Brighton and Hove Community Reporters report on Refugee Week

The Brighton and Hove Community Reporters have covered the recent Refugee Week aimed at celebrating and raising awareness of refugees in our society.

The event was part of the national Refugee Week and took place in June 2010.

They have attended parties, exhibitions, displays and a picnic. Here are some of the stories our reporters came back with.

The event was interesting to cover as it gave our reporters the chance to try out their new skills while uncovering the many issues affecting refugees in the city.

Covering Refugee Week

At the last community reporters’ meet-up we planned reporting on Refugee Week in Brighton .

First event – at St Mary Magdalen Community Centre – Claire Banks in the The Argus wrote a piece:

Memorable quote; “We’ve opened our doors to welcome people to our community . . . . “

http://www.theargus.co.uk/blogs/blogs/8218585.Refugee_week__climbing_the_mountain/

Refugee Radio Party - 15 June 2010 - poster

Refugee Week is a UK-wide programme of cultural and educational events that hightlights the contribution that refugees make to life in the UK and encourages better understanding between communities. Brighton & Hove’s Refugee Week is from 12 June to 20 June 2010 and is organised by several different community groups and organisations such as Brighton Voices in Exile, Asylum Aid, Refugee Council, Brighton Housing Trust and Brighton & Hove City Council. 

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 from 8pm to 2am is the Refugee Radio Party at Volks Tavern, 3 The Colonnade, Madeira Drive, Brighton. For just £5 on the door your ears and soul will be rejuvinated by the sounds of Refugee Week artists, DJs and all things festive! Live African and Reggae Music are on the aural menu and it’s all in support of a unique Brighton-based project called Refugee Radio.

Refugee Week Cabaret

BandBazi performing arts group are to host a cabaret evening marking the UK’s Refugee Week.

12 June begins a week-long national celebration of the contribution refugees make to British culture. The programme of cultural and educational events aims to foster better understanding of refugee people and improved comnunity relations.

Brighton & Hove – renowned for its diverse social make up – is home to refugess fleeing countties such as Zimbabwe, Iraq and Tibet.

Refugee Week Carbaret at the Pavillion Theatre is hosted by award-winning Brighton-based, multicultural performing arts company BandBazi. Theatre goers will be treated to a mix of music, dance poetry and food. Adults pay £6 and children half price.

Refugee Week Cabaret, 13 June,

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Refugee Week 2010 in Brighton & Hove

Refugee week is a national, annual programme of cultural and educational events which aims to create better understanding between different communities and also highlights some of the contribution that refugees make towards life in the UK.

Refugee Week 2010 is happening between 12th June and 20th June and is organised by many different organisations.

An event that looks particularly interesting for me personally is the Refugee Radio Party which takes place on Tuesday 15th June from 8pm – 2am at:

Volks Tavern, 3 The Colonnade, Madeira Drive, Brighton

£5 on the door

This event is a party in support of Refugee Week with DJs, live African and reggae music. All proceeds to support unique Brighton-based project – Refugee Radio who are also broadcasting during the week.

Peter the Refugee

By Saskia Wesnigk-Wood

Today was Peter’s fourteenth birthday, April 20th and he was so excited. Yes, Carl had bullied him at school yesterday and his big sister Annie had called him a ninny, but what did all that matter. There were tadpoles in the brook and he had seen a hare and a deer in the forest last evening and was sure they would be there again tonight.

One young person’s view about Refugee Week – group 3

1) Photo goes here.

2) Write your first paragraph here: what is Refugee Week?

Refugee Radio Party - 15 June 2010 - Bakk Lamp Fall

3) refugee week is a uk wide programme of cultural and educational events that highlight the contribution that refugees make to life in the uk and encouarge better understanding between communities. There will be various events taking place in Brighton. The Refugee Radio Party is unmissiable.

What I think looks good at Refugee Week – group 2

Brighton & Hove is privileged to be hosting refugee week 2010, part of a uk-wide celebration of the contributions made by refugee’s and to create a greater cohesion between Brighton’s refugee community with other communities.

Yasher’s story- a 9 year old refugee from Kurdistan now living in Scotland

On Monday Saturday 26th of June, between 11-3 the BMECP is hosting a football tournament as part of the week.  Please get in touch with peter@bmecp@.org.uk

For more information, see http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1157664

Community Reporters covering Refugee Week in Brighton & Hove

Brighton & Hove Community Reporters have taken up their first collective challenge – to cover Refugee Week from as many different angles as possible in as many different media as possible. The video shows Caroline Sutton, a Community Reporters tutor, explaining the idea, which was launched at the Community Reporters Meetip on May 26th 2010.