Because You Were There: a Bristol organising day for disrupting migration systems and narratives
DATE: 27 November 2024
TIME: 3-7.45pm (with networking until 8.30pm)
LOCATION: Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, St Paul’s, Bristol, BS1 3QY
HOST CONTACT INFO: [email protected]
Calling people to join the Migrants’ Rights Network in Hamilton House in Bristol on 27 November 2024 (3-7.45pm with networking till 8.30pm) to organise and build local resistance to the racist structures that keep our communities oppressed.
TICKETS
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WHAT TO EXPECT
- Reflective Discussions: Explore critical topics like racist and anti-migrant language, colonialism and systemic racism.
- Personal Histories: Share and learn from our own personal experiences of migration and colonisation. Together, we’ll reflect on how these histories shape our present and our future.
- Community Resistance: Learn and discuss how people are building local resistance to racist laws and structures.
- Network & Connect: Meet like-minded individuals, and activists who want to dismantle racist structures and systems locally.
AGENDA
| Time | Activity |
| 3-3:20 | Icebreaker and intros |
| 3:20-4:35 | Decolonisation, migration and language:Words Matter/Why Are We Here Workshop (facilitated by Fizza Qureshi (she/her), CEO of the Migrants’ Rights Network) |
| 4:35-4:45 | Break |
| 4:45-5:15 | Arts session: Play and Creative Collaboration A collaborative collage/found poetry collage making session linked to the local area and including themes of migration and decolonisation. (facilitated by Carlo Hornilla (they/them)) |
| 5:15-6:15 | Dinner |
| 6:15-7:45 | Panel/Roundtable: Decolonising Locally (with speakers Siza Dube and Carolina Echegaray) |
| 7:45-8:30 | Networking |
OTHER INFO
- Free dinner and refreshments will be provided.
- Speakers to be announced- stay tuned!
- Limited travel subsidies are available on a first come first served basis.
WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?
- Everyone who wants to learn, engage and discuss dismantling systems of oppression.
- We particularly want migrants, including refugees, Bristolian activists, and more to join.
- We will prioritise racialised and migrant, including refugee, attendees.
SPEAKERS/FACILITATORS:
- Fizza Qureshi: CEO of the Migrants’ Rights Network
- Carlo Hornilla aka KaaroKaaro Art: Artist, illustrator, workshop facilitator, creative consultant, spoken word poet, organised chaos, lover of lists and awkward human being. Their practice focuses on “Fun” and “Play” as a platform for exploring introspective worlds, collaborative storytelling and conversations and the complexities between them. They will be hosting a session to make Found Poetry Collages together to find new stories from the old while inviting playful collaboration with each other.
- Siza Dube is a London-based Black feminisms researcher specializing in the experiences of historically marginalized groups, particularly Black and poor communities. As a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, she contributes to the Leverhulme Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism Project, focusing on the histories of Black women organizing around welfare inequalities and reproductive justice in the UK. Currently, Siza supports the MA Gender, Generation, and Forced Migration module at UCL Geography. She also delivers Black feminisms workshops for schools and colleges, empowering young people to challenge systems of oppression and reimagine the world around them. Alongside her academic work, Siza works as a consultant for social justice charities, offering expertise on the intersections of gender, race, class, and culture. With a commitment to decolonial and liberatory practices, Siza’s work bridges academia, activism, and community organizing to dismantle oppressive systems and envision a more equitable present and future.
- Carolina Echegaray is an organizer, youth worker , social researcher and educator. Carolina’s work is at the intersection of child rights, transformative justice, childism, PiC abolition, anti-racism and indigenous ways of knowing. Their focus is on Dismantling the root causes of violence against children. Carolina is a child refugee having arrived to the UK from Peru at the age of 6, they have lived and worked in many parts of the world but now settled in rural Bristol.
ORGANISERS
- Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fights for rights and justice. We co-curate campaigns using anti-oppression practices to create transformational change, extending beyond the individual impact on migrants’ lives, to tackle oppression at its source.