This booklet offers simple guidance on how local individuals, charities and groups in the UK can help welcome refugees into our communities. It explains some of the issues surrounding the process with materials and input from groups around the country.
People across the country have been getting in touch with us to ask how they can help refugees feel part of their community. Elaine Connelly, Interim Communities Manager at Scottish Refugee Council and Ahlam Souidi Chair of the community group Uniting Nations in Scotland, give some suggestions on how you can welcome refugees.
The difference between teaching and critical pedagogy is vital to Handel Kashope Wright: ‘Critical pedagogy brings to the floor issues of social identity’ revealing where power resides and inequalities are preserved. ‘Multiculturalism’, ‘anti-racism’… terms often used without their cultural and historical meaning. Listen to Handel talk about how different politics, peoples, places intersect…
Carry out a simple act to support refugees.
Platforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts by, about and with refugees and migrants from marginalised communities.
Learning Lab Editions is where we share our learning in the form of freely accessible resources: including films, audio, interviews (both short and longer form) and on video/podcast and transcribed. You can also access critical essays, working papers, project case studies and reviews (both long and short).
On 12 February 2018, over 250 people from across the UK gathered to share ideas and inspiration in preparation for the special 20th anniversary edition of Refugee Week (18-24 June 2018). Find here some notes and resources from the six workshops that were held during the conference.
Conversations About Cinema: Impact of Conflict (Jan – July 2015) opened up discussions around a universal theme through film screenings, events and online publishing. It connected audiences, cinemas and partners across the BFI Film Audience Network, focusing on South West & West Midlands, Wales and Northern Ireland.
CREATE Film Festival was a project from multi-award winning organisation In Place of War, that looked at creativity in sites of conflict through the eyes of some of the world’s most daring and innovative filmmakers.
WOW Women’s Film Club runs female-friendly daytime screenings and mixed-gender evening events. Their events enable minority ethnic women, young people and communities across Cardiff and Swansea watch films in affordable and accessible spaces – with childcare, transport and refreshments taken care of.
