Building Community Integration Using Arts
During June 2021 Dr Pooneh Torabian and colleagues at the Centre for Global Migrations worked with local Dunedin community artists to run a series of workshops with migrant Afghan women to help them tell their stories of migration. Using painting, collage, and needle felting, the migrant women were able to bypass language barriers to help build networks and facilitate a sense of community and belonging.
The research team comprises Dr Pooneh Torabian (principal investigator), Dr Vivienne Anderson, Dr Neil Vallelly, and Sayedali (Ali) Mostolizadeh.
The workshops and facilitators were as follows:
- Collage (Jo Bone)
- Sewing (Anne Morrison and Linda Dunn)
- Felting (Chloe Mackenzie)
- Painting (Pamela Brown)
A report on the workshops (below) appeared in the ACTIONZ magazine.
