The reality of migration in the 21st century is a major social challenge for Europe and the whole world. The TransMigrARTS project, Transforming Migration through the Arts, aimed to prove, using an applied creative research methodology, that running performing arts workshops (theatre, clowning, dance, performance, writing) with migrants can reduce the vulnerability of people who leave their country due to violence, climate change, education, work, or who are displaced by armed conflict within their own territory, as in Colombia. For five years, 13 higher education institutions and cultural organisations from four countries (France, Spain, Denmark and Colombia) worked to design workshops based on different artistic languages, which they tested in several organisations, NGOs, communities hosting refugees, asylum seekers, exiles and workers, and companies working in the field of interculturalism. For five years, 13 higher education institutions and cultural organisations from four countries (France, Spain, Denmark and Colombia) worked to develop workshops based on different artistic languages, which they tested in several organisations, NGOs, communities hosting refugees, asylum seekers, exiles and workers, and companies working in the field of interculturalism. The evaluation of these practices was intended to assess the impact of these workshops on participants, in order to offer new artistic methods for supporting migrants and to support public policies on migration. An innovative communication strategy was devised through a documentary novel on social media and the writing of a musical comedy in order to create the TransMigrARTS community and raise awareness among a wider audience of the reality of migration.
