Launch of Nerve Magazine
There is a free social event to celebrate the launch of the refugee edition of the Nerve magazine, this will be at the Courtroom Cafe on Friday 30th June between 7pm – 11pm.
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Nerve 27 – Why the Refugee Issue?
This edition of Nerve is dedicated to the stories, the art, and the views of Liverpool-based migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Border Incidents on the Big Screen
Steve Moss examines the cinema’s extensive relationship with migration and asylum issues.
What is a Refugee?
Jared Ficklin, from the University of Liverpool Law Clinic, asks the question what is a refugee and examines the prejudices against refugees.
Roma or Gipsy?
Alexandra B wants to take YOU the reader into her history and ask you to consider your views when you discriminate against someone like her and her people – the Roma.
From ISIS bombings To Liverpool
Darren Guy interviews Adan, a Syrian Kurd, whose city Kobani was under siege by heavily armed ISIS.
From Sanandaj To Smithdown
Katy Brown talks to a local musician about his long journey from Iran to Liverpool.
Iranian rapper Farhood Jafari
Colin Serjent talks to Farhood Jafari who specialises in rap music and who was forced to flee Iran due to political reasons.
Defender Of The Rights Of Asylum
Ashley McGovern interviews Alhussein Ahmed, a freelance translator and Sudanese refugee who assists Liverpool’s asylum community.
Round-up of Recommended Reads
Mandy Vere reviews the latest books about migration and refugees.
I stayed up all night on June 21st
Maria Notelodigo writes about how the vote for Brexit has changed things for people who’ve moved to the UK and now live and work here.
MultiCulturalSington – the sad and happy tale of L7
Steve Faragher, a director of Kensington Vision, writes about the changes that have happened in the Kensington and Fairfield areas of the city recently.
A Precious Thing
Dee Coombes visits MRANG, the Merseyside Refugee & Asylum Seekers Pre & Post Natal Support Group, who offer information, advice and support for female asylum seekers, refugees and their children.
Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge
Arthur Adlen reviews the book of poetry Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge.
Push-backs on the Balkan Route
The illegal push-backs that are taking place on the Balkan route are largely undocumented in the mass media. With enough pressure Michelle believes we could stop illegal push-backs and make peoples passage easier.
‘Everyone at least should have somewhere to go’
Mikyla Jane Durkan, of Potentially Brilliant Productions, describes the drama workshops they run on socially related topics, particularly in regard to the ‘Refugee’ play staged at the Casa.
Artist Profile – Rania Khllo
Profile of Rania Khllo who arrived in Liverpool in 2014 as a refugee from Syria where she qualified as an architect.
Artist Profile – Noel Urbain
Profile of Noel Urbain who fled Burundi in 2015 and is now involved with music and art activities in Liverpool.
A United Front For Asylum Seekers
The Liverpool-based Red Cross, Asylum Link Merseyside and the Liverpool branch of Refugee Action have united together to run a project which offers support in numerous ways to asylum seekers and refugees.
Fact Not Fiction
Fact-sheet put together by The Refugee Support Network looking at what happens when asylum seekers come to the UK.
Swarms. Crisis. Calais Jungle. Influx. Open door Britain…
Immigration is a constant aspect of political debate and people seeking asylum very rarely have their say. Report by Vicky Canning
Immigration and Liverpool; An Historical Perspective
Anthony McCarthy looks at the history of migration to Liverpool and Britain.
The UK Immigration Removal Centres – are there serious flaws?
Ashley McGovern looks at the findings of reports into the practices of Immigration Removal Centres in the UK.
Migrant Artists and Mutual Aid
Rob Harrison interviewed Jen Verson about her role with MaMa, who actively campaign for justice in the migration system.
Art With A Heart
Colin Serjent previews Any Frontier, Any Hemisphere, an art exhibition to be staged at Liverpool Central Library during June to raise awareness of the refugee crisis both in the UK and abroad.
Immigrants, Social Security and Urban Myths
Carol Laidlaw, an expert on welfare rights, writes about Immigrants and the Social Security system.
The Influx of Muslims into Liverpool
Hazel is a long-term community activist and resident in the Granby Triangle. She looks at the influence Muslims have had in Liverpool.
All The World’s A Stage
Colin Serjent describes the ways theatre in the UK has portrayed asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
LGBT and the Asylum and Refugee Community
Mimoza Gashi looks at the ways the LGBT asylum and refugee community has to face a system put in place to challenge and seriously question ones identity.
Liverpool: A Rich Tapestry Of Migration
Jill Summers writes about the work the Liverpool City Council does to welcome refugees to the city, to help them settle and to fulfil their potential.
Bags Of Love Project
Darren Guy interviews Genna Rourke and Nadine Clarke who together established ‘MerseyAid’ after witnessing the horrendous living conditions of migrants in Calais.
Migration Watch?
A look at Migration Watch, which claims to be a non party political, independent think tank.
Arms and Refugees
Refugees fleeing countries we are arming, meeting border guards we are funding.
Nerve 26 Editorial – Join the Fight Back
The mainstream media hardly tell you this, but there is resistance to the endless austerity proposed by the government, and it is building. Although councils spout the mantra that privatisation is the ‘Only Game in Town’ people are coming together to fight back.
Kurdish Woman beating the hell out of ISIS – The revolution in Rojava
Interview with Kurdish Freedom fighter, Sama, from Kobane, a city in Northern Syria on the Turkish border who is now a refugee living in Liverpool.
The Poster Boy of Liverpool Music
The posters promoting any creative scene can become more iconic than the artists themselves. This is true of Liverpool’s Sean Wars whose distinct style has attracted attention to the local and national DIY scene for a number of years.
Tales From The One-Eyed Town
Interview with Birkenhead author, Nathan O’Hagan, whose novel The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place has recently been published.
Birdman of Liverpool
A profile of wildlife artist Anthony Smith, an award winning wildlife artist living and working in Liverpool.
Small but perfectly formed
Steve Moss celebrates the arrival of Liverpool’s Small Cinema.
Nature’s Way
Sandra Gibson reviews Nature’s Way, a selection of nature-based photographs by Liverpool photographers Colin Serjent and Jane Groves, held at The Egg Café.
Liverpool Pubs – Paintings by Stephen Bower
Joe Coventry reviews the exhibition Liverpool Pubs – Paintings by Stephen Bower, held at the View Two Gallery.
Artist Profile – Abdullah Badwi
Profile of the social documentary photographer, Abdullah Badwi.
Artist Profile – Vesta
Profile of the photographer Vesta, director of Art at Glorybox.
Artist Profile – Steve Lamb
Profile of the photographer Steve Lamb, who describes his style as Modern Urban Photography, including elements of street photography.
Artist Profile – Anna Nielsson
Profile of the photographer Anna Nielsson.
Burjesta Theatre Company
Burjesta Theatre Company is unlike any other on Merseyside, “We wanted to do it our way”, said Julian Bond and Mikyla Durkin in agreement, when Lynda-Louise Tomlinson met them to learn more about the company.
Twisting Paths Through Time And Space
A poem inspired by this beautifully evocative sketch, gifted to me by local artist Felicity Wren, and in celebration of the old dock road, Liverpool’s Regent Road, reflecting on what remains of its past, as it is rapidly swallowed up.
A Tribute to Terence Matthew Kane (3/5/1970 – 22/4/2015)
Gayna Rose Madder writes a tribute to the artist Terence Matthew Kane, who died, aged 44, in 2015.
A Revival in Vinyl
“Kids today don’t know that much about Vinyl” states Martin Gore of Depeche Mode. But the joke is on the older folk as it’s the kids that are bringing back the Vinyl and losing interest in the remastered, high quality MP3s or CDs of today.
Fireweed* – Summer Time and the Livin’ is in the Back Garden
When you travel by train you realise how much green there is in Britain, not just the dull Constable green where the cows munch, but the smaller areas of green that are part of urban settlement.
What basis of society would you choose?
Anthony McCarthy writes about John B Rawls (1921- 2002) who was a philosophy professor at Harvard and Oxford Universities and developed an idea that Justice was essentially an issue of Fairness.
The Kurds, Turkey and the Middle East
A little over a year ago, in February 2015, an invisible nation rose to its feet in the Syrian town of Kobanî and successfully defended its territory from a band of rapists and torturers who hoped, and still hope, to one day bring about a glorious apocalypse.
Glorybox Photography
Glorybox Photography, founder of the Eclipse Dark Room in Liverpool, is the city’s only public access traditional photography space.
Food for thought: greedy giants and agricultural angels
You may never have heard of Cargill, but it’s a company that along with four others – Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Glencore International and Louis Dreyfus – controls between 75% and 90% of the world’s grain trade.
Creating Collages
Philip Hayes writes about how he began making collages, drawing on the wealth of material I was amassing at the Picket music venue in Liverpool.