10. Visit a Refugee Week event

A performance took place at the Tricycle Theatre with college students performing stories from different countries

i really enjoyedit

Our school had a refugee week themed cafe and people cooked dishes from around the world

I went to Queens Park with my parents for a refugee week event.We looked at the different stalls. I made a yo-yo and then we had some Peri-peri chicken to eat.

I want to tell you the story of Mehdi and his experience as a refugee, which he shared with us yesterday during An Iranian Celebration for Refugee Week Scotland. Apologizing for his English he reminded us that as a recent study found that the English national football coach Fabio Capello only needs 100 words to train his team! A professional footballer in Iran, Mehdi had to flee his country. Since arriving in Glasgow, where he still waiting for a decision regarding his status, he has done the best he can to help the local community by acquiring a Certificate in Coaching in far too many sports to be listed here (football, rugby, tennis and many more) and has since then volunteered for the Scottish Football Association where he works with children and disabled people. This is a touching story which reminded me of the unspoken contributions that refugees make to the countries they live in!

I went to 19 Princelet Street today to watch the Suitcase and Sanctuary exhibition. This house on edge of the City of London tells the history of migration over 3 centuries from a childen's perspective. This historic building itself with a synagogue in the middle is impressive but what I found most amazing were the repeating patterns of prejudice and man made difficulties for people who come to start their lives in a new country. From the beginnings of Huguenot movement, the 'flood' of Irish farmers, Jewish refugees before WWII, Caribbean immigrant to the newcomers of today. It is the same misery, the same fight and the same glorious success story. And yet, London would not be London without all of these influences. This house is full of evidence for fantastic contributions throughout the centuries. I learned today that the Bank of England was founded by a Huguenot refugee. You have the chance to see 19 Princelet Street on Saturday and Sunday this Refugee Week. Check the Events calendar for details.

i put Refugee's in the midlle and wrote nice things around the edge

I went to a St. Mary Magdalene Primary School in Maida Vale/London yesterday and watched 150 excited kids having fun while doing their Simple Acts.

Yesterday I spent a full & engaging afternoon at the Harrow Arts Centre in north-west London with members of RefugeeYouth & Mustaqbal Productions, who put together a series of short film screenings, discussion groups, dance and creative writing sessions, all in preparation for this weekend's launch of Refuge in Films at the BFI.
RefugeeYouth is a vibrant and inspiring community of young people, mostly refugees, who produce innovative and positive ways of looking at refugee experiences and identity, through projects like Refuge in Films and their creative campaign 'Becoming a Londoner, now a published book.
RefugeeYouth is also about young people taking leadership, supporting and challenging policymakers through research and practice to 'break down isolation and combating alienation and despair among young refugees, creating opportunities for their development'.
But there's more...the explosion of energy, imagination and hope translates into dance, poetry, art and film - exploring representations of refugees in & through the media has never been so much fun! So, thank you Sameer, Hassan, Muna, Peter and all the other young people I met yesterday - your commitment and optimism make London a better and happier place to live in!

Watched A Few Words For Home at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow last night. This was the story of Henry & Ingrid, two Jewish refugees who fled from Germany during WWII. They met & married in Britain and started their own catering company in Glasgow, where they introduced 'crudités' to the city for the first time!

I visited the RRF's Skilled forum exhibition at Newcastle Central Library. Great photography by Panganai Svotwa and interesting life stories from members. The UK needs to do more to welcome
our refugee friends and ensure they can lead useful & happy lives here.

I visited a Refugee week festival at South Bank and it was fantastic! Lots of cultural things to do, I recommend it!!

It was really fun

it was really fun and enjoyable and i thank you for coming all this way to teach about it

it was really fun and enjoyable and it was really nice for them to come

Me and my partner visitedthe 'Exodus' festival in Manchester this afternoon. Good music and food

I attended the Umbrella Parade and talked to people on the way and on arrival at the park. Wonderful work you are all doing!!!

I have attendede 5 refugee week event and enjoyed meeting people from diffrent backgrounds.

I attended Celebrating Sanctuary on the South Bank

I took part in the World Refugee Day Umbrella Day Parade as a Steward!! I had a really great time and what a beautiful day!!!!

Visited a refugee organisations afternoon tea

Last week I went to 12 Refugee Week events, these included the Refugee Week launch event at Norwich City Council, an evening of poetry readings of work by exiled writers (Salem Zenia, Easterine Kire Iralu and Faraj Bayrakdar whose work Mirrors of Absence I love), I visited two digital story exhibitions In Other People's Shoes and Letters to Europe which over 3746 people came to see, I went to several human library events (and was a book for two of these - sharing my father's story), I also went to a wonderful a talk about a relationship of support reflecting the kindness of strangers towards refugees and asylum seekers and finally, enjoyed the very positive and welcoming atmosphere at the community cuisines event.
I love everything about Refugee Week, what it stands for and the possibilities to make a difference through the opportunities created for different groups in the community to engage with eachother in a variety of different settings.

It was in hounslow Manor School, we did a turkish dance. It was an event by the Refugee Council.

Umbrella Parade Sunday 20 June.

Attended launch in Norwich, infromative and entertaining.
And spoke with human books in Kings Lynn, Thank you.

Visited library in Kings Lynn and spoke with two human books.

During various performance events hosted at the Tricycle Theatre, 140 attended

I've been to 4 Refugee Week events in Norwich this week - I enjoyed meeting the Lord Mayor at the launch event at City Hall; ate lots of yummy food at the Community Cuisines party; was a human book in Living Library and enjoyed watching an international football match at the Family Fun Day.

Became a voluntary librarian at a Refugee Week Human Library evvent

Eaton park family fun event. Also hope2 b a talking book next year @ The Forum. Also shred activities via Facebook

I went to see 'By Reservation Only', a play by EMTAS at World Museum Liverpool

I went to an event at the Punjabi Community Centre in Swindon and helped out on a stall selling jewellery made by some of the visitors to the Harbour Project drop in centre.

I helped an amazing group of refugee women with their food stall, spice caravan, at celebrating sanctuary. It was fantastic and the food was fabulous!

I participated in the Destitution Fundraiser

attended destitution fundraiser

Created a por refugee banner

I went to the destitution fundraiser with some of our most committed staff and volunteers

I visited Celebrating Sanctuary

I visited the event at the South Bank

I went to the ta party in Leicester and it was really fun

I attended the Refugee Action Football Tournament in leicester

Went on a boat and played a refugee game

I went to the RefuTEA tea party at World Museum Liverpool

Today I popped in at the Peckham Theatre for a Refugee Week event with lots of delicious food from almost all continents in the world and performances!

On Wednesday at Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers clients, volunteers and staff members - we all celebrated the Refugee Week!

I went to Staying – Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories, a series of dramatised monologes from asylum seekers who have been persecuted for their sexuality. It was a spoken word event held in the dark at the Free Word centre. Participants had taken on dramatic personas to discuss their feelings of distress, not only from their experiences in their home countries, but also the degradation of the asylum system and how it deals with LGBT asylum seekers. It was a really powerful piece, with many of the audience having no previous idea of how the system has traumatised people. An interesting event in a novel format!

I had a fantastic days at Celebrating Sanctuary on the South Bank. The people, food, music, and sunshine came together to remind everyone present what a valued contribution refugees make to our society and how important it is for us to keep working to protect the long-suffering asylum seekers who find themselves here.

I went to the RefuTEA tea party at World Museum Liverpool

I attended Living is Silence a photography exhibition held by UNHCR in London. A very moving and insightful collection of photographs. It was hugely interesting to learn about the lives of the Rohingya refugees whose plight is very little known. I was also interested to learn about the roles of other organisations within the camp, such as WFP.

UNHCR Exhibition 'Living Silence'

As part of a group of volunteers on a programme called Global Xchange, I, and 17 team mates from the UK and the Philippines, attended a fantastic Refugee Council Celebration Event at Hounslow Manor School. The festival celebrated the refugee community of the UK; its culture, variety, opportunities for learning and most importantly, the people it brings to our nation. The event featured food from around the world, Kurdish traditional dance, Tamil traditional dance, an Iranian comic, a Bosnian singer, an Iranian pianist and composer, Nepalese dancing, Indian dancing and Filipino song from our team. I was honoured to have been invited to such a warm and positive sharing of food, friendship and culture.

Entertaining

Visited the Hounslow Manor School event. Met lots of wonderful people from a load of refugee communities, shared their food and listened to their music and other culture. Fantastic event, wonderful people!

Asylum Dialogues at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Visited Cellebrating Sanctuary in London

Visited Celebrating Sanctuary on London's Southbank. It was a fantastic day!

went to two events in Norwich, one at the library with my kids, and then the Refugee Week launch

Went to Celebrating Sanctuary event on the 12 in South Bank with my daughter and it was wonderful.

Took part in the RefuJUICE lunch event at 3 Lionel Street

I took my family to Celebrating Sanctuary.

Went to Celebrating sanctuary

Went to Celebrating sanctuary

Played table football.

Volunteered at Celebrating Sanctuary Event

I visited the Celebrating Sanctuary event on saturday 13th June. It was a fantastic experience. I really enjoyed the music, delicous food and interesting information. I will definately go again next year.

I went to celebrating sanctuary on the south bank yesterday.

Went to the Celebrating Sanctuary London. (I will continue the log at least until we hit the 20,000!)

I attended Celebrate Sanctuary on the Southbank as well as last week's panel discussion at the BFI hosted by Refugee Action and Brightwide. Amazing!

Visited Celebrating Sanctuary on the South Bank on 13 June

I visited the 'Celebrating Sanctuary' fair and helped out at the Refugee Council stand for a little while. A mong other things, a student of English at the Refugee Council (where I am a voluntary teacher) showed me around an exhibition for Women Asylum Seekers Together. All very informative.

Went to Celebrating Sanctuary on the South Bank, was a great event with lots of food, music, living library and other great entertainment.

I went to the event held at South Bank yesterday and had a great afternoon.

Attended Celebrating Sanctuary festival in London. Excellent music from Ivory Coast and Kurdish Iraq and some yummy Somalian food.

Went to Celebrating Sanctuary festival - lots of good music, good food and smiling people!

Celebrating Sanctury

I visited the Human Library and gave out leaflets and information at the Celebrating Sanctuary event.

i was volunteer at Celebrating Sanctuary.

I went to Celebrating Sanctuary at Bernie Spains Garden - 13/6/10

I went to Celebrating Sanctuary. As always it was brilliant. Fabulous music, good food and lovely people! A fantastic opportunity to celebrate the contributions refugees have made to the UK.

I went to Celebrating Sanctuary!

I helped to run an event for Refugee Week including a Human Library where people could come and listen to a Refugees personal story.

Actually I volunteered at Celebrating Sanctuary - specicially for the Refugee Council's Human Library. it was amazing that the 'human books' were able to tell their refugee stories, and was both moving and inspiring.

I went down to London's Southbank to the brilliant Celebrating Sanctuary festival. It was a gorgeous sunny day, the food was amazing and there were people buzzing around the perfomance tents. Kate Tempest in the Acoustic tent was a personal favourite. It's the second year that I've been to this, and it really did feel like a celebration :-)

I went to Celebrating Sanctuary and it was wicked!

Went to the Festival at the Southbank. Listened to an Afghan band, which my 7-year old daughter loved.

My wife, daughter and I really enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere at the Celebrating Sanctuary festival today.

I went to Sanctuary Celebration. The music and food from all parts of the world. There were many organisations with their stall (among them the one that I'm volunteering for). It was really great!

I talked about Refugee Week to a regular residents group at our office. Gave out information and discussed some issues. We have decided to invite someone from Asylum Link to the next meeting and everyone present promised to read the information and try to find out more.

RSAMD's Simple Act was to present Fugee by Abi Morgan at the Scottish Parliament - fabulous use of the arts to challenge ourselves and the politicians.