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In a world where violence forces thousands of people to flee for their lives each day, the time is now to send a message to governments and civil society that we must work together and do our fair share for refugees migration. On World Refugee Day, held every year on June 20th, we want to praise the strength and courage of millions of refugees and to show support for families forced to flee.<\/p>\n
At European Alternatives, this year is especially important for us as it closes one of our most esteemed projects: Re-Build Refuge Europe. With this project we have worked for almost two years with\u00a0AthensSYN<\/a>,\u00a0Zemos98<\/a>,\u00a0Perpetuum Mobile<\/a>, and\u00a0V\u00e4rldskulturmuseet<\/a>, to counteract the dominant discourses of \u2018crisis\u2019 and \u2018threat\u2019 in the so-called \u2018refugee crisis\u2019 by using art and culture. Activities of this project included storytelling, trainings and workshops.<\/p>\n In this framework we co-produced a series of three Talk Real episodes under the title \u2018Art Real\u2019 filmed in three key places in the debate about the arrival of migrants in European cities: Madrid, Stockholm and Athens. Three cities that in different ways have been involved in the conversations about arrival of migrants to European borders. Athens is the capital of\u00a0a country where more than 60,000 asylum seekers are stuck due to closed borders and the EU-Turkey accord on refugees. In Madrid\u00a0the local institutions are working to give responses to the block of the national government to accept refugees in the country; and in Stockholm,\u00a0refugees and local citizens hold a sit-down strike for over a month, protesting deportations to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n