(c) Ambrose Musiyiwa, CivicLeicester
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).
Below are notes and resources from the six workshops that were held during the conference.
For more details and visuals from the day see:
- Refugee Week Conference Storify blog post
- Photo album
- Conference programme
- Fatima Diriye’s 20-word poem ‘crowdsourced’ from conference delegates
Workshops
1. Understanding your impact and evaluating for success – Miranda Lewis, m2 Consultants
2. Stop press! Engaging the media – Niall Mann, IMiX
Refugee Week press release template and tips
3. Reaching new audiences – Emma Blackman, Theatre Delicatessen and Kerry Tuhill, Action Factory Community Arts
4. “I much prefer roasted rat”: Engaging children in refugee experiences – Josie Stevens, Hackney Museum, Eithne Nightingale Child Migrant Stories and Maurice Nwokeji, musician and storyteller
Further links:
Child Migrant Stories learning resources
Ugwumpiti film, telling Maurice Nwokeji’s story
More Child Migrant Stories films
5. Good practice: How to work in collaboration with lived-experience groups – Kolbassia Haoussou and colleagues, Survivors Speak OUT
Further links:
How to work with refugees as activists, post-conference blog post by Survivors Speak Out
6. Having difficult conversations – Tom Godwin, HOPE not hate
Further links:
What is confirmation bias?, Shahdom Heshmat PhD, Psychology Today
Why facts don’t change our minds , Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
What storytelling does to our brains, Leo Widrich