#17 Siena Special – New Neighbours Community Outreach Workshop

Siena , the beautiful city in Tuscany, Italy, was also the place
where the first New Neighbours Community Outreach Workshop took
place. From September 18. to 20. 2019 small group of 15 community
media producers and coordinators from all over the Europe came
together in order to share what has worked well in their
intercultural work/programs so far, what is needed to make the
programs more sustainable  and visible, and to jointly
develop some creative ideas for new outreach initiatives.


This seminar was organized by Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE)
and funded by the European Union’s Asylum, Migration and
Integration Fund and took place as a part of the
Project “New Neighbours”. The aim of New Neighbours is
to highlight the positive social and economic contributions that
are made by migrants and refugees throughout communities across
Europe. By promoting direct participation in media production and
intercultural dynamics, it is hoped to foster tolerance and
acceptance for migrants and refugees in EU member states. New
Neighbours work with public service media, community media and
civil society organisations to challenge stereotypes and expose
commonly held myths, placing migrant voices at the heart of
discussions on migration and delivering innovative messaging in
order to help promote the integration of migrants into local
communities.


During this event we had a very productive know-how exchange and
had an unique opportunity not only to get to know a community
meda producers from all over the europe, but also to create a new
project ideas. This workshop was a starting point of a lot of new
cooperations, like this show that was created together with
Rufine Songue, one of  the producers of a Radio
Show “Our Voice – the voice of invisibles” on radio
Dreyeckland. 


Togther with Rufine we had an opportunity to talk with Nadia
Bellardi the initiator and organizer of this New Neighbours
Community Outreach Workshop, about this project and the work
behind. Nadia is Zurich based public relations and
intercultural communication consultant for non-profit, corporate
and governmental organizations. She is committed to advocacy and
media policy work for the third media sector in Europe, as Vice
President of Community Media Forum Europe from 2008 to
2015. 


In this show you will also hear a short interviews with
participants of this workshop: Jean Ngenda
Himana, director of Migration Heute and a Board member
and communication advisor of CMFE; Selma Cherif el
Meslouhi from centro interculturale mondinsiene in
Reggio Emilia; Larry Moore Macaulay, the
Founder, Editor in chief and Publisher of Refugee Radio Network
and a  founder of the conference on migration and media
awareness (CMMA); Biljana Zikic, from Radio
študent, Slovenia, Ljubljana; Lama Alokali,
a producer of Salam Show on Radio ARA inLuxembourg;
 Lina Chawafw, a syrian journalist and
radio maker and a founder and editor-in-chief of Rozana FM
and Nuria Lazaro, a journalist, radio and
tv producer from Radio Televisio Cardedeu.