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Rumour Exchange Shop in Lublin

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Rumour Exchange Shop in Lublin

Identification of rumours, the first step in the process of creating communication strategy within
the project, ended in August both with official reports on rumours and public art event created in cooperation with Municipal Public Library: Rumour Exchange Shop.

For 5 days outside of Centre of Culture, municipal cultural institution and home of Municipal Public Library, a construction made of old banners was displayed and passers-by were invited to write the rumours they had heard or consider widespread among Lubliners. The goal was to engage local community into public discussion of how foreigners and migrants are perceived.

The event attracted many people: young and old, male and female, working or studying, Polish and of foreign nationalities. Some of them wanted to share their stories, but not in writing, but most of them, to our surprise, were very keen to share the rumours – or in many cases their own opinions or messages to newcomers.

Even though the official, scientific identification of rumours has come to an end, the Rumour Exchange Shop can be considered a valuable barometer of social attitudes towards migrants. Many people feared the adverse effect of the initiative: strengthening and fixing misconceptions about foreigners, but this experience actually proved to be the opposite: a chance to see and confront the 'power of rumours'.

Rumours Exchange Shop brought immediate attention of the media. The event got coverage in all 3 local radio stations, 2 local and 1 nationwide television, 3 local newspapers and the most popular nationwide online news provider. This became a great opportunity to spread the message about the project as well as all municipal intercultural initiatives.


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Contact

Christina Baglai
Project Manager
 +33 390 21 59 37

Georgios Klis
Project assistant
+33 388 41 20 09

Elena Dubinina 
Communication assistant
+33 388 41 30 87

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