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Our 'Migration Making Scotland Great' event in Glasgow

To launch our 'Migration Making Scotland Great' project activities, Migrant Voice is hosting a roundtable on how we can challenge the hostile rhetoric on migration through sport. Date: 8 February (Thursday), 5.30 - 7.30 pm, followed by a networking reception until 8.30 pm Venue: Glasgow City Chambers, Satinwood Suite, 82 George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU Book your place here: http://tinyurl.com/MMSGLaunch. The event will explore how migrant athletes act as positive role models and how sport can provide a tool for migrant and refugee integration. We will also exchange ideas on how we can use…

To launch our 'Migration Making Scotland Great' project activities, Migrant Voice is hosting a roundtable on how we can challenge the hostile rhetoric on migration through sport. Date: 8 February (Thursday), 5.30…

Our West Midlands 'Migration. Making Britain Great' event

To launch our 'Migration Making Britain Great' project activities in the West Midlands, Migrant Voice is kicking off 2024 with a roundtable on how we can challenge the hostile rhetoric on migration. Date: 25 January from 6-8pm followed by a reception (8-9PM) Venue: Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG (we are in Level 4, Curzon event suite, main meeting room) We will hear from a number of speakers including local sports personalities, followed by a discussion. We will come together to discuss how to challenge the existing narratives around…

To launch our 'Migration Making Britain Great' project activities in the West Midlands, Migrant Voice is kicking off 2024 with a roundtable on how we can challenge the hostile rhetoric…

Our 'Migration Making Britain Great' launch events

To launch our 'Migration Making Britain Great' project activities, Migrant Voice is kicking off 2024 with roundtables on how we can challenge the hostile rhetoric on migration. 'Migration Making Britain Great' is a new initiative in partnership with Show Racism the Red Card and IMIX to celebrate migration across the UK, and in particular the regions of the Northeast, West Midlands and Scotland. Using education, facts and sporting role models, the initiative aims to challenge and address many of the myths surrounding migrants and celebrate the enormous contribution made by those…

To launch our 'Migration Making Britain Great' project activities, Migrant Voice is kicking off 2024 with roundtables on how we can challenge the hostile rhetoric on migration. 'Migration Making Britain Great'…

Join us for Migration Week 2024

Migrant Voice is organising a series of activities on the occasion of Migration week 2024 to highlight the necessity of having a more humane, responsible and positive approach to migration. Migration week is a United Nations week dedicated to promoting dialogue on migration-related issues, based on the framework of what is known as the ‘Global Compact for Migration’. We aim to highlight the approach that the UK has taken and the noticeable discrepancy between its global commitments and policies pursued at home. In 2018 the UK, along with countries around…

Migrant Voice is organising a series of activities on the occasion of Migration week 2024 to highlight the necessity of having a more humane, responsible and positive approach to migration. …

National Letters to the Editor training

On 12 December, 2023 from 4-5.30pm we are holding a national, online, session on how to write letters to editors. This session will include how to create a strong, but short, letter to editors focused on issues affecting you around migration. We are hoping to submit the letters to different press outlets in time for them to be published on International Migrants Day, 18 December. This can either be done yourself, or with the help of the Migrant Voice team Using the skills you learn in the training we hope…

On 12 December, 2023 from 4-5.30pm we are holding a national, online, session on how to write letters to editors. This session will include how to create a strong, but…

London End of Year Event

We are delighted to invite you to our London End of Year Event: 12 December from 4:00-8:00pm at our London office, 200A Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP. This is an event to celebrate International Migrants Day, which is later this month, with a number of different activities: Programme for 12 December: End of Year Celebration 4:00 pm: Arrival & refreshments 4:30 pm: Introduction to our Welcome Project and other works of Migrant Voice. From 4:00pm onward: Showcase from our Welcome Project We celebrate the finish of our Welcome Project, which…

We are delighted to invite you to our London End of Year Event: 12 December from 4:00-8:00pm at our London office, 200A Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP. This is an…

London Media Labs: Creative writing & mentoring

As part of our Welcome Project, we will be running a new Media Lab on Thursday 21 September with workshops on creative writing and a Feedback and mentoring session. You're welcome to join this Media Lab even if you haven't been part of the previous ones! The Media Lab will include: 3.30 - 4.30 pm | Feedback and mentoring session: bring your work in progress (photos, drama, writing). We will have a discussion, share feedback and support. 5 - 7 pm | Creative writing workshop with award-winning playwright and novelist Rogelio Braga. This is the second of three workshops,…

As part of our Welcome Project, we will be running a new Media Lab on Thursday 21 September with workshops on creative writing and a Feedback and mentoring session. You're welcome to join this…

Launch of Putting Ourselves in the Picture exhibition

Come to the launch of our Putting Ourselves in the Picture exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, on Saturday, 16 September 2023, 2-5 pm. We’re proud to be collaborating with Glasgow Museums on this vital exhibition which aims to address the significant under-representation of migrants in Scottish heritage and capture Scotland’s history as it happens. Reserve a spot here. The exhibition, sharing photographs from two of Migrant Voice’s projects, creates a space where individual stories about moving to Scotland come to life. Alongside portraits of migrants…

Come to the launch of our Putting Ourselves in the Picture exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, on Saturday, 16 September 2023, 2-5 pm. We’re proud…

London Media Labs: Drama & Creative writing

As part of our Welcome Project, we will be running a new Media Lab on Thursday 31 August with workshops on drama and creative writing. You're welcome to join this Media Lab even if you haven't been part of the previous ones! The Media Lab will include: 2.30 - 4.30 pm | Drama workshop with Seb Aguirre, co-artistic director of ice&fire Theatre and director of Actors For Human Rights. 5 - 7 pm | Creative writing workshop with award-winning playwright and novelist Rogelio Braga Workshops will take place at Migrant…

As part of our Welcome Project, we will be running a new Media Lab on Thursday 31 August with workshops on drama and creative writing. You're welcome to join this…

Birmingham Network Meeting: Take action to stop #PayingForInequality

Join us for a meeting to discuss the government’s proposed punishing increases to what is already extortionate visa and settlement charges. The meeting will take place on 26 September 2023, 5-8pm, at the Birmingham and Midlands Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS. The government claims that this is how it will pay for public sector pay rises, but what migrants will really be doing is #PayingForInequality. Reserve a space The policy is cruel, cynical and trying to pit people against each other. We reject this zero-sum narrative. In the…

Join us for a meeting to discuss the government’s proposed punishing increases to what is already extortionate visa and settlement charges. The meeting will take place on 26 September 2023,…