Uyghur Art Exhibition & Music Party

Uyghur Association UK

E-mail: uyghurassociation@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 0044(0) 7833 943 522, 079 030 414 77

Dear All

To celebrate the establishment of the Uyghur Association UK, we invite you to a Uyghur Art Exhibition & Music Party

June 18th (Saturday) 2005, 2pm-10pm

Address: THE Hub, 123 Star Lane, Canning Town, London E16 4PZ

(Getting THE hub: Tube- Canning Town Station > to the Jubilee Line, Silverlink and DLR. Bus- viaA3 and A102)

The Uyghur Art exhibition will display three Uyghur artists’ paintings. Merwayit Hapiz – a prominent Uyghur woman artist based in Germany. Akbar Mijit - a deceased Uyghur artist formerly resident in London. Umarjan Karimov – a refugee Uyghur artist from Kyrgyzstan, now living in London, and president of the Uyghur Association UK., A Uyghur Music Group associated with the Uyghur Association UK will perform Uyghur music and dance. We offer free food & drinks for all guests.

We would like remind you about the following day’s event when the Uyghur Association UK will take part in the London 2005 Sanctuary Festival on the Thames South Bank for the first time. The Uyghur Music Group will perform from 2:00 pm to 2:45pm on 19th June (Sunday). We have invited professional Uyghur musicians from Holland to perform at the festival, alongside amateur refugee musicians resident in the UK. Please come and enjoy a sunny Sunday watching our performance. The event takes place at: Coin Street Festival, Oxo Tower Wharf, Thames South Bank. London SE 1 9PH.


Yours Sincerely
Umarjan Karimov (President)
Aziz Isa (General Secretary)

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The Uyghur Association UK is the sole legal representative organization for Uyghur refugees (exiles) living in the UK. We organise community and cultural events. We campaign to bring Uyghur voices to the British government and British people regarding the ongoing gross human rights violations in East Turkistan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, P.R. China). We co-operate with human rights organisations. We lobby governments to apply pressure to stop the Chinese government’s abusive policies towards the Uyghurs.