NEW Events

Refugee Week, 14 - 22 June 2008

SWANSEA CITY OF SANCTUARY 

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** Saturday June 14, 12am-3pm at Borders book store, Fforestfach: Hafan Books presentation

** Monday June 16, 9am-2pm at the Grand Theatre Arts Wing: DACE launches the website Swansea-Arrivals.net

** Thursday June 19, 10am-5pm at the National Waterfront Museum: opening of a DACE Parenting Project art exhibition, 'Celebrating Each Other'

** Thursday June 19, ?pm at the National Waterfront Museum: Forum Theatre event

** Friday June 20, 7pm at Swansea Museum: Women's Night

** Saturday and Sunday June 21 & 22, 11am-5pm at the National Waterfront Museum: FREE FESTIVAL WEEKEND

       >> see programme opposite >> or print version here

** Wednesday June 25 at 7pm in The Chattery, Uplands: launch of Humberto Gatica's book of poems and photographs, The Sand Garden / El Jardin de Arena (also available online)

Sunday May 25 

* 12am at Gellionen Chapel: readings and music

* 7pm at Butetown History and Arts Centre, Cardiff:  Fragments from the Dark, launch event

              B o o k  L a u n c h  E v e n t                                       

 7 pm, Thurs 20 March 2008  -  Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea  

  Free event. Poetry, music, buffet, fun for kids. Donation requested       

       Hafan Books proudly presents the new anthology:                  

           "Fragments from the Dark:                                           

              Women Writing Home and Self in Wales"                

Event sponsored by the City and County of Swansea, Oxfam Cymru and the Communities First Trust Fund.  Publication supported by the Welsh Books Council

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   ( Photo of Tenby Sands by Emily Hinshelwood )  

 The book is FREE if you have claimed asylum; otherwise £5 at    

 the launch.          Fragments from the Dark has been edited by 

 Jeni Williams and Latéfa Guémar, and it includes poems, true life  

 stories, fiction, drama and essays by more than 40 women, some  

 of them famous writers in Wales, and about half of them refugees  

  from about 15 countries.                                                             

Have you visited the new website "Swansea Arrivals" ?

CLICK HERE FOR OAKWOOD PARK PHOTOS

CLICK HERE FOR REFUGEE WEEK PHOTOS

(new: small size photos with links to big ones!)

"Watching the Weather"

from Eduardo Paca's exhibition for

Refugee Week: "Social Mobility"

REFUGEE WEEK WALES: 18 - 24 June 2007

Free events at the

National Waterfront Museum

+ Swansea Museum

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS

(new: small size photos with links to big ones!)

Click here

for the detailed programme*

* (Most) Refugee Week events in Swansea were organised jointly by Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group, the

African

Friendship

Association

and the 

with funding and support from 

  Refugee Week Wales    

National Waterfront Museum

       

With thanks to all supporting organisations and especially to all supporting volunteers and helpers!

SBASSG outing to the Swansea Grand Theatre Pantomime, 5 January - click here to see the big picture

Regular drop-ins every week

for newcomers to Swansea

and friends:

Saturday Families Get-together

- St Phillip's Community Centre, opposite Tesco, 2 - 5 pm (15h-17h) >[map]

Friday "Café Society" 5 - 7 pm (17h-19h) - Brunswick Methodist Church Hall, St Helen's Road (next to the "Exotica" Supermarket and the MOT garage)  >[map]

FESTIVAL WEEKEND  June 21 & 22, 2008

National Waterfront Museum

[ Click here for print version ]

Both days: lots of fun for kids including

Welcome to Play, Circus Eruption, T.A.R.D.I.S.,

drum workshops, kite-making, face-painting...

Saturday 21 June, 11am-5pm

12:00 Daniel Williams & Dave Jones, jazz

12:45 Alice Salomon & friends

1.10  Jamie Nemeth & The Domestics, folk

1.30  White Goods theatre

2:30  Volodymyr Say, Ukrainian songs

2:45  Dilay & Caner, Kurdish songs

3:15   Andy Jones, urban folk

3:45  Lavaflow Theatre

4.15  Tracey Curtis, folk protest songs

+ 2pm: Workshop on the new UK-wide City of Sanctuary movement

Sunday 22 June, 11am-5pm

12.00 Chris Williams & Patrick Ellis, guitar & harmonica
12.30 Gloria Chorale, African choir
1.00  Lakhdar Inigan, Berber songs

1.30  Mike da Costa, country-café music
2.15 The Skylarks, folk/blues/world music
3.00  AfroCarib Dancers
3.30 Huw Dylan Owen, canu Cymraeg

4.15 Refugee Week - closing words

4.15  Ata & Pola, Kurdish wedding songs

We mourn the death of

Kalan Kawa Karim

Slain on Monday 6 September 2004 on Swansea Kingsway. More