Press
Film Screenings
Scirocco: A Case Against Deportations
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Immagimondo Film Festival (Lecco, ITALY)
14 September – 26 October 2018
LINK
Indie and Foreign Film Festival (New York, USA)
Summer 2018
LINK
Karama Film Festival (Amman, JORDAN)
6 December 2018
LINK
Monstra 18th Lisboa Animation Festival (Lisbon, PORTUGAL)
20-30 March 2019
LINK
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, USA)
8-14 April 2019
LINK
Censurados Film Festival (Lima, PERU)
26 May 2019
LINK
London Migration Film Festival (London, UK)
28 November – 4 December 2019
LINK
Exhibitions
Life in Transit: Munich, Germany – 2017
RISE Refugee Exhibition and Music Night: Bristol, UK – January/March 2017. Accessible online HERE
Annual Migration conference: Susses, UK -2017
Being Human Festival: Nowrich, UK -2017
The World Transformed Festival: Liverpool, UK – 2018
Edinburgh Fringe Exhibition: Edinburgh, UK -2018
Calais Jungle: Paris, France -2018
Mishwar’s Children Photo-exhibition: December 2019 – Ongoing – Online exhibition by the Syrian children in Lebanon’s camps. Available online HERE
Grants and Awards
British Arts Council
Creative Storytelling with Roma Communities
Romania, 2016 – LINK
£ 4,000
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Creative research and animation on return migration
Tunisia & Italy, 2017 – LINK
$ 5,000
Open Society Foundation
Program on Independent Journalism
Lebanon, 2018 – LINK
$ 5,000
LUSH Charity Pot Funding
Workshops on Photography and self-representation
Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon, 2018 – LINK
Migration Media Award
Open Migration and European Union
Lebanon, Syria, Germany, 2019 – LINK
$ 5,000
Music Nights and Live Events
RISE: Refugee music night. Bristol, UK – March 2017
Wind That Shakes at Jam in a Jar. Harringay, London Ongoing
Vol. I Rebetiko – January 2019
Cretan Brioche & Peran
Vol. II ‘Son’ Music of Cuba – February 2019
Sarabanda
Vol. III Hip Hop – March 2019
Fedzilla & Nabsoura
Vol. IV British Isles and Ireland – April 2019
Root and Branch & Henry Ashworth
Vol. V East Asian Fusion – May 2019
The Sages
Vol. VI Stories of South Asia – June 2019: Amrit Kaur Lohia & Pete Yelding
Vol. VII Music of Mesopotamia – July 2019
Cabbar Boyzie and Band
Vol. VIII Voice from Palestine – September 2019
El Far3i
Vol. IX Roma-inspired ensemble – October 2019
Faith I Branko & Cabbar Boziye
Vol. X Rhythms of West Africa – November 2019
SOAS West African Drumming
Vol XI. The Silk Road – December 2019
SOAS Silk Road Collective
Vol XII. Tzevey Kipperim – February 2020
Accordion and clarinet from Don Kipper
Vol XIII. Senegalese Sound – March 2020
Abdoulaye Samb Minnjiaraby
Workshops and Consultancy
Raseef 22 – You22 Fellowship program
30 March 2019 – Beirut
(in connection with trainees in Amman and Tunis)
Focus: creative methodology, citizen journalism and community engagement
