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Academi invites you to an:

English and Kurdish Poetry Evening
with Choman Hardi

On Thursday 22 May 2008, 6.30 pm
In Glanfa Wales Millennium Centre
Free Entry

Contemporary Kurdish poet, translator and painter, Choman Hardi was born in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan. After being forced to flee her home on a number of occasions Choman arrived in United Kingdom in 1993 as a refugee and studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford and University College London. She has published three volumes of poetry in Kurdish and her first collection of English poetry, Life for Us was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2004.

Choman will be joined on stage by members of the Arabic Cultural Poetry Society

Choman Hardi is visiting schools in Cardiff Bay as part of Academi’s mother tongue initiative which has funding from the BBC’s Children in Need fund. This project allows pupils to work in their mother tongue and also introduces poetry from other countries and cultures to pupils and teachers in the Bay schools. Choman will work in Kurdish and English and follows on from other practitioners this year who have worked in Arabic and Bengali.

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