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FRIDAY 17 March 2023 6.30pm - 8.30pm GMT '(RE) BUILDING IN WARTIME' Hybrid @Brookes Headington This lecture marks the opening of the 2023 Oxford Human Rights Festival. This year we are very pleased to welcome Slava Balbek, a Ukranian architect, founder and CEO of a Kyiv-based award-winning architecture and interior design studio balbek bureau, and who has been fighting against demolition of historic buildings, preparing rescue kits and creating an emergency housing plan within just 10 days of the conflict in Ukraine starting. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, Slava's team has been crafting social projects in response to the war-inflicted challenges. The initiatives, including a dignified temporary housing solution for IDPs and a monument protection system, have been united under the RE:Ukraine System title. |
TUESDAY 21 March 2023 6.30PM - 8.30PM GMT 'The Oxford Human Rights Festival is proud to present a screening of the award winning documentary Hostile, including a Q&A with writer, director, and producer Sonita Galet' HYBRID @Brookes Headington Hostile is a BAFTA and BIFA Longlisted feature-length documentary written, produced and directed by Sonita Gale, focusing on the UK's complicated relationship with its migrant communities. Told through the stories of four participants from Black and Asian backgrounds, the film focuses on the impact of the evolving 'hostile environment' policies that target migrants, including No Recourse to Public Funds which is forcing people into destitution. The film explores how the lives of international students, members of the Windrush generation and 'Highly Skilled Migrants' have been affected. The film features music from award-winning musicians Nitin Sawhney and spoken word from George the Poet. Nitin Sawhney also served as an Executive Producer |
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MONDAY 20 March 2023 15.00pm - 16.00pm GMT A Jean Monnet Roundtable Discussion about the threats faced by Europe's only indigenous people. Hybrid @Brookes Headington The Sámi people are an Indigenous community that have inhabited the far north of Europe for thousands of years. Over the years, the Sámi have faced significant human rights abuses and discrimination in Nordic countries due to a long history of racism and forced assimilation efforts. These issues persist to this day, and more recently the 'green shift' has unfortunately resulted in land grabs and has limited their ability to maintain their traditional way of living, putting the younger generation at risk of losing their cultural heritage. Join us for a discussion where our panellists will present their research concerning the threats faced by the Sámi peple today. This event is hosted by the Oxford Human Rights Festival in collaboration with the Migration and Refugees Network. |
WEDNESDAY 22 March 2023 17.00pm - 20.00pm GMT An evening of discussions, music and mingling in solidarity with the 'Women, Life, Freedom' Movement in Iran. Hybrid @Holywell Music Room, Wadham College Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PN An evening of discussions, music and mingling in solidarity with the 'Women, Life, Freedom' Movement in Iran. The evening will include discussions as well as a performance by Iranian traditional musicians who have created tailored original compositions that have been performed in venues such as London's Trafalgar Square as part of the protests for women's and human rights in Iran |
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EXHIBITIONS
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17TH March - 25TH MARCH 2023 Running throughout the festival The Oxford Human Rights Festival is excited to be colllaborating with Modern Art Oxford through Voices, a new art project by Oxford-based artists Lilli Tranborg and Laura Campbell Hybrid @Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, OX1 1BP Responding to the theme of this year’s festival, ‘Now What?,’ Lilli Tranborg and Laura Campbell take a voices-as-research approach to creating their new project, which invites us to reflect on our rights in light of the current political uncertainty of the Human Rights Act in Britain. This is a sculptural and sound exhibition, with an added online presence, designed around 'Voices' gathered from the general public in Oxford. |
17TH March - 25TH MARCH 2023
Running throughout the festival Hybrid @Brookes Headington The Palestinian Experience Exhibition aims to shed light on the physical and symbolic forms of oppression that affects issues such as shelter, livelihood, and identity. The exhibition showcases a video presentation explaining Israeli Architecture as a means of oppression. Guests may then participate in an interactive 'board game' that depicts how architecture shapes a persons experience in Palestine based on their identification. Join us at any time during the exhibition. |
17TH March - 25TH MARCH 2023
RUNNING THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL Through the "From Education to Employment?" project, which was co-led by the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University, and the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University, researchers looked at what this tension between short-term and long-term means for young people’s education and employment. Hybrid @Brookes Headington In displacement settings, what shapes the trajectories of young people from education into employment?” The researchers worked with young people – nationals, Syrian and Palestinian refugees – in Jordan and Lebanon in different ways to understand how they experience these tensions, navigate critical points in their lives, and envision their futures. This exhibition brings together some of that work, produced by the young people and facilitated by creative professionals, in the form of video, creative writing, art work and documentary film. |