Moving Matters Traveling Workshop Threads. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution. Lisa talks with Susan Ossman β the MMTW creative director and producer and professor of anthropology at UC Riverside β about the project and its link with her work with refugees. Performances are on Friday, 30 June at 19h and Saturday, 1 July at 17h. We cooperate with public administrations, lawyers and community associations to counsel people about administrative, legal, political, social and cultural questions.
Since the end of the mediation and support of Church Asylums has taken more of our energy. Church asylum is a form of temporary protection for refugees without the status of legal residence who would face unacceptable social hardship, torture or even death if forced to return to their country of origin.
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During the church asylum, all relevant legal, social and humanitarian aspects of the cases are examined. There is no legal right of Church Asylum but it is like an agreement between the German State and the Church because of a long tradition.
We pay attention to all of their background and competencies. We believe that personal encounters are the first step to social participation, and that they also help for finding work, not to mention learning German. Personal encounters enrich the lives of all participants and reinforce mutual understanding. To reach our goals we have had to develop new ways of thinking about complicity and new ways of working to build up new synergies among public institutions, associations, parishes and initiatives from communities.
Bringing all of these institutions and groups together is a kind of border- crossing. By bringing people from different countries, origins, professions together with the common goal to create something collectively and also individually, the MMTW naturally shares our objectives.
