Clare: I’m also fascinated by people's sense of place and place identity - I can send on the posters of the series of events that we are planning Laura - the theme is 'Stories of Movement'.

I'm very happy to share the knowledge of what we're doing - I'm encouraging a reframing or reconceptualisation of how we think about migration, movement is more useful for so many reasons in the modern context.

Hope that makes sense Laura - we are using the civic event to show that everyone embodies and expresses a story of movement, and when we align to that perspective it makes 'othering' much more difficult.

Laura: Yes, please could you email me some of the event posters. Kirsty shared the storytelling event with me just now and what I find interesting is that you ask people to bring an object with them. Can I ask what is your reason for this? Is the object a symbol of identity or is it a prompt to aid imagination for creativity, or something else?

Clare: Good question Laura - some of our migrants and refugees don't like to identify as such given their vulnerable status, so the object allows them to symbolically portray their movement, I think some muslim women also don't like to be in photographs - I also think using an object highlights our relationship and connection with the material world and all the complexities that evokes.

I should say Laura, the poem by Kirsty is to show that there are historical stories of movement too (i.e. it highlights commonality).