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 Registration.Tea/Coffee
9.30 Welcome
Graham Fisher,CEO, ALM London
9.40 London’s refugee communities
Deng Yai, National Policy and Development Adviser
(Employment,Training and Adult Education), Refugee Council
10.10 Enriching Communities – myths and realities
Dr Heaven Crawley, Director,AMRE Consulting
10.40 Archives as a source of community enrichment
Jon Newman,Archives and Library Manager, LB Lambeth
The London Museum Hub Refugee & Asylum
Seekers Project
Darryl McIntyre, Group Director, Public Programmes,
Museum of London
Refugees, asylum seekers, the media and
archives, libraries and museums
Terry Williams, National Co-ordinator, RAM (Refugees,
Asylum Seekers and the Media Project)
11.10 Questions
11.30 Tea/coffee
11.50 Good practice in refugee integration projects
Michael Bell, Michael Bell Associates
12.20 Questions
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Welcome To Your Library
Key lessons from working with asylum seekers and
refugees in five London Boroughs Helen Carpenter, Project
Co-ordinator
2.00 Making changes in public libraries
A borough case study Adrian Whittle, Head of Library
Services, LB Newham and Sarah Henderson,Welcome To
Your Library Project Officer
2.30 The funding experience
Kate Hinds, Development and Communications Manager,
The Big Lottery Fund
3.00 Questions
3.20 Tea/coffee
3.45 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)
5.00 Close
Booking Details:
Please contact Mary
Tel: 020 7549 1700 Fax: 020 7490 5225 Email: [log in to unmask]
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