Refugee Week is an annual event that takes place around the world to celebrate the contributions, creativity, and resilience of those seeking sanctuary. The theme for this year’s refugee week is compassion, and throughout the week we will be exploring what compassion looks like in action and what it means to each of us. The events are all free to attend.
Lost Homes, New Horizons
Tuesday 20 June 17:45, Turner Sims or online.
The University of Southampton’s Race, Ethnicity And Cultural Heritage Staff Network, in collaboration with Widening Participation & Social Mobility and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, present this special evening commemorating World Refugee Day.
Lost Homes, New Horizons is a unique opportunity to hear directly from those who have experienced displacement and resettlement, and gain a deeper understanding of the legal and policy frameworks that shape their lives.
The speakers will be Dr Homira May Rezai, Chair of Hazara Committee UK, and Hewan Omer, Country Director of the Free Yezidi Foundation. They will be joined by Barrister Dr S. Chelvan who specialises in the claims of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers fleeing homophobic or transphobic persecution.
To book please visit the Turner Sims website.
What’s Next Southampton? – Young People’s Cultural Takeover
Saturday 24 June 2023, 12:00 – 18:00.
A multi-activity arts festival celebrating Southampton’s vibrant youth culture – empowering them to make use of the city’s entire Cultural offer.
- Guildhall Square: Outdoor stage featuring music and singing; market stalls for organisations to promote their offers; drumming circle with African Activities, and skateboarding taster sessions)
- City Art Gallery: Gallery talks and drop-in creative activities
- MAST: Theatre and dance performances, taster workshops, careers panel discussion and networking, ‘have a go’ music activities
- John Hansard Gallery: Creative session, young curator’s pop-up exhibition
- City Eye: Facilities tours and hands-on activities
End of Project Conference
Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 June 2023, B100 Highfield Campus
Professor Pia Riggirozzi will chair the conference, which will present the findings and outputs of the project ‘Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls in Contexts of Protracted Crisis in Central and South America (ReGHID). The conference runs for a day and a half, and will have three themes structuring panels and keynotes: migration, gender, and vulnerabilities; methodologies of research about and with populations in displacement; and migration, gender, and responsibility for protection. There will also be a screening of the 26-minute documentary Salir Adelante/Moving Forward.
Please visit EventBrite to book tickets.
Welcome Tree Project
Throughout June 2023
This is an opportunity to share your kind words and messages of welcome for new people arriving in the city seeking sanctuary. Your welcome message can be written onto a label and then hung on our ‘Welcome Tree’. The labels will then be collated and given to SWVG (Southampton and Winchester Visitor Group) to be shared. The labels have been designed at a local refugee art workshop that is run by the John Hansard Gallery. If you would like to contribute to the Welcome Tree project please send your words via email to [email protected] and we can transfer this onto a label, or you can get in touch to see where our pop-up table will be.
Find out more
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