A big thank you too all those who made the workshop so stimulating. Especial thanks to Francois for convening and chairing proceedings, and Rebecca for organising and running the event so smoothly.
A lot of themes were raised around the experiences of rural migration and migrant workers facing potentially poor working conditions and lacking access to cultural facilities and spaces which most take for grant. Issues relating to voice, representation and mistranslation were repeatedly emphasised, as were ideas of the sustainability of artistic interventions. There seemed to be a healthy consensus that positive representations of multicultural ruralities can change attitudes, with projects needing to think about the dialogue between new arrivals and ‘established’ communities lest their work becomes exclusionary and inward-looking.
A full report will be published on the website in due course. In the meantime, I will include some pictures of the event and invite all who were there to add their comments or thoughts!
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Missed the event due to teaching commitments which changed at last moment. Good to see blog as a means of keeping in touch with events.
Many thanks to the organisers and speakers - it was a very interesting and heartening occasion - good to see such a lot being done that many other people could enjoy doing too!
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