Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. This year’s theme is ‘Community as a Superpower.’ Community is the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force!
12 ways for your school or college to get involved! Select each link for more:
- A Day of Welcome – find out how to get involved in this special day on Friday 13th June.
- Assemblies and workshops (including music) with Furaha Mussanzi (or Schools of Sanctuary).
- Art Exhibition – a project open to all pupils in Bradford District.
- Bradford Sanctuary Seekers Education Awards (invite only)
- The Big Fundraiser! Take on some challenges to fundraise for Bradford Schools and Colleges of Sanctuary.
- Social Action Projects – find teaching resources to help students raise their voice!
- Lesson Resources – find a wide range of curriculum resources for every Key Stage.
- Asylum Speakers – in-person talks in schools by people with lived experience of seeking sanctuary.
- The Moomins – new school packs with lots of ideas to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first Moomin story, The Moomins and the Great Flood.
- Film Workshops KS3/4 – Invite Tom Harmer (local film maker) and some of the cast into school/college for a Q&A about the film ‘The Sanctuary Seekers of Bradford’.
- Staff CPD – a range of training available from Schools of Sanctuary, Furaha Mussanzi and Solace.
- Kaleidoscope – in-person workshops available and teaching resources from an organisation who work with displaced children & teenagers in Calais.
Find out what we’ve been up to for Refugee Week in previous years…
Refugee Week 2024: Awards event (video)
Refugee Week 2024: Slideshow
Refugee Week 2024: ‘Our Home’ Art Exhibition (online version)
Refugee Week 2023: Review
Refugee Week 2023: ‘Compassion’ Art Exhibition (online version)
Refugee Week 2022: ‘Healing’ Art Exhibition (online version)
