We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported City of Sanctuary this year. You have achieved a lot! With partners throughout the city we hope we have helped make everyone feel a bit more welcome and fulfilled. Let's see what we can do in 2010!
Seasonal greetings from Sarah, Dan and all the committee.
In this last newsletter of 2009:
- City of Sanctuary Party - Friday 5th February 2010
- Controversial French film on asylum
- Call for articles on disability and displacement
- Art on the Run
City of Sanctuary Party - Friday 5th February 2010
To celebrate all the progress made in the last year towards making Sheffield a more welcoming place, we're holding a party on Friday 5th February 2010, at the Crescent Community Centre in Burngreave. All are welcome, particularly those seeking sanctuary in Sheffield. More details will be forthcoming in the new year, but given the success of last years event we are expecting something pretty special. Watch this space.
Controversial French film on asylum
In January the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield is showing a controversial French film which outraged the French Minister for Immigration when it was released in France earlier in 2009. It tells the story of a Kurdish teenager who is trained by a French swimming instructor to swim across the Channel.
Showroom plan to show it at 6.10pm on Friday 1 Jan, 1.00pm on Sat 2 Jan, 3.35pm on Sunday 3 Jan, 8.50pm on Monday 4 Jan, 8.50pm on Tuesday 5 Jan, 8.50pm on Wed 6 Jan and 6.10pm on Thursday 7 Jan.
After the showing at 6.10pm on Thursday 7 January, SYMAAG is organising a discussion of the film in Screen 5 from 8pm to 9pm.
Call for articles on disability and displacement
Force Migration Review (FMR) are a major international magazine, aiming to provide a forum for debate on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice. Each issue of FMR is distributed in its four language editions free of charge to at least 13,000 organisations and individuals in 175+
countries.
Each issue includes a major feature on a particular aspect of forced migration. For their next issue, FMR are looking for articles on the theme 'disability and displacement'.
This issue will be published in English, Arabic, French and Spanish, and they can receive articles in any of these languages.
The call for articles for this issue is now online at: http://www.fmreview.org/disability/
Deadline for articles: 31st January 2010.
Art on the Run
‘Art on the run'is organised by Yorkshire and Humber Refugee Arts Group, to showcase the work of its members at a national conference. They are keen to involve more artists from refugee/asylum seeker backgrounds.
If you are interested to take part or for further information, please contact Bereket Loulby email b.loul@leedsmet.ac.uk or bereket.loul@migrationyorkshire.org.uk; on the phone 07791875562 by the 8th January 2010