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Join Southwark's many refugee communities for a week of celebration, but also an opportunity
to learn more about the reality of the UK asylum system.
Art and information are combined on the Southwark Refugee Week 2007 poster.
Copies from Southwark Refugee Communities Forum, libraries and at events throughout Refugee Week.
Download a podcast of Radio Peckham's Refugee Week broadcast
Photos of Camberwell Live! hosts Refugee Week
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Rhythms of the World - Refugee Week on Radio Peckham
In celebration of Southwark Refugee week, Mario Miletic hosts a show packed full of fabulous live performances from some of
Southwark’s finest. Mousa Sharififarid and co bring you the sumptuous sounds of the Ahwazi Music Group, Jorge Morales
and the Golden Years bring you the best from South America and Henry Brown brings you an exclusive taste of El Salvador. Turn
your speakers up and enjoy!
Camberwell Live! hosts Refugee Week
A festival of music, dance and art
Sunday, 17th June
12am - 8pm
Lucas Gardens, SE5
The celebrations will kick off at 12am with a specially commissioned carnival procession from New Generation, they will
be joined by the teaming brass and swirling colours of Kinetika Bloco for a massive musical explosion.
There will be big band performances from Charles Boyenga and his band, Mousa Sharififarid and friends, Ayer y Hoy, and Manhattan
Project. Alem Franck, Duong Yang wil be performing their haunting music from Eritrea and China respectively. Trio
Balkanika will play music inspired by the folk tunes of the Balkans
Jose Navarro will perform the gravity defying Scissor Dance from the high mountains of Peru. There will be dance performances
from Tradicion Andina, Latin American Golden Years and community dancers from Ethiopia, Somalia, Vietnam, Sierra Leone and
more.
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SRCF Chairwoman, Sylvia Wachuku-King at Southwark Town Hall for the Refugee Week Reception
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Life on the Borderline
Wednesday 20th June
7pm - 9.30pm
at St Giles Centre, 81 Camberwell Church Street.
a powerful new play about the UK asylum system by Iraqi Kurdish playwright, Hoshiar.
Rehearsed reading and discussion about the use of theatre to help communities rebuild after conflict and turmoil. With Az
Theatre Company
Southwark Refugee Artists Nework presentsAt Peckham Library
Tuesday 19th June
5pm - 7pm
Peckham Library
Peckham HIll Street
More information to follow but there will be musical and visual and spoken presentations from a number of artists
The Deputy Mayor’s Refugee Week Reception
Thursday 21 June
5pm to 7.30pm
Southwark Town Hall
SE5
Cllr Macki Sheik, Mayor of Southwark in partnership with Southwark Refugee Communities Forum and Volunteer Centre Southwark
will host a reception in the Town Hall to recognize and thank all those from refugee and migrant backgrounds who have played
a part over the last 400 years in making Southwark the vibrant, exciting and dynamic place it is today.
There will be music from Sofia Buchuck and Henry Bran, and dancing from the children of Ardhmeria Albanian Supplementary School,
as well as some speeches of recognition.
Entrance is free but by invitation.
Limited spaces, to request an invitation or for more information contact John Mukungunungwa, LBS Social Policy Unit, 020 7525
5000
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Guests enjoy Albanian folk dancing, Latin American songs, Middle Eastern and Vietnamese food
and excellent speeches at the Deputy Mayor's Refugee Week Reception
Throughout the week Refugee Week Radio is broadcasting information, music
and chat from Refugee Week events all over the UK
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Poster shows Jose Navarro performing the scissor dance from the High Andes of Peru at our Refugee Week 2006 party in Lucas
Gardens. (photo by Amy Duke)
22 to 24 June
Refuge in Film
All day
Thessally Community Centre
2 Thessally Road
SW8 4HT
On Friday 22nd New Generation invite you to their
introductory event, which will include the premiere of Nueva Generacion's video
workshop film, a presentation of Refugee Youth film workshop and the opening of
the photography exhibition.
On Saturday 23rd the programme begins at 15.00 with a
series of shorts, including films about displaced children, immigrant workers
and Eastern European refugees. At 18.00 there will be a showing of 'This Is Our
Home', a film exploring the struggle of the people of New Orleans after
Katrina. Then at 20.00 Nick Broomfield's 'Ghost' will close out the evening.
On Sunday 24th, the programme will consist of several
feature length films: at 15.00 we will be presenting 'Almost Adult' by Yousaf
Ali Khan; at 16.30 'Kimmie', a portrait of an inspiring young activist,
campaigning and fundraising in New York City on behalf of former child soldiers
and orphans of the war in his native Liberia; finally, at 18.00 'Sahara
Marathon', a documentary about the hardships faced by the Saharawi people
during their 27 years of exile juxtaposed with the story of the organization of
the 2004 Sahara Marathon. In closing the festival, Radio Revolucion will
delight us with their exciting, original tunes.
For more info. www.myspace.com/refugeinfilms
or tel. 07903 494 703
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Human Rights Jukebox
This live event is the culmination of Isa Suarez' residency in Southwark. She has been collaborating with various local groups
such as the;(Homeless group from St Giles Trust, Southwark Refugee Project, Southwark Pensioners Centre, Charterhouse in Southwark,
Corazon Latino, Southwark Muslim Women centre, Creative Routes, Dulwich Choir society, The Maroons).
They have used sound workshops and informal discussions to generate ideas and soundworks about their human rights in everyday
life. The soundworks created will be included in a stand alone Juke Box called the Human Rights Jukebox.
Jukebox parade in Camberwell
Camberwell Arts Festival this Human Rights Jukebox will parade on the streets of Camberwell on Saturday June 16 2007 in the
afternoon with participants and public. The jukebox will play human rights songs and sound pieces created by members of the
community mentioned above.
This live event will be happening during Refugee week which will be held at Lucas Gardens.
More information on Isa Suarez
Thursday 21 June
SDCAS - A space of
encounters
1pm to 6pm
Thurlow Lodge Community Centre
SE17
Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers welcomes you
all to a day of celebration, music, creative workshops, exhibitions, film,
children’s activities and international food. Including Kurdish folk dancing,
Grupo Lokito Latin and Congolese fusion, and the Kataksitsi master drummers
from Ghana.
For more info. anna@sdcas.org.uk
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Refuge in Film - a wonderfully well organised weekend of moving and thought-provoking films
and documentaries
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A rare opportunity to watch the excellent 'Sahara Marathon' about the displaced people of the
Western Sahara who have been living in refugee camps in Algeria for 27 years.
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SRCF outreach worker, Brook Zeramichael, is currently contacting all our members to get feedback on the various Refugee
Week events. We will be holding a Review Refugee Week - photos and food evening in July. Visit the website again or call us
for more info.
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