Transcultural Devon

A huge thank you to all that came to the premiere of our 2023 short ‘Palimpsest- stories from Transcultural Devon’ !
It was such an emotion to finally see the film on the big screen - thanks and for your invaluable support- and to discuss with the audience some important topics during a very interesting Q&A.
And to top it all off, the musicians that gave their art and their time, you were amazing! Thanks , .svm and Natalia Letch for bringing tor beautiful melodies and lyrics in your native language to share with us. A reminder of music as universal language, very fitting in our Transcultural Devon concept 🎶🙏🙏
Thanks to the production team David Salas , Alice Farris .uk , Valentina Todino , Peter Collins, our talented director Harriet Bell .ormedia and of course, huge thanks to our project lead Eliana Maestri and to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Exeter for believing in this project/ module from the start! 🙏
If you want to donate to a local cause, we have chosen as our dedicated fundraiser and we hope you’ll be able to support that too !
And if you have missed the film, it’ll soon be available online to watch. We will let you know! In the meantime, have a look at our older interviews and short films here: https://transculturaldevon.exeter.ac.uk/

Feedback, comments, proposal for next interviews to start in January- if you speak another language and you want to talk about your migration experience to Devon- always welcome!!

Refugee Support Devon Alice Farris Valentina MT David Salas Eduardo Merino Polo

We are so very excited to present you with our latest production!!
‘Palimpsest- Stories from Transcultural Devon’ , directed by .ormedia will be premiered at , Studio 74, on Wednesday 29th November.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with project lead Eliana Maestri and the production teams from University of Exeter. The Q&A will be followed by half hour of beautiful music, performed by local artists with migrant background. The event will be free but we encourage donations to Refugee Support Devon
(Website here: refugeesupportdevon.org.uk)
PLEASE BOOK YOUR SEAT here: https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/palimpsest/

Come along and celebrate Transcultural Devon with us!

Thanks to for making this possible and to all our wonderful participants, hoping to see many of you there!

And thanks to the amazing production team:
David Salas , Eliana Maestri Alice Farris , Valentina Todino MT, Matt Ryder, Peter Collins, Harriet Cooke

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Day 3- part 2
Back in Exeter for another interview with , who took part in our project already in 2018. Eduardo told us how things have changed for him since then here in Devon and about his relationship with music too! 🎶

Special thanks to our hardcore team! Thanks , for your tireless work!

Day 3- Part 1
What a honour to be filming Natalia on her experience of life in Devon! An incredible human being that also sings like an angel ! Music as a translation of who we are will be one of the topic of our short!
Thanks Natalia for sharing some of your incredible energy with us!

Day 2 - Sunset filming in Plymouth yesterday for our new short 2022. Beautiful sunset!

A few photos from last night- recording for our new short film!

Good news! Our project is continuing and we are about to produce a new short film, based on our latest round of interviews!! The students on the module Transcultural Devon did an amazing job and collected 13 interviews in different languages, that will soon be available on our archive/website . But in the meantime, we have appointed our new film director, that will help us bring together all the work done this year and concentrate it into a short film. Please welcome 👏🏼👏🏼so glad to have her on board and wishing her a creative journey with us!

Is Devon a place of displaced belongings? Is it a place where migrants live happily ever after? Is it welcoming? Diversified? Multicultural? Multiethnic? And multilingual? If you want to find out more about the multifaceted aspects of Devon as a hosting site of various nationalities and voices, come and join this session. We will show our 2021 ‘Transcultural Devon: Displaced Belongings’ short film and our ‘Transcultural Devon’ video archive, produced by University of Exeter students and staff. You will discover how our ‘Transcultural Devon’ project came together, how it is evolving, what educational and cultural purposes it has acquired and to what extent it has helped us develop links with the Devon community. Finally, participants will be invited to share their stories of migration to Devon and to join our empathic and rewarding approach to the making of multicultural Devon.

Join Eliana Maestri, Valentina Todino and Alice Farris for this session at 10am on 13th May at Exeter Public Library.

As we are starting the preparations for the production of a new short film, based on the interviews done during this current year by the students on our module, we have updated our website with all the videos we have done so far! Have you watched them all yet? Would you like to post some feedback?

https://transculturaldevon.exeter.ac.uk/

Thanks to

Urgent call for French speakers!!

We need two more French native speakers from this year-round of interviews! Please share with family and friends :)

What are the benefits of taking part?
- Your personal story gets recorded and saved, as told by you!!
- You help our students to practice their language skills!
- You will get a chance to reflect on your experience of migration -
- You will help to build a record about how is life in Devon for foreign people.
We are our history and we are making it by telling our own story!

Please email [email protected] to get in contact