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

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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

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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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Reflections on January’s screening of Blueberry Soup

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CRaB postgraduate researcher Carlus Hudson has written the following reflections on the screening of Blueberry Soup which was hosted by CRaB earlier this year. Blueberry Soup: How Iceland changed the way we think about the world On 10th January, CRaB was joined by documentary-maker Eileen Jerrett for a screening of her film Blueberry Soup. Blueberry Soup follows the stories of Icelandic people who have taken their country’s future into their own hands and sought to rewrite the constitution. Iceland was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis: its economy shrunk by 10% and unemployment tripled. The largest protests in Iceland’s

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