Refugee Week 2017 at Friends’ House, Euston Road, London

Dear Friends,

Refugee Week is taking place from 20-25 June. It is an open platform for organisations to organise events amplifying the voices of people seeking sanctuary. Many meetings will be organising events for this, from talks to all-age semi-programmed Meetings for Worship. If your meeting is organising an event in Refugee Week please let me know so I can help promote it.

At Friends House we have a strong line-up of events (see below) which we’ll begin to promote next week, once we’ve got everything finalised. (Watch out for another email soon with the final bill).

In Friendship,

Tim Gee

Refugee Week – Events so far

Date and time	Event	Venue
Monday 19 June, 10am – 5pm	Sanctuary through history: Library open day Explore artefacts from past initiatives to assist people seeking sanctuary.	Friends House Library
Monday 19 June, 6.30pm	Borders in our minds: Representations of migration in the media Co-authors of The Good Immigrant Coco Khan, Darren Chetty and Vera Chok, discuss how an anti-racist media might look. Chaired by Dalia Gebrial (Undoing Borders /People&Planet).	Friends House Bookshop
Tuesday 20 June, 12.30 noon	World Refugee Day, Meeting for Worship (semi-programmed) Join us to contemplate on the situation faced by people seeking sanctuary.	Friends House Worship space
Tuesday 20 June, 6.30pm	World Refugee Day: Refugee Stories Contributors to the new-writing anthologies Refugee Stories, A Country of Refuge, and Over land over sea discuss their first-hand experiences of seeking sanctuary. Chaired by Lucy Popescu.	Friends House Bookshop
Wednesday 21 June, evening, 6.30pm	Borders in our minds: Migration in the literature and the arts Actor/playwright Gaël Le Cornec and author Gulwali Passarlay (The Lightless Sky) discuss how the arts and literature can make the case for migration	Friends House Bookshop
Thursday 22^ndJune, 6.00 for 6.30pm	Borders in our minds: Sanctuary in fiction Novelists Sita Brahmachari (Red Leaves), Jason Donald (Dalila), Tim Finch (House of Journalists) and Roma Tearne (The Swimmer) discuss the representation of immigration in fiction.	Friends House Bookshop
Saturday 24 January	Binding books, binding friendships. Bookbinding workshop with the Wretched of the Earth collective	Friends House Bookshop
Sunday 25^th June, 1pm-3pm	Challenging the immigration detention system A panel of experts discuss the immigration detention system and what can be done to challenge. You are welcome to come early for Meeting for Worship (11am – 12 noon)	Friends House, George Fox Room
Sunday 25 June	RefuTEA Newcomers to Britain and longstanding residents drink a cup of tea together. Hosted in partnership with the Refugee Council.	Friends House Waldo Williams Room and Courtyard