Tuesday 17 June 2025 - Sunday 22 June 2025
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Visit the Gallery during Refugee Week, for a series of free taster activities.
Experience the workshops that the gallery has on offer every week, including textiles, paintings, drawing and mosaics. Meet the groups and tutors that attend regularly. Come along to our World Cinema Film Club, a programme of shorts and feature films, specially selected by Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas.
Free, everyone welcome, no booking required.
Threads drop in taster session
Tuesday 17 June, 12:00-14:00
Join our regular community textiles group to explore the materials and techniques that the group have used over the past three years
Print club taster session
Wednesday 18.06.25, 10:30-12:30
Try your hand at different print techniques in this fun, hands-on taster session.
Wednesday adult workshops taster session
Wdnesday 18 June, 13:00-15:00
Interested in drawing or painting? Come and meet the tutors and the group and learn some exciting techniques. Explore the gallery’s inspiring exhibitions and displays.
Welcome mosaics taster session
Friday 20 June, 13:00-15:00
Learn how to make beautiful mosaic artworks, using shards of domestic tiles and a little imagination!
Film Club: World Cinema
This year, Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas – two organisations who work across intersections of racial justice, migration, and climate – have collaborated on a short film programme taking place 16-22 June for a community-powered week!
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Saturday 21 June, 13:00-15:00
Burnt Milk, Director: Joseph Douglas Elmhirst (Running time 10 mins)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqh2e7NaL7g&pp=ygUSYnVybnQgbWlsayB0cmFpbGVy
Burnt Milk is a film named after the common Caribbean dessert made by boiling condensed milk until it’s caramelised. In the film, this dessert is one of the few comforts afforded to Una, an alienated and isolated Jamaican midwife living in the United Kingdom.
Themes: Migration, Displacement, Jamaica, Food, Joy
Category: Short Fiction
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The Scent of Geranium, Director: Naghmeh Farzaneh (Running time 5 mins)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zGKhaJfvE&pp=ygUdVGhlIFNjZW50IG9mIEdlcmFuaXVtIHRyYWlsZXI%3D
By using her own experience as an Iranian international student in the U.S., Farzaneh gives voice to the fears, doubts, and complex range of emotions that immigrants face and makes a powerful call for a more compassionate approach.
Audience: Family Friendly
Themes: Iran, Nature, Family, Compassion, Discrimination
Category: Short Animation
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Fremont, Director: Babak Jalali (Running time 1h 30m)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObWrx064yzQ
Synopsis: A moving and hilarious comedy-drama starring Anaita Wali Zada and The Bear’s Emmy award-winning Jeremy Allen White. Donya, a young Afghan who moved to Fremont, California after serving as a translator for the American army, spends her days working at a fortune cookie factory and her nights wide awake battling between her desire to rebuild her life and the overbearing guilt she carries within. In a bid to connect with the world, she sends an unconventional message through a fortune cookie.
Audience: Certification: 12A in UK
Themes: Afghanistan, Survivor’s guilt, Comedy
Category: Feature fiction
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Sunday 22 June, 13:00 – 15:00
Los Comandos, Director (s): Juliana Schatz Preston and Joshua Bennett (Running time 30mins)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEnlinlmOvE&pp=ygUUTG9zIENvbWFuZG9zIHRyYWlsZXI%3D
As a result of extreme gang and police violence, El Salvador has the highest murder rate in the world. The emergency medical unit, Los Comandos de Salvamento, is one of the few institutions that is willing to take a stand against this reign of terror. 16-year-old Mimi, a high school student and volunteer paramedic, must decide if she will stay in the country or risk her life helping others.
Themes: Gang violence, Young people, El Salvador, Migration
Content Warning: Death, Violent Crimes, Gang Violence
Category: Short Documentary
Journey Mercies, Director: Tomisin Adepeju (Running time 15mins)
Inspired by Adepeju’s own experience as a Nigerian immigrant in London, the film explores his parents’ unfulfilled dream of returning to Nigeria to live in the house they built. Captured in the nostalgic VHS aesthetic of classic Nollywood, it beautifully portrays the immigrant experience and the deep longing for belonging.
Audience: Family friendly
Themes: Nigeria, Displacement, Cultural identity
Category: Short Fiction
About the Refugee Week film programme:
The programme, curated by Other Cinemas, consists of 5 shorts and 2 feature length films that explore the theme of #communityasasuperpower.
From emergency responders in El Salvador supporting their communities in crisis to the familiar smell and taste of home to bring comfort, these films invite us to celebrate the diverse way we build and sustain our communities.
All the carefully curated films can be watched globally for free – either in the comfort of your home or surrounded by your neighbours at a community screening. No need to get rights or licensing, we have arranged these for the duration of Refugee Week which runs from Monday 16th to Sunday the 22nd of June.
Other Cinemas really believe in the power of film to bring together and so they’ve done all the boring technical stuff so that you can just focus on selecting the best film to bring your community together. Don’t forget the popcorn!
We would like to thank the team at Curate-It for providing us with a secure, online platform to share these films and celebrate Refugee Week with our global community.
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