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Posted on April 12, 2018, 12:56 pm By krh

An exciting exhibition of art by foreign national prisoners and ex-prisoners will be displayed at the Fishslab Gallery, 11 Oxford St Whitstable CT5 1DB from 1-8th May.

You are warmly invited to the Private View on Friday 4th May 6.30-8.30 pm. Our MP Rosie Duffield will be attending in support of this project.

Foreign national prisoners are refugees and migrants held for deportation in prison. Kent Refugee Help assists prisoners in finding legal representation to obtain their release and appeal their deportation and so begin a new life.

This unprecedented exhibition showcases the skills of foreign prisoners and former prisoners, telling their untold stories and challenging negative stereotypes promoted by the media and politicians.

The exhibition includes painting and poetry by guest artist Nasrin Parvaz, a political exile who spent many years imprisoned in Iran. The artwork of ex-prisoners and immigration detainees produced in a workshop, The Village, led by Gary Studely of Soundlines Poets is also displayed.

A range of striking images from the exhibition will be on sale as postcards. All proceeds will go to Kent Refugee Help ensuring our essential work continues in the current climate, hostile to refugees and migrants. Please join us in this celebration of resilience and struggle.

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Edited by David Herd & Anna Pincus

Featuring Shami Chakrabarti, Kyon Ferril, Christy Lefteri, Robert Macfarlane, Khodadad Mohammadi, Dina Nayeri, Amy Sackville, Philippe Sands, Rachel Seiffert, Natalia Sierra, Bidisha SK Mamata, Simon Smith & Maurizio Veglio

Seventy years after the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UK is guilty of undermining the very principles of asylum, inhumanely detaining those seeking protection and ushering in sweeping changes that threaten to punish refugees at every turn.

But the UK’s immigration system is not alone in committing such breaches of human rights. The fourth volume of Refugee Tales explores our present international environment, combining author re-tellings with first-hand accounts of individuals who have been detained across the world.

As the coronavirus pandemic defies borders – leaving those who are detained even more vulnerable – this collection shares stories spanning Canada, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK, and calls for international insistence on a future without detention.

Featuring a prologue by Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.

You can order a copy here

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PO Box 192
Whitstable, Kent
CT5 1WA

[email protected]

Kent Refugee Help

Charity Number 1120185

Regulated by OISC – No. N201900073

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