These Walls Must Fall – Celebration of Resistance

** Part of Refugee Week 2018 ** Line-Up Below **

We live in a society where border controls are expanding at an alarming rate. Whether it's in hospitals, schools, or on our streets, it is increasingly a dangerous time for people from migrant and refugee communities – or those perceived as being so.

This has been accompanied by an increase in violence and abuse – but despite this, people across our society are responding with creativity, building the kind of world that they want to live in. They are showing solidarity with one another; campaigning for change; and exercising their rights to live lives of dignity.

As part of Refugee Week 2018, we will be celebrating people's resistance to these injustices – and creating a space that strengthens our collective capacity to overcome fear and mistrust. Instead, we hope to transform our communities to become beacons of welcome and hospitality.

Join Quakers in Britain on Saturday 23 June to hear from poets and musicians who are at the forefront of forging creative responses, based on kindness and common humanity, to global economic inequality, climate change, and militarisation. There will also be the chance to hear from grassroots organisations at the heart of building a culture of welcome – and find out more about how you can get involved in the growing racial justice movement.

ARTISTS
Poetic Pilgrimage is a British Muslim hip-hop duo founded in 2002. They express themselves through the art of rhyme - covering personal and social issues.

JJ Bola is an established writer and poet. He has written three collections: Elevate (2012), Daughter of the Sun (2014) and WORD (2015), and is the author of No Place to Call Home. He writes on themes related to migration, race and borders.

The Nawi Collective are a London-based black women's vocal collective who sing for justice to reclaim their time and for their ancestors.

Selina Nwulu was the young poet laureate for London who work touches on social and environmental justice as well as identity, nostalgia and belonging.

More artists TBC!

CO-ORGANISERS -
Right To Remain - www.righttoremain.org.uk
Refugee Week - www.refugeeweek.org.uk
British Quakers - www.quaker.org.uk
Detention Action - www.detentionaction.org.uk