Refugee Week's Core Vision, Aims and Values
The foundation of Refugee Week. Navigate this site to find further resources specific to the, revolving, year’s theme.
Annual Day of Welcome (Schools of Sanctuary)
Popular schools resources for the theme of each year’s Refugee Week. More, including live-streamed Author’s events, can be accessed by signing up to take part.
I Will Heal
Health & Wellbeing research materials, from a consultation with local Sanctuary Seekers, to inform healthcare provision and practice.
I Will Heal research was presented to the public, during RWN24, via this booklet, an exhibition taken from the booklet (hung at Stage Two, Norwich Theatre), and a dramatised presentation of the content by The Sanctuary Ambassadors.
The play was formulated and launched at The Garage, with support from Simon and Charlie from The Common Lot. Further pop-up presentations were given at RWN24 events throughout the city; The Forum, The Bishop’s Garden, and Grapes Hill Community Garden.
The full research publication can be read via this link: www.emerald.com/jpmh/article/24/1/63/1240203/Suffering-struggles-and-support-a-qualitative
Produced by:
Norwich City of Sanctuary Health Stream, The Zainab Project, The Sanctuary Ambassadors, Drs Clark, Fox, and Hanson. Illustrations by Chris Spalton.
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Window to The Soul: Afghanistan
Window to the Soul is a multimedia immersive experience aimed at elevating the stories of women and girls from Afghanistan, with a specific focus on championing women’s rights to education.
The project includes a virtual gallery (with speaking portraits) as shown here, plus a VR experience, and augmented experiences – all of which were able to be viewed as part of RWN25’s We Are Community art exhibition at Anteros.
Explore the whole project: www.windowtothesoulafghanistan.com
Produced by: Hannah Aria, Artist.
Writing Home
Listen to letters written by refugees to their homelands, including modern adaptions of letters written by ‘the Strangers’, who arrived from the Low Countries in the 16th century, alongside letters by recent refugees to their homelands of Cameroon, Ukraine and Rwanda. How much has really changed in the last 400 years?
Produced by: Norfolk Record Office, with local migrants. Part of the Reading from the Archives series, for RWN24.
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Archive Ambulation: Norwich - A City of Refuge
Follow our walking tour of Norwich to see some of the places connected to refugee history. Starting at Norwich Cathedral Cloisters and finishing at the Roman Catholic Cathedral. (The ambulation involves crossing several roads. Directions are given at the end of each stop, with each stop clearly marked on a map, so an alternative route can be found if required.)
Produced by: Norfolk Record Office, with local migrants. Part of the Archive Ambulation series, for RWN24.
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Come Yew In!
Come Yew In! A Proud History of Strangers in Norwich was a free, outdoor, city wide, trans-historical variety show in 2017. It highlighted stories about incomers and invigorated a sense of pride in our tolerant, internationalist city.
The project involved two months of citizen research, five weeks of intensive writing and creative responses, and three months of committed rehearsal with an army of volunteers: 24 cast, 5 musicians, 10 back stage team, 12 researchers and a production team of 5. Resulting in 10 shows.
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