Celebrate Refugees & Correct Your Misconceptions
Papel e Caneta launches Refugees Are Us, an initiative that sheds light on immigrants.
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There are so many misconceptions currently circulating around the role of refugees in the US that it can be confusing to separate fact from fiction.
However Refugees Are Us, an initiative created by non-profit creative collective, Papel e Caneta, with The Refugee Orchestra Project, clarifies the role that refugees play in society by reminding viewers of their admirable stories and determination to get to where they are now.
Founder and conductor of the Refugee Orchestra Project, Lidiya Yankovskaya – who is behind the scheme and is a Russian refugee – says, “These kind of preconceptions can cloud the fact that refugees are not only people like you and me; they can, and do, contribute enormous cultural value.”
The campaign, shot in New York, sees fifteen refugees interviewed about their experiences, in an attempt to correct some misconceptions about refugees and dispel prejudice.
The Refugee Orchestra Project aims to show people of the cultural worth of refugees through music and highlight that they have in fact contributed greatly to society. After all, the score for God Bless America was in fact written by refugees.
