Play. Act. Explore… and create a Visual Tool! Written by Kinga Mihócsa & devised by Nyitott Kör’s creative team of young practitioners, supported by the European Solidarity Corps programmes (International Volunteering and Job) As we have already shared in previous articles, one of the main outcomes of the MiGreat project are visual tools that aim

TdO: let’s try it….online Article written by Giolli Cooperativa Sociale After the 1st Migreat! training in London, January 2019, we could not hold any training face to face, due to travel restrictions and general limitations imposed by the pandemic. Despite that, and willing to proceed with our job, goals and learning process, we ran some

The Migreat Project Guide: concepts, methods, activities and good practices Written by Mariana Hanssen (ELAN Interculturel) In February 2020 we started our first discussions on how to plan our written manual. Putting into words our daily experiences at work appeared to us a huge challenge.  However, we knew that fleeting interactions were not enough to

Every action’s in the Reaction Training Report written by EFA London Over three days in July the Migreat! team met for the three day training on community organising with half the team working face-to-face in Trento, Italy and the rest, including the trainers, working remotely from different corners of the continent. The result was an

“Lost of Whisperers in the Distance” Interview with Mansour Forouzesh Mansour Forouzesh is a 33 years old short film and documentary filmmaker from Iran, residing in Budapest, Hungary.  He studied cinema. He has made 6 short story films and produced more than 10 TV documentaries. He is currently writing a feature film script in addition

Creating alternatives narratives on migration in France: our experience in Elan Interculturel Written by Mariana Hanssen, from Elan Interculturel “How to start?” is usually the question we ask ourselves. With the support of the guidelines produced in our project (manual out very soon!) and our truly motivation as migrants ourselves, we began to organise our

THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE SECOND INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT MIGREAT! project Visual Tool a story by the Giolli Cooperative Our process started with four focus groups, which took place from November to December 2020, with mixed groups of Italian and migrants. Countries of origin: Italy, Gambia, Morocco, Bolivia, Colombia, Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina,

Nyitott Kör’s Visual Tools, and attempts at  alternative narrative creation with migrant language learners Written by: Zsófia Jozifek, Nyitott Kör Following our dear partner, EFA London’s guidelines, we started to explore the topic of migration together with a small group of language learners. In Nyitott Kör’s practice it was a new approach to create a

Introduction to Visual Tools For the second Intellectual output of the MiGREAT project, we set out to create a visual tool to counter negative narratives around migration. As a secondary aim, we sought to better understand the methods – working on a counter-narrative video project with ESOL students (migrants and refugees with English as an

Interview with Roberto Mazzini, Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner (Giolli Cooperative) On the 20th-21st of March the MiGreat! partnership participated in an online training, offered by our Italian partner, Giolli. The aim was to support  the construction of a Forum Theatre script on the theme: “Dominant Narrative of Migrants and Migration and possible counter-narratives and