Screening
Memories of Brick Lane
14 Jul 2022
Four Corners
London, United Kingdom
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© Paul Trevor. Outside Bethnal Green police station, London, 17 July 1978. Sit down protest, demanding the release of two arrested demonstrators.
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© Paul Trevor. Hyde Park, London W2, 14 May 1978. Altab Ali’s coffin departs for Downing Street
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©Paul Trevor. Brick Lane, London E1, 17 July 1978. Bangladesh Youth Movement Against racism march.
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©Paul Trevor. Adler Street, London E1, 14 May 1978. The start of the march behind Altab Ali’s coffin from Whitechapel to Hyde Park, organised by the Action Committee Against Racial Attacks.
Exhibition
Brick Lane 1978
10 Jun 2022 – 10 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 121 Roman Road
- London
- E2 0QN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: D6, 8,
- Tube: Bethnal Green
- Train: Bethnal Green
Event map
We're delighted to present an exhibition celebrating East London's Bengali activists of 1978.
About
10 June - 10 September
Free Entry | No booking required
Gallery hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 11am – 6pm
Closed on Mondays and Sundays
This exhibition reveals the dramatic events which were sparked by the racist murder of Altab Ali, a 24-year-old Bengali leather garments worker, and pays tribute to the activists who mobilised around the rallying cry of justice that followed.
Local East End photographer Paul Trevor documented how members of the local Bengali community endured racial abuse as a constant factor of everyday life, and the moment at which they mobilised against racist violence and institutional police racism. The exhibition brings together 75 of Trevor’s photographs for the first time, alongside oral history recordings by original activists.
The show marks the culmination of a major heritage project led by Four Corners and Swadhinata Trust, in partnership with Paul Trevor. With the help of volunteers and original activists, the project is creating a record of this watershed moment as told by local people. The exhibition, alongside project oral history interviews, short films and podcasts, will be available as a touring show, and will be lodged at the Bishopsgate Institute Archives.
