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ARCHIVE 2006
Refugee Week Events - June 2006
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June: 11 am - 4 pm
REFUGEE WEEKEND AT THE
Organised jointly by SBASSG and the African Friendship Association. ALL FREE.
In the Foyer: information stalls and exhibitions ...
In the Vivian Room: Art and play for kids ...
In the Cityside Room: Workshops / seminars ...
click here for the workshop programme
In the Foyer: Live music, dance, song, poetry:
click here for the live programme
Plus: Guided tours of the galleries focusing on the history of migrations to and from Wales ...
supported
by
Refugee Week Wales
SBASSG urgently needs funds to pay rents for our drop-ins. These amount to £57 per week (including separate spaces where play-workers keep kids happy and busy, so parents can chat, learn English, get legal and practical advice, etc). Can you help?! Many thanks to all our donors, but the need continues.
REFUGEE WEEKEND at the NATIONAL WATERFRONT MUSEUM
LIVE IN THE FOYER:
SATURDAY 24 June
11 am: Gŵyl y Blaidd / The Festival of the Wolf poems from the new Hafan anthology
read by Humberto Gatica, Aimé Kongolo, Sylvie Hoffmann
+ Mike Da Costa blues & country from Zimbabwe
+ Adel Guémar poems and chansons from Algeria
12 am: Jesus to the Nations International Gospel Choir
1 pm: Swansea Latin American Association Dance Group mambo, merengue & more
2 pm: Andy Jones & Chris Pitson from Boys From The Hill urban Welsh folk/world music, by
Swansea’s globe-trotting band
3 pm: Kwrdistan music & dance with Swansea’s Kurdish community
4 pm: Dan Williams (sax) & Dave Jones (keyboard) jazz & blues
SUNDAY 25 June
11 am: Alice Salomon sings (move over, Charlotte Church!)
+ Mina Hussein (flute)
12 am: Gŵyl y Blaidd / The Festival of the Wolf poems from the new Hafan anthology
read by Humberto Gatica, Aimé Kongolo, Sylvie Hoffmann
+ Mike Da Costa blues & country from Zimbabwe
+ Adel Guémar poems and chansons from Algeria
1 pm: Swansea Latin American Association Dance Group mambo, merengue & more
2 pm: AfroTawe dance group dance with soul, out of Africa & right here in Swansea
3 pm: John, Fox & Aled folk/world music from Uplands
4 pm: C4 explosive rap with Michael Mokako from Treboeth
Workshops and Seminars in the Cityside Room
Saturday June 24: 11am - 12.20: International Song Exchange Workshop
Contact Alan and Marilyn on 01792 361794.
Saturday June 24: 1pm - 3.30: PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Asylum Seeking Children"
Contact Latefa on 07737004087.
1-1.15pm. Tracey Sherlock (Head, Welsh Refugee Council, Swansea): Welcome and Introduction
1.15- 1.30pm. Dr Helen Brocklehurst (Swansea University): Children as Victims of Conflicts and War
1.30- 2pm. Dr Heaven Crawley (AMRE and Swansea University):
Children & the Asylum Process: Migration, Detention, Race & Equalities
2 - 2.30: Break and Refreshment
2.30-2.15pm. Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett (Glamorgan; researcher, Save the Children): On the Experiences
of Young People Seeking Asylum in Wales: Education, housing and social services
2.15-2.30pm. Janice Lee (Willows High School, Cardiff): Asylum Seeking Children at Secondary Schools
2.30-2.45pm. Karen Warwick (Swansea Council): Asylum Seeking Children at Primary Schools (Swansea)
to 3.30: Questions and General Debate
Free seminar. Donations welcome!
HAFAN ARCHIVE 2001
Before HAFAN existed ...
In September 2000 we helped stage the mammoth >WRITING DIASPORAS conference in Swansea, attended by some two hundred writers, academics and cultural workers from the UK and many other countries.
In November 2000 we invited poet and human rights campaigner Cecil Rajendra to Swansea.
In March 2001 we staged an evening of poetry in many languages, with local writers, translators and readers, as part of UNESCO's world-wide programme 'Dialogue Among Civilisations Through Poetry'. About 60 people participated.
...Our history in 2002 has yet to be written up...
Hafan - related events in Swansea from summer 2001
Arts Exchange Day for refugees and friends, Rhossili and Swansea, Sunday 24 June
Welsh Refugee Council information day / seminar in Swansea, Friday 29 June
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Arts Exchange Day, Swansea, 24 June
Organised by DPIA (Displaced People in Action), with Swansea STAR (Student Action for Refugees) and Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group
Contact:
Leona Evans, DPIA, Room 139, CSV House, Williams Way, Cardiff CF10 5DY / Tel: 029 20415 710 / Mobile: 07900 191933 / Email: dpia_uk@yahoo.co.ukPlaces are limited and demand will exceed supply. If you wish to participate in this event please call Leona Evans at DPIA.
Schedule
A coach will pick up from:
Newport 7:00 (??); Cardiff 7:30 (Adam’s Court); Swansea 8:30 (Dylan Thomas Centre)
9:30 Rhossili - Walk on the beach (to collect materials for afternoon art workshop)
12:30 Arrival at the Dylan Thomas Centre
13:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Workshops or other activities
15:00 Coffee Break
17:00 Performances.
19:00 Return by coach to Cardiff & Newport
Workshops:
- Patua Dance workshop, – Fernanda Amaral
- Music composition, arrangement and lyric writing – Threjai
- Ghanaian drumming workshop, traditional West – African rhythms – Stephen Austin
- Art workshop, collage and painting, Theme: ‘The Sea’ – Mary Hayman
- Weaving workshop – Diane Lucas
- Drama/Video
- Creative writing workshop – Patrick Jones,
Performances:
- Czech Roma Band, Newport
- Rap & Poetry
- Poetry Reading, Eric Charles & Patrick Jones
- Music & Drums
- Patua Dance – God of the Sea
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Dear Colleague,
The Welsh Refugee Council is pleased to invite you to attend this seminar as part of our celebration of Refugee Week. It will take place on the 29th June 2001 at Meeting Room, YMCA, 1 Kingsway, Swansea. The Seminar will start at 10:00 and finish at 16:00.
The morning programme will be a debate on the Asylum Seeker Dispersal Schemes in Wales.
The afternoon programme will consist of a video from the UNHCR featuring seven asylum seekers in six different European countries, showing integration and settlement issues facing them as they experience diverse cultural backgrounds.
This will be followed by a workshop on Cross-Cultural Skills and Cultural Diversity.
Lunch and refreshments will be available.
We hope you will be able to attend, and look forward to seeing you there.
Contact: Jane O'Donovan, Welsh Refugee Council, 029 20 666 250
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Sunday 12 November 2000, from 8.30 in the Taliesin Arts Centre Bar
(entrance free, collection on behalf of Amnesty International):
CECIL RAJENDRA
Satirical poet, human rights campaigner, lawyer, environmental activist from Malaysia ...
followed by (from 11 pm) late-night food, non-alcoholic drinks and chat at the new Café International (Idols, Hendrefoilan Student Village) with DJ Rash (Mancunian-BrAsian-Malaysian sounds)
| Poems online by Cecil Rajendra:
http://www.webdelsol.com/tlr/tlrsu-cr.htm http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/humour/dispact1.htm |
Books by Cecil Rajendra: Shrapnel, Silence and Sand (London: Bogle L'Ouverture Press, 1999) Songs
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UK tour organisers: http://www.57productions.com/artists/art_raj.shtml
Papers on the Ethics of Tourism which cite Rajendra's work: http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/jan98/eit/paper3-3.htm http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/bccsr/issue1/olsen.htm http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/global03.htm
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Rajendra's involvement in Human Rights
issues in Malaysia:
http://www.malaysia.net/dap/ge-legal.htm http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/99/0430/nat3.html http://www.ahrchk.net/solidarity/199811/v811_03.htm http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/may99/10_53_110.html
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