Enriching Communities: How Libraries, Museums and Archives Can Work with
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Wednesday 14 July 2004, Museum of London FREE
This conference will debate some of the key issues affecting refugees and
asylum seekers and will demonstrate how libraries, museums and archives can
reach and involve refugees and asylum seekers in their work.
9.00-9.30 Registration. Tea/Coffee
9.30-9.40 Welcome - Graham Fisher, CEO, ALM, London
9.40-10.10 London's Refugee Communities. Deng Yai, National Policy and
Development Adviser, Refugee Council
10.10-10.40 Enriching Communities - Myths and Realities
Dr Heaven Crawley, Director, AMRE Consulting
10.40-11.10 Archives as a source of community enrichment
Jon Newman, Archives and Library Manager, LB Lambeth
The London Museum Hub Refugee Project
Darryl McIntyre, Group Director, Museum of London
Refugees, Asylum Seekers, The Media & museums, &
archives libraries
Terry Williams, National Co-ordinator, RAM (Refugees, Asylum
Seekers and the Media Project)
11.10-11.30 Questions
11.30-11.50 Tea/coffee
11.50-12.20 Good practice in refugee integration projects Michael Bell,
Michael Bell Associates
12.20-12.30 Questions
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.00 Welcome To Your Library – keys lessons from working with
asylum seekers and refugees in five London Boroughs
Helen Carpenter, Project Co-ordinator
2.00-2.30 Making changes in public libraries - a borough case study.
Adrian Whittle, Head of Library Services, and Sarah Henderson, Welcome To
Your Library Project Officer, LB Newham
2.30-3.00 The Funding Experience Kate Hinds
Development and Communications Manager, The Big Lottery Fund
3.00-3.20 Questions
3.20-3.45 Tea/coffee
3.45-5.00 Plenary :Crossing boundaries, crossing domains
Susan Blishen,Education Projects Manager,
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Sarah Reynolds, Manager, Salusbury World
Richard Stanton, Senior Policy Officer, Greater London Authority
Graham Fisher, CEO, ALM London (chair)
Booking Details:
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Tel: 020 7549 1702 Fax: 020 7490 5225 Email: [log in to unmask]
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