Name: Violent Borders
Start: 2017-05-06T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-05-06T20:30:00+01:00
Location: The White Building

Violent Borders

SPACE is a leading visual arts organisation providing creative workspace, advocacy, support and promoting innovation.Established by artists in 1968, SPACE runs 19 artist studio buildings across 7 London boroughs and Colchester, providing affordable creative workspace plus support programmes, such as exhibitions, artists residencies, bursaries and training opportunities, to enable artists to be sustainable. SPACE also delivers Learning projects for schools, young people and communities neighbouring SPACE studio sites, to promote engagement with creativity and the arts.

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Violent Borders: Mass Deportations, migration and detention
 
“We are locked in our rooms. They just said ‘pack pack pack.’ They haven’t said why.” - Statement from Detained Voices
"Borders that are no longer mapped to the physical boundaries of nation states are increasingly de-territorialised and re-territorialised in transit places such as airports which function as strategic nodes within a transnational network of control." - Nilgun Bayraktar
Join STRIKE! Magazine for a screening of short films and panel discussion about borders, migration and cages.
Racism and xenophobia are on the rise, spurred along by the government’s rhetoric. Creating a “hostile environment” for migrants is an explicit policy objective. Brexit has unleashed a surge of racist violence. Within this context the Home Office is able to deport people en masse and detain people indefinitely with little scrutiny or challenge.
The event will provide a space to explore how violent borders are affecting communities in the UK and around the world. Featuring films by: STRIKE! Magazine, Standoff Films, and more to be announced.
The screenings will be followed by panel discussion including people who have been forcibly deported, an immigration lawyer, a campaigner who physically blocked a mass deportation and members of groups challenging mass deportations and amplifying the voices of people in detention.
 
 
<A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/strikemagyo/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">STRIKE!</A> is currently a collective of 7 people, working cooperatively against structural oppression and towards decolonised, intersectional, post-capitalist futures. Primarily producing a quarterly radical publication, we aim to be a platform for those involved in grassroots struggle, anti-oppression politics and the creative movements surrounding these issues. 
Initiated by STRIKE! Magazine in collaboration with <A HREF="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/art-technology-index/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SPACE Art + Technology</A>

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