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Swansea REFUGEE WEEK - FREE EVENTS June 2008  Contact: 07736408064                revised 20 June

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

** Monday June 16:    9.30am-2pm at the Grand Theatre Arts Wing:   DACE launches the website Swansea-Arrivals.net. With free lunch. (Tel 07809710175)

** Tuesday June 17, Weds 18 , Thurs 19:   Various times: photography, pottery, crafts and arts workshops at Dragon Arts Centre (tel 01792 467940)

** Weds June 18:    10am-5pm at the National Waterfront Museum:   opening of a DACE Parenting Project art exhibition, 'Celebrating Each Other' (01792) 638950

** Thursday June 19:   Dragon Arts Open Afternoon (food tasting, hennaing, etc) at Cyrenians Centre, St Mathew's Church, High St (tel 01792 470127)

** Thursday June 19:   ?pm at the National Waterfront Museum: Forum Theatre event (07809710175)

** Friday June 20:    from 7pm at Swansea Museum:   Women's Night (Tel 07809710175)

** Saturday and Sunday June 21 & 22:

   11am-5pm at the National Waterfront Museum: FREE FESTIVAL WEEKEND (01792) 638950

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME: Both days: fun for kids with TARDIS, Circus Eruption, Welcome to Play and others (11am-4pm, various places)

   Lunch 1-2pm for performers, volunteers and members of SBASSG / Women’s Centre / DACE / NWM (venue tbc) 

      Saturday 2pm-3.15pm: Workshop on the new UK-wide CITY OF SANCTUARY movement
SATURDAY 21 - Museum entrance

 

12:00 Daniel Williams & Dave Jones, jazz

12:45 Alice Salomon & friends

1.10  Jamie Nemeth & The Domestics, folk

1.30   White Goods theatre

(Annabelle Franklin, Alhaji Kamara, Sylvie Hoffmann)

2:30  Volodymyr Say, Ukrainian songs

2:45  Dilay & Caner, Kurdish songs

3:15  Andy Jones, urban folk

3:45  Lavaflow theatre* (Adel Guemar, Sadhbh O'Dwyer &..)

4.15  Tracey Curtis, folk protest songs

*a SBASSG / DACE project  with Volcano Theatre input

 SUNDAY 22 - Museum entrance

 

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, roc a rils Cymraeg (Welsh rock & reels)

4.00  Refugee Week - closing words

4.15  Ata & Pola, Kurdish wedding songs

 

     

** Wednesday June 25:   7pm in The Chattery, Uplands:  launch of Humberto Gatica's book of poems and photographs, The Sand Garden / El Jardin de Arena (limited edition). With poems read by Nigel Jenkins and Malcolm Parr, and music by Igor Sazonov

 

Financial and other support is gratefully acknowledged from:: City and County of Swansea, National Waterfront Museum, Refugee Week Wales Community Activities Fund, Swansea University Department of Adult Continuing Education

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