By Dan Thompson
A collaborative performance project is running a series of dance and music workshops in Margate, aimed at refugees, migrants, and people involved in supporting them in the UK.
The creative workshops, led by dancers Sidonie Carey-Green and Tom Tegento, will run during Refugee Week, the world’s largest arts & culture festival which celebrates the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Partners in the festival include the British Red Cross, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Barnardos, and ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s.
The Margate workshops explore movement, sound, and storytelling, with food provided. They are free, thanks to funding from Arts Council England, and anybody with ‘lived experience of displacement’ can take part.
They will run on Monday 16th, 23rd, 30th June, & 7th July at a venue to be confirmed. Booking is essential. Workshops will also run in Dover and Folkestone.
The workshops are part of a project called Maps In Motion, which looks at the UK’s borders in Kent, and how they’re being watched. Maps in Motion includes workshops, creative research, and live events, and uses movement, sound, and technology to explore the coast in different ways.
Sidonie Carey-Green holds a PhD in dance from Royal Holloway University of London. Her credits include Channel 4’s Random Acts, Malta’s European Capital of Culture, Brighton Dance Film Festival, and the Womencinemakers Bienale. She is a lecturer at the University of Winchester.
Born in Ethiopia, Tom Tegento has an MA in Physical Theatre and Movement studies from the University of Kent. He has worked at the Gulbenkian Theatre, and with Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company.
To book a place on the Margate workshops, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/margate-body-as-data-maps-in-motion-tickets-1388093788889?aff=oddtdtcreator
Other Margate organisations are planning events for Refugee Week, including Marine Studios and Cliftonville’s ARK.
Gawd.
I think we could put the money to better use ,our homeless people,our people living in poverty, don’t you think we have given the refugees enough money 🤔
This has far more to do with the “Creative’s” egos and C.V. than anything else.
“Pan’s People” are now regarded as politically incorrect.
Expressive dance itself – particularly women’s – is banned in a significant number of societies. Many immigrants here are not big fans.
Yet, we’ve all got to have it shoved down our collective throats?
Never mind Refugee Week. It’s been a Refugee Century here so far. Why are there still Vietnamese boat people being given asylum? Take a look at Channel 4’s “Our Guy in Vietnam”.
Pan’s People! There was one special one – beautiful Babs. Dunno what her name is.
As a young child I was very keen on Rosie Hetherington from Legs & Co, though nowhere near as much as Louise English from the Hills Angels, or Jilly Johnson from Page 3.
I liked Cleo Rocos, with her
i remember them well mr checksfield , babs was the plump blonde if i remember correctly ? going back to this dance nonsense – no doubt a lot of money will be thrown at it . probably a chunck of the leveling up money thats gone very quiet ?
She married actor Robert Powell in 1975, and they’re still together 50 years later (unfortunately, when they married she gave up dancing!).
Actually, there’s a connection between a Pan’s Person and yours truly, as Dee Dee Wilde wrote a foreword for one of my books.
This is scandalous… throwing good money after these people, none of whom are either welcome or wanted here. Expressive dance? Poetry readings? Storytelling? What a load of twaddle! If these idiots think reading stories and dancing is the answer to helping migrancy then they are beyond all help.
Want the answer to migrancy… stop all the funding (every single penny) and ONLY give aid abroad.
We’ll help you make your country a better one but only if you stay there, stop coming here and making our country a toilet.
I’d rather migrants than pretentious “artists”. Perhaps we can arrange an exchange?
I hope these workshops will help the migrants and/or refugees who attend them to become more aware of the people who don’t have negative views about them.
They should be aware of everyone’s views. As should you.
“They are free, thanks to funding from Arts Council England, and anybody with ‘lived experience of displacement’ can take part.”
Doesn’t sound very inclusive. I have no experience of displacement, so can’t take part.
Also it may well be free for the participants but it’s certainly not cost free. Acts Council England may well be providing the funds for it, but they are funded mainly by the UK government (tax payers).
That’s what the Arts Council does, gives taxpayers’ money to pretentious nonsense that no sane person would fund from their own money.
I don’t like Reform UK, but if they did get in I really hope they scrap all this nonsense.
That’s the dilemma, anyone who doesn’t like these supposedly progressive initiatives has little choice but to turn to Reform. Talk about the devil and the deep. Ben Habib has started a new party, “Integrity”, which essentially champions a return to reason and, in some ways, could be described as a more grown up and intelligent version of reform. They are going to have their work cut out if they are to make any impact, but they offer a glimmer of hope.
Most people here moaning wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for ‘migrants’ !
Another who lacks the understanding and intelligence to understand the difference between those who come here legally with the intention of working and contributing and those who come illegally to milk taxpayer funds.
What an odd thing to say.
Given the appallingly high crime stats involving migrants compared to the UK general population, I’m not sure pointing out their “contribution” would be that wise.
Typical knuckle-dragging, ignorant old people who have little education and less compassion. They speak with venom and hatred, feeling that they are justified in their anger by accident of birth. What ever happened to there but for the grace of God go l?
Typically virtue signalling wokie, lacks the intellectual capacity to put forward any reasoned argument so resorts instead to gratuitously insulting anyone who does not agree with their deranged beliefs. Am I the only one to find it ironic that someone criticises others for speaking with “bile and hatred” while directing those same sentiments to anyone who disagrees with their simplistic views?
1) Education is merely indoctrination by another name. It is deliberately designed to inculcate conformity. It is one of the reasons warmongering D.E.I. champion Tony Blair wants 70% now to attend university.
3) As the former Chair of Thanet Amnesty Group and someone who stood for T.D.C. on a “Stop the War” ticket in 2003, I see your compassion and raise you personal, practical evidence of such. I once wrote a letter that resulted in 11 persons being released from a Sudanese jail. You?
3) As for deities… If you look at the provenance of asylum claimants to this country, you will see that their homelands are far more thoroughly saturated with religious beliefs of different hues and flavours than Britain!
Feeling sorry for the underdog is why many side with those they perceive as less fortunate than those of whom they themselves are jealous. Jealousy is a terrible thing. Just read a little 20th century Russian and Chinese history.
“Education is indoctrination by another name”?! What school did you go to, Harry Webb?
A Kent grammar school, an agricultural college and, the Open University.
How about you, Vaccine?
Utterly unsurprising triggering of gammons. I’m all for this in the first place but only want more as the picture of you all spluttering impotently at your computers at the article brings me nothing but joy.
It’s lovely in a roll with mustard on.
I’ll go with what the majority want, kick out illegal migrants , bring back the best deterant and then fly them to Africa. Why not stop them mid channel check the boat and then point it in the other direction . And this stowing away on ships are breaking the law so get rid straight away by returning them to the last port of call.