Launch Event Details

"A Sense of Place" is a programme of events focusing on refugees and the arts, backed by the British Council and Cardiff 2008, which will culminate in an international conference in November 2003 in Cardiff.

The Launch Event features performances and presentations by four refugees (three living in Swansea, one in Cardiff), as well as introducing a range of arts projects with refugees across Wales.

Please email if you wish to attend.

Date: April 14th 2003
Time: 11.30am - 1.30pm
Location: The Old Library, Cardiff

PROGRAMME

Welcome - Steve Garrett (Event Manager, A Sense of Place)

Opening Remarks
Tony Deyes (Director, British Council Wales)
Yvette Vaughan Jones (Cardiff 2008)
Cherry Short (Commissioner and Chair, Commission for Racial Equality, Welsh Committee)

A Sense of Place - An Introduction
Poppy Szaybo (Director: A Sense of Place), outlines the aims, context & programme of the conference in November.

Video Shorts:
* Journeys In Between - documentation from a recent British Council conference looking at the arts and their role in the integration of asylum seekers.
* Anahita Alikhani - an Iranian refugee making a film about the experiences of asylum seekers in her current home town of Swansea.
* BBC Wales Digital Storytelling Project - and how it has engaged with refugees and asylum seekers in Wales.

Performances:
* Poetry recital: Eric Charles (Cameroon)
* Reading: Max Kbakio (Liberia)
* Drumming: Kabelo Madonko (Zambia)
(All artists are recently arrived refugees based in Wales)

A Sense of Place - Projects Launch
An introduction to some of the activities which will take place in the lead up to the conference, aiming to inform and focus some of the issues to be raised.

* Multicultural Sculpture Project - Adams Court Reception Centre
(in collaboration with Cardiff and District Multicultural Arts Development - CADMAD)
* Cardiff/Swansea Schools Video Project
(In partnership with Undercurrents )
* Cardiff/Belgrade Internet Radio Link Project
(In partnership with the B92 broadcasting station, Serbia)

* Young New Europeans: photo exhibition
(Read publicity material)

* Profile: Eric Ngalle Charles (poet)

* Between a Mountain and a Sea: book project

* Profile: NN (Kurdish pop singer)

* Profile: Zizi (professional photographer from W.Africa)

* Small World Theatre company: drama in schools

* TAN Community Dance: story telling and web art project with francophone refugees

Please feel free to contact Tom Cheesman
at:

or me at: with your suggestions and comments