Events
Refugee Week Takeover at Mac
Saturday 15th June - 12:00 -6.30pm
Activities for all the family!
Save the date for Celebrating Sanctuary's annual World Music and Arts Festival.
Bringing people together to celebrate and experience the culture, arts and stories of refugees and migrant communities through a universal appreciation of music, joy and life.
This year's festival will bring music and arts from around the world, showcasing the work of highly acclaimed refugee and migrant artists, plus refugee and community groups. With live music, information stalls, arts and crafts and workshops we promise you will leave happier and more inspired than when you arrived.
We are delighted to announce Kausary and Zirak Hamad & Daholl Kurdish Band as the first of our artists performing at Mac for Refugee Week 2024!
The Programme
12-1pm – Hexagon Theatre - Refugee Week Launch event
- Presentations, spoken word and music
1.10 – 3.25 - Outdoor Arena
- Live music from around the world featuring Kausary from Peru
3.30-4.30pm - Hexagon Theatre
- Film, spoken word and music
4.30 – 6.30pm – Outdoor Arena
- Headline acts featuring Zirak Hamad & Daholl Kurdish Band
Artist Announcement
Kausary
Kausary are one of Europe’s best-known Andean bands. They boast an exciting, expressive and talented line-up that will enchant any audience with their sounds of Latin America. Whether it is music for the heart or for the feet. Formed in 1995, in the UK, Kausary has a repertoire of traditional Andean and contemporary Latin sounds. Music of the Andean highlands, coastal lowlands, Amazon basin and forest, Cuban and Latin are all played with a depth of emotion unequalled. “Our passion is to promote Peruvian and South American music, together with raising more awareness of Peru and Latino - America in the UK and the rest of the world.”
Zirak Hamad & Daholl Kurdish Band
Zirak Hamad is a violinist, drummer and singer who came to the UK in 2002 from Iraqi Kurdistan. A graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Iraq, he has a wide range of artistic experience in his home country where he worked as a teacher, festival organiser, broadcaster, television presenter and music critic. During his time in the UK he has worked as a freelance artist delivering Middle Eastern dance and music workshops for schools, community groups and festivals, in the UK and internationally. He performed with eclectic trio Village Well and gypsy/klezmer band Karaj, as well as forming Daholl Kurdish Band. Zirak also performs as a solo artist introducing audiences to a range of Middle Eastern music and drumming.
Daholl Kurdish Band is an energetic blend of Kurdish and Middle Eastern music which ranges from traditional to contemporary popular dance music.
Stay tuned for more artist announcements!
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Supported by Arts Council England.