Testimonies

A refugee library story

ECHO Mobile Library is a grassroots project active in Greece since 2016. A multilingual lending library on wheels which caters for the...

The relationship between art and education.

WE-hope sailboat just passed the mark. At the turn of the buoy, our Cantastoria was presented at the Lincoln Festival in October 2021....

The French National Museum of Immigration History: building bridges

The National Museum of Immigration History in Paris, France, was inaugurated in 2014 by former President François Hollande. The museum is...

The unspeakable trauma and obsession with the truth

During the interviews we collected, we were struck by a specific way of telling one's story: whether some aspects of the migratory...

We have a Cantastoria!

On Thursday 28 October, our project reached a significant milestone: as announced in a previous blogpost, our WE-Hope cantastoria had its...

Knocking on the door of life

Collecting memory could be considered a sort of treasure hunt: talking with people, spotting some hints and following and deepening the...

The Walk festival: Hope, step after step

This 3.5-meter high puppet wandering through the streets of Rome, Bologna, and Paris is a symbol of something big: hope and resilience...

Spotlight: Kent Refugee Action Network

We-Hope is delighted to have begun working with the Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN). Founded in 2003, KRAN is an immensely important...

Performativity and hopes for success in Italy

Italy is one of the main arrival countries of migrant routes, however its reception system is one of the most complex in Europe: the...

The dimensions of hope

How big is HOPE? How big and heterogeneous can be the HOPE people experience, especially when going through challenging and difficult life

Surviving the bombings of the Second World War

As previous blogs have shown, our project partners have been adjusting to the restrictions that the pandemic has imposed on our lives...

Online interviews: a new challenge!

In the very difficult historical moment we are living, marked by the pandemic, conducting face-to-face interviews proved impossible. Like...

Ciao amore

How can documents be transformed into intragenerational creative processes? Why is Covid 19 part of the WE-Hope project?

The technical challenges of online interviewing

An essential programme of work within our WE-Hope project is to interview those living in Europe who have experienced war and conflict –...

Lapsus' commitment in WE-Hope

Laboratorio Lapsus is a non-profit organization based in Milan, working on the research and diffusion of modern history...