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Celebrating Sanctuary 2008 - Launching Refugee Week With The Noisettes

BOOK SLAM SESSION IN THE ACOUSTIC YURT hosted by novelist Patrick Neate

With 2008 being the National Year of Reading Book Slam, the brainchild of Ben Watt and Patrick Neate, will be bringing a vibrant literary/ spoken word strand to this years festival featuring cutting edge spoken word and acoustic music.

Part of this will be two exclusive commissions: Nikita Lalwani whose debut novel The Gifted is serialized this month on BBC Radio 4, and Mir Mahfuz Ali, one of Exiled Writers Inks emerging writers and refugee from Bangladesh, join forces to create an epic poem which resounds to the themes of Celebrating Sanctuary and Refugee Week: flight, arrival, sanctuary, prejudice, identity, welcome and finding your own voice in a new country.The work will be premiered at the festival with a readingby both authors. Celebrating Sanctuary has also commissioned writing workshops from Jacqueline Walker who dominated the literary pages and airwaves earlier this year with the publication of her novel Pilgrim State.

There will be more music in the Acoustic Yurt with the London Bulgarian Choir, Zimbabwean bass player Mashasha, Syrian virtuoso Abdullah Chhadeh, Arabic musics most innovative qanun player and the Lani Singers from the Indonesian province of West Papua whose songs are rooted in the sacred rituals of the Lani tribe whilst also highlighting the struggle that their people endure under Indonesian occupation.

SUNKEN GARDEN DANCE STAGE hosted by Jane Cornwell (Evening Standard/ Songlines/ BBC World Service)

The Sunken Garden Dance Stage will once again boast a vibrant mix of professional and amateur dance coming out of the refugee communities, with performances ranging from celebrated choreographer Myriam Ojedas Tiempo De Tango dance company through to the precise classical Tamil dance of the youth group Narthanya Kalilya, to Congolese soukous and the body popping art of Ethiopian traditional dance. And don't forget to bring your dancing shoes as you will get a chance to learn a little nifty footwork from some of these dance troupes.

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