Local artisans preserve culture through apprenticeships, showcase work at Lowell Folk Festival
Eight groups of craftspeople are working to save their traditions by passing the torch to younger learners.
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Eight groups of craftspeople are working to save their traditions by passing the torch to younger learners.
The donation will allow the initiative to add courses on Uyghur culture and identity, expand faculty research and grow the Uyghur Studies Initiative.
The Chinese state has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up the suffering of Uyghur women.
With every aspect of Uyghur life under threat in Xinjiang, China, young Uyghurs in the diaspora have rallied to connect with their culture and each other.
Roar writer Dania Quadri reviews a Walthamstow restaurant, Etles Uyghur Restaurant. A few months ago, while poring over articles about the Uyghur genocide, I realised I knew very little about Uyghur culture. If the aim of genocide is to wipe away a peoples’ culture and identity, then internalising and documenting a cultural experience would be my very small way of doing something to preserve Uyghur culture. I decided that this first cultural experience would be related to food, and I used Instagram to connect with the Uyghur community in London. My search lead me to Zulfukar Ablikim on Inst...