Speakers, Presenters and Facilitators
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Simon Aeppli
Media Educator, WAC Performing Arts and Media College, UK
Ramazan Ahmed
Refugees First, UK
Ghias Aljundi
Exiled Journalist, UK/Syria
Georgia Anderegg
Cinetig, UK
Adam Annand
Actor/Teacher, GYPT, UK
Miwanda Bagenda
Exiled Journalist, UK/Uganda
Stella Barnes
Development Worker, GYPT, UK
Breda Beban
Artist, Filmmaker and Curator (UK/Croatia)
Zafir Behlic
Refugee Action, UK
Liesbeth de Block
Institute of Education, CHICAM project, UK
Zrinka Bralo
Carol Brown
TAN Dance, UK
Vanessa Bucolli
Co-ordinator, Refugee Media Group, UK
Sarah Butterworth
Regional Manager, Balkans, War Child Netherlands, UK/Kosovo
Anton Califano
Filmmaker/Media Teacher, NewVic, UK
Nadina Christopoulou
Researcher, CHICAM, Greece
Kuljit 'Kooj' Chuhan
Voice & Digital Media Artist, UK
Jeremy Dear
General Secretary, National Union of Journalists, UK
Tony Deyes
Director, British Council Wales, UK
Igor Dobricic
European Cultural Foundation, Netherlands
Karen Drezgic
Social Inclusion Officer, Arts Council London, UK
Asmet Elezovski
RNC - Roma Media, Macedonia
Tiffany Fairey
Director, PhotoVoice, UK
Don Flynn
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, UK
Anthony Fontenot
Architect, USA
Abol Froushan
Writer, UK/Iran
Katherine Goodnow
Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
David Green
Director General of the British Council, UK
Arber Hadri
Director of the National Museum of Kosova
Alison Hale
Actor/Teacher, GYPT, UK
Taylan Halici
Performance Artist, UK/Turkey
Bill Hamblett
Small World Theatre, UK
Jane Hann
ESOL teacher, Kidbrooke School, UK
Choman Hardi
Artist and Author, UK
Dan Harris
Limbomedia, UK
Ülkü Holago
Quick Response, Swedish Red Cross, Sweden
Jane Hubbard
Cinetig, UK
Mike Jempson
The PressWise Trust, UK
Dr. John Jewell
Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultrual Studies, Cardiff University, UK
Aidan Jolly
Musician and Multi-Media Artist, UK
Stephen Jukes
Former Global Head of News, Reuters news agency, UK
Nadim Karam
Architect/Artist, Visiting Associate Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Margareta Kern
Artist and Curator, ‘Leave to Remain’, UK
Louise Keyworth
Director and Workshop Leader, Pillion Productions, UK
Ed Klute
European Monitoring project/Online-More Colour in the Media, Netherlands
Max Kpakio
Exiled Journalist, UK/Liberia
Michelynn Laflèche
Director, The Runnymede Trust, UK
Jennifer Langar
Founder and Director, Exiled Writers Ink!, UK
Maria Leonida
Documentary Director, Greece
Professor Jack Lohman
Director of the Museum of London, UK
Ian Macdonald QC
UK
Josef el Mahdi
Quick Response, Swedish Red Cross, Sweden
Kabelo Madonko
Zimbabwean Percussionist, UK
Mohammad Alim Maiham
Singer, Iran
Ajmal Maiwandi
Architect, Afghanistan/UK
Bernard Margueritte
Poland Correspondent, Le Monde, France
Faqir Mayvand
Refugee TV, UK
Daniel Meadows
Creative Director, CAPTURE WALES, BBC CMRU Wales, UK
Nick Medic
RAM Project, UK
Hilton Mendelssohn
Writer, UK/Zimbabwe
Blerim Mllja
Sixth form student at Kidbrooke School, UK
John Morales
Actor/Teacher GYPT, Artist in Exile, Latin Group and Colombia, UK
Sheila Mosley
Far Side Music, UK
Selina Moyo
Olive Mukamusoni
Actor, Pillion Productions, UK
Misha Myers
Dartington College of Arts, UK
John Nasarri
Photographer, UK
Patrick Nelson
Freelane Stage Manager, GYPT, UK
Clarice Ngwa
Actor, Pillion Productions, UK
Sandra Nyaira
Exiled Journalist, UK/Zimbabwe
Lembit Opik MP
Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, UK
Jo Parkes
Choreographer/Dance Teacher, NewVic, UK
Jesus Panadero-Huerta
Refugee TV, UK
Milica Pesic
Media Diversity Institute (Balkans/Caucasus), UK
Karen Pirie
BBC Leicester, UK
Roya Rafati
Refugees First, UK
Carlos Reyes-Manzo
Photojournalist, Andes Press Agency, UK
Sean Risdale
Cultural Diversity Officer, Arts Council London, UK
Angela Rogers
engage Cymru Development Coordinator, UK
Alex Rotas
Researcher, Bath Spa University, UK
Tony Saint
Author of Refusal Shoes, UK
Sarah Sansom
Director, Producer and Composer, Pillion Productions, UK
Paul Seawright
Artist, Professor of Photography & Head of Photographic Research, University of Wales College, Newport, UK
Rasa Sekulovic
Child Rights, Protection and Participation Programme Manager, Save the Children UK-Serbia Programme
Leonie Sharrock
Cinetig, UK
Ann Shrosbree
Small World Theatre, UK
Clare Smith
Midlands Refugee Council, UK
Judith Stewart
Curator of Strangers to Ourselves, UK
Darija Stojnic
Author and Counsellor, UK/Bosnia
Poppy Szaybo
Director, A Sense of Place, UK
Kirsteen Tait
Director, Information Centre on Asylum and Refugees (ICAR, Kings College, London), UK
Richard Tait
Professor of Journalism, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Former head of news ITN, UK
Suzana Tamamovic
Artist, UK
Simon Taylor
Head of Press and Public Affairs UNHCR, UK
Professor Terry Threadgold
Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK
Pearl Thevanayagam
Exiled Journalist, UK/Sri Lanka
John Torode
Freelance political commentator on numerous UK national publications, UK
Ardit Ura
Sixth form student at Kidbrooke School, UK
Fleur Varenne
Actor, Pillion Productions, UK
Marion Vargaftig
European Consultant, Cultural Programmes and Social Action, UK
Menno Verheij
Immigration and Asylum Unit, European Commission
Nick Wadham-Smith
Deputy Director of Counterpoint, the new cultural relations think-tank of the British Council, UK
Abebe Wendwosen
Refugee TV, UK
Jennifer Williams
Executive Director of The Centre for Creative Communities, UK
Dr Terence Wright
Reader in Critical, Historical & Theoretical Studies in Visual Art, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster
John Wood
Director, Inside Out, GYPT, Freelance Writer, UK
Dianna Yach
President of Ionann Management Consultants Limited
Gary Younge
New York Colomnist, The Guardian, UK/USA
Rahimullah Yousufzai
Journalist and BBC World Service contributor from Peshawar, Pakistan
Haifa Zangana
Writer, UK/Iraq
Samina Zahir
Midlands Refugee Council, UK
Mustapha Abassi Zadek
Harmonium player, UK/Afghanistan
Zorica Zivojinovic
484 Group, Serbia
Zory
Artist, UK
This page will be updated as additional speakers and
facilitators confirm their participation
