Across Borders
Our Across Borders three-year international programme of work is reaching wide audiences and is developed in partnership with organisations and artists in Greece, Germany and the UK.
Our Across Borders three-year international programme of work is reaching wide audiences and is developed in partnership with organisations and artists in Greece, Germany and the UK.
Alongside annual main commissions in each of the four locations there have been a range of smaller commissions, as well as leadership development programmes, media campaigns, schools workshops and a series of networking and development sessions for organisations across the arts, refugee and migration sectors.
The aim of this programme, supported by Comic Relief as part of their Across Borders initiative, includes helping to normalise and diversify representations of refugees in mainstream media, arts & culture.
The overall goal of Comic Relief’s Across Borders programme is to support refugees and people seeking asylum to safe, legal and dignified routes to fulfilling and happy settlement, whether that be in the country of destination, transition country or country of origin. They aim to achieve this through a combination of:
- Direct service delivery at grassroots level
- Shifting public attitudes and countering negative narrative through campaigns, the arts, media and popular culture, both in the UK and internationally
- Changes to policy, practice and legislation.
