Migrant Lives Matter festival
Migrant Lives Matter festival Staff and students from the University of Sussex's School of Global Studies have organised a festival of music, comedy and film on campus this weekend, to fundraise for local migrant and asylum-seeker communities. Taking place on Saturday 19th November, at the university's dedicated arts venue, the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts , the festival will include a full day's programme of music, comedy, film, arts, talks, workshops and more. Headliners include comedian Juliet Meyers , author and activist David Wilson , co-founder of War Child, an exclusive screening of new film Brexitannia , alongside a Q&A session with writer and filmmaker Charlotte Kuhlbrand, and Brighton-based melodic pop band Penelope Isles. Money raised will go to local migrant and asylum-seeker support groups and organisations, including Sanctuary on Sea and the Migrant English Project. Co-organisers Rosa Weeks and Joseph Piercy say: "The inspiration for the festival came from seeing the awful situations in the Mediterranean, across central Europe, and in the Calais camps, along with the increasingly negative portrayal of migration in the media and by certain politicians in the lead up to the referendum. We felt that there was no point getting upset and angry about it all, a better response would be to do something positive and supportive. "We approached Professor Paul Statham , Director of The Sussex Centre for Migration Research, with the idea of running a day mini-festival of migration.
