Butetown History & Arts Centre
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found: Cymru ddu: hanes pobl dduon Cymru = Black Wales: a history of black Welsh people, 2005:t.p. (Butetown History & Arts Centre = Canolfan Hanes a Chelf Butetown)
found: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki website, International Symposium: Personal narratives, 2016, viewed October 3, 2021:Speakers (Dr. Glenn Jordan; recently retired from his post as Reader in Cultural Studies and Creative Practice at the University of South Wales; founding director of Butetown History & Arts Centre)
found: Wikipedia, October 3, 2021(Butetown History and Arts Centre; BHAC; a historical archive, educational centre and art gallery located in the Butetown area of Cardiff, Wales in 1988, founded by Glenn Jordan as a non-profiting organisation with the aim to involve local people to promote the area's history of the docklands; Butetown (previously known as Tiger Bay) was one of the UK's oldest multi-racial communities; by 2005 the centre had collected 450 hours of oral history and 3,000 photographs, as well as paintings and sculptures by local artists; visual and performing arts were an import part of BHAC's work; the centre ran the Diversity Arts Wales (DAW) programme, funded by the Arts Council of Wales; in May 2016 the centre's committee announced that they had to close BHAC because of a lack of new funding; the centre was reported as closed in December 2017; much of their archive material has been transferred to The Heritage & Cultural Exchange)
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2005-05-05: new
2021-10-05: revised
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