Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Saturday, 24.09.2022, 14:00–15:00
Talk: Birth Assistance for Asylum-seeking Families
Annelies Štrba, Ån 22, from the series Filmstills aus Dawa-Video, 2001 © Annelies Štrba
Various studies show that asylum seekers are more often affected by stillbirths, maternal mortality, postpartum depression, violence during pregnancy or abortions than the rest of the population. Working in asylum centres, the two trained midwives Lynn Huber and Patricia Frei were able to observe the issues themselves.
They then developed the Midwife Refugee Kit, an interactive e-learning tool to train midwives and health workers to work with families in the asylum process. The tool promotes transcultural competencies and practical support. In a talk, the two founders of the Midwife Refugee Kit provide insights into their personal experiences and their work.
The event takes place in German.
Admission: CHF 12.– (for members and reduced CHF 10.–), plus admission to the exhibition
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.
They then developed the Midwife Refugee Kit, an interactive e-learning tool to train midwives and health workers to work with families in the asylum process. The tool promotes transcultural competencies and practical support. In a talk, the two founders of the Midwife Refugee Kit provide insights into their personal experiences and their work.
The event takes place in German.
Admission: CHF 12.– (for members and reduced CHF 10.–), plus admission to the exhibition
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.