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A message of thanks to Deri Lamb and Bethan King

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Habesha Business Association

For the last 8 months EAC as been working closely with various members of the Ethiopian and Eritrean community to establish a community based business support group.

Now we are set to launch this business advisory group under the name 'Habesha Business Association' on 27 August 2008 7pm at John Barnes library.

The Impossible Journey

Ethiopian art centre UK set to launch its exhibition entitled 'The Impossible Journey' in Cardiff, Wales on 2nd September 2008. The exhibition will be touring throughout UK.

Refugee week

To celebrate the Refugee week, Ethiopian art centre UK, and Butetown history and art centre will be displaying in gallery 2 a documentary photograph of Yosef Haimanot 'The Impossible Journey' for one week 2 from 16th to 21 June.

Ethiopian Night 2008

A night of Ethiopian Culture with a Welsh twist.

21st June at Mackintosh Centre, Cardiff from 7:30pm (download a flyer).

Please keep on donating to us to help us educate the Ethiopian people for free.

Ethiopian Night 2008

A night of Ethiopian Culture with a Welsh twist.

21st June at Mackintosh Centre, Cardiff from 7:30pm.

See images of this beautiful country and eat injera, the national dish of Ethiopia, with us and enjoy exciting traditional Ethiopian music and dancing.

Ethiopian night is designed to raise awareness of Ethiopian culture and values all proceeds will go towards establishing a free college in Ethiopia it is our intention to help the Ethiopian people through education development, through education is the key to the eradication of poverty. We are committed life-long-learning.

For further information contact Zoe Moore on 0777 9640 643.

Mothersland screening

EACUK film Club will be showing a film by Victoria Trofimenko and Yosef Haimanot, "Mothersland", on Wednesday 30th April 2008 at 7pm at Menilik Restaurant, 277 Caledoia Road, Kings Cross, London N1 3EF.

Ethiopian Restaurant Group

The Ethiopian Restaurant Group is set to meet on 7th April 2008 at 7pm. The location and agenda of the meeting will be published soon.

Open for business

EACUK film Club will be showing a film by Nikodimos Fikru, "The Nanny", on Wednesday 26th March 2008 at 7pm at Minilik Restaurant, 277 Caledoia Road, Kings Cross, London N1 3EF.

Ethiopian Art Centre UK will be closed from 17th Jan to 19th Feb 2008 while we work on the documentary film and art exhibition "The Impossible Journey."

Deri and Bethan raise money for EAC

Deri Lamb and Bethan King are cousins. They left Wales on 18 October 2007 to bike around Spain for 8 months starting with a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in the north. They hope to raise money to set up an Ethiopian Arts Centre in Ethiopia (a sister to the one already established in London), which will provide art and photography courses free of charge to young Ethiopians.

Keep up to date with their progress at deriandbethan.blogspot.com

The Struggle to Survive

Our current exhibition is, 'The Struggle to Survive' which is part of Black History Month. The exhibition is open from 11 October – 22 November 2007.

A life long journey of black Africans from African to the Caribbean.

This project was filmed and photographed by Film Ltd for the Ethiopian art centre UK.

This exhibition is a combination of moving images and photographic documentation of the struggle to survive which black Africans were subject to inside the sugar plantations of the Caribbean in the heyday of slavery. The exhibition highlights the relationship between the slaves and their owners, as we travel through the black African life long journey from their own homeland to the Caribbean in dreadful and unspeakable conditions witnessing, their endless physical, mental and emotional tortures.

Arts Council of Wales supports The Impossible journey

EACUK is delighted to announce that the Arts Council of Wales has awarded it a grant to support the project 'The Impossible journey.'

Due to the Ethiopian Millennium in September, EACUK will be closed from 25th of August until the first week October 2007. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.

New River Festival

EACUK is on the road to promote the Art Centre. EAC set up a small exhibition at the New River Festival, Enfield, on Sunday 8th of July 2007. The exhibition went down well.

Discounts for members

EACUK is delighted to announce that Addis LINK, Mobile Hut, Selamta beer and photograph shop, Southgate, has agreed to give a ten percent discount for EACUK members.

Training programme

Thanks to everyone who took part on the production of Message of Hope for the Ethiopian people. Now we have completed filming the the 'Message of Hope' and we are just about to starting cutting the film.

We have awarded grant from the national lottery to provided a basic training programme in still images to our community and we are looking forward to working with the wider communities to make this programme a success.

All the information regarding the training programme will be posted on our website soon. For further information please contact the Ethiopian Art Centre UK directly.

Message of Hope

Ethiopian Art Centre UK is now filming Message of Hope, which is going to be screened here in London and Ethiopia and on our website.

If anyone is willing to be filmed with their message of Hope for Ethiopian people, please contact us as soon as possible. Filming will take place over the next four weeks weeks, until 22th of April 2007.

EACUK receives support from The National Lottery

EACUK has been awarded a grant through Awards For All to provide a basic training programme in photography for the Ethiopian communities here in the UK.

The Unkown World opening

The Unkown World opening at Ethiopian Art Centre UK was attended by Henry Lamprecht, Councillor for Southgate Green. View images from the opening.

The Forgotten Children

Ethiopian Art Centre UK was officially opened by the Deputy Mayor of Enfield on the 26th of October, 2006, with the launch of an exhibition of photographs entitled The Forgotten Children. Pictures from the opening.

Visit by David Burrowes, MP

David Burrowes, MP for Enfield Southgate, came to visit the recently opened arts centre. View photos.

Arts Centre opening

The first step of Ethiopian Art Centre UK has now been completed. We look forward to opening the art centre with Mothersland, the exhibition on 17th August 2006.

The Impossible Journey

EACUK board of directors have decided to give their full support to Yosef Haimanot's latest project, entitled “The Impossible Journey.”

Related links: Synopsis | How to apply

The New Way of Life

We are are just about to start filming EACUK's first television program entitled The New Way of Life. Filming will take place on Sunday 24 June 2006. Please contact us if you would like to be in the audience. Spaces are very limited.

Upcoming events

Ethiopian Art Centre UK will be opening a new art gallery in summer 2006. Contemporary Ethiopian singer Tsedenia Gebremarkos is going to come to perform here in UK late 2006, date and loction to be confirmed.