Angels is an artwork by Laurence Payot that celebrates the courage and optimism of displaced people. From sweet lullabies remembered from childhoods spent in another country, to the things that they makes them feel happy in their new homes, participants from across the UK will create a series of recorded visual and audio portraits reminding us all how we can cope with difficult situations and find strength in the things that comfort us. The work will consist in a series of vi

ArtReach, producers of Journeys Festival International, are seeking applications from artists from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds, working in any creative medium, to produce new work in response to the ‘hidden voices’ of refugees and displaced people in history. The artwork will respond to and be inspired by research and historical documentation gathered from global archives. The successful artist or artists group will get the opportunity to work closely with research