After months of collaboration with local Lewisham and London based organisations, we’re pleased to release details of our Refugee Week programme today. Carrying on with the theme of ‘Imagining Sanctuary’, the week celebrates both creatives with lived experience of forced migration and Lewisham’s campaign to become a Borough of Sanctuary. Events will be held across…
Love in Lewisham: A celebration of love in all its forms
Come join us 5.30-7.30 at Lewisham Local in Ladywell for a pre-Valentine’s celebration of love! Why should couples (and commercial organisations!) have all the fun? We’ll be displaying and selling a range of affordable paintings by artists with lived experience of forced migration – perfect for that unique, one of a kind gift for Valentine’s…
Human Rights Day Event – Beckenham Place Mansion
Human Rights Day Event – Beckenham Place Mansion Come celebrate Human Rights Day at Beckenham Place Mansion! Buy ethical gifts for the Christmas season and join in with a range of family friendly workshops. We’ll be joined by our friends at Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network, Women for Refugee Women and Refugee Cafe. With thanks…
Creating Sanctuary – Catford’s Winter Festival
Creating Sanctuary – Catford’s Winter Festival Together with Shelby Studios and Flotsam Sessions, we’ve planned a day of festive fun at Catford Mews – alongside Catford Does Christmas. There’s going to be music, dance demonstration, arts and cooking workshops, an affordable art exhibition as well as a Christmas market. Plus – bring the whole family…
Welcoming Little Amal to Lewisham
Welcoming Little Amal to Lewisham We’re excited to be part of Lewisham’s official celebration to welcome Little Amal to Lewisham on 15 October. A 3.5m tall puppet of a young girl, Amal has walked across Europe from the Syrian-Turkish border to highlight the plight of child refugees scattered across the continent, many of whom are…
Ambe & the Small Village Book Launch
Ambe & the Small Village Book Launch Artist Ngwa Afanwi Neba has collaborated together with Greek artists Anna Lioliou to write an original book, Ambe and the Small Village. Suitable for both adults and children, the book’s story evokes the landscapes and stories of Cameroon and is lushly illustrated by Neba. Originally from Cameroon, Neba…
Imagining Sanctuary: Deptford X Exhibition
We’re thrilled to be participating in the Deptford X festival this year. Avalon Cafe, a very cool new venue in Bermondsey, will be hosting an exhibition of works by a number of artists we work with for the duration of the festival 9-18 July. The exhibition kicks off on Friday night in style, with a…
Imagining Sanctuary Week 4
This week’s work are from Esin, a London based visual artist. “My name is Esin. I would really like to become an architect and that’s how I started to draw. I stopped drawing for 10 years and now I started again because that’s something that I love doing, that’s the most important part of the…
Imagining Sanctuary Week 3
This week’s works of artivism are from Heba, a young artist living in London. “From my childhood I loved drawing. I had a teacher. She had always encouraged me, but I stopped drawing when I was in Syria because of the circumstances I went through because of the war, and I left school.” Talented 16-year-old…
Imagining Sanctuary Week 2
Week 2 of our artivism campaign Imagining Sanctuary kicks off today with images of Lewisham market by talented young photographer Seham Mustafa. “My name is Seham Mustafa and I am from Syria and I now live in Lewisham. I am in year 9 and I love photography. Lewisham has diversity, safety and almost all different…