Join us on Saturday 21 June for our Refugee Week Celebration Day!
The event will also offer the opportunity to meet people from all communities, meet our Studio of Sanctuary community and join in with free craft activities.
We are also delighted to be launching our newly built and custom designed Camera Obscura! Step into our giant camera obscura to explore real-time projections of the outside world passing by. The camera obscura is a darkened room, or box, and was originally used by artists in the renaissance period, with the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer harnessing its projections to trace from. Following this, the camera obscura paved the way for the development of photography as a creative medium. We now use the camera obscura as a tool for image making and educational experiences, sharing and celebrating the evolution of photography into what it is today.
About Refugee Week
Refugee Week is an annual seven-day festival which takes place in June each year. The festival takes place in the week around World Refugee Day (on the 21st June). It is a time to celebrate the contributions of the UK’s refugee and asylum seeking communities, and to raise awareness as to why people seek sanctuary. The theme of this year’s celebrations “Community as a superpower”.