Refugee Tales Festival of Walking this July
This summer, 9th-13th July, Refugee Tales are inviting people to join their Festival of Walking following the Capital Ring of London alongside evening events of tales, music and dancing to mark their 10 year anniversary and share their vision of a future without detention. Sign up to join the whole walk, for a day or two or for one of the evening talks.
Refugee Tales is a walking solidarity with refugees, people seeking asylum and people who have experienced immigration detention. It is rooted in the work of AVID member, 'Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group', who supports people during and after their immigration detention at Gatwick detention centres (Brook House and Tinsley House IRCs).
Refugee Tales has walked over 500 miles and in its 10th Anniversary year, Refugee Tales invite you to join a Festival of Walking as walkers follow part of the Capital Ring from Southwark to Wimbledon. As Refugee Tales walks and shares stories and music, the project and walkers call for an end to indefinite immigration detention as the first step to a future without detention.
The walk takes place from 9th to 13th July with lunchtime talks and evening performances of music, conversations with experts by experience and the tales of people who have been detained, read by writers such as Patience Agbabi and Neel Mukherjee. Music this year includes jazz, world music, a steel band and the Sing for Freedom choir. Hosts include actors Shobu Kapoor, Niamh Cusack and Nima Taleghani.
You can join for the whole period, for just some of the days of walking or for an evening event. There are just a few spaces left and so get your tickets now to walk in solidarity with people in detention and reimagining what it means to commit to human rights in the present moment.
For more information about the Festival of Walking and to book to walk or attend evening events, please visit the Refugee Tales website.
