Date/Time
10th August 2023
11:00am - 6:45pm
Location
Lea Bridge Library
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Join us for a day of celebrating sanctuary in the borough, engaging with local displaced communities and refugee centred organisations.
The People’s Pavilion Festival 2023 presents… a day Celebrating Sanctuary in the borough of Waltham Forest.
A key message of the People’s Pavilion, that was designed by the young winning team Cultural Maze, was to celebrate the ‘Roots of Heritage’ and diversity of the borough, with a participatory installation geared to capturing local people’s backgrounds, their wellbeing and hopes for their community.
As a borough of Sanctuary, Waltham Forest is home to many organisations who work with refugee and displaced communities. We would love to welcome the local community, to join us in a day of workshops, events, conversations and refreshments to celebrate the diversity of the borough.
The day is open to all, and we particularly welcome people who relate to personal or family migration experiences, young and old, and those who are seeking a safe outlet.
The day’s activities:
11am – 1pm – Creative Workshops / People’s Pavilion Installation Drop In
1:30 pm – 3pm – Telling Our Stories to Make Change with Citizens UK
4 pm – 6 pm – Sup Supper Club x Conversations with Calais
Coffee will be available to purchase throughout the day courtesy of Haven Coffee
Creative Workshops / People’s Pavilion Installation drop in ( 11am – 1pm )
Come, get creative and make your own response to add to the People’s Pavilion Installation. Drop-in – open to all ages.
Telling our Stories to make change with Citizens UK ( 1:30 pm – 3pm )
This workshop will be co-facilitated with people living in the asylum hotel and focused on how to share our stories and how they can be used a way to make change. The session will be laid back and informal, open to all to come and listen to some stories and to think about their own.
Citizens UK use Community Organising to build diverse alliances of local communities, capable of making change on a range of issues for the long-term.
Facilitator: George Gaillet, community organiser in Waltham Forest working with Citizens UK, working on issues across climate justice, youth safety and migration. Supporting people to build their own campaigns to make meaningful change in their lives.
Sup Supper Club x Conversations from Calais ( 4 pm – 7pm )
Food provided by Hiba Taboum, Poetry + Conversations with Calais
Join refugee Supper Club SUP? and Conversations From Calais founder Mathilda Del Torre as we explore the way in which stories and first person accounts of migration can be instrumental in creating a sanctuary for displaced people to reclaim their narrative and dispel myths around forced migration. Followed by a live performance from local refugee community and nibbles from local Palestinian owned bakery Hiba Taboun.
SUP? Supper Clubis a platform that engages people with the realities of displacement and empowers displaced individuals to shape their own narratives through a celebration of their stories, cuisine and culture. SUP? was started in 2019 after seeing how little was known of the refugee crisis in the UK from the perspectives of refugees themselves and how food could offer a way into highlighting these experiences whilst fundraising for charities that support displaced people. Our mission is to inspire people to support refugees and challenge the negative perceptions of displaced people in the mainstream press by creating a space for them to reclaim their agency and share the realities of their experience. @supsupperclub
All day Coffee with Haven Coffee
Haven Coffee is a social enterprise where we serve ethically sourced, fair-trade, organic coffee to local communities with a social mission of breaking false narratives around refugees in society through visual and performing arts. We run comedy workshops and comedy gigs with refugee performers as well as Art exhibitions with refugee artists. We also run paid barista training programs for refugees so that they can be more employable in society and get integrated into the UK society through the job market
This event is FREE to attend. Booking is recommended to ensure your place, however, drop-ins are welcome.
The People’s Pavilion Festival is a free community festival produced by Creative Practice Beyond The Box CIC and a team of young cultural producers from across East London.
The People’s Pavilion is a bold new approach to collaborative design and production run by Beyond The Box. It seeks to discover the young place-makers of tomorrow, flipping the script on who gets to design and curate cultural spaces. It seeks to empower young Londoners to design and build a temporary pavilion that embodies and discovers what it means for young people to take up space in their city, whilst inspiring a generation of young designers, makers, and creatives.