The Garden Room

Music, film and discussion. This stage will incorporate a mix of live and recorded music with short films made about and by those at the epicentre of the crisis.

1.20pm

Film: This is Exile

Directed by Mani Benchelah, produced by Charly Feldman for MAKE Productions. Runtime: 56 minutes.

2pm

Media Representation of the refugee crisis

A panel discussion exploring the role the press plays in shaping narratives around refugees and migration. Curated by Cindy Palmano. 

• Lisa Markwell (Chair) is a journalist and broadcaster. While editor of The Independent on Sunday, she endeavoured to keep the refugee crisis in the public eye. 
• Golan Haji is a Syrian Kurdish poet and translator currently based in France. His latest poetry collection is titled Scale of Injury, and his latest translation is Alberto Manguel's A Reader on Reading.
• Meltem Avcil is a refugee whose story has been told many times in the media, starting when she was just 13 years old and detained in Yarls Wood, and she will speak from the point of view of a woman who now wants to use the media in order to tell wider and stronger stories about migration.  Meltem now works on the Set Her Free campaign against immigration detention with Women for Refugee Women.
• Jeremy Harding, a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, has been writing about refugees and migrants since the 1990s. His most recent book is Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants out of the Rich World.
• Niall Martin is a journalist and TV producer at the Irish national TV station, RTE. He was editor of the morning news programme 'Morning Ireland' from 2000 to 2009 dealing in disaster, disease, death, economic collapse and occasionally pestilence. Now he works on the antidote to the news - a TV programme called 'Nationwide' which only deals in positive stories . Like the BBC Newsreader Martyn Lewis, he feels good news is as much part of the human experience as the awful stuff that happens.
• Rossalyn Warren Rossalyn Warren is a senior news reporter for BuzzFeed News in London. She reports on world news, gender, and internet culture. She won News Reporter Of The Year by the 2015 Words By Women Awards and was shortlisted as New Journalist Of The Year by the 2015 British Journalism Awards.

4pm

Translating Compassion to Pragmatism

A panel discussion centered on volunteering responses to the refugee crisis. Curated by Cindy Palmano. 

• Jeremy Harding (chair), a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, has been writing about refugees and migrants since the 1990s. His most recent book isBorder Vigils: Keeping Migrants out of the Rich World.
• Baroness Sheehan is a Liberal Democrat, newly appointed to the House of Lords. Since becoming a Peer she has visited the camp in Calais several times and worked with others in the Lords to try to persuade the Government to make the conditions there more humane, and to put in place processes to assess claims so that unaccompanied minors can be reunited speedily with family members in the UK. Baroness Sheehan is herself an immigrant, having arrived in London in 1965 from Pakistan.
• Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy are two British playwrights who established the Good Chance Theatre in the Jungle camp in Calais last September. Good Chance builds temporary theatres of hope, providing safe spaces for expression and uniting people through creativity.
• Liz Clegg established the unofficial ‘Women and Children’s Shelter’ inside the Calais Jungle, which provides all-round support for hundreds of women, families, and unaccompanied minors. She recently spoke at the Women in the World Summit in New York, raising awareness about the plight of child refugees.
• Ben Harrison lived and worked in the Calais Jungle for six months, where he coordinated the construction of shelters for almost all residents, prior to subsequent evictions and fires. He will begin studying at Yale University as an undergraduate this summer.
• Lliana Bird is a radio DJ and broadcaster, currently on Radio X. In August 2015 she co-founded Help Refugees, which has since grown to be the biggest provider of aid in Calais and Dunkirk. Help Refugees has now expanded and works across Greece, France, Turkey, Lebanon and beyond, providing humanitarian aid, medical care and search & rescue. 
• Rehab Jameel is originally from Sudan. Over the past ten years Rehab has been involved with many UK charitable organisations, particularly Women for Refugee Women, to facilitate refugees and asylum seekers’ integration, raise the voices of refugee women, and to fight against FGM that is still being practiced in some communities in the UK.

The Jungle

The Barbican's vast glass house will host a wide variety of art pieces and installations. It will become a gallery of the rich mix of strange and powerful art and activism which has come from or been made in response to refugee camps. A raised stage will host talks and spoken word performances, food will be served and making organisations will demonstrate their work live.

Jungle Stage

2pm

From the EU to Lampedusa: On Bordering and Resistance" by Dr. Giacomo Orsini & Dr Federica Mazzara

Dr Giacomo Orsini explains how Europe's external border management works to strengthen the myth of (migrants’) invasion while simultaneously providing the illusion of complete (border) closure and control – reinforcing the perception of Europe as a promised land.

Dr Federica Mazzara looks at the practices of resistance performed by and for migrants within and outside the island of Lampedusa, as to build a counter-narrative around the real actors of the global passage in the Mediterranean, subjects with power and voice.

2.30pm

Lapadusa's Cross

Dr. Cook will be discussing the British Museum’s acquisition of a Cross made by Lampedusa's carpenter, Francesco Tuccio, from pieces of a boat that was wrecked on 11 October, 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa. 311 Eritrean and Somali refugees were drowned en route from Libya to Europe. Inhabitants of Lampedusa helped to save the lives of 155 others. A similar cross was made for Pope Francis who carried it at a memorial service for those who had perished.

3pm

London Beyond Borders Football Tournament Presentation

Short talk by Football Beyond Borders and Fuze Beyond Borders describing their work in France and the UK. Fuze Beyond Borders' aims to bring together refugees and British volunteers by providing refugee camps in the Dunkirk region with material and nutritional aid as well as motivational and educational activities whilst Football Beyond Borders  believe that football is the most powerful tool in the world for inspiring young people to achieve their goals. The teams that participated in the London Beyond Borders Tournament organised by these two groups, will be presented and the winning team gifted a trophy.

4.30pm

Outpost Lampedusa

A broad and wide ranging conversation with a eclectic panel discussing the causes, effects and results of the crisis on Lampedusa. They will touch on the local islanders' attitudes, the humanitarian situation, as well as resulting responses. The panel’s varied expertise and experiences will help paint a picture of this isolated EU outpost-island and describe its quirks as well as its relevance. Audience participation is invited! Panel:

• Dr Giacomo Orsini (University of Essex and Institute d'Etudes Européenne, Université Libre de Bruxelles )
• Dr Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures)
• Dr Jill Cook (Deputy Keeper, Head of Prehistory, Dept Prehistory & Europe at The British Museum)
• Lucy Wood (Artist)

6pm

"T06411" by Lucy Wood

Lucy Wood is a British artist whose fascination with border areas led her to Lampedusa. She will describe her work with T06411, a Tunisian fishing boat used to transport 36 trafficked North African migrants onboard to Lampedusa in March 2012.  She will discuss how and why she obtained the boat and set out on an epic 4000-mile solo voyage to London from the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

Exhibitors

Dr Giacomo Orsini (University of Essex and Institute d'Etudes Européenne, Université Libre de Bruxelles) 

Expertise in European external border management and policy gives him authority to talk about the macro causes and affects of the crisis. In his talk for Papers he explains how Europe's external border management works to strengthen the myth of (migrants’) invasion while simultaneously providing the illusion of complete (border) closure and control – reinforcing the perception of Europe as a promised land. Giacomo also exhibits his and Sardinian filmmaker Lorenzo Sibiriu's short film "Once the Sea Was Covered With Water" as part of Papers at the Barbican.

Dr Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures) 

A Sicilian, Federica is researching artwork being produced from Lampedusa as a result of the crisis having previously researched migrant poetry and literature on mainland Italy. In Federica's talk she explores the practices of resistance performed by and for migrants within and outside the island of Lampedusa, as to build a counter-narrative around the real actors of the global passage in the Mediterranean, subjects with power and voice. 

Dr Jill Cook (Deputy Keeper, Head of Prehistory, Dept Prehistory & Europe at The British Museum) 

Jill was instrumental in bringing a cross made by Lampedusa resident carpenter, Francesco Tuccio, out of the remains of a refugee boat shipwrecked off Lampedusa. More than 300 people perished in that disaster prompting the Pope to visit the island where he used a cross to take mass. Francesco Tuccio has recorded a film especially for Papers explaining his reasons for creating the crosses and personal feelings regarding the ongoing issues.

Lucy Wood (Artist) 

Stayed on Lampedusa for a period of months where she secured possession of a Tunisian fishing boat T06411 used to transport 36 'clandestini' to Lampedusa. There she observed first-hand the local attitudes towards the migrants and refugees, the politics, and the unfolding humanitarian disaster. T06411 is exhibited on Silk Street, and Lucy's solo trip is described in her talk at 6pm.

Alessio Genovese (Photographer, journalist, filmaker) 

Alessio is from Trapani on Sicily, one of the most important processing centres for newly arrived refugees in Europe. Reporter and documentarist with extensive professional experience in the Middle East where he spent several years working in Palestinian refugees camps on projects concerning the promotion and respect of the rights of Palestinian refugees.  At Papers, Alessio exhibits a series of photographs documenting the journey to Europe made by refugees. Alessio's film shows the impact of these issues having previously exhibited sound installations documenting the sounds of the journey to Europe in the Venice Biennial.

Francesco Tuccio (Carpenter) 

Tuccio is the Lampedusan resident carpenter. In his film made especially for Papers he describes his work making Lampedusa Crosses from pieces of shipwrecked boats washed up and dumped acrimoniously on this rock on the southern extreme border of Europe. His cross was blessed and used by Pope Francis when he visited the island to conduct a memorial service.

Maya Ramsay (Artist)

Maya Ramsay exhibits a found object entitled 'Flee'. Maya works with historically and politically important sites, often those involving conflict. 'Flee' was shortlisted for the Artraker Award for conflict in 2014.

Football Beyond Borders & Fuze Beyond Borders (Charities) 

These are education charities using sport and the power of football to inspire young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their goals and make their voices heard. FBB do this by putting a young person’s passion for football at the heart of their educational experience. Fuze have worked extensively at the less-well reported refugee camp in Dunkirk. The two organisations talk to Papers about their work and the London Beyond Borders football tournament that they are putting on for refugee youths at Finsbury Leisure Centre.

The Calais Builds

Led by Grainne Hassett, The Calais Builds have created a number of key projects at the refugee camp in Calais including the youth centre, vaccination centre and women and children's centre. They are exhibiting an exhibition of their work with 1:1 prototypes and drawings.

Calais Mapped

A mapping of the Calais migrant camp capturing how it has organically self-formed into a functioning townscape, with high streets, shops, places of worship and different residential areas. The map is co-created by London-based architecture students and is drawn from mediated images and information about the camp that are sourced through social media and the internet. It is, therefore, an imaginary and geographic map entwined. 

The Worldwide Tribe

Working across countries the worldwide tribe are engaged in many projects including installing robust wifi routers at refugee camps.

Sam Jacob Studio

A London based architecture practice whose contribution to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale explored the permanance of suposedly temporary refugee camps.

The Refugee Phrasebook

The team behind a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immediate needs. 

Knit Aid

A social enterprise of kitters set up in response cold conditions in Calais now distributing to Dunkirk and various locations in Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Knit Aid will be running workshops at Papers for whoever would like to stop by and learn to knit squares which will be stitched together to make blankets for refugee families.

Cartoon Kate

Kate Evans is an author and artist who works in large-format cartoons. A selection of her work will be on disaply at Papers.

The Hummingbird Project 

Refugee Info Bus

A live video link-up to the camp in Calais.

Refugee Rights Data Project, UEL

A project filling data gaps on efugees and displaced people in Europe. Key findings will be presented in a serires of sculpture infographics.

The Terrace

Hanging above the tropical plants of the jungle-like conservatory is the terrace, a platform which will play host to a mix of built prototype demonstrations, makers and food. 

Pineapple Island

The Kent Refugee Action Catering will be running a micro restaurant showing their work with asylum-seeking boys based in Folkstone.

Football

11.30am until 2.15pm

London Byeond Borders Football Tournament

A five-a-side football tournament organised by Fuze Beyond Borders and Footbal Beyond Borders.

Finsbury Leisure Centre, Norman St, London EC1V 3PU