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Sanctuary in Parliament follow up with MP Chris Williamson
A group of us from Derby City of Sanctuary met with Chris Williamson MP for Derby North (second from right,…
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First ever Derby Peace week programme of events released
Click here for Peace week programme
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Derby events celebrate Holocaust Memorial Day
Yiddish music group Mir Zaynen Do – meaning We’re Still Here – played and sang at the Multi Faith Centre…
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Holocaust Memorial Day events for 2018 in Derby announced
Here is the list of all planned HMD in Derby 2018 events – everyone is welcome to any or all of these events.
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Launch of Sanctuary seeker poems “Riding on Solomon’s carpet” at Derby Poetry festival
Derby Poetry Festival Sanctuary Creative Writing Event The Sanctuary creative writing project ran for three months in Derby, Nottingham and Leicester and was organised by Writing East Midlands and City of Sanctuary. Poems, stories and pieces of writing were created by refugees and asylum seekers in safe, creative spaces across these three cities of sanctuary and gathered into a special anthology published under the title “Riding on Solomon’s carpet” . Many of the poems in the anthology were shared along with food…
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Derby Museums report praises Asylum Seeker volunteer contributions
See this link Derby Museums 2017 report for an extract from their Annual Report for 2017
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City of Sanctuary Jobs now available in Derby!
Please click Jobs with City of Sanctuary for details.
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Derby City of Sanctuary member volunteers at Museum
E, a member living in Derby is providing valuable help to Derby Museum using his expertise to identify and provide historical context for a number of items of colonial African origin formerly unidentified but kept in the museum vault. He is also being trained in conservation work and helps there once a week – a most beneficial arrangement for both parties!
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“Host Derby” scheme launched to offer short term home for destitute asylum seekers
See previous post – this scheme is now operational and open for donations, offers of accommodation and support
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Some photos of the events from Refugee Week 2017 in Derby
Councillor joins the Great Get Together to remember Jo Cox
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Well dressing in Wirksworth supports refugees
This year’s well dressing by Wellspring church in Wirksworth is dedicated to and collecting for Derby Refugee Advice Centre. Well dressing in Derbyshire, using fresh leaves, petals and seeds is a very old tradition to give thanks for water. The well shows a bridge being built to provide the foundations for a better, more beautiful future.
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Refugee week events in Derby 2017
Click on Refugee Week 2017 programme for the latest information of what’s happening in Derby during Refugee week (19th – 25th June). Keep checking here – there are still more events to be confirmed!
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New play for refugee week 22 June 2017
Come to Derby Theatre at 7.30pm on 22 June 2017 to see a powerful new play by Ava Hunt “A Story to Tell” recounts stories of refugees and their journeys through poetry, drama and readings. It’s free but donations to Derby Refugee Advice Centre welcome. See flyer below for more details. Full Refugee Week programme to follow shortly
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Derby Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 celebrates the theme “Life Must Go on”
This year Derby marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 26 January 2017 with a full week of events, including an evening of…
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Six Derby representatives at Sanctuary in Parliament event
Derby representatives with Margaret Beckett MP
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Our Life, Our Transition – a Bosnian history project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund
For the last year or so the Derby based Bosnia-Herzegovina Association has conducted a project funded by the National Lottery to research and record the stories of 26 Bosnian people who had to flee from war and genocide in their country and settle in the UK during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s. It covers their trauma and how they reached the UK, as well as their reception by the UK and the host community in Derby, and the founding…
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Q&A panel on Conflicts, Refugees and resettlement held with local and national politicians
On 14th October a panel was convened by the Derby War and Refugees Forum comprising: the Rt Hon Pauline Latham, MP for mid-Derbyshire; Imti Choonara, Emeritus Professor of Child Health University of Nottingham and representative of Amnesty International; Colleen Molloy for City of Sanctuary; Cllr Asaf Afzal, DCC Cabinet member for Cohesion and Integration; and Janet Fuller of Derby Refugee Advice Centre in Derby Council House, to answer questions submitted by interested parties.
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Remembrance Day : 11 hour challenge to support Red Cross and Royal British Legion
Derby City of Sanctuary member Joseph Chivayo is once again challenging himself to raise funds for refugee work at Red Cross – please see this link for details from last year’s efforts and support him if you can.