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What was the digital reach of #ReTold?

#Retold - Live and Online event reached 57 people online who watched the live performance from 4 different countries

#ReTold – Cut and Paste 44 digital stories were created for YouTube by young people and viewed 2,861 times – That’s over 24 hours of total video views!

#ReTold – Make in Micro 133 Instagram posts, 52 Yappie posts and 52 Pheed post were created and seen by over 5,000 Instagram, Yappie and Pheed app users.

Tumblr This blog was visited by 509 visitors throughout the timespan of the project with 37% being returning visitors

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#ReTold Stanmore

#ReTold - Live and Online

So here is a quick overview of the ReTold project to date!

For the last year we have been undertaking Research and Development with young people around the use of digital technology and using everyday apps to respond the the story of Sen, a young refugee living in the UK.

Make In Mirco

This was our first project using Instagram, Pheed and Yappie to respond to themes in the characters life through images, short film and sound. We worked with a wide range of young people and got them to share their ideas creatively an online (to see their work hit the MakeinMicro tag below)

Cut & Paste

We then took these ideas and worked with 2 professional performers and a group of young people from Stanmore College to create a library of original short film, images and sounds that other young peopel could use to create digital storytelling films of Sen's life and share them online (to see this work hit the CutnPaste tag below)

#ReTold - Live and Online

Finally our current phase is we are back working with the professional performers and the young people from Stanmore College to create a short live performance inspired by the previous work and we will be streaming it it live from the view point of the characters on Saturday 21st March 2015, so you can watch the final performance from anywhere in the world! (to see more about this phase hit the ReTold Stanmore tag below)

#makeinmicro #cut'n'paste #ReTold Stanmore

We have been working with young people from Red Cross to create more short video stories of Sen, a young refugee as part of our Cut & Paste project. Here are a few of them, but to check out all of them visit the #ReTold YouTube channel here

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCja5FNSsRyANt7NmbjKFHNA/videos

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Meet the cast of ‪#‎ReTold‬ our new live and on-line performance that will be streamed from the point of view of the characters. We'll find out more about each cast member over the coming weeks.

But put the date in your diary! Saturday 21st March, 1pm live and on-line .... more info soon!

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Clarice Holt is an

illustrator living in London

, she watched Melissa Fleming’s Ted Talk, “

Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive

,”( that we shared with you here on this blogs) and was so inspired that she responded by creating beautiful, shareable images of the main ideas in Fleming’s talk.

“An illustration can be like Mary Poppins’ spoonful of sugar,” she says. “If someone is captivated by an image, they can absorb so many things along with it.” Clarice Holt

At Kazzum we were so impressed with her work she is now working with us and our Brighter Futures group visually documenting their workshops which will feed into a much bigger project later in the year.

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Here is a graphic story by ImmigrantX which shows the day jobs of Immigrant X and the workings of the immigration department.

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Theshame of being an asylum seeker

Abdul explains that as an asylum seeker in the UK not only does your life lack meaning, as usually you are not allowed to work, but you are also seen to be a burden on British society – a leech feeding off hard-working British citizens.

For Abdul his loss of social standing is too difficult to bear. He suffers greatly from what he calls “the shame of being an asylum seeker.” He recalls that working in Pakistan he used to visit and write stories on the Afghan refugees in the Northern Provinces, “I knew their circumstances intimately, but I never imagined that I would become one of them.”

“It’s humiliating,” he says. “From day one of the asylum process I was made to feel like a criminal or prisoner of war.” “We stand there in a queue at the police station, at the post office, like criminals, like slaves.”

“I have done nothing wrong,” he says. Abdul has never once been in trouble with the police in Pakistan or in the UK. “My crime is that I ran for my life, my safety and that I chose England.”

Follow the link for the full story.

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Sen's Story by Henry

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Sen's Story by Nauris

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