This is a Virtual Migrants event which will include a range of key speakers and artists explore critical issues around art, displacement and refugees. As a dynamic movement, alternative practices and perspectives, cultural resistance or affirmation, political and historical contexts.
The Re-presenting refugees panel discussion begins at 7.20pm. The panel includes:
Flora Alexander – Iranian visual artist based in Glasgow
Yusra Warsama – poet, playwright and actor from Somalia
Tom Green – director of Platforma national network of arts and refugees
Humberto Velez – international visual performance and media artist
Isobel Bowler – legal case worker at GM Immigration Aid Unit
Iseult Timmermans – artist and creative producer with refugee groups at Street Level Photoworks
The discussion will be chaired by Kooj Chuhan - artist and cultural producer, founder of Virtual Migrants and director of 90 Degree Citizen.
Passenger 12 multimedia experimental performance: part 1 begins 7pm with part 2 after the discussion, artists include:
Sai Murray (writer, poet, spoken word)
Maya Chowdhry (performer, writer, multimedia and interactive artist)
Aidan Jolly (composer-songwriter and musician)
Elmi Ali (writer, poet, spoken word)
Tracey Zengeni (vocalist)
Mazaher (VJ projections)
Pat Mackela (drums and percussion)
Committed to represent exhibition premiere is open to view from 5pm and will include talks about the work at 6pm including special guest Mavis Makhaza from Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit and WAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together).
This event is a part of the 90 Degree Citizen exhibition, on show from 10 October – 17 November at Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
To register to attend, visit: www.re-presentingrefugees.eventbrite.co.uk
The café will be open during this event for food and drinks and light refreshments will be provided.
For further information, visit: www.virtualmigrants.net/90-degree-citizen/representingrefugees