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Media training day in Birmingham

On Tuesday 1 October, we will be holding our first media training day for "migrant ambassadors" and for staff/volunteers at refugee and migrant community organisations in the West Midlands. The training is part of our pioneering Meet a Migrant project, which is now into the second phase. In this training, you’ll learn how to identify stories in your community and how to pitch them to the media. We’ll be sharing our learning from ten years of working with migrants and the media, and from the first phase of Meet a Migrant,…

On Tuesday 1 October, we will be holding our first media training day for "migrant ambassadors" and for staff/volunteers at refugee and migrant community organisations in the West Midlands. The training…

Feel at Home project: Glasgow

Join us for creative, hands-on workshops where we will explore the possibilities of video-making to tell stories of integration from our perspectives. The seven workshop sessions will: Encourage creative expression through video-making; Develop practical, introductory video-making skills; Create powerful audio-visual messages The workshops will explore the subject of integration from many angles including: our own experiences of what helps and hinders the process and what creates a sense of belonging. Through the workshops we will create videos with messages around home, integration and belonging as resources for how everyone of…

Join us for creative, hands-on workshops where we will explore the possibilities of video-making to tell stories of integration from our perspectives. The seven workshop sessions will: Encourage creative expression…

Feel at Home project: Birmingham

Join us for creative, hands-on workshops where we will explore the possibilities of video-making to tell stories of integration from our perspectives. The seven workshop sessions will: · Encourage creative expression through video-making; · Develop practical, introductory video-making skills; · Create powerful audio-visual messages The workshops will explore the subject of integration from many angles including: our own experiences of what helps and hinders the process and what creates a sense of belonging. Through the workshops we will create videos with messages around home, integration and belonging as resources for…

Join us for creative, hands-on workshops where we will explore the possibilities of video-making to tell stories of integration from our perspectives. The seven workshop sessions will: · Encourage creative…

London network meeting: Extortionate visa fees

Please join us at Migrant Voice’s London network meeting on Thursday 12 September from 6-8.30pm at VAI, 200a Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP. Refreshments provided. We know that the costs of immigration – including visa fees, the NHS surcharge, premium appointments for uploading documents, legal fees, the cost of citizenship – are leaving ordinary people, ordinary families destitute and pricing people out of their rights. Many of those affected by the high costs of the immigration process in the UK have been writing to us over the last months to share…

Please join us at Migrant Voice’s London network meeting on Thursday 12 September from 6-8.30pm at VAI, 200a Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP. Refreshments provided. We know that the costs of…

Media Lab in Birmingham

Migrant Voice is organising a special Media Lab training workshop in Birmingham on Tuesday 27th August 2019. Creative writer, social media guru and website designer Jordan Garvey of The Blogatory will lead an MV Media Lab training session to help represent migrant voices online. Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants living in Birmingham, please join us to learn skills that will make your voices heard. 10:00am - 11:00am: Welcome, registration & refreshments 11:00am - 1:00pm: Part I - How to tell your personal migrant stories using blogs and social media 1:00pm -…

Migrant Voice is organising a special Media Lab training workshop in Birmingham on Tuesday 27th August 2019. Creative writer, social media guru and website designer Jordan Garvey of The Blogatory will…

Media Lab in Wolverhampton

Migrant Voice is organising a special Media Lab training workshop in Wolverhampton on Tuesday 30 July 2019. International photojournalist and creative photographer Denise Maxwell of Lensi Photography will lead an MV Media Lab training session to help represent migrant voices in the media. Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants living in Wolverhampton, please join us to learn skills that will make your voices heard. 12:00pm: Welcome, registration & refreshments 12:30pm - 2:30pm: Part I - How to tell your personal migrant stories using photography 2:30pm - 3:00pm: LUNCH BREAK (Lunch will…

Migrant Voice is organising a special Media Lab training workshop in Wolverhampton on Tuesday 30 July 2019. International photojournalist and creative photographer Denise Maxwell of Lensi Photography will lead an…

Media lab in Glasgow

Migrant Voice is organising a Media Lab Training workshop in Glasgow on Wednesday 12 June. The programme will include small group sessions on interview skills, social media campaigns, pitching stories to the media, photography, zine making and art action for human rights. Each session will be led by a media professional. You can attend more than one session. Scots and new Scots from all over the world - asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants living in Glasgow - join us to learn media skills that will make your voices heard! Venue: Samaritan House, 79 Coplaw Street,…

Migrant Voice is organising a Media Lab Training workshop in Glasgow on Wednesday 12 June. The programme will include small group sessions on interview skills, social media campaigns, pitching stories to the media, photography, zine…

Film launch at Westminster

On Tuesday 21 May, we, together with Stephen Timms MP, are hosting the launch of "Inquisition", a short film about the injustice faced by thousands of international students who were wrongly accused of cheating by the Home Office in 2014 and had their visas revoked or refused. The 14-minute documentary was made by award-winning filmmaker Tim Langford for Migrant Voice and features five of the affected students, who tell their stories to the camera. It's a harrowing watch and marks a major milestone in our "My Future Back" campaign. Watch…

On Tuesday 21 May, we, together with Stephen Timms MP, are hosting the launch of "Inquisition", a short film about the injustice faced by thousands of international students who were…

Media training day in Glasgow

On Thursday 2 May, we will be holding our first media training day for "migrant ambassadors" and for staff/volunteers at refugee and migrant community organisations. The training is part of our pioneering Meet a Migrant project, which is now into the second phase. In this training, you’ll learn how to identify stories in your community and how to pitch them to the media. We’ll be sharing our learning from ten years of working with migrants and the media, and from the first phase of Meet a Migrant, where we brought…

On Thursday 2 May, we will be holding our first media training day for "migrant ambassadors" and for staff/volunteers at refugee and migrant community organisations. The training is part of…

Glasgow network meeting

Come to our network meeting in Glasgow on Wednesday 1 May! We'll be discussing media coverage of migration in Scotland in preparation for a later meeting with some Scottish news editors. As part of a national Migrant Voice project, we’re arranging meetings between some of our members and editors at major news outlets across the UK. This is the first time Migrant Voice is attempting to influence news coverage at this high level. At the meeting on 1 May, we want to explore together views and issues we should be…

Come to our network meeting in Glasgow on Wednesday 1 May! We'll be discussing media coverage of migration in Scotland in preparation for a later meeting with some Scottish news…