[ecrea] Storytelling for Refuge/Storytelling as Refuge Symposium

George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling
are delighted to announce that *booking is now open* for this year's 
symposium


*Storytelling for Refuge/Storytelling as Refuge*

*Friday 6th and Saturday 7th April 2018*

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*Keynote speaker *
*renowned poet and performer*

*Patience Agbabi *

Other invited speakers include: Eirwen Malin, Prof Bambo Soyinka, and Dr 
Jodie Allinson

**

*book your tickets here 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storyrefuge-storytelling-for-refuge-storytelling-as-refuge-tickets-43025074155>*

*For more information and to keep an eye on updates in relation to the 
symposium please check out our website 
<http://storytelling.research.southwales.ac.uk/symposium/>*


Following on from our two most recent symposia, looking at themes of 
justice and place respectively, this year’s symposium explores an 
important cross section of these themes: storytelling as a means of 
creating awareness of refugee and migrant issues, as well as its ability 
to provide moments of refuge in the midst of chaotic events. In a world 
where migration and refugees are constant talking points in political 
and cultural spheres, story and storytelling take on crucial roles in 
crafting and shaping narratives around migration and refuge. But story 
can also act /as /refuge; as a sanctuary for the lost, for the wanderer, 
and those who seek spaces of literal or metaphorical peace.

This symposium will explore these and related themes. Delegate may be 
provoked to think of connected themes of storytelling and diaspora, 
storytelling as a means of escape, storytelling as shelter or 
sanctuary. We aim to inspire, encourage and showcase exciting projects 
across a wide spectrum of storytelling activity. The two-day event takes 
place on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th April 2018 in The Atrium, 
University of South Wales.

If you have any queries relating to the symposium please contact Denis 
Cryer-Lennon on (denis.cryer-lennon /at/ southwales.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(denis.cryer-lennon /at/ southwales.ac.uk)>

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