Call for Participants: Forced Migration and The Arts

CivicLeicester would like to host a series of rolling, monthly online panel conversations focussing on the arts and forced migration.

The conversations would take place in the evening on Thursdays, between 6pm and 7.30pm (UK time), and would bring together artists, activists, academics and anyone working with, interested in or affected by issues around the arts and forced migration.

If you would like to be part of or to take part in the conversations, please email civicleicester@gmail.com and let us know.

Examples of similar conversations we have hosted include: 

• The Politics of Reggae: Anti-War and Peace Songs (2022), 
• Poetry and Settled Status for All: Readings and Conversation (2021), and 
• "Broken Chords Can Sing a Little": Panel discussion (2017), which were held as part of the annual Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival.

CivicLeicester is a community media channel that uses the arts, digital and print technologies and social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to highlight conversations. 

The channel is unfunded and was set up after realising that, year in, year out, there were a lot of very significant activities and conversations taking place at a grassroots, community, national and international level that should be more visible but were not receiving any mainstream media coverage at all.

Ambrose Musiyiwa

Facilitator, CivicLeicester 

Notes:

Events Coming Up

• Israel In Focus. Thurs, 23 February 2023. Online, 6.00pm-7.30pm
• Academia In Focus. Thurs, 30 March 2023. Online, 6.00pm-7.30pm
• Dalits In Focus. Thurs, 27 April 2023. Online, 6.00pm-7.30pm

Past Events

• Photography In Focus. CivicLeicester, 5 February 2023
• Reggae Music: Enslavement, Abolition and Reparations. CivicLeicester, 4 February 2023

This post was updated on 7 February 2023 to include lists to events coming up and past events.