Creating cities of care: a creative workshop exploring questions of home, belonging and radical care in a hostile environment
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
For this year’s Refugee Week, join us for a creative workshop exploring questions of home, belonging and radical care in contexts of displacement and the UK's ongoing hostile migration and border regime. The workshop is hosted by cultural geographer Olivia Sheringham in collaboration with Walthamstow-based refugee charity, Stories & Supper and refugee theatre company Phosphoros, supported by Birkbeck’s Centre for Contemporary Theatre.
Through theatre games, creative writing, collective mapping and discussion, we will explore what it means to make home in displacement and hostility and how we might imagine and build collective care within our cities and beyond.
Contact name:
Molly Flynn
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Dr Olivia Sheringham
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Olivia is a social and cultural geographer whose research interests and expertise span home, migration and belonging in urban contexts; postcolonialism and geographies of encounter; religion and migration; and creative and collaborative practice. She is the recipient of a British Academy/Wolfson early-career fwhich supports her current project entitled, ‘Home-city Spaces of Care: Networks of Solidarity and Belonging for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in London’ (2023-2026).
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Phosphoros Theatre
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Phosphoros Theatre was founded in 2015 and is an award-winning, industry-leading company, focused on amplifying refugee voices and bringing them to the main stage. We make socially engaged performance with, for, and by refugees and asylum seekers. We make and hold space for those with forced migration backgrounds to voice, reflect on and respond to their lived experience, taking charge of the narratives that seldom include their perspective.
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Stories & Supper
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Stories & Supper is a charity based in the London borough of Waltham Forest. We create spaces of welcome and encounter where refugees and people seeking asylum can come together with local residents over food and stories. We were founded in 2017 by Rebecca Tully, in response to the increasingly negative stories about migration. We offer opportunities for artistic expression, reconnecting with nature and finding common purpose, helping to improve wellbeing and provide hope.