Something that I have been meaning to do for a while to organise some kind of a society which includes all types of Asian people as this has been something which I have found quite difficult to locate within Leeds. As well as this I haven't been able to find any Bengali people whilst I've been in Leeds so I thought that by organising an event with the SU would be a great way to find other creative Asian people who I can be assimilated with culture-wise. I had spoken to Joe from the SU a few times and he had said there were a few people who had approached on a similar topic of starting up an Asian network and if I would be interested in working with them, so I had set a date that was available in the SU and created some poster designs which would promote an initial meet up.
I decided to include imagery which would make the event as open as possible to different in a variety of Asian cultures without going down any typical stereotypical routes.
The first poster design includes current and prominent individuals for different backgrounds acting on social and political change - especially with things I can relate to so I had included three people being:
- Malala Yousafzai
- Nadir Nahdi
- Christine Sun Kim
The second design was developed from something which is recognisable in Asian culture - being known for good food so with this in mind I had chosen to illustrate a Mango and to enlarge this illustration and duplicate it across the poster as I had noticed at the time that a lot of illustrative posters seemed to be gaining traction and attention.
I had received quite a bit of interest whilst putting up these posters as well as posting about it on my personal Instagram from peers being interested in what the event could entail but after having the first meeting only one other person had attended- which was quite disheartening as I was expecting a bigger turnout asking people to share the word.
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