Love Mandala image credit Vikki Reed at https://vikki-reed.pixels.com/. Vikki has this and other mandalas available from her website, and you can watch her painting another one like this here: https://youtu.be/w0ThNQGDBy4.
Special thanks to the Sunflower Quartet, who are donating their performance free.
Monday 12th December, St. Johns Church, Bridgetown
6.30 – 9pm Open doors for gifts drop-off and wrapping
7.15 pm talk by Alex Vessis, CEO Devon & Cornwall Refugee Support
about their work and support for asylum seekers
Wheelchair accessible – Atmospheric music by The Sunflower Quartet – Light refreshments
We will be holding space to welcome gifts from you, your neighbours and friends for refugees & asylum seekers in Plymouth & Torbay. Gifts can be also left at the Albert Inn (open after 5pm weekdays, all day at weekends), and the Bay Horse Inn Cistern St., between 3 and 11 December.
(Contact info@beyondborderstotnes.org.uk for cash donations via BBT&D bank.)
Gifts will go to people seeking sanctuary who after traumatic journeys from danger, violence, persecution, and intolerable situations, exist here for months or years in very sparse conditions – on £39 a week (or £8 a week if temporarily in hotel), with no right to work, isolated, far from families and home culture, very marginalised from daily life in UK. The gifts will be distributed via Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support and other local charities who work directly with asylum seekers based, by the Home
Office, in the Plymouth area.
Bring the kind of seasonal gift you might give a friend or dear family member.
NB: the majority of asylum seekers receiving gifts are men.
Gifts should be unwrapped.
You can bring a card or message you’d like to include. We will have a wrapping and card-making station you can use.
Suggested gift items are, for example:
Toiletries – shower gel, body lotion, after shave, hand creams etc
Warm items – gloves, scarf, hat, warm socks, jumper etc (all new please – these are
special seasonal gifts, rather than passed-on donations)
Sweet Food or confectionery – some kind of special treat (meat-free & alcohol-free)
A general use voucher/gift card (eg Post Office/supermarket) able to use anywhere.
Wednesday 17 August, Totnes Cinema
7pm Doors and bar open; introduction with BBT&D
8pm Film Show followed by discussion
This documentary by Ai Weiwei is a heart-breaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. With his camera crew, he travels around the world, and finds a globalised story of desolation and desperation – people who are frantic enough to jettison everything in their lives and leave home. The film shows the scale of these issues that touch all our lives, for which there are no easy solution.
Before the film we will speak briefly about our work, and opportunities for you to participate. After the film we will facilitate a discussion about our responses to the film.
We will be taking a collection for Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) Ethiopian appeal.
This showing is part of Totnes Festival, tickets are £10 from Totnes Cinema.
FILM NIGHT AT TOTNES CINEMA
“FLEE” by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Tuesday 15 March
Bar opens 7pm, BBT&D intro 7.40pm, Screening 8pm
BBT&D hosting discussion after the film, bar reopens
In FLEE, the Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Sundance Festival, filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen tells a poignant, true story of belonging and the search for identity. Amin’s life has been defined by his past and a secret he’s kept for over 20 years. Forced to leave his home country of Afghanistan as a young child with his mother and siblings, Amin now grapples with how his past will affect his future in Denmark and the life he is building with his soon-to-be husband. Told brilliantly through the use of animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his life, opening up for the first time about his past, his trauma, the truth about his family, and his acceptance of his own sexuality.
“A remarkably humanising and complex film, expanding and expounding the kind of story of loss and resilience that’s too easily simplified.” (The Guardian)
Visit HERE for trailer and to book your seats.
Beyond Borders Totnes & District 