Many organisations and networks in Europe have started to publish mapping, researches and online information about refugees’ integration through art and culture and refugees / migrants as artists. This page is about listing these initiatives. Feel free to email mobility@on-the-move.org for further inputs.
Publications / mapping / Guidelines
- Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives - Marco Martiniello (editor)
- Everybody wants a refugee on stage: Conversations around contemporary artistic engagement with migration, by IETM (2019) EN
- Artists, Displacement and Belonging, Prepared by lead author Kiley Arroyo, Head of Strategic Data and Knowledge, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, with contributing authors Mary Ann DeVlieg, Dian Ika Gesuri and Alma Salem (2019) EN
- Migration Integration - Information Portal (DE)
- The inclusion of migrants and refugees: The role of cultural organisations, Ed. Acesso Cultura (2017)
- EU funding for cultural work refugee, Towards the next EU Programme Generation by Rosanna Lewis and Polly Martin - November 2017 (with the webstream link and the additional documents: Current Practice and Lessons Learnt & Why cultural work with refugees by Alison Phipps)
- Report on arts and culture in the context of the migratory and refugee crisis (key output of the working group of EU Member States on Intercultural Dialogue in the context of the migratory and refugee crisis, created in October 2015) - May 2017
- ULCG-Agenda21 for Culture publication ‘Cities, refugees and culture’ (2015) - FR / ES
- IETM publication ‘Creation and Displacement: Developing new narratives around migration’ + a list of 141 initiatives and projects (2016)
- NEMO publication ‘Museums, migration and cultural diversity – Recommendations for museum work‘ (2016)
Information websites and magazines
- Museums and Migration: Experiences, ideas and practices regarding migration and the refugee crisis
- Critical Stages is now available with a special topic on “Theatre and Statelessness in Europe”(2016)
- Refugees Welcome, by the website ‘Touring Artists’ for information related to Germany (EN / DE)
Articles
- Refugee Origami Camp, a project by Frank Bölter (article by Mathieu Braunstein for IN SITU) (EN / DE) with IN SITU network
- 10 things you need to consider if you are an artist – not of the refugee and asylum seeker community- looking to work with our community
Events / Initiatives / projects
- SHOWPARTY, Co-creating a party in asylum seekers’ centre (collaboration between snark - space making association, Arca di Noè social cooperative and the Research center MODI (Mobility Diversity social Inclusion) at the Department of Education of the University of Bologna, 2017
- Specially Unknown, European Refugees Oral History Project
- The Arts Territory Exchange
- Camp Europe Project
- Roberto Cimetta Fund : Fil Manfa - host organisations for artists in exile (EN / FR / AR)
- Erasmus + project Get Close to Opera
- UN Migration Agency Platform, I am a migrant (EN/ ES / FR/ DE / ITI / EESTI / РУССКИЙ)
- L’encyclopédie des migrants (L’âge de la tortue) FR/ES/PT/EN
- The Arts and Culture Welcome Refugees (Canada)
- If All Relations Were to Reach Equilibrium, Then This Building Would Dissolve (UK)
- Collection Rester.étranger, Barbara Manzetti (France)
- Dancing With Strangers: From Calais to England
- Projects supported by the Creative Europe programme for the inclusion of migrants and refugees
- Bins in Berlin to ATMs in Antwerp: a guide to Europe for refugees – photo essay
- Atelier des artistes en exil (EN/FR/Arab/Farsi)
- EU funded project PUSH with an online resource centre on migration
Photograph: Mohammed Abakar. Taken as part of a project in Lesbos in collaboration with Mathieu Perot on Lesbos Island. Mohammed Abakar is a member of the Atelier des Artistes in Exil in Paris.