Join us online, from 6pm till 7.30pm, on Thursday, 25 July 2024 for conversation with artist and IMIX steering group chair, Sadia Sikandar.
Attendance and participation are free and open to all.
To attend, please register here.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Playwright, photographer, refugee rights activist, and IMIX steering group chair, Sadia Sikandar was the first Sanctuary and Culture Artist in Residence at D6 Culture in Transit.
She contributed to the photography project 'Family Events' with Baltic as well as to Curious Monkey's play ‘Home is where the food is’ in 2021, and was the photographer for International Migrants Day events at D6.
Her artwork has been published in places that include the Newcastle College newsletter; Ekō Magazine, founded by students at Goldsmiths University; and by the UK for UNHCR on the theme 'What Home Means'.
Sadia has also been involved in campaigns that include the 23 reasons people seeking asylum should be allowed to work video for the Lift The Ban campaign with Asylum Matters, and was a Refugee Week ambassador for people seeking asylum in 2021.
NETWORK NOTES
On the radical potential of €5
We continue drawing attention to Sunday Lawrence's appeal for support.
Lawrence, a refugee from South Sudan and a second year Law student at the International University of East Africa in Kampala, Uganda, needs to raise €5,256 for tuition and sustenance.
So far, he has raised €3,836 and needs to raise the remaining €1,420.
Perhaps you can spare Lawrence a fiver (€5)?
Regional Forced Migration and The Arts networks
We would like to set up autonomous Forced Migration and The Arts networks to facilitate conversations and indabas in the following regions: Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, North America, the Pacific, and South America.
If you are a refugee or non-refugee artist, academic, activist or art space working in these regions at the intersection where forced migration and the arts meet, and you would like to be part of the steering group in a particular region, please email civicleicester@gmail.com and let us know.
In your email, please include the following details:
- Your name,
- Email address,
- A short bio (about 100 words), and
- A short statement on what you would bring to the steering group and network (about 100 words).
August 2024 Conversations/Indaba
In August, Forced Migration and The Arts takes place on Thursday, the 29th between 2pm and 7.30pm BST.
If you would like to speak as part of the conversation, please let us know through this form.
About Forced Migration and The Arts
Forced Migration and The Arts is an international network that brings together people with lived experience of forced migration, refugee and non-refugee artists, academics, activists and art spaces from around the world.
The network encourages mutual support and collaboration and hosts monthly discussion panels around forced migration and the arts.
A playlist of videos of some of the conversations we have had so far is accessible here.
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