - an exhibition of water-colour and oil paintings by young artists from New Arrival communities From 9 th – 16 th November 2006 at the SPAT-C, SYAC Centre (Room 11) Exhibition Launch by the Lord Mayor, Cllr. Jackie Drayton, will be at 12.30 p.m. on the 9 th November. The exhibition continues up to the 16 th (daily from 1.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.). Entry free. The range of lovely paintings are choreographed under separate themes such as ‘Violet: the Life of Flowers', ‘the Colour of Rain' and ‘Bahaar - Spring'. The art-work of the young Iranian artistes Maryam Mashayekhi and Meghedi Esmaili beautifully captures the exuberance of visual styles and images that are uniquely Persian, and a pleasure to look at. Contact: SPAT-C, C/o SYAC Centre, 120 Wicker, Sheffield S3 8JD Tel: Amineh on 0114 2812320 http://www.spatc.org

The COMPASS of Horror International Film Festival

October 28 th to November 9 th 2006

SPAT-C provided critical capacity building support to a group of young people to develop their programme activities and a film enterprise (Compass Film Intl ltd) which has made remarkable progress in the short space of months. They are now poised to put on their first ever Film Festival on the genre of ‘horror films' at some of the most prestigious venues in Bristol . The festival will showcase the best of horror films from across the globe ( Japan : ‘Rampo Noir'; Canada : ‘Ginger Snaps', ‘Nigeria End of the Wicked' and England : ‘The Dust Devil'

In attendance will be top most film artist and film directors from Japan , Nigeria , Canada and Sweden as well as film academics from Brunell University , University of Bristol , and University of West England .

The film presentations have been marketed in a way so as to attract diverse audiences, rather than the usual horror film buffs, so as to widen audience participation of films from across the globe. Each film is followed by a discussion session between the audience, academics, and actors and directors present.

SPAT-C inconjunction with the Refugee Housing Assocation participated in a multi-cultural refugee event held at Hillsborough Park, Sheffield on 19th June 2004

SPAT-C Stall - N Walayat - Finance Manager, and M Dickson - Events Co-ordinator	More indian dance

Face Painting for children	Open air and tent based activities

Sheffield Mayor Lord visits SPAT-C Women in Development Programme (funded by the Home Office / EU) and discuss the role that SPAT-C plays in the community.

From left to right – (Diane Tottle – SPAT-C Environment Project, Diane Leek - Sheffield Lord Mayor, Bernadette Grocock – SYAC Centre Manager, Amineh Salehi – SPAT-C Refugee Officer)

Satish Sachdeva – SPAT-C Chief Executive jokingly complains about male exclusion, claiming that the hard work he does for the women & development, should entitle him to being designated an honorary woman.

Black History Month Celebrated by SPAT-C on 6th of November 2003

Held every year in Britain is to

• Promote knowledge of Black History and experience
• Disseminate information on positive Black contributions to British Society
• Heighten the confidence and awareness of Black people in their cultural heritage.

The origins of BHM go back to 1926 when Carter G Woodson, editor for thirty years of the Journal of Negro History, established African Caribbean celebrations in America. It is still celebrated there in February each year. In Britain, the BHM has now grown to over 1400 events.

SPAT-C and fellow tenant agencies as well as the Centre managers opened up their rooms and offices to publicise their activities and services in the context of black history.

Tree Planting - By SPAT-C Environment Project Officers, Maxwell Ayamba and Diane Tottle, around the SYAC Centre Building. Also featuring SPAT-C Staff member Anne Wells, and volunteer Miriam Nekukar.   Children from the Centre nursery helped plant flower blumbs around the centre.

Various displays and presentations promoting Black and Carribean History were staged

A Large Wall Murial painted by the SPAT-C Resident Artist - Vahid Sabaghian - depicting the various agencies that are resident in the centre, which include SPAT-C - (Projected supported by the Home office, European Union and LSC).

From 12pm Friday 21st November 2003
to 5pm Tuesday 25 November 2003.

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SYAC Centre - Room 12, , 120 Wicker, Sheffield S3

&
SPAT-C, The Forum House, Spital Hill, Sheffield S3

The exhibition organised by SPAT-C will have on display the exquisite paintings capturing the natural beauty of the Middle-Eastern Diaspora, and its cultural heritage. This in turn has impacted and influenced later day artistic styles and traditions in different parts of the world.

Vahid Sabaghian, the SPAT-C resident artist, is an asylum seeker himself, and his work is a sharp reminder of the immense talents that reside in the asylum seeker and refugee communities, often rarely acknowledged by society.

Also on display the work of SPAT-C trainees, taught by Vahid on the SPAT-C course on ‘Art as Therapy’ group and the ‘environmental art’ training group.

Further information, contact Amineh Salehi on 0114 2756815 / 2812320

SPAT-C’ s Women in Development Project which aims to Empower women for life organised an outing for mainly refugee and asylum seeker women to endcliffe park.

Mariam (left) – I really enoyed the day out, I felt very safe in the group in Endcliffe park, where I had not been before, despite having lived in Sheffield for 2 years

Womens Day Trip to Castleton

Two SPAT-C projects organised a day-trip to Castleton - 'Women in Development' and SHEBEEN (Sheffield Black and Ethnic Minority Environmental Network) - Support by SEED Fund and Home Office, European Union

The day trip to Castleton (Derbyshire) was organised to make refugee and asylum seeker women develop an appreciation for natural beauty of the Yorkshire environment and also develop an appreciation for stewardship of the environment.

The day-trip took in Castleton and its surround area, as well as a visit to the Peak and Speedwell Caverns.

Jezeria (an asylum seeker woman)- 'I have never seen caves such as these they were wonderful, and that the English countryside could be so diverse, I wish to thank the organisers of this trip'. The participants showed great appreciation for this event which was partly funded by the Home Office Purposeful Activities Program.