Culture, Arts and Refugees

Culture is rooted right at the heart of the process of integration. Not an end, or an outcome, or a by-product, but a starting point, a rationale, and a means by which it can be achieved.
A Sense of Belonging

Jali—Exodus Live, 2007. Courtesy of Cilla Baynes,
Commnity Arts North West. Used with permission.

The Culture, Arts and Refugees micro-site features information and resources from two Creative Exchange projects:

• The Peer Leadership Network on Arts, Culture and Refugees (PLN), a participatory learning project formed by a group of art practitioners and cultural managers working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers, that explored sustainability issues of the Refugee Arts sector, and

• A Sense of Belonging, a research project about the role of culture and the arts in the inclusion and integration process of refugees and asylum seekers. The research involved 70 UK organisations and featured several case studies and videos available on this micro-site.

Explore the left menu of this page to know more about these initiatives.

The Culture, Arts and Refugees micro-site has been funded by:

Home Office (UK Border Agency)

For further information about the UK Border Agency visit http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/

For further information about the UK’s National Refugee Integration Forum visit http://www.nrif.org.uk/

Arts Council England

For further information about Arts Council England visit http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/

Cultural Leadership Programme

For further information about the Cultural Leadership Programme visit http://www.culturalleadership.org.uk/