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Refugee Week: Threads of Joy and Community
Come along to a day of family-friendly workshops and performances to celebrate Refugee Week, inspired by themes of joy and small acts of kindness.
Refugee Week celebrates the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Join us for a day of workshops and performances to celebrate joy, storytelling and small acts of kindness.
The programme includes:
The programme includes:
Flock
Drop in, 11.00-16.00
An opportunity to contribute a clay bird towards a communal flock of birds created by refugee groups from Salusbury World charity, using clay to celebrate diversity and community and highlight themes of identity, displacement and migration. Led by artist Jacqui Ramrayka.
Design Studio, Learning Centre
Design Studio, Learning Centre
“you're a man now, boy”
13:00-13:20 and 15:00-15:20
you’re a man now, boy is a dance performance weaving hip hop, contemporary, and magical realism into an empathetic experience. Through voice and dynamic movement, it explores the joy, the hardship, and the community found through the healing of mental health difficulties and trauma.
Raphael Cartoon Gallery
Raphael Cartoon Gallery
Play for Progress
14:00-14:30 and 16:00-16:30
Join young people from Play for Progress for an informal pop-up performance and music workshop. Get ready to join in!
Play for Progress is a Croydon-based charity that tap into the healing power of music, the arts, play, and creative therapies to build healthy and resilient relationships that support and amplify the voices of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.
The Garden
Patchwork Cape
Drop-in, 11:00-16:00
Decorate a paper cape with people and places that bring you joy and see how it gives you strength!
The Dome, Cromwell Road Entrance
Drop-in Design: Wishing Well
The Garden
Patchwork Cape
Drop-in, 11:00-16:00
Decorate a paper cape with people and places that bring you joy and see how it gives you strength!
The Dome, Cromwell Road Entrance
Drop-in Design: Wishing Well
By Ciara Neufeldt.
Drop-in, 11:00-16:00
Drop-in, 11:00-16:00
Join us today for a wishing well activity! Gather and create a collection of wishes. Decorate the wishing well and create your own coin design as an offering to the well. Will you share your wish with your family, keep it a secret or say it out loud to help your wish come true? It’s up to you!
JLCC, Learning Centre
Community Collage
Drop-in, 11:00-16:00
Join Community Arts Box and add to our community collage mural!
Learning Centre Reception
