Join us to celebrate International Migrants Day with Hackney author and film maker Eithne Nightingale. Eithne will be joined by Linh Vu and Maurice Nwokeji to discuss her book Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s – Present Day.

Linh Vu escaped Vietnam by boat with her father and arrived in UK in 1979, aged seven, leaving her mother and siblings in Saigon. The family reunited in Hackney five years later. Linh studied architecture, ran a Vietnamese restaurant and is helping on an architectural project on the south coast with her husband.

Maurice Nwokeji survived bombs and hunger in the war in Biafra before joining his parents in Hackney, aged nine, in 1970. He is now a reggae musician and will perform music inspired by his childhood experiences of war.

There will also be the screening of a film, made with Mitch Harris, part of the award-winning series Child Migrant Stories www.childmigrantstories.com followed by book sales and signing.

This event is organised by Hackney Libraries in partnership with Welcome Hackney (Hackney's Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seeker Team) and takes place on Wednesday 18th December - International Migrants Day.