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Day 217, Year of #Mygration: Who are we? Art, migration and democracy

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Northern Ireland’s three universities are once again coming together for the annual ESRC Festival of Social Science. Led this year by Queen’s University Belfast, the Festival will run from 3-10 November and will feature a total of 26 events organised by social science academics from Ulster University, The Open University and Queen’s. The UK-wide Festival aims to open up social science research to new audiences by showing how such research has an influence on our everyday lives. 

A series of talks, screenings and workshops offer festival goers the chance to debate, discuss and discover how social science shapes everything from our working life and our children’s learning to how we engage with our families and within our communities. As part of this, we are pleased to invite you to a Learning Lab focusing on the theme 'Who are We?'. The Learning Lab will draw on the collaborative work between the OU and Counterpoints Arts as part of Tate Exchange, organised by Dr Agnes Czajka, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Studies at The Open University.

What contribution can art make to how we think about identity, belonging, migration and citizenship? Come along to our Learning Lab where we will look at how participatory arts can raise public awareness of issues such as migration, displacement, placemaking, citizenship and the production of social democracy. 

The workshop will look in particular at how the art and activism of migrants and refugees are challenging notions of democratic citizenship. Artists are audaciously inserting themselves into, and pushing the boundaries of controversial political debates, challenging dominant interpretations of the parameters of citizenship and belonging. 

The Learning Lab will draw on the collaborative work done between The Open University and Counterpoints Arts as part of the Tate Exchange. Counterpoints Arts is a leading national organisation in the field of arts, migration and social change, supporting and producing art by and about migrants and refugees, seeking to ensure that their contributions are recognised and welcomed within British arts, history and culture. The Learning Lab will enable participants to explore some of these interventions, and the contribution they make to creatively and radically reimagining the map of democratic citizenship in the UK.

Date: Wednesday 7 November
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: The MAC Belfast, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast BT1 2NJ

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Please note that there will be photography taken during this event for use on social media. If you do not wish to be photographed taken, please advise Open University staff at the venue when you arrive. 

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