Refugee Festival Scotland.

Scottish Refugee Festival 2025

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The festival runs across Scotland until 22 June.
25 years of Refugee Festival Scotland and the 40th anniversary of Scottish Refugee Council.

www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk

Refugee Festival Scotland celebrates the contribution refugee communities make to life in Scotland – the food and drink, music and poetry, art, languages and ideas that people bring with them when they seek safety. The festival offers people from different backgrounds the chance to meet and get to know each other better.

Refugee Festival Scotland is produced and coordinated by Scottish Refugee Council

Children of Heaven at GFT

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Thursday 19th, June, 2025 at 2.30 p.m. Join Garnethill Multicultural for a special screening of their short film. Made with Tricky Hat Productions, the Listening To Our City project is an ongoing Glasgow-based project involving people who have experience of the asylum seeking and refugee process. Children of Heaven has been selected to screen alongside the […]

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Friday, June 13, 2025 | Filed under: Cinema, Refugee Festival Scotland

Refugee Festival Scotland 2025 – Milestones

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Runs from 13 – 22 June, 2025 See Programme of Events This year marks 25 years of the festival, and the Scottish Refugee Council’s 40th – who are immensely proud to be organising a national march as part of the festival. The festival comes as we see an alarming rise in support for racist and […]

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Refugee Festival Scotland 2025 – From Shore to Shore

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From Shore to Shore 13 – 22 June, 2025 9am – 5pm Anniesland campus of Glasgow Clyde College 19 Hatfield drive, Glasgow, G12 0YE Free Outdoor installation. Visitors can come at any time between 9 – 5pm. There are toilets and parking facilities on site. Glasgow Clyde College Art installation of messages and stories written […]

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Refugee Festival Scotland: Live in Art at CCA

10 – 14 June, 2025 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Syeda Sadaf Zaidi has brought together the work of 12 Glasgow-based artists from Afghanistan, Colombia, Iran, Pakistan, Ukraine and Vietnam for LIVE IN ART. You can see this unique #RefugeeFestScot exhibition at the CCA in Glasgow. Participating artists Syeda Sadaf Zaidi, Yuliya […]

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March To Celebrate World Refugee Day and Carnival at Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow

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Saturday, 21 June, 2025, 12 p.m. – 10 p.m. Event by Stand up to Racism – Scotland, Perth Against Racism and Stand up to Racism Glasgow Assemble for the march 12 noon at Barrowland Park, Glasgow G1 5BG Carnival Rally, music and carnival in The Old Fruitmarket,  100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ  hosted by Love Music Hate Racism […]

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Letters of Hope, Milk Cafe, Refugee Festival

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ENDED 2022 Letters of Hope Friday, 24 June, 2022 – until 5 p.m. By Milk Cafe MILK Café, 452 Victoria Rd, Glasgow, G42 8YU Part of Refugee Festival Scotland Letters of Hope is a free open-air exhibition around Glasgow’s much loved Queen’s Park. A series of letters and postcards written at Peer Support Group will be […]

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The Words – A Play, A Pie and A Pint

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Tuesday 21 June, 2022,  1 p.m. – 2 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX Part of Refugee Festival Scotland 17 – 26 June, 2022 What makes a good story? Not always the simple truth. For Ashraf, the words between why they left, how they got here and why they need to stay are […]

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Stories of Our Worlds – Refugee Festival 2022

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Thursday 23 June, 2022. 10.30 a.m. until 12.30 p.m. Part of Refugee Festival Scotland 17 – 26 June, 2022 Event by Glasgow ESOL Forum Quaker Meeting House 38 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow G2 4PS Glasgow ESOL Forum is hosting a face-to-face event called ‘Stories of Our Worlds’ at this year’s Refugee Festival! This year, the theme is ‘Storytelling’. […]

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Our Past and Present Beautiful Lives: part of Refugee Week

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Thursday, June 23, 2022 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Part of Refugee Festival Scotland 17 – 26 June, 2022 Women’s Support Project’s initiative Rights & Choices is working with SoundLab for this event for Refugee Festival Scotland (WOMEN ONLY) Phillies of Shawlands, 1179 Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands, Glasgow G41 3YH About this event ‘Our Past & […]

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World Refugee Day Saturday 20 June, 2020

Tomorrow is World Refugee Day Kiki K Yoga – Yoga for Kindness, 20 June, 2020 at 6 p.m. Celebrate #WorldRefugeeDay with a gentle Yoga for Kindness practice. This 45-minute practice is based on classes taught to a group of refugee and asylum seeking women who find it hard to access mainstream yoga classes. It is […]

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Scottish Action for Refugees West End Collection

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16 June, 2019 Kelbourne Scout Hall, 76 Kelbourne Street, North Kelvinside G20 8PR “We’re back at Kelbourne Scout Hall for our West End Collection on 16 June, where our fantastic helpers will be ready and waiting to receive your donations of clothes, bedding, personal care items, toiletries and toys. Help us send some Love from […]

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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 | Filed under: Community event, Refugee Festival Scotland

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