Thursday 3rd March 12:30 – 14:00 GMT
In this Informal Literacy Discussion, Mary-Rose Puttick, Research Assistant, Birmingham City University, will present some of the visual and sensory artefacts contributed by the women she worked with in one of her family literacy settings for her doctoral research.
The women’s instigation of the artefacts led the research into new unexpected directions: informing ways of knowing about literacies from an affective, more-than-human perspective. Mary-Rose will use this journey as a stimulus for thinking about how visual and sensory literacies can be used in everyday practice in refugee settings. Mary-Rose will be joined by Arianna Berardi and Katie Blair.
We are looking forward to being together! The Zoom room will be open to all attendees at 1220 (UK time) for a prompt 1230 start. Join us to meet and introduce yourself to other attendees.
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Arianna is a musician and music therapist working for Nordoff Robbins, the largest independent music therapy charity in the UK. She has a background in Psychology and in the performing arts, and began working as a music therapist in 2021. She is currently working in a variety of settings ranging from special needs education to adult mental health, and has been working at Brushstrokes community project since October 2021. Arianna’s work at Brushstrokes includes various formats such as 1:1 sessions and larger open group sessions, where she works with asylum seekers as well as people who are local to the area. In her work at Brushstrokes, she strives to create a safe and open space where people can share their musical culture and experience music from different cultures which allows for cross-cultural collaboration through music.
Katie is a PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral project is the first study undertaking a Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Riace in Calabria. This tiny, depopulated, village situated in Italy’s remote south has become internationally celebrated as a place of innovative refugee welcome, hospitality and solidarity, due to its reciprocal house-renovation schemes and employment initiatives, and the circulation of images of its distinctive public art in the news and online activism.
Through the analysis of Riace’s multi-modal public art, the aims of Katie’s research are to explore interrelationships of community artistic activity and civic participation towards the social bonds and links that facilitate refugee inclusion, in order to understand how images of street art, in locally (emplaced) space and online (virtual) spaces, produce and mediate Riace’s ideologies of activism, solidarity and refugee welcome.
ILDs or Informal Literacy Discussions offer opportunities for interaction on a range of ‘hot topics’ in literacy. If you would like to lead a future ILD, contact our BALID Chair, Chris Millora (chair@balid.org.uk).