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Media Lab in Wolverhampton

Please join us for a Migrant Voice Media Lab in Wolverhampton on Tuesday 26 March to learn media tools for telling your story. Recognised journalists, media and communication professionals will lead the sessions to help us get more migrant voices heard in the media. Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Wolverhampton, please join us to learn media skills and tell your stories. Venue: Refugee and Migrant Centre, 1st floor Roma Parva, 9 Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton, WV1 4NB. Date: Tuesday 26 March, 2019. Time: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. 12:00pm…

Please join us for a Migrant Voice Media Lab in Wolverhampton on Tuesday 26 March to learn media tools for telling your story. Recognised journalists, media and communication professionals will…

Media Lab in Birmingham

Migrant Voice is organising a Media Lab training workshop in Birmingham on 25 March Recognised journalists, media and communication professionals will lead the sessions to help us get more migrant voices heard in the media. Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Birmingham, please join us to learn media skills and tell your stories. Venue: Migrant Voice, Saathi House, 49 Bevington Road, Aston, Birmingham B6 6HR Date: Monday 25 March, 2019. Time: 12pm to 5pm. Programme: 12:00: Welcome & registration 12:30 - 2:30: First session: How to use cameras and…

Migrant Voice is organising a Media Lab training workshop in Birmingham on 25 March Recognised journalists, media and communication professionals will lead the sessions to help us get more migrant…

Join our new 'Feel at Home' project

Our new national project 'Feel at Home' starts in London. Join us for creative, hands-on workshops where we will explore the possibilities of video-making to tell stories of integration from our perspectives. We are delighted to announce that the wonderful and talented film-maker Elena Sánchez Bellot will be leading the training in London. Elena is a Spanish filmmaker living and working in London. Having lived in various countries as a child cemented a love for stories from all around the world. After studying anthropology, her interest in the relationship…

Our new national project 'Feel at Home' starts in London. Join us for creative, hands-on workshops where we will explore the possibilities of video-making to tell stories of integration from…

Storytelling across borders: A London workshop

As migrants, many of us translate between languages on a daily basis. But as we try to make ourselves understood in a new place, we find ourselves translating between cultures too. Often, it’s the stories of our own lives that we want to tell – sometimes traumatic, sometimes ordinary – but we have to navigate the barriers of another language and culture to do so. In this free workshop, co-hosted by Migrant Voice and the University of East Anglia, we’ll hear from three speakers who navigate these challenges in their…

As migrants, many of us translate between languages on a daily basis. But as we try to make ourselves understood in a new place, we find ourselves translating between cultures…

Birmingham network meeting

Family life applications for permanent residence take 10 years and cost well over £10,000 each. Come and join the discussion at our next Migrant Voice Birmingham and West Midlands network meeting to hear experiences of how this is affecting our communities: We will look at the impact of the ever increasing cost of immigration and visa fees on individuals and families - both British and migrants. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 6 March, 6.00-8.30pm at Saathi House, 49 Bevington Road, Birmingham B6 6HR. Speakers include legal and community…

Family life applications for permanent residence take 10 years and cost well over £10,000 each. Come and join the discussion at our next Migrant Voice Birmingham and West Midlands network…

Coventry Media Lab

Following up on our successful Media Training in December 2018 in Birmingham, Migrant Voice is organising a special Media Lab training workshop in Coventry on Monday 18 February, 2019. Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants from all over the world but living in Coventry, please join us to learn skills that will make your voices heard. Recognised journalists, media and communication professionals will lead the sessions. Testimony from a Media Lab participant: "I used to ask myself who are all these non-migrants talking on behalf of us, migrants, asylum seekers or refugees? I had…

Following up on our successful Media Training in December 2018 in Birmingham, Migrant Voice is organising a special Media Lab training workshop in Coventry on Monday 18 February, 2019. Asylum…

London Media Lab for IMD2018

We are delighted to invite you to a special Media Lab training workshop in preparation for International Migrants Day 2018. The Media Lab session will take place on 11 December at Migrant Voice, VAI, 200A Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP Every year on International Migrants Day, December 18, Migrant Voice joins in the celebrations of the amazing contribution of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees from all over the world but living in the U.K. This year marks the 18th anniversary of the International Migrant Day and a strong reminder for…

We are delighted to invite you to a special Media Lab training workshop in preparation for International Migrants Day 2018. The Media Lab session will take place on 11 December…

Birmingham Media Lab for IMD2018

Join us in Birmingham on 4 December for a special Media Lab training workshop for International Migrants Day 2018 Why: every year on International Migrants Day 18 December, Migrant Voice celebrates the amazing contribution of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees from all over the world but living in the U.K. This year marks the 18th anniversary of the International Migrant Day and a strong reminder for resilience, unity and togetherness at the eve of Brexit. MV is gearing up for the launch of this special celebration 2018. Recognised journalist, media…

Join us in Birmingham on 4 December for a special Media Lab training workshop for International Migrants Day 2018 Why: every year on International Migrants Day 18 December, Migrant Voice…

Launch of PARTICIPATE. iNTEGRATION - a new national integration campaign in the UK

Please join us for the launch of a new national integration campaign in the UK: PARTICIPATE. iNTEGRATION. Migrant Voice, is teaming up with MoneyGram on the national initiative where non-government organisations supporting the integration of migrants and refugees can submit funding applications through the campaign website. The launch of the initiative will take place on Tuesday 13 November, 6-8pm, at Migrant Voice, 200A Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP. Migrant Voice and three other organisations around the country will deliver the first projects funded as part of the new national initiative.…

Please join us for the launch of a new national integration campaign in the UK: PARTICIPATE. iNTEGRATION. Migrant Voice, is teaming up with MoneyGram on the national initiative where non-government…

Birmingham Media Lab

Please join us at our next Migrant Voice Media Lab training: Wednesday 24 October 11am till 2pm at the Meena centre, Well street, Birmingham B19 3BG. This Media Lab session will cover techniques we picked up from the media training run by ITV the week before. It will also be a practical session where we will go online using social media and getting involved in debates around the hostile environment, brexit, and what we as migrants contribute to the UK. To join, please email or what's app Salman 07758191798 [email protected]

Please join us at our next Migrant Voice Media Lab training: Wednesday 24 October 11am till 2pm at the Meena centre, Well street, Birmingham B19 3BG. This Media Lab session…