LONDON GROUP OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHERS
Seminar Programme, Spring Term 2009
“Arts of Cities” (co-convened by David Pinder, QMUL)
20th January – Luke Dickens (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘These are a few of my favourite fiends: post-graffiti, art worlds and the city’
3rd February – Ian Walker (Newport School of Art, Media and Design), ‘City gorged with dreams: surrealism and urban photography in Paris, London and Prague’
17th February – Rachel Lichtenstein (Artist, writer and oral historian), ‘Memory embedded in place: exploration of city streets’
3rd March – Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘On cold climates’
24th March – Jane Rendell (Bartlett, University College London), ‘Critical spatial practice: site-writing’
These seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wolfson Room at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London. For further details, contact David Lambert, Royal Holloway (01784 443640) or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary (020 7882 5407). We are grateful to Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Kings, UCL, Birkbeck, the Open University, Sussex University the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS/IBG and the IHR for supporting this series.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Job opportunity
Arts and Cultural Co-ordinator – ‘Here - Our Voices’
Salary £19,400 per annum
3 year fixed term contract
Part time 22.5 hours per week
Closing date: Monday 1st December at Noon
Interviews: Friday 12th December 2008
Supported by a three-year core funded programme from The Baring Foundation, Charnwood Arts, in partnership with Loughborough Youth Affairs and Charnwood Independent Youth Action, is currently developing a new project to work with young refugees and asylum seekers and other young people in the Borough of Charnwood, North Leicestershire.
We want to create a project which will enable young people to engage more widely in the artistic and social life of the area whilst exploring both their own individual artistic talents and working collaboratively with others. This is a project which will enable them to learn new skills, explore and share their own cultural heritage, create new works and engage with a wider range of arts and cultural experiences on offer locally.
We are looking for a creative person with exceptional personal qualities and resilience to work to develop new creative relationships, undertake projects and support individual development in and through the arts over the three year period whilst working closely with other agencies engaged with the participants.
For further details, and to download an application pack, please click on the link below. Alternatively you can contact Terry Allen at Charnwood Arts on 01509 822558 or info@charnwood-arts.org.uk
Please note that it is not possible to complete the application form and return it electronically. Forms will need to be printed and returned by post or fax.
Charnwood Arts is an equal opportunities employer.
Enhanced CRB Disclosure will be required (this can be arranged).
Salary £19,400 per annum
3 year fixed term contract
Part time 22.5 hours per week
Closing date: Monday 1st December at Noon
Interviews: Friday 12th December 2008
Supported by a three-year core funded programme from The Baring Foundation, Charnwood Arts, in partnership with Loughborough Youth Affairs and Charnwood Independent Youth Action, is currently developing a new project to work with young refugees and asylum seekers and other young people in the Borough of Charnwood, North Leicestershire.
We want to create a project which will enable young people to engage more widely in the artistic and social life of the area whilst exploring both their own individual artistic talents and working collaboratively with others. This is a project which will enable them to learn new skills, explore and share their own cultural heritage, create new works and engage with a wider range of arts and cultural experiences on offer locally.
We are looking for a creative person with exceptional personal qualities and resilience to work to develop new creative relationships, undertake projects and support individual development in and through the arts over the three year period whilst working closely with other agencies engaged with the participants.
For further details, and to download an application pack, please click on the link below. Alternatively you can contact Terry Allen at Charnwood Arts on 01509 822558 or info@charnwood-arts.org.uk
Please note that it is not possible to complete the application form and return it electronically. Forms will need to be printed and returned by post or fax.
Charnwood Arts is an equal opportunities employer.
Enhanced CRB Disclosure will be required (this can be arranged).
Diversity Pool - a reminder
Beyond Borders - Making Connections
In partnership with Long Journey Home.
Diversity Arts Pool 2008
This is a special event for programmers to meet artists who are new arrivals to the UK, who are migrants or who deliver work within these communities. The Arts Pool will be an opportunity for artists to showcase their work to education professionals and other creative organisations.
If you are someone who organises creative activities for your group, school, organisation or local community, this is a unique opportunity to meet regional professional artists.
This free event will be bursting with participatory artists who have come together to share their work. It will provide programmers with the opportunity to talk fact to face with artists, sample their work and discuss how your organisation and artists might work together.
The event will include a programme of dance, music, drama, spoken word, visual media, performance, visual and community arts.
25th November, 2008
12.30 to 6 pm
The Art Organisation
Nottingham
To book your place please email alma@city-arts.org.uk or phone 0115 978 2463.
Please email us your name and job title, organisation, a sentence about what you do and a contact address/email/phone number.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Event in Leicester, 17th Oct
Leicester, City of Sanctuary
invites you to hear the Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky
Canon of Westminster Abbey, and Sir Peter Soulsby MP for Leicester South, speak about the findings of the recent
Independent Asylum Commission reports:
Saving Sanctuary, Safe Return and Deserving Dignity,
on Friday 17th October 2008, from 10.30am - 1pm
at the Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB
Taken from the Independent Asylum Commission website: www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk.
The UK has a proud record of providing sanctuary to those fleeing persecution. From the Huguenots fleeing France to the Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia, Britain has been a safe haven
to the present day.
After the Second World War, shamed by the fact that Jews fleeing Germany had been denied protection and sent back to the Nazis, the victor nations established a system by which those facing persecution would be able to seek protection in safe countries. This was the basis of our modern asylum system – the 1951 Convention on Refugees.
Since that time, the 1951 Convention has saved millions of lives. It grants refugee status if a person, "… owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country…"
Article 1, The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
The Commission believes that the UK has a duty to provide sanctuary. We believe that most British people agree with our international obligations under the 1951 Convention and would want to offer protection to those who need it.
But the principle of providing protection to refugees is under threat. Far-right groups whip up fears about asylum seekers. Elements of the media and public opinion seem hostile to asylum seekers themselves. Politicians raise questions about the suitability of the 1951 Convention and the concept of asylum itself. “Asylum” has become a political football and “asylum seeker” a term of abuse.
The concept of asylum needs to be rescued. Flaws in the system need to be addressed. Citizens need to have confidence that the asylum system treats those seeking sanctuary fairly and humanely, but that it is also robust in dealing with those whose claims have failed.
The Independent Asylum Commission aims to take a fresh and impartial look at the system and make credible recommendations for reform that will ensure that we continue our proud history of sanctuary while restoring public confidence in the system.
Refreshments will be available from 10.30am ready for an 11am start.
To reserve your place, or to be added to our circulation list,
contact Gill on: leicester@cityofsanctuary.com or 07716 073403.
Display space is available for groups and organisations working with asylum seekers and / or refugees.
City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for asylum seekers and refugees
www.cityofsanctuary.com
invites you to hear the Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky
Canon of Westminster Abbey, and Sir Peter Soulsby MP for Leicester South, speak about the findings of the recent
Independent Asylum Commission reports:
Saving Sanctuary, Safe Return and Deserving Dignity,
on Friday 17th October 2008, from 10.30am - 1pm
at the Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB
Taken from the Independent Asylum Commission website: www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk.
The UK has a proud record of providing sanctuary to those fleeing persecution. From the Huguenots fleeing France to the Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia, Britain has been a safe haven
to the present day.
After the Second World War, shamed by the fact that Jews fleeing Germany had been denied protection and sent back to the Nazis, the victor nations established a system by which those facing persecution would be able to seek protection in safe countries. This was the basis of our modern asylum system – the 1951 Convention on Refugees.
Since that time, the 1951 Convention has saved millions of lives. It grants refugee status if a person, "… owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country…"
Article 1, The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
The Commission believes that the UK has a duty to provide sanctuary. We believe that most British people agree with our international obligations under the 1951 Convention and would want to offer protection to those who need it.
But the principle of providing protection to refugees is under threat. Far-right groups whip up fears about asylum seekers. Elements of the media and public opinion seem hostile to asylum seekers themselves. Politicians raise questions about the suitability of the 1951 Convention and the concept of asylum itself. “Asylum” has become a political football and “asylum seeker” a term of abuse.
The concept of asylum needs to be rescued. Flaws in the system need to be addressed. Citizens need to have confidence that the asylum system treats those seeking sanctuary fairly and humanely, but that it is also robust in dealing with those whose claims have failed.
The Independent Asylum Commission aims to take a fresh and impartial look at the system and make credible recommendations for reform that will ensure that we continue our proud history of sanctuary while restoring public confidence in the system.
Refreshments will be available from 10.30am ready for an 11am start.
To reserve your place, or to be added to our circulation list,
contact Gill on: leicester@cityofsanctuary.com or 07716 073403.
Display space is available for groups and organisations working with asylum seekers and / or refugees.
City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for asylum seekers and refugees
www.cityofsanctuary.com
Monday, September 22, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Arts Pool Tuesday 25th November from 9 - 6pm
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This event is intended to encourage local artists in exile and refugees to display or present their work to programmers and established artists. The day will include workshops designed to help artists develop their portfolio, establish connections and also circulate their Cv via the BeyondsBordersUk website, which will be launched on the same day.
The venue its the arts organisation, 21 station st, Nottingham, adjecent to the railway station. This will be an open event from 12.30 onwards, with morning sessiosn reserved for artists and exhibitors only.
We will be producing a brochure of artists for programmers to take away on the day and will therefore need an image from each artist (this could be of the artform/practice or artist themselves) a brief statement consisting of no more than 85 words and contact details (this could include an email address, telephone number and website address). Could you please get this information over to Alma (alma@city-arts.org.uk) no later than Friday 31st October?
Please spread word of this event and encourage and assist artists in exile to get in touch as soon as possible about this event
Monday, September 15, 2008
International Migrants in Rural Areas: Communities, Impacts and Issues
May be of interest?International Migrants in Rural Areas: Communities, Impacts
and Issues, 10am – 4pm, Tuesday 7th October 2008
St Martin-in-the-Fields Hall, Trafalgar Square, London WC2
For further information or to confirm attendance please contact Holly Andrew,
Migration and Equalities Team, ippr 0207 470 6165 or h.andrew@ippr.org
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