Brixton Community Based is launching an arts and crafts project for refugees and asylum-seekers.
A woman doing arts and crafts. Pic: Annie Spratt on Unsplash.
A Brixton’s community group is launching a free arts and crafts project for adults of an asylum seeking or refugee background.
Brixton Community Based and Community Arts Box will be working together for the release of this project.
Their joint event, Journey Makers: Stitch the World Together, will be held at Wheatsheaf Community Hall, Vauxhall, from February to April 2024, over a course of 8 weeks.
The exact dates and times of this event are yet to be confirmed.
The main activities included are sewing, knitting and sharing pre-learnt skills with fellow project members.
People sharing food together. Pic; Community Arts Box
Additionally, the project will also include joining Brixton Youth Theatre’s Acting Together programme in creating a range of costumes and props for the children.
Nearing the final weeks, both projects will commence with a celebratory shared performance, presenting the collaboration of skills learnt and shared over this time period, followed by a joint meal.
The Stitch the World together programme will be directly funded by the London Community Foundation.
Earlier this year, in March 2023, Community Arts Box presented the “We are Here” Brixton exhibition, showcasing a multitude of art, poetry, installations, sculpture, and photography created by the Global Refugee Committee.
The overall aims of achievement of this exhibition were to serve as an expression of the artists’ cultural backgrounds, an opportunity for attendees to share their stories in celebration of their journey, represent the resilience of the refugee and Asylum-seeking community and to invite the wider audience to challenge their possible preconceived ideologies and perceptions of refugees.
Attendees admiring the exhibition together. Pic: Community Arts Box
The exhibition included the artwork of Iranian artist and refugee, Nima Javan, and the sketches of the Tigray Genocide by Wedi Tsion.
The event was then brought to an end with a live Nooraz, the Persian New Year, musical performance.
