Welcome to Refugee Week in the North West!
This is Refugee Week’s 10th Anniversary, and the North West region will be celebrating with a fantastic range of exciting and diverse events!
In 2007 loads of events took place throughout the region, ranging from community events to football tournaments and from big music festivals to art installations.
We hope that you will help us celebrate our anniversary in style and make 2008 the biggest Refugee Week ever!
Remember to check the Events Calendar
The Events Calendar lets you promote your activities to a wide audience and also find a full list of all the exciting things happening near you.
Check out the Events Calendar
Here's a taster of what's taking place throughout the North West!
Asylum - pushing the barriers of professional practice
22nd June, Salford university, Peel Park, The Crescent.
UNISON and BASW in Salford invite you to a one-day conference aimed at practitioners, users of social & health service and everyone living in Greater Manchester working with refugees and asylum seekers.
The conference will include speakers and workshops and the day is for anyone wanting to find out more about how to build alliances and make a difference for refugees and people seeking asylum.
For more information please phone 0161 793 3126
Welcome in Ordsall & Langworthy
16th June, Ordsall Community Café, 172 Tatton Street, Ordsall.
The Orsall/Langworthy Health Improvement Team, Ordsall community cafe, PCT and Salford Refugee link are organising a friendly and welcoming get together for refugees and asylum seekers living in Ordsall and Langworthy.
You’re invited to this space of encounters to have a chat, and meet other people from your area, enjoy food from different cultures and find out about health related services in your area.
For more information please phone 0161 872 6011
Create and Curate
22nd June, The Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, Peel Park, The Crescent
The students from Hope High School will create and curate their own exhibition exploring the themes of migration and asylum.
What happens when you let a group of young people loose in a gallery?
The Chapman Gallery have offered their space to a group of students from Hope High School to create and curate their own exhibition exploring the themes of migration and asylum.
Working with volunteers from Salford Museum and Art Gallery’s Embrace Project, the young people sought inspiration from the “World in a Box” handling boxes. Created by asylum seekers and refugees, they contain objects reflective of different national identities and experiences of migration to the UK.
For more information please call 0161 295 5223
For a full list of events in Manchester only please click here
