Celebrating Sanctuary, 9 May to 4 July 2009

Celebrating Sanctuary Festival, Saturday 13 June

Celebrating Sanctuary is back this year with our best ever music line-up and an exciting range of events across the city. Offering musicians originating from Angola to Albania, Kurdistan to Kazakhstan, across Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East, our events demonstrate the rich diversity of talent that is settled here in Birmingham.

The key date in our calendar will be the Celebrating Sanctuary Festival on Victoria and Chamberlain Squares on Saturday 13 June. Alongside the music there will be workshops, displays, entertainment and activities for children, performances, arts and crafts, and samples of food from around the world – and all for free! In addition we offer music nights, a family music event, schools workshops and a schools festival.

The event is celebration of the UK’s tradition of offering shelter to people fleeing persecution. All our events are free and everyone is welcome. Celebrating Sanctuary is Birmingham’s main contribution to National Refugee Week, which is celebrated between 14 and 20 June 2009.

Forthcoming events:

Music nights:
Saturday 6 June, Sunflower Lounge, Smallbrook Queensway
Friday 26 June, The Cross, Moseley
- more information here

Schools Festival: Friday 12 June, Victoria and Chamberlain Squares, City Centre (prior booking only) - more information here

Family Event, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Saturday 20 June, 1–5pm - more information here

Email: Isata@celebrating-sanctuary.org.uk

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Visit BBC Birmingham's Celebrating Sanctuary photo gallery to see pictures from Celebrating Sanctuary 2008.