Dialogue for Destitution is a project which aims to raise awareness about the issue of destitution, challenge actions and attitudes which allow destitution to continue as policy, and promote the active and valued participation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in community roles.
Dialogue for Destitution incorporates a number of campaigning and citizen media projects:
World Spirit Forum Theatre Group
A group of asylum seekers will continue devising forum theatre which will be taken to local community events but will also be turned into workshops which can be taken into schools etc. in order to raise awareness about the issue of destitution and promote cultural diversity.
Community Work-in
The Dialogue for Destitution Community Work-in is a project which aims to challenge government policy on the right to work, raise awareness about the issue of destitution and promote the active and valuable participation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in community roles.
Visual Arts Group
This thread of Dialogue for Destitution will bring artists both from the Asylum Seeking community and outside it to produce visual art work which highlights the incongruity between the ‘numbers people have in their heads’ and the true figures of Asylum and Immigration more generally.
Dialogue Event
Dialogue events will be an opportunity to bring together the wider community into one space for a day of intensive conversations, workshops, media-showings and performances which bring the issue of destitution, and the voices of participants into the spotlight. These events provide a chance to galvanize enthusiasm, increase participation and celebrate the ongoing work participants are engaged in.
