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Led by community development organisation Europia, the project will focus on food and place. A group of people will meet regularly to explore traditional cooking practices to help them create a cookbook that will be shared with the wider community.
The book will include Roma recipes, cultural stories and Romani dialects that highlight the various communities that have settled across Europe. The final recipe book will be made available at various venues including local libraries and through Roma networks.
Local people will be invited to join sessions to learn about Roma culture and food with the aim of increasing opportunities for integration, learning and inclusion.
Europia will work with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre to train volunteers in oral history skills so that they can collect stories from local Roma people.
The project will host traditional arts and craft workshops and an exhibition that displays the stories collected throughout the project. The work will be donated to the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education RACE Centre where it will become a permanent archive collection and will be made available to researchers.
