[Candrama] Photography: In Focus _ Forced Migration and The Arts _ Online, Thurs, 26 Jan 2023 (6pm-7.30pm, UK Time)

[Yana Meerzon]

Join us for an evening of conversation on photography and forced migration.


The discussion, the first in a new series of rolling, online conversations on Forced Migration and The Arts, takes place on Thursday, 26 January 2023, from 6pm till 7.30pm (UK Time).

The event brings together people with lived experience of forced migration, photographers, activists and academics for discussion on the work they are doing with photography and how this speaks to questions around forced migration.

The event is free and open to all. Tickets are available here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photography-in-focus-forced-migration-and-the-arts-tickets-514181158687>.

Speakers include:

● Sahat Zia Hero<https://www.rohingyatographer.org/team>, a photographer and founder and editor of Rohingyatographer Magazine, who is currently living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh;
● Alan Gignoux<https://gignouxphotos.com/about/>, an award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Gignoux Photos, which produces documentary photography and film projects focusing on socio-political and environmental issues around the world; and
● Jo Biglin<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Josephine-Biglin-2>, a lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Salford who explores refugees’ and asylum-seekers’ experiences of place, belonging and citizenship through creative arts-based methods.

Notes:
[1] If you would like to speak at the Forced Migration and The Arts<http://ambrosemusiyiwa.blogspot.com/2022/12/call-for-participants-forced-migration.html> series of events, please email civicleicester at gmail.com<mailto:civicleicester at gmail.com> with a short bio and a brief summary of the topic you would like to speak on.

[2] You might also be interested in “Reggae Music: Slavery, Abolition and Reparations<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reggae-music-enslavement-abolition-and-reparations-tickets-511818441737>” taking place online on 2 February 2023 from 6pm till 7.30pm (UK Time).

With regards

Ambrose Musiyiwa



Ambrose Musiyiwa | NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD Researcher | Department of Drama and Film in collaboration with Community Arts North West (CAN) | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures | University of Manchester



Monica Manolachi and Ambrose Musiyiwa (2022). "Literary Translation as a Form of Social and Pedagogical Activism<https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ttr/1900-v1-n1-ttr07391/1093025ar/abstract/>". TTR: Traduction, terminologie, rédaction, Volume 35, Number 1, pp. 173-201



(Ed.) Poetry and Settled Status for All: An Anthology<https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916459374/> (CivicLeicester, 2022); Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World<https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916459358> (CivicLeicester, 2020)

Arts and Culture columnist. Beyond The Barricades<https://peacenews.info/article-type/beyond-barricades>, Peace News


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