Somali Week Festival 2008
Thursday, 9 October . Wednesday 15 October

 

Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG



Oxford House in Bethnal green in partnership with REDSEA-ONLINE.COM Language Culture and Heritage Foundation; Halabuur Centre for Culture and Communication in the Horn (HCCC); Africa Voluntary Youth Committee (HAVOYOCO) and range of national, international and local community organisations is pleased to present the Somali Week Festival as a part of Black History Month.

Attracting over 2,000 people, the festival offers the best of Somali culture from old and new through an eclectic mix of events including, poetry, literature and music. This year.s Somali Week Festival will focus on the Somali concept of 'GOBANNIMO'. Gobannimo is a very complex word and has a broad meaning including freedom and liberty, but also implying a dignified, coherent, independent, giving, tolerant, and respectful approach. In other words, it encompasses all that is good and achievable by free and responsible human beings. Gobannimo has an inherent sense of reaching an ultimate state of human responsibility and thus is very relevant to the interlinked notions of citizenship and freedom. Although it relates to personal development and individual dignity it is also at the heart of the many strands of current social and political thought which will be explored through art and literature.



 
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Join us at the exceptional festival in order to celebrate and explore the uniqueness of Somali art and culture.
For more information about the Festival.s Programme, call Ayan Mahamoud, the Festival Coordinator on 020 7749 1140 or e-mail: ayan.mahamoud@oxfordhouse.org.uk