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Celebrating Sanctuary 2008 - Launching Refugee Week With The Noisettes
Free festival celebrating the work of refugee artists and launching Refugee Week. Sunday, 15 June 2008, 2 - 7pm
Bernie Spain Gardens, Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1 (adjacent to Oxo Tower Wharf), nearest train/tube: Blackfriars, Southwark, Waterloo
FREE ADMISSION
Celebrating Sanctuary, part of Refugee Week (16-22 June) and the Coin Street Festival, is a totally unique annual event which celebrates the work of refugee artists in the UK. Refugees and immigrants have a transformative and invigorating effect wherever they arrive, making a real contribution to the cultural life of their new home countries. The festival, now in its ninth year, gathers together musicians, dancers and artists who have arrived here from all corners of the globe and gives us a snapshot of our culture evolving. It demonstrates that such a vibrant panorama of sight, sound, aroma and taste would not exist had it not been for the UKs hard won tradition of providing sanctuary to those fleeing persecution.
This years highlights include Indie rockers Noisettes tearing up the main stage and Book Slam who will bring a vibrant literary strand to the festival including exclusively commissioned work by Nikita Lalwani (her debut novel The Gifted is serialized this month on BBC Radio 4) and Mir Mahfuz Ali(one of Exiled Writers Inks emerging writers and a refugee from Bangladesh). The festival will also feature Gypsy Soul from London-based Russian-born singer/ songwriterAngelina, currently making waves on the Atlantas RnB scene, Congolese soukous from new Londoners Kasai Masai, Sephardic Flamenco by Los Desterrados and Mukka, probably the finest UK-based exponents of Romanian music. There will also be a multitude of stalls selling mouth-watering dishes and drinks from all over the world, a dedicated dance stage, workshops and activities for children (such as UK charity Afghanaids workshops to make kites likes the ones seen in the popular book and film The Kite Runner), plus information stalls in the Festival marketplace.
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