“To me, a home is where you feel loved, safe, and cherished.”
For Refugee Week 2024, we’ll be exploring what home means to you and everyone in our communities. We invite you to visit our gallery to take part and add to an installation which will have the theme “Our Home”, and will be included in an exhibition in The Everybody Gallery in 2025. All our welcome. It doesn’t matter whether or not you think of yourself as creative, the piece of artwork can be as simple or complicated as you wish and will be your own unique interpretation of your own special place and what home means to you.
Drop in between 1-4pm on Wednesday 19th, Thursday 20th, Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd June, or get in touch if you’d like to book a visit for your school or community group.
Please note, the session on Thursday 20th June will take place in our printmaking studio on the ground floor.
Our Home: Refugee Week 2024
From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them.
Home can be a place of refuge, a feeling or a state of mind. It can be found in smells, tastes and sounds. From the clothes we wear to the words we grew up with. It’s in food, music and arts. It’s in our cultures and in our landscapes.
Home can be more than one place and finding it can be a journey, as it is for so many of us who have to leave our countries and rebuild our lives. Sometimes we can find home in a single person. Other times it’s in a whole community. And often, it’s in a single gesture of care and welcome.
About Refugee Week
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Established in 1998 in the UK, this annual festival aligns with World Refugee Day, celebrated globally on June 20th. In 2024, join us from June 17th to 23rd for a community-powered week!
You can find out more about Refugee Week here.