Funded by the Home Office, Challenging Conversations is a pilot project which aims to test out new approaches to enable young people to have conversations exploring the complexities of inter community relations in a post Brexit Britain. Armstrong Cameron is one of six organisations selected to work with groups of young people aged 11 – 25.
We’ve chosen to work with dancers from Phoenix Dance Theatre and graduates of RJC Dance. We’ve asked them to join us in exploring:
What needs to happen to make communities function as tolerant, friendly, welcoming, safe places?
For our first sessions we explored neighbourliness before going on to think about what rights we felt we were entitled to and how these should be extended to others.