We are currently in conversation with the central coordinating organisation for Refugee Week and we are looking at ways to link up with the community groups they work with. Refugee Week takes place 16 - 22 June 2008 and we hope that this will give us an opportunity to involve refugee groups in ‘Flight Paths’. More when we have it.
Posted by admin on 4 December, 2007
Tags: General, events and talks, participation, refugees
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Sounds very interesting
Simon
Chris and I are planning to attend the Refugee Week Conference day in February - http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/Events/Refugee+Week+Conference+2008.htm
We had a great meeting last week with Almir Koldzic, the National Director of Refugee Week. He was full of good ideas about not only how we might approach individual artists who are refugees and ask them to participate, but also how to gather more people into the project in general. He also gave us a wealth of contacts, and cups of tea. Thanks Almir!
Refugee Week has its offices in Brixton, which is a part of London I lived in during the 1980s. I go back from time to time, but this time I had the pleasure of standing on the street for 15 minutes while I waited for Chris to emerge from the tube station. Brixton is a fantastic place to look at people; while some parts of the high street have been tarted up (sort of) it’s basically the same kind of place it was in the 1980s. So the range of people who move in and out of the tube station is enormous - West Indian ladies with elaborate lacquered hairdos, scruffy young punky artist types of all races, people who smell bad and clearly have complex things going on inside their brains, solid south London burghers, and an assortment of dodgy men speaking what could be Romanian. I was filled with nostalgia for my old manor. Then Chris came up out of the tube and we went off to our meeting.
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