Shifting Landscapes: Reframing narrative around refugees and migration with Anna Ball and Freya Peters

Led by Freya Peters from Refugee Roots and Anna Ball from Refugee Week, this positive, 'can-do' workshop invites you to work with one another to explore how we can resist the negative narratives around sanctuary and migration that have emerged across the UK,

and build resilient spaces of sanctuary across our city and in everyday life. Expect sparky conversation, blue sky thinking and practical action.

Freya Peters (she/her) is the Volunteer and Befriending Coordinator at Refugee Roots. She manages all the volunteers and placement students at the charity who are involved in a variety of projects across the city. She also leads our Befriending Project which involves one-to-one support for participants from a volunteer which is catered towards their individual needs. Before she joined Refugee Roots, Freya’s academic research focused on how refugees and asylum seekers are exposed to, and resist, a spectrum of harms throughout their journeys, and upon arrival in the UK.

Refugee Roots welcomes all, helping those in need find friendship and a place to call home. Refugee Roots helps asylum seekers and refugees build relationships and navigate the complexities of building a new life in the UK. Based in Nottingham, our range of empowerment initiatives include befriending, advice and guidance, and supportive groups and activities, such as free English conversation classes.

Anna Ball (she/her) is a socially engaged creative practitioner and researcher specialising in narrative change within the migration arts arena. She is a longstanding organiser of Nottingham Refugee Week, and, via HEAL (Hostile Environment, Art-fuelled Learning) Collective, works as a consultant to Refugee Week UK and Counterpoints Arts, both dedicated to narrative and systems change in the migration landscape.

Refugee Week is the world's largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking asylum. Taking place in the week around World Refugee Day (20th June) each year, it is a chance to connect, create and celebrate sanctuary as our shared right.

Please note: We know there will be a desire to debate and discuss within these workshops and we really do encourage participation, to the level you are comfortable with, to get the most out of these. In order for sessions to run smoothly and to time, we encourage all attendees post workshop to make their way to either the Space, Blend Café or our Conversation Corner to continue conversations and networking.

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Access

This event will take place in The Studio on Level 2 accessible by stairs or lift.

If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.