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SUMMARY:Welcome Chat – Knowle West
DESCRIPTION:Are you a refugee\, asylum seeker or member of the Knowle West community? Join our Welcome Chats this April! \nWhat to expect: \n\nFree tea\, coffee and refreshments\nGames and crafts\nFind out about local services and activities\nMake new friends\nPractice your English\n\nThese sessions run every Wednesday\, 8th – 22nd April\, 10am – 12.30pm. Everyone is welcome!  \nFor more information please contact our Refugee Engagement Officer\, dannyvincent@bristolrefugeefestival.org. \nThis Welcome Chat series is part of a community engagement programme where we use art\, food and music to bring local residents and refugees and asylum seekers together to create connections\, share cultures and celebrate diversity. This project is being run in partnership with Filwood Community Centre and key community stakeholders. \n 
URL:https://www.bristolrefugeefestival.org/event/welcome-chat-knowle-west/
LOCATION:Filton Community Centre\, 15 Filwood Broadway\, Bristol\, BS4 1JF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Welcome Chats
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SUMMARY:Between home and here
DESCRIPTION:Bristol Refugee Festival and Arnolfini present Between home and here\, a series of creative workshops for refugees and asylum seekers exploring identity\, culture and expression through writing\, photography and crafting. \nDeveloped in dialogue with Mounira Al Solh’s exhibition A land as big as her skin and in anticipation of the 2026 Bristol Refugee Festival\, the workshops invite reflection on how we make\, carry\, adapt and express our culture\, and how this can take shape through art.  \nAcross 8 workshops\, participants will use crafting\, writing and photography to explore the things that shape us – tradition\, language\, history\, community\, ideas – and how these become expressions of culture. The workshops are a space to explore one’s heritage and communicate through art what culture means to you – and what gets in the way. \nParticipants will then be invited to share their work in a digital exhibition that will be showcased throughout the 2026 Bristol Refugee Festival in June. \nBetween home and here takes place weekly from 22 April to 29 May\, 11am – 1pm\, at Arnolfini on Wednesdays and Fridays\, and will be facilitated by Bristol City Poet Sukina Noor\, multidisciplinary artist and educator Amak Mahmoodian and material arts practitioner Sherien Elsheikh. Please check the dates carefully for the sessions you would like to attend. \nWorkshop Dates: \nWednesday 22 April  – Writing with Sukina Noor \nWednesday 29 April  – Writing with Sukina Noor \nFriday 1 May  – Crafting with Sherien Elsheikh \nWednesday 6 May – Photography with Amak Mahmoodian \nWednesday 13 May  – Writing with Sukina Noor \nWednesday 20 May  – Photography with Amak Mahmoodian \nWednesday 27 May  – Photography with Amak Mahmoodian \nFriday 29 May  – Crafting with Sherien Elsheikh \nThe workshops are open to refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol and are free to attend. Refreshments will be provided and bus tickets will be reimbursed for those using public transport to attend the workshop. \nYou are welcome to turn up on the day\, but it is helpful for us if you register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-home-and-here-tickets-1987389701095 \nBetween home and here is a collaboration between Bristol Refugee Festival and Arnolfini\, and is made possible with funding from Bristol City Council. \n  \nMeet the Artists \nSherien Elsheikh \nSherien’s art mainly represents her African culture and identity\, through focusing on details and colours\, particularly yellow and red\, completed through drawing and painting freehand. Traditional African culture is communicated through Sherien’s art\, specifically from Sudan\, with a focus on traditional clothing and accessories. Sherien uses different materials for her art\, such as watercolours\, oil colours\, fabrics and beads. She is a member of the Bristol Refugee Artists Collective (BRAC) and founding member of the Women’s Craft Club at Arnolfini. \n  \nAmak Mahmoodian \nAmak Mahmoodian is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran in 2003. Since 2010\, she has been living in the UK\, unable to return to Iran. She practices as a visual artist at the intersection of conceptual image-making and documentary photography\, working with photographs\, text\, video\, drawing and archives. She explores the presentation of gender\, identity and displacement\, working between the personal and political across platforms and formats including installation\, books and videos.   \nMahmoodian’s work has been shown internationally\, including; Arnolfini\, Bristol; Rencontres d’Arles\, Arles; and Peckham 24\, London. Her works are held in collections such as the Tate and the British Library in London. She has published two books\, Shenasnameh (RRB- ICV Lab\, 2016)\, and Zanjir (RRB\, 2019) which was the winner of The Best Photo Text Book award at Rencontres Arles\, 2020. Her work appears in key titles on photography such as Photography – A Feminist History (Tate Publishing\, 2021)\, Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century (Octopus Publishing\, 2021)\, and How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks\, 2019). She is shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026. \n  \nSukina Noor \nSukina Noor is a poet\, playwright\, educator\, curator and public speaker who has toured extensively across the UK\, Europe\, America and Africa. She is the incumbent Bristol City Poet (2024 – 2026) and author of the poetry collection\, Love and Longing: Yearning for the Face of God. A leading performer in the British Muslim creative scene and co-founder of female hip hop duo Poetic Pilgrimage\, Sukina’s work has been featured on the BBC\, ITV\, Channel 4 and elsewhere. In 2015\, Al Jazeera made a documentary about her group titled Hip Hop Hijabis\, and in 2017 she delivered a Tedx Talk on the healing potential of poetry. Sukina’s poetry courses empower communities internationally to use writing as a tool for dialogue\, to access their authentic voice and to awaken the voice of the heart.
URL:https://www.bristolrefugeefestival.org/event/between-home-and-here/
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