Place and displacement: reconnecting to the world through the arts

Forcibly displaced populations have surged around the world due to everything from conflict to climate crisis. Forced displacement generates health related challenges like shelter and food to broader psychosocial issues of trauma, whose effects can even have intergenerational impacts. This panel will discuss how the arts have been used to help reconnect forcibly displaced peoples cope with their new circumstances, process their sense of loss, and begin the journey to imagining a more hopeful future.

In partnership with Healing Arts Scotland .

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