Facing East

About the project

Taking place during Spring to Autumn 2008, The Facing East project will produce a ‘portrait’ of the community living in Bromley by Bow. Young people, old people, people with disabilities, Bangladeshi, English, Somali, Irish, Afro-Caribbean; Facing East is recording individual’s stories, assembling a temporary museum of personal objects on the Three Mills Island Heritage Site, and creating a series of high-quality, individual, photographic portraits and audio recordings for potential broadcast.

The project will be a celebration of the heritage of this diverse community and an opportunity for learning and sharing in the context of the past and present, and a history of migration and the far-reaching changes now taking place locally and across East London. The individual portraits will be displayed and made accessible through the media, a dedicated website, brochure, an exhibition at Three Mills and potentially large-scale posters and projections; and will be a way that the diverse community and heritage is identified and celebrated not just in Bromley by Bow, but across London and more widely.

Bromley by Bow Centre

Facing East is an Art Force project for Bromley by Bow Centre, a pioneering charity led by the community to regenerate the local area and support individual and community development.