Launch of Culture Bars Podcast

CRaB recently launched a new podcast series – Culture Bars. Culture Bars is a collaborative project realized by international scholars, educators, artists and grassroots community organizations that intends to explore the benefits of Hip-Hop-Based-Education as an inclusive school and community practice. Each episode explores the possibilities and benefits of introducing Hip-Hop-Based-Education, already a successful educational practice in the US, in the UK. Hip-Hop-Based-Education has proved to be successful in helping students with content acquisition, wellbeing and critical thinking, and it has showed advantages for school administrators, teachers, students and their families. Each episode will involve a different theme introduced through

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Memory and Emotion: Refugee Week event with artist Hong Dam.

The second of JFI and CRaB’s ‘Coffeee Shop Conversations’ will be taking place on Thursday 21st June from 12.30 in Guildhall Cafe. To mark Refugee Week 2018 we welcome Hong Dam. Hong is a Brighton-based Vietnamese artist whose work deals with memory, loss and displacement in the context of her experiences of becoming a refugee as a child. She will read a short extract from her debut novel Sympathy for the Dandelion after which there will be audience discussion about the work and themes arising. Please come along – there will, as with all of these events, be free tea, coffee and cake!

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CRaB and ArtReach event, Monday 21 May

CRaB are collaborating with ArtReach as part of a project funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Google.com. The aim of the project is to promote ongoing dialogue between Portsmouth residents and refugees and asylum seekers in order to counter negative narratives and reduce the prevalence of and potential for extremist views. The first event, an arts workshop and subsequent conversation, will be taking place this Monday and will involve artist Gil Doron and his fascinating New Union Project. All welcome! Come to Friendship House on Elm Grove, Portsmouth, for 1-2.30 for the workshop and 3-4 for the Coffee Shop

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