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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS An invite to a private view of our exhibition of asylum arts at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. May be of interest to those in the East Midlands (and beyond?) Please email me with any queries, and circulate through your networks - thanks! ------------------------- A sense of belonging: An Invite to a Private View: Friday 16th January 2009 between 6pm - 9pm An exciting new collaborative arts exhibition is to open at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham in the new year. Sense of Belonging will showcase the work of emerging exiled artists as well as work created out of participatory arts initiatives, and will explore the concept of belonging for refugees and asylum seekers in the East Midlands. Using film, sculpture, mixed media textiles, painting, photography, music and performance the artists, both individually and collectively, synthesize issues of cultural identity, displacement, relationships to surroundings, personal reflections on the process of exile and belonging with a celebration of the rich cultural contributions refugees and asylum seekers bring to cities and communities. The exhibition represents the perilous journeys people make to reach freedom both physically and emotionally, the places left behind and what makes people feel a sense of belonging a sense of being home away from home The viewer is presented with a rare opportunity to witness the double consciousness of transnational belonging, where art may be used as a tool for social and political activism. The exhibition includes contributions from visual artists Aria Ahmed, Jasim Ghafur and Thaer Ali; sculptors Obediar Madziva and Emmanuel Changunda; filmmaker and musician Gaylan Nazhad; and several community arts organisations - Charnwood Arts in Loughborough; City Arts in Nottingham; Long Journey Home; and Soft-Touch Arts in Leicester. The exhibition will be open from 9 to 30 January 2009, Mon- Friday from 10am to 5pm and Saturday 10th, 17th and 24th, 10am to 4pm, Bonington Gallery, Dryden Street, Nottingham NG1 4GG (just to the north of Nottingham city centre, 10 mins from train station). ------------------ Dr Phil Hubbard Professor of Urban Social Geography Dept of Geography Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3JA Work: 01509 222747 Mobile: 0759 4567 593 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Editor, Social and Cultural Geography http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ titles/14649365.asp Chair, Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of RGS-IBG, http://scgrg.blogspot.com/ Editor, Urban Geography section, Geography Compass: http:// www.blackwell-compass.com/home_geography_compass Co-convenor, Making The Connections network: http:// makingtheconnections-network.blogspot.com/