GOAN FESTIVAL – SUNDAY 27th JULY 2014

CRANFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
High Street, Cranford, Hounslow, Middlesex TW5 9PD

Goan Festival Poster 2014

Please abide by the following rules:

NO FOOD, DRINKS INCLUDING ALCOHOL ARE ALLOWED ON THE PREMISES.
Bags and cars will be searched and any unauthorised items will be CONFISCATED & DISPOSED. Searches will also include stall-holders’ vehicles. Only food for special dietary requirements will be permissible.

Support our caterers as the Goan Festival is not a “picnic”.

By law, the Bar has the authority to refuse to serve anyone whom they feel has consumed over an excessive amount of alcohol.

Please deposit litter in the bins provided.

No animals or pets other than guide dogs will be permitted on the premises.

Entrance to the Festival is charged at £5.00 per person. Children under 16 are free. Proof of age may be required.
PLEASE BRING EXACT MONEY – this will reduce queuing time at the gate. If you are exiting the premises and wish to return, please ensure you notify the security gate personnel.

There is ample parking for cars and coaches on the premises. Cars will be charged at a full day’s rate at £5.00 per car

PLEASE BRING EXACT MONEY – this will reduce queuing time at the gate
Parking Is At Your Own Risk – The Goan Association are not responsible for damage or theft to vehicles or vehicle contents

PLEASE DO NOT PARK IN THE NEARBY RESIDENTIAL STREETS OR IN THE GROUNDS OF NEARBY BUSINESSES including the British Airways Concorde Club.

A “free” shuttle service will operate from Hounslow West Underground Station (Piccadilly Line).

Alternatively, you may travel by tube to Heathrow Terminals (T1,2,3) and
take Bus Route: 105. This bus will stop right outside Cranford Community College.
Bus Routes 105, 111, H28
Trains/Underground
The nearest Underground station is Hounslow West Underground Station, 1.7 miles away on the Piccadilly line. The nearest Railway Train stations are: Southall Station 2miles away and Hayes and Harlington Station 2.1 miles away.

Roads
The venue is located close to Junction 3 (A312) of the M4. The A4 & A30 feed into the A312 and High Street, Cranford crosses over the A312 Parkway. Stewards will be directing traffic to the appropriate Entrance Gate.

A map of the site can be obtained from our website HYPERLINK “http://goauk.com” www.goauk.com or via the following link:-
HYPERLINK “http://maps.google.com/maps?q=TW5+9PD&hl=en&ll=51.494156,-0.402288&spn=0.022978,0.055189&om=1&z=14” http://maps.google.com/maps?q=TW5+9PD&hl=en&ll=51.494156,-0.402288&spn=0.022978,0.055189&om=1&z=14

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:
PLEASE DO NOT BRING ANY PRIVATE ALCOHOL TO THE GOAN FESTIVAL AS SECURITY HAVE BEEN AUTHORISED TO CONDUCT SEARCHES AND CONFISCATE ANY UNAUTHORISED DRINKS

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The book ‘A Railway Runs Through: Goans of British East Africa, 1865—1980’ written by Selma
Carvalho was released by Lib Dem Watford Councillor Rabi Martins, at the HSBC Club,
Beckenham on 3 May, 2014. It is the culmination of a three-year project funded by the
Heritage Lottery Fund, UK, under the aegis of the Goan Association (UK). The main objective
of the awarded project was to record and archive the oral histories of those Goans who had
migrated to Britain in the wake of Africanisation policies and expulsions, post-independence.

The history of Goans in British East Africa is quite distinct from that of other Indians. Closely
allied with the British Civil Services, they were predominant in the Provincial administration.
Their earlier role as intrepid entrepreneurs is now largely forgotten and this book hopes to
reclaim these aspects of Goan history which have obscured with time. By awarding the grant,
Britain has claimed this history as part of its national narrative, in its ever widening sphere of
minority inclusion.

Collating three years of interviews and intensive archival research, Project Manager and
author, Selma Carvalho, says we now have robust documentation which should be of great
interest to the general public as well as to academics.

The Goan migration to British East Africa became pronounced from the last quarter of the
19th century. From 1865 onwards, along Portuguese Street in Zanzibar which by then is the
most crucial port in the Indian Ocean trade route, is a sprouting of Goan butcheries, bakeries
and ship chandlers providing fresh meat, vegetables and our to the ships docked nearby. By
this time, the Goan’s future destiny is firmly tied to Britain, rather than Portugal, in a
relationship which survives to this day. Britain’s Empire of the Seas, makes possible an
intricate network of naval and land relationships, which the Goan takes advantage of. Not for
the first time, the Goans’ lack of inhibition in handling meat, particularly beef and pork, sets
him apart from other Asians, along with his rather peculiar ability to play the jovial host in
the ‘grog-shops’ he runs along Zanzibar’s coast, selling contra-band German whiskey to
English sailors. These bar-cum-provision stores become the focal point of British colonial life,
where in the absence of clubs or other forms of entertainment, they gather in the darkened
rooms, after sun down. The tiny, tin-shanty shops become large, airy retail stores, providing
‘every description of goods used by Europeans.’ And so, the Goan and the Briton are drawn
together in an intimate dance of dependency, which deepens as the British push forward into
Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala, Entebbe and Dar es Salaam.