The 2017 Journeys Festival International is funded by the Arts Council England and launches today, running through to 29th October, for its second year in the city. It aims to celebrate and showcase the creativity [… read more ]
Dianna Djokey interviews Majid Dhana about his experience as a migrant and a person of colour dealing with isolation during Covid-19, and the creative opportunities he’s created to speak up for other people through his [… read more ]
A new public art installation – The ChatterBox Pavilion – celebrating Portsmouth’s diversity and local culture was unveiled at the end of the Guildhall Walk in September 2019. Paris Ali-Pilling reports. The installation celebrates diversity [… read more ]
This week, people in Portsmouth have been connecting with people who are indefinitely detained in UK immigration removal centres through a unique phonebox. On Saturday 26th October, you can join the artist and team behind [… read more ]
Hampshire’s Artreach team explores a week of local events, exhibitions and poetry for Refugee Week, delivered in partnership with Journeys Festival International, Portsmouth. Refugee Week is a nationwide programme of arts, cultural and educational events [… read more ]
Community reporter Andrew Larder interviews Dr Ahmad Terkawi, whose family was almost killed as they fled from Syria to Greece. Dr Terkawi is also the co-founder of the Organisation for Migrant Safety (previously the Maritime [… read more ]
In the second of a two-part interview, Helen Salsbury talks with Michael Woolley, the Chair of Friends Without Borders (FWB), a Portsmouth-based charity providing support and advice to asylum seekers. I wanted to know more about [… read more ]
Journeys Festival International continues tonight with ASYLUM Portsmouth, devised as a musical response to Brexit and anti-migrant rhetoric. Working with locally acclaimed producers The People’s Lounge, ASYLUM Portsmouth aims to increase the exposure, skills, aspirations and [… read more ]
The Journeys Festival International launched last week with the opening of the Aspex Gallery Artist in Residence programme: poet Majid Dhana’s and artist Natalia Michalska’s collaboration exhibition Look Up, which explores the stories and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in [… read more ]
MysteryFest 2021 will be delivered virtually next spring because of the uncertainty surrounding the current pandemic, local S&C contributor Julia Davey reports. The event will feature renowned authors speaking openly about their own literary journeys [… read more ]
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