Details of Events

Refugee Week 2008
Events Calendar

Throughout the Week

The Land of Green Ginger – A participatory art project
by Fabiane Perrella / Flour
Summary: The Land of Green Ginger will explore spaces of encounters between refugees who have moved into Hull and their host communities. These situations will have the aim to promote mutual understanding and the possibility of sharing views and dreams for the future. This project also aspires to unveil what is particular and what is universal in their different cultures creating an artwork that encourages new types of rapport amongst those involved, including the public. The project will reveal skills and knowledge of each community that can be shared and exchanged between each group to learn from one-another. This approach is a fresh and optimistic journey with the people of Hull and will culminate in an event during Refugee Week inviting visitors to take part. The project draws on Hull’s heritage and uses the skills and crafts of refugees and local people to present a joint work of art which the whole city can take great pride in.

About Flour
“Flour has created a variety of projects engaging communities and neighbourhoods through art, design, film, photography, workshops and activities, encouraging people to become aware that they are agents of transformation of their own environment, communities, spaces and most importantly themselves. Flour’s work is recognised for the social engagement and positive impact they have on the people they involve."
Date & Time: Open to Public 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd June from 10am until 6pm
Venue: Paragon Station.
Target Audience: General Public.
Lead Contact: Paul Gower, Refugee Council (paul.gower@refugeecouncil.org.uk)

Faces of Kabul
Summary: An exhibition of photos from the war in Afghanistan
Date & Time: Monday 16th to Saturday 21st June, from 9am till 5pm
Venue: Central Library
Target Audience: General Public

Big Screen, Small Films
Summary: A variety of short films showing the positive impact that refugees bring to Hull and previewing and reviewing the week’s activities.
Date & Time: Various slots throughout the week
Venue: Big Screen.
Target Audience: General Public
Lead Contact: Reka Pataky, Refugee Council (reka.pataky@refugeecouncil.org.uk)

The World Is Here
Summary: Workshops delivered by International Heart of Hull to show the positive cultural influences that people from far away lands can bring to Hull
Date & Time: Various slots throughout the week
Venue: Various Schools around Hull
Target Audience: School Children
Lead Contact: Paul Gower, Refugee Council (paul.gower@refugeecouncil.org.uk)

Sunday 15th

Thornton Festival of Culture
Summary: A mini festival celebrating the different cultures that have helped Hull develop a more cosmopolitan flavour. There will be a very wide variety of activities including a short film and play on Kurdish folk tales and refugee experiences short play to open the event. It will also feature African music and dancing from Paul Nzaya Nzayadio and the Aria Stars; Arts & Crafts workshops and stalls including nail art, hair braiding and Indian head massage; Jewellery making and fashions from around the world; Children's art project / workshop; Bouncy castle and giant games; the Multimedia van; A photographic exhibition; Dancing workshops and demonstrations (salsa, belly dancing, tai chi). A selection of free Afro-Caribbean, Halal and vegetarian food will round the day off with real taste.
Date & Time: Sunday 15th, 3pm to 7pm
Venue: Octagon Centre and Car Park (Weather Permitting)
Target Audience: General Public
Lead Contact: James Russell, Goodwin (07814 400811)

Monday 16th

Refugee Council - Talks Team
Summary: A talk about the experiences of being a refugee and the journey led by a refugee and support worker. Includes ample opportunities for the children to ask questions of the workshop leaders.
Date & Time: Monday 16th
Venue: TBC
Target Audience: School Children
Lead Contact: Paul Gower, Refugee Council (paul.gower@refugeecouncil.org.uk)

Light-Up The Lamp
Summary: Dance the night away with music from around the world with special guest DJ’s and musicians. The evening will also Photography and art expo, DJ’s, Live Music and samples of Food
Date & Time: Monday 16th, 8pm till late
Venue: The Lamp, Norfolk Street
Target Audience: General Public
Lead Contact: Stewart Baxter, The Warren (stewartbaxter@hotmail.com)

Wednesday 18th

Tales From Far Away
Summary: A public performance of Story telling, poetry and music performed by Bandish, from Sheffield. It will include two 'closed' sessions for children . The event will end with an opportunity to sample Kurdish, Congolese and Afghan home cooking. Jointly organised by Hull Libraries and ARKH.
Date & Time: Wednesday 18th June, 12 pm till 3 pm
12:00 till 01:00 for general public
Venue: Central Library
Target Audience: General Public

Thursday 19th

‘The Refugee Convention 1951: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Britain’
Summary: A discussion led by Niaz A Shah, Lecturer in Humanitarian Law at Hull University. Niaz will talk about the international obligations of these countries and some good stories/practice emanating from these countries followed by an opportunity to discuss the issues raised.
Date & Time: Thursday 19th June, 5.45pm – 6.45pm
Venue: Central Library
Target Audience: General Public & Key Workers
Lead Contact: Reka Pataky, Refugee Council (reka.pataky@refugeecouncil.org.uk)

Lajee - Palestinian Refugee Children
Summary: Richard Wiles is a photographer from Hull who has worked in Palestine for the last 5 years. He has spent this time working with and teaching young refugee’s how to express themselves through Photography, Film and Dance. He has traveled the world exhibiting the work of the young people helping their lives and voices become seen and heard in places they can only dream of. Richard has raised funds to bring a group of young people to Hull for Refugee Week 2008 to exhibit their work which will include:
· Photography Exhibition of their village
· 6 short films
· Dabka folk dancing
· Talks about their lives
· Samples of Food from the Region
Date & Time: Thursday 19th, 6.30pm – 10.00pm
Venue: The Warren.
Target Audience: General Public
Lead Contact: Stewart Baxter, The Warren (stewartbaxter@hotmail.com)


Saturday 21st

The Gig in The Gardens
Summary: A fun day for all of the family with a fantastic bill of live music and dance from around the world. Performers will include:
· Harare (Zimbabwe)
· Paul Nzaya Nzayadio and the Aria Stars (D.R. Congo)
· Lajee (a dance troupe of Palestinian Children)
· Bora Shabaa (D.R. Congo)
· International Folk Dance (Kurdish)
· Indus (Leeds based Indian/African music)
· End Of Level Baddie (Hull based Drum & Bass)
· Something & The Somethings (Hull based soul/funk)
· Projekt Feenix (Hull based Hip-Hop)
The event will also include information, face painting, craft stalls, samples of food and so much more.
Date & Time: Saturday 21st, 12.00 noon – 5.30pm
Venue: Queens Gardens
Target Audience: General Public
Lead Contact: Stewart Baxter, The Warren (07896 688 215 stewartbaxter@hotmail.com)

REFUGEE WEEK STEERING GROUP
07/06/07
POSTERNGATE


PRESENT
Steve Ibbetson, Sarah Payne, Tony Conboy, Stewart Baxter, Wilber Barron, Nahro Zagros, Gloria Ho.

APOLOGIES
Berthin Kambale

MATTERS ARISING

Steve’s still awaiting confirmation from Andy Jefferson so will call him.
MC – Saikou Sousso – Stewart to contact
T- Shirts – been printed at minute, will be ready for the Gig
Banners – now been found in the Warren

Media – Nahro contacted the Big Screen and they will highlight the events
- a steering group member to take part in an interview and phone in
- Raw Talent also to air (Sundays)
- Hull In Print and Hull Talk will have ads in
- Viking Radio – Steve and Nahro to meet but the campaign will run throughout the week.
- Posters will be available on the blog if people want to print off and display
- Press Release sent to Hull Daily Mail, Advertiser etc
- Youth Networks will distribute posters and HYC.


POSTERS AVAILABLE FROM 6 POSTERNGATE
PLEASE PICK UP AND DISTRIBUTE.


NEXT MEETING

TUESDAY 19TH JUNE AT POSTERNGATE

REFUGEE WEEK STEERING GROUP

MINUTES 31/05/07

PRESENT
Sarah Payne, Berthin Kambale, Adam Billo, Nahro Zagros, Wilber Barron, Stewart Baxter, Steve Ibbetson, Saikou Jabbi, Martin Chinga

APOLOGIES
Gloria Ho, Shwan Abdul Rahma

MATTERS ARISING

Humberside Marquee – ordered

Stewards – have to have 4 people who have SIA licence. We have booked them from Prestige Support Ltd as they have experience of restraint and eject techniques.

Andy Jefferson – Steve to check email of confirmation re: generators, marquees and electricity.

Event manual guide- has been submitted and approved.

M.C – still no one, Stewart to contact Alan Raw.

Conference – Publicity done and will go out to local communities and also post on our blog. The costs have grown to £540 which everyone agreed. The artist costs are £250 – again this was agreed.

Opening of event – Councillor Minns cannot be there for 12 noon but will attend later to make a speech.

HPSS – booked and will take responsibility for sound and technical aspects, Stewart to get costs.

Gig costs – approx’ £3000 for artist’s fees at the minute. We need to confirm times with the groups.

We need to place bands/ musicians in the slots in between the sound changes for the next act to come on. We have 4 support acts that can be slotted in. We also need a driver for the Friday to bring musicians from Manchester using the WHCT and it costs £60.

Publicity – posters will be ready next week and we need help with distribution.

If any bands want to create their own publicity they can.
Nahro to contact the Big Screen.

T-shirts – done and are ready for collection

Banners - ?? Are these in the Warren

Printing – 1 or 2 days to turn around, we are having double sided fliers as well as A3 posters.

The Lamp – need numbers for food and styles, will include veggie and halal options. No live music as yet but Stewart has a friend who is a DJ and visual artist. Would cost a train ticket and he would bring music and film equipment.

Sports Day – letters out to teams, still need to sort refreshments, footballs. Will cost £250.

NEXT MEETING

THURSDAY 7TH JUNE

4.30PM AT POSTERNGATE

Hull Congolese Association: Talking Asylum Conference

TALKING ASYLUM

THURSDAY 21ST JUNE 2007 FROM 16HR TO 19HR
AT HULL COMMUNITY CHURCH
310 NEW LAND AVENUE (JUNCTION WITH COTTIGHAM AV.)
HULL HU5 2NB
TEL: 01482470125

FOLLOWING THE REFUGEE WEEK IN THE CITY OF HULL (CITY OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE)

HULL CONGOLESE ASSOCIATION ORGANISES FOR THE FIRST TIME:

 A CONFERENCE ON THE TRUTH ABOUT REFUGEE AND ASYLUM ISSUES

- THE CONFERENCE WILL EXPLORE MOST OF THE ISSUES ABOUT REFUGEES AND ASYLUMS SEEKERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH WITNESSES TESTIMONIES

- THERE WILL BE SOME MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY THE CONGOLESE YOUTH GROUP

- FOOD AND REFRESHMENT WILL BE PROVIDED

- THE ENTRANCE IS FREE OF CHARGE

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE YOU CAN CONTACT HULL CONGOLESE ASSOCIATION ON: 25-26 PARK STREET, HULL HU2 8RR OR 01482 217725, 07949931202, and 07939492387.

refugee steering group minutes 08/05/07

REFUGEE WEEK MEETING
TUESDAY 8TH MAY 07
MINUTES




ATTENDANCE
Sarah Payne, Paul Neayadio, Albert Akondo, Saikou Jabbi, Stewart Baxter, Adam Billo, Belinda Welburn, Steve Ibbetson, Wilber Barron, Berthin Kambale, Gloria Ho, Paddy Holdswoth, Shwan Abdul Rahma, Paul Harper


MATTERS ARISING

Humberside Marquees and insurance quotes – Belinda is still waiting for a quote re; marquees. To contact Ladbrokes re; insurance.

Gig – Stewart met with Paul H re; contacting performers and meeting with potential performers. Has also contacted the Kurdish Café and Lena’s re; food. Congolese musicians are available, Stewart to meet with Albert and Paul re; costings and resources.

Steve is meeting Andy Jefferson (Head of Parks and Gardens) re; QG and Pearson Park. Stewart will also attend.

Stewart has spoken to a community musician who would like to provide a day’s workshop as a tutor. He has all types of instruments and will cost £180. Everyone agreed this was a good idea and Stewart will book him. He will need a marquee and volunteers.

10 Community Wardens have been agreed to attend the Gig from 12-6pm and also 5 for Pearson Park. ALL STEWARDS NEED TO BE CRB CHECKED, so no longer have young people. They can still be volunteers for stage management etc. They are to wear t-shirts – Steve to contact Nahro.

Sound System – HPSS are unavailable but they are checking out other potential engineers. Possibly use the Warren’s music system

Bands – Stewart and Paul H have emailed some African bands, Dilzar, Haku

Compere/ MC – potentially a young person from the Warren

Stage Management – again use the Warren’s team

Workshops – Donna Smith could do a singing workshop – Paddy will contact, Louise Cramond could do belly dancing – Paul H to contact, henna painting – Gvants? Scrapstore – paddy to contact. Story telling – Seiku – Paul will contact.

We need a person to open the event- possibly someone from the Police or the Leader of the City Council, Carl Minns, and Steve to ask.

Small events –The Lamp- we are unable to have the Sunday 17th for our event but can have the Monday 18th. We still need artwork for the exhibition and Stewart will organise some workshops possibly with Artlink. The exhibition can be up for 3 months. Steve still has the ‘Faces of Kabul’ photos so we can use some of them.

On Tuesday 20th June ARKH will have an open afternoon, from 11-3pm; there will be food, music and info for the public to take away. There is also space for stands so if any organisation wants to show case their info, please contact Gloria.

On Thursday 21st there will be a conference called ‘Talking Asylum’ at Hull Community Church, 4-7pm. The cost to hire is £90 and we agreed on this price. There will be food, music, info and stories told are refugees.

The Adelphi idea may possibly be scrapped as we need to concentrate on the Gig the next day but they may do something that we don’t need to attend.

Sports day – on the Sunday 24th – we need to buy fair-trade footballs and trophies.

Do we have Banner Theatre again? The Warren could host it, Steve and Stewart to meet and discuss.


See you at the next meeting.

Refugee Week Video

Refugee Week Steering Group Meeting

27TH APRIL 2007

AT POSTERNGATE


PRESENT
Sarah Payne, Gloria Ho, Bashir Siras, Dilzar Ali, Rozh Ahmad, Wilber Barron, Chief Bonarjah, Adam Billo, Margaret Bashir, Debbie Bennett, Steve Ibbetson and Shwan Rahma.

APOLOGIES
Stuart, Seiko, Belinda

POINTS FROM LAST MEETING

Belinda was bringing a person to be elected as a Chair but as she couldn’t make it, they will be invited to the next meeting.

GIG SUB-GROUP FEEDBACK

Belinda has contacted the Humberside Marquees for quotes and insurance companies. Steve to contact Paul Harper re: his involvement this year. We need to get the acts booked ASAP; the sub group will meet next week.

SMALL EVENTS SUB-GROUP FEEDBACK

Met on Monday and have decided on the following programme:

Sunday 17th June – The Lamp – music, art exhibition, food, information

Tuesday 19th June – ARKH – Open day, awareness, workshops

Wednesday 20th June – The Warren – Film evening

Thursday 21st June – The Warren – conference

Friday 22nd June – Adelphi - event in aid of Refugee Week

Sunday 24th June – Pearson Park – Football tournament

We need to think about bands, Artwork, Films, drama. Dilzar is working on the information and art and is contacting an artist that has been used before. Stuart is checking with the Lamp re; projector and exhibition been left up the rest of the week.




MEDIA SUB-GROUP FEEDBACK

Nahro and Steve met with Viking Radio last week about having a myth busting campaign again. We want to challenge those hard to reach people. An idea is to use children’s voices to provoke people, possibly from B.M.E communities. Can people ignore children’s voices? Viking Radio is bringing back their ideas and Steve will try to gain funding for this from Hull City Council instead of using our core budget. He will report back at the next meeting.

The funding bid has been approved by the Council and we urgently need to produce a Licensing Application to use 28 days before. Please get all of your arrangements to Steve ASAP as these needs to go to the Police and the Council.

OTHER ITEMS

Can everyone think about what resources they need and costings for the small events? Please bring to the next meeting.

The Tenant Participation Team wants to have a stand on the day to raise
awareness of housing in Hull. Trestle tables are available.


NEXT TWO MEETINGS FOR YOUR DIARIES…..

TUESDAY 8TH MAY
4.30PM
POSTERNGATE


WEDNESDAY 16TH MAY
5PM
POSTERNGATE