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 ]
In the first 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. How did you first get [… 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 ]
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 ]
Many international problems have a local dimension, and the refugee crisis is no exception. Andrew Larder asks whether our city, which has a long and proud tradition of welcoming desperate people from all over the [… read more ]
Shelagh Simmons looks for the truth beyond the media and public hysteria and explores the reality of life for asylum seekers in Portsmouth. As someone with a bit of experience in the human rights field [… read more ]
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