Londoni Memoirs - Family Workshop

A Photographic and Audio-Visual Exhibition by Artist Seema Khalique

LONDONI MEMOIRS: A NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIO-VISUAL EXHIBITION DOCUMENTING THE EXODUS A GENERATION OF BANGLADESHI MIGRANTS FROM WAR AND THEIR HOPES OF A NEW HOME HERE IN THE UK.​​​​

Family Workshops

This workshop is designed for children aged 5 to 16. All children must be accompanied by a family member.

Join artist Seema Khalique for this engaging two-hour creative workshop, presented as part of the Londoni Memoirs exhibition.

Working alongside the Londoni Memoirs team, participants will create their own newspaper inspired by their family's history and personal experiences. This guided session encourages children and their families to explore, celebrate, and share stories that reflect their identity, heritage, and memories.

Participants are asked to bring both historic and recent photographs of themselves, their parents, and grandparents. These images will be incorporated into their newspaper design. Please note that photographs will be scanned during the workshop, and all original images can be taken home at the end of the session.

The completed newspapers will become part of the Londoni Memoirs Archive, an ongoing project dedicated to recording histories and preserving stories that celebrate the richness and diversity of our individual identities and family journeys.

Each booking is for a maximum of 1 child and 1 adult. If you need to book more please contact us.

learn@knockthedoordown.com

Booking is essential.

Exhibition Details

Londoni Memoirs, a new photographic and audio-visual exhibition by Seema Khalique, will open at Four Corners, Bethnal Green, this September. A collection of portraits, curated ephemera, artifacts, heirlooms and video-interviews of 12 Bangladeshi migrants from 1950s-70s, documenting their exodus from genocide during the 1971 liberation war and watching their motherland’s independence from afar while making UK their home.

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Seema Khalique, Artist and Curator:

“This exhibition is personal journey into my family history inspired by the lack of memory of my late father’s early life in the UK and reflects the experience of a whole generation and community where once again we’re asked who we are and where we come from?”

A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO COLLECTIVE MEMORY

The project grew from Seema’s own search for a family history that had largely remained undocumented, especially of her late father’s early life in the UK. He arrived in Britain in 1956, followed by her mother in 1973 after the Bangladesh Liberation War, both in search of a better life.

From this personal starting point, Seema began documenting the experiences of a wider generation - whose lives sit between the histories of liberation and immigration.

For Londoni Memoirs, Khalique has photographed Bangladeshi migrants who arrived in Britain from the 1950s through to the 1970s, capturing them through present day interviews alongside curated ephemera, artifacts and heirlooms.

FROM DISPLACEMENT TO BELONGING

The heart of Londoni Memoirs is the experience of a generation caught between two defining moments: escaping genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War and establishing a new life in an unfamiliar foreign country.

The exhibition considers how this experience helped shape not only British Bangladeshi identity, but also the country as a whole through the generations born in Britain afterwards.

Londoni Memoirs seeks to honour a generation whose contribution was pivotal in the development of the multicultural society that exists in the UK today.

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Exhibiting at Four Corners, 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 0QN

Running from Friday 18 September – Friday 10 October 2026

Gallery Opening Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm

Admission: FREE

Londoni Memoirs is made possible with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.