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SUMMARY:Thursday Lates: Journeys 2018\, Refugee Week Takeover
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DESCRIPTION:21 June\, 6-9pm. Free\nArtReach and Journeys 2018 are hosting
  a unique takeover of our gallery. The event celebrates 20 years of Refu
 gee Week with international sounds\, performances and creativity from ar
 ound the world.\n\n\nJoin us for a work in progress\, multi artform pres
 entation of ‘Sombre Dreams’ by DIPACT\, a new commission by the Whitwort
 h and ArtReach. DIPACT is a 'Diverse/Digital Innovative Platform for Art
 s\, Communities and Technology/Theatre' for diverse artists from any bac
 kground. Their new work responds to Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves fi
 lm installation\, currently on display. DIPACT will also create a film i
 nstallation as part of the visual art exhibition.\n\n\nWe are also proud
  to welcome Women of Courage\, a group of asylum seekers and refugees to
  share a new series of monologs\, poetry and fictions they have written.
  ‘Survivors’ has been developed through attending writing and drama work
 shops led by Fereshteh Mozaffari in collaboration between Commonword\, R
 APAR and Sheba Arts. Fereshteh will also be performing extracts from her
  one woman show ‘One More Push’.\n\n\nAs well as this\, you will be able
  to take part in Manchester City of Sanctuary’s conversation club and cr
 aftivism with Asylum Matters. The evening will conclude with a musical f
 inale from Manchester International Roots Orchestra with a whirl wind tr
 ip around the globe\, featuring a new work for solo Double Bass\, by Mic
 hael Cretu. ‘Dance and Improvisation’ is dedicated to those that lost th
 eir lives in the Morecombe cockle pickers tragedy that inspired Isaac Ju
 lien’s Ten Thousand Waves.\n\n\n\n21-23 June:\nJoin us to celebrate the 
 talents and stories of refugee and asylum seeker visual artists who now 
 call the city home with a new pop up exhibition of their work installed 
 in the Grand Hall. Artists Include: DIPACT\, Jamal Jameel\, Si ieng Fung
 \, Amang Mardokhy\, Sami Ferge\, Hasan Haji Rashid\, Chinar Najib\, Sard
 ar Abudllah\, Kani Kamil\, Mei Yuk Wong.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The Whitworth\, Manchester
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