If you would like live music to a public or private event this band is made up of a mixture on nationalities and play music and songs from a variety of countries. They played in the Piece Hall in Halifax during Refugee Week and they got people dancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVA7nfWhdbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVA7nfWhdbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTh_uJhaZ4 If you are interested […]
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Little Theatre
Thank you to Little Theatre in Hebden Bridge for inviting experts by experience (refugees and asylum seekers) to visit the theatre and see if any of them want to be volunteers there. Six came and two more might be interested. After over an hour at the theatre we went to Leila’s Kitchen for some lunch. […]
Donation
Many thanks to the two women who arranged to sell plants at the Tod Almighty shop in Todmorden and donated £200 to Together We Grow. Amazing achievement
Open Day
3 walks on Sunday 20.6
About 80 people participated in today’s 3 walks from People’s Park in Halifax, arranged as part of Refugee Week. A moderate walk went to Manor Health Park, where the children could play. A harder walk went to Albert Prominade with some going into the woods. A 4.5 mile walk went in a circle around Beacon […]
Big event at the Piece Hall
Over 2000 people attended the Piece Hall in Halifax where Refugee Week and the Great Get Together were celebrated. It was organised as a partnership between the Piece Hall and Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary – a network of organisations and individuals supporting experts by experience (asylum seekers and refugees). There was a free hot meal […]
Refugee Week on 19.6
Saturday: June 19, 2021 Great Calderdale Get Together – Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary & Piece Hall 11:30 – 4:30 A partnership between The Piece Hall and Calderdale Valley of Sanctuary marking the Great Get Together weekend and Refugee Week. Open invitation for everyone. Join us for food, music, live performance, and activities for all the […]
Cooking book distributed
We got hold of 80 copies of this book and have distributed them all. Here are two recipies from the book: Lingreenie page 86 Our Cheese and Oregano Rusks page 50
Poem
I will be there 28/05/2021 Stories, Lived Experience, Poetry When your end is drawing near, call on me i ll be there. When all hope is gone and you want to shed a tear, dont hold on, hold my hand. Count on me when times are hard and you feel so sad and blue. When […]
Poem from Refugee Week
Poem read at the launch of Refugee Week in Calderdale: My Thirst for Freedom.Hear my cry for Freedom. Dry my tears for i am in pain and agony. Release me from this suffering. Free this caged bird so it can fly so high as it journeys to freedom. Alone I wonder,tormented I shed a tear […]