The LISTEN Festival of Social and Labour inclusion of Migrants and Refugees was a great event organised by our Italian partner CESIE in the premises of the social enterprise and coworking space “Molti Volti”. It was a wonderful conclusion to our project! The highlights were the workshops and the award ceremony – the two winners of the LISTEN award were celebrated. Continue reading Festival in Palermo
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Abdul from Syria
Summary:
A live interview of Abdul from Syria with Matt on Radio Dacorum, one of our partner radio stations.
Källan (The Source)
The storyteller:
Galina originates from Ukraine and is now living in Sweden. She has decided to write her story down in order to share it publically, because she didn’t felt comfortable to be recorded. Her trainer has translated the stoy in English.
Summary:
One summer, she spent her vacations with her grandparents. By that time, Galina was fascinated by “Ronja Robber’s daughter” and wanted to ride like her through the landscape. One day, Galina saw this beautiful brown horse on a paddock and decided to ride it…
Förändringen (Change)
The storyteller:
Hibo from Somalia has been living for 8 years in Sweden.
Summary:
In her story Hibo tells why it is so important for her to able to speak Swedish. As she didn’t wanted to be recorded, but nevertheless wished to share her story, she confirmed to write it down. And her trainer has translated it to English.
The Time
The storyteller:
Roberta is Italian, but is working for several years with refugees and migrants. She also wanted to share a story within the LISTEN project.
Summary:
Roberta tells the story of girl that learns how to manage her time and live without stress.
The Conception of the Time
The storyteller:
Chamwil moved from Cameroon to Italy
Summary:
Chamwil tells about an anecdote at the beginning of his stay in Sicily, and tells why the conception of the time is important for him since this particular day.
My journey to Italy
The storyteller:
Ibrahim emigrated from the Senegal to Italy.
Summary:
Ibrahim tells about his journey from Senegal to Italy. “Know thyself,” that is the journey of self-expression and self-realization that we are travelling.
LISTEN in Palermo
The Italian partner CESIE has done a storytelling event connected to LISTEN in Palermo. They aimed to foster the integration of migrants by using storytelling.
In a workshop the participants learnt how to structure stories, how to create atmosphere and, of course, how to tell them. The workshop was in Italian, so participants automatically used and learnt the Italian language. The storytelling workshop was a great success. Some of the participants decided to tell their publically, others to write them down.
Pictures, reports and stories of the Palermitan event you can get here.
The Power of Storytelling
During our project and work with storytelling we are finding permantly information about the power of storytelling. A very beautiful video with the famous actor Ian McKellen as storyteller we want to share with you: https://vimeo.com/125383660.
But not also actors and storytellers know about the power of storytelling. It is also a topic for scientific researches. An scientific article about her results studying the storytelling culture in Southern Africa you can find here.
Education and Integration
The interviewee:
Enock, a man from Zimbabwe, has emigrated one year ago to Germany.
Summary:
“Education makes you strong”. With this sentence Enock begins his report about his observations and his own experiences how important it is to learn German respectively the language of the host country. He wants to engage other migrants and refugees to learn the language of the host countries. Furthermore he wants to create native speakers’ awareness for language difficulties of the migrants.