Refugee Tales: The Foster Child’s Tale as told by ‘AJ’| Canterbury Cathedral

From 14 - 20 June 2021, Canterbury Cathedral is hosting a series of events for Refugee Week. The first of these will be daily online screenings of ‘Canterbury Cathedral presents Refugee Tales.’ Filmed at iconic and hidden locations within the Cathedral Precincts, these are films of real life refugee stories as told to famous writers as part of the Refugee Tales series.

On Saturday 19 June, the Cathedral is holding ‘Canterbury Cathedral’s Refugee Week Conference’ This half-day event is on the theme of ‘We Cannot Walk Alone.’

The morning talk will chaired by Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilson with a panel including:
• David Herd, Refugee Tales
• Lord Dubs
• A youth ambassador from Kent Refugee Action Network
• A representative from Good Chance Theatre’s The Walk with Amal.

There will be thought-provoking films made especially for the event and music too.

Book your free ticket for the Webinar at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-week-2021-we-cannot-walk-alone-tickets-153951285439

‘Canterbury Cathedral presents Refugee Tales’
Canterbury Cathedral is working with Refugee Tales to share five specially made films of readings from the Refugee Tales volumes.

The tales broadcast from Monday to Friday during Refugee Week are:
• The Prologue, David Herd
• The Foster Child’s Tale as told by ‘AJ.’
• The Arriver’s Tale as told to Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Refugee’s Tale as told to Patience Agbabi
• The Stowaway’s Tale as told to Amy Sackville

David Herd, Refugee Tales
“Refugee Tales is ‘A Walk in Solidarity with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and People who have been Detained’. Grounded in the work of the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, the purpose of Refugee Tales is to call attention to the fact that the UK is the only country in Europe that detains people indefinitely under immigration rules, and to call for detention to end. Every summer since 2015 Refugee Tales has engaged in a large-scale public walk. In the context of those walks – and taking Chaucer’s great poem of human movement, The Canterbury Tales, as its model - the project has shared the stories of people who have experienced indefinite detention in the UK. For more information about the project and its work please go to www.refugeetales.org

“This summer, like last summer, the project’s walk is necessarily limited by the ongoing effects of the pandemic. Restrictions permitting, the walk will take place across the weekend of 3 and 4 July and we are inviting people, where possible, to walk in solidarity. For more information please visit www.refugeetales.org

“As well as the 2021 walk, this summer sees the publication of Refugee Tales Volume IV, the official publication date of which – 28 July 2021 – is also the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

“In October 2021 we are collaborating with the Cathedral to welcome Amal and The Walk to Canterbury. Following her visit to the Cathedral, Amal will make her way up the hill to the University of Kent Campus, where Refugee Tales will welcome her with an evening of music and tales.”

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