Compass Collective look towards a new year. As we closed our workshops and the year came to an end, it is hard to believe that we have been meeting online, on zoom, for the majority of 2020. A year that at the beginning marked the new decade and for Compass Collective, a year of exciting […]
Are you passionate about making changes in your community? Are you creative and interested in drama? Are you confident, friendly, and a team player? Are you aged 18-30 with a refugee background? Phosphoros Theatre keen to hear from London-based people who would like to join their workshop delivery team, with opportunities for involvement in our […]
By Fernando Battista I’m a dancer, dancemovement therapist, choreograph and I work with migrants people, asylum seekers and Italian high schools students in Rome. My research at Roma Tre University concern the educational field. In particular, I use dance, dance, movement therapy, theatre and artistic languages to bring Italian student’s and migrant people, coming from […]
Marlborough Theatre in Brighton are hosting This Is Who I Am by the theatre company ice&fire next Friday 7th February at 7.30pm as part of their New Queers on the Block programme. This Is Who I Am interweaves first hand accounts of LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of the UK asylum process – collected over many months […]
Ava Hunt explains the story behind a new play coming to Derby for Refugee Week As we will all remember, the summer of 2016 was a series of shocking events, when; Joe Cox, Labour MP, was murdered, when Brexit was decided, Cameron resigned, Theresa May was elected against a backdrop of images of 10,000 refugees […]
By Vandana Hart The UNHCR has reported that more than 1 million Syrian refugees have been registered in Lebanon since 2016. Many of these youth do not have access to education, arts, or sports activities in the camps. Through the power of dance, we seek to unite people, transform lives and promote social change. Offering […]
By Isabel Lyster In the kitchen three children are cooking up a storm, as they cook they remember familiar flavours and begin to unravel magical folktales from around the world. Weaving together innovative puppetry, storytelling and live music Three Suns tells three stories from three different continents- from the Caribbean, to Europe, to the Middle […]
Nicolas Salazar Sutil outlines Dance For Life, a project led by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries (University of Leeds), in partnership with Ndamsena Association (Chad) What is Pas en Avant? Arguably it is a pedagogy of life, for life. Developed by Chadian social artist and choreographer Taigue Ahmed, Pas en Avant is the […]
Welcome to the UK, the new show by the team that made the brilliant Borderline satire on the Calais Jungle, opens at the Bunker Theatre on 22nd Jan. Check out the BBC News interview with Baraa Halabieh and Sophie Besse Photo by Jose Farinha
By Stephen Burke My theatre company recently researched and mounted an inaugural tour of a new play. Commissioned by Migration Yorkshire the play is called How to be Lucky and it is the result of research carried out with Syrians being resettled to the UK, specifically Yorkshire. The production had been designed with age 15-19 […]
When every citizen is ordered to return to their place of birth, Where We Began examines where we could end up. The UK’s first Theatre Company of Sanctuary, Stand and Be Counted present a wild and vivid vision of the future, combining storytelling, movement and live music. Five performers from across the globe challenge existing notions […]
Women only dance workshops – call for participants, London The workshops will be led by members of Hawiyya Dance Co. and are open to all women in support of refugee women. Food and travel costs will be covered for refugee women. Please get in touch to register as places are limited. The workshops will take […]
An interview with Tessa Bide about her new one-woman show ahead of its UK tour How did you come to start making A Strange New Space? I got the idea for the show when I saw the horrific scenes of the refugee crisis in our media in Autumn 2015. I wanted to use my skills […]
By James Easey The United Nations’ We The Peoples Youth Day at the British Film Institute, on the 18th November, was a hugely important and celebratory day. I was lucky enough to see Lucrezia Pollice’s film I-DENTITY, a film celebrating refugee and migrants contributions to the UK, but also valuing their individual identities as human […]
Lucrezia pollice’s I-dentity workshop was a day of making sculptures, paintings, writing monologues, spoken word and creating music together to explore what Identity means. We started our day with conversations about our journeys to London, both artists and almost every facilitator was not born in London, and only a small proportion of the large cohort […]
