Symposium – Translanguaging in and through Art at the Refugee Festival Scotland 2019

This event invites artists and culture-producers who engage with multilingualism in and through their work to a day of presentations and discussions about the role and representation of languages and translanguaging in contemporary art practice.

The day will start with a keynote contextualising the focus of the workshop, followed by a series of short presentations from participating artists, then lunch provided by Milk Café and time for Q&A, reflection, evaluation and networking, followed by the plenary, and more conversations over refreshments.

10.00 Registration with Coffee

10.15 Introductions

10.00 Keynote by Lavinia Hirsu, University of Glasgow

11.00 Presentations by producers and artists Simon Yiull, Naa Densua Tordzro, Elina Karadzhova, Paria Goodarzi

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Translanguaging in and through art in practice

13.30 Plenary

14.30 Conclusions and Summary

14.45 Reflection and evaluation forms

15.00 Tea and networking

Observing artists Duaa Gill.

Please see the booking page here.

Please see the dedicated Translanguaging in and through Art website for documentation and mini-report of the day’s events on 24 June 2019.

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Please see this On The Border Of Art And Language Teaching In The Multilingual World for documentation of the event held in June 2018 which has informed and led to Translanguaging In and Through Art.

Devised and produced by Cultural Documents, Dobrochna Futro(University of Glasgow) and Marta Nitecka Barche (University of Aberdeen), in partnerhsip with Milk Café and the Refugee Festival Scotland 2019, IFS Worldwide and with funding from the Culture and Business Fund Scotland

• Date from: 24 June 2019
• Date to: 24 June 2019
• Scotland, Glasgow - Refugee Festival Scotland 2019 at Milk Café, 452 Victoria Road, Glasgow
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