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Launch
Event Details
"A
Sense of Place" is a programme of events focusing
on refugees and the arts, backed by the British Council and Cardiff
2008, which will culminate in an international conference in November
2003 in Cardiff.
The Launch Event features
performances and presentations by four refugees (three living in
Swansea, one in Cardiff), as well as introducing a range of arts
projects with refugees across Wales.
Please email helen.abell@britishcouncil.org
if you wish to attend.
Date: April 14th
2003
Time: 11.30am - 1.30pm
Location: The Old Library, Cardiff
PROGRAMME
Welcome - Steve Garrett
(Event Manager, A Sense of Place)
Opening Remarks
Tony Deyes (Director, British Council Wales)
Yvette Vaughan Jones (Cardiff 2008)
Cherry Short (Commissioner and Chair, Commission for Racial Equality,
Welsh Committee)
A Sense of Place -
An Introduction
Poppy Szaybo (Director: A Sense of Place), outlines the aims, context
& programme of the conference in November.
Video Shorts:
* Journeys In Between - documentation from a recent British Council
conference looking at the arts and their role in the integration
of asylum seekers.
* Anahita Alikhani - an Iranian refugee making a film about the
experiences of asylum seekers in her current home town of Swansea.
* BBC Wales Digital Storytelling Project - and how it has engaged
with refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.
Performances:
* Poetry recital: Eric Charles (Cameroon)
* Reading: Max Kbakio (Liberia)
* Drumming: Kabelo Madonko (Zambia)
(All artists are recently arrived refugees based in Wales)
A Sense of Place - Projects Launch
An introduction to some of the activities which will take place
in the lead up to the conference, aiming to inform and focus some
of the issues to be raised.
* Multicultural Sculpture
Project - Adams Court Reception Centre
(in collaboration with Cardiff and District Multicultural Arts Development
- CADMAD)
* Cardiff/Swansea Schools Video Project
(In partnership with Undercurrents )
* Cardiff/Belgrade Internet Radio Link Project
(In partnership with the B92 broadcasting station, Serbia)
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