What is it: Terminal Frontiers, Manchester Goals: To explore people's reactions to asylum and immigration issues Funding: 28,000 for the tour from Arts Council England
When Mark Krantz, a teacher at Lostock Community High School in Greater Manchester, tried to get young people to look at the issues of asylum and immigration, he found they didn't want to know.
The subject has become so highly charged that many people have difficulty relating it to their own lives, and instead give a knee-jerk reaction.
Krantz, who is also a member of arts collective Virtual Migrants, decided to involve one of his classes in the production of a video to engage them in the subject. The starting point was Benjamin Zephaniah's book Refugee Boy, about a young man who is faced with deportation from the UK. Krantz encouraged his class to imagine how they would react if one of their friends was faced with deportation.
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