Bristol Refugee Festival and Arnolfini present Between Home and Here, a series of creative workshops for refugees and asylum seekers.
Bristol Refugee Festival and Arnolfini present Between home and here, a series of creative workshops for refugees and asylum seekers exploring identity, culture and expression through writing, photography and crafting. Developed in dialogue with Mounira Al Solh’s exhibition A land as big as her skin and in anticipation of the 2026 Bristol Refugee Festival, the workshops invite reflection on how we make, carry, adapt and express our culture, and how this can take shape through art.
Across 8 workshops, participants will use crafting, writing and photography as mediums through which to explore the things that shape us - tradition, language, history, community, ideas - and how these become expressions of culture.
The workshops are a space to explore your heritage and communicate through art what culture means to you - and what gets in the way. Participants can then share their work in a digital exhibition that will be showcased throughout the 2026 Bristol Refugee Festival in June.
Between home and here takes place weekly from 22 April to 29 May, 11am - 1pm, at Arnolfini on Wednesdays and Fridays, and will be facilitated by Bristol City Poet Sukina Noor, multidisciplinary artist and educator Amak Mahmoodian and material arts practitioner Sherien Elsheikh. Please check the dates carefully for the sessions you would like to attend.
Workshop Dates:
Wednesday 22 April - Writing with Sukina Noor (+ Arabic interpreter)
Wednesday 29 April - Writing with Sukina Noor
Friday 1 May - Crafting with Sherien Elsheikh
Wednesday 6 May - Photography with Amak Mahmoodian
Wednesday 13 May - Writing with Sukina Noor
Wednesday 20 May - Photography with Amak Mahmoodian
Wednesday 27 May - Photography with Amak Mahmoodian
Friday 29 May - Crafting with Sherien Elsheikh
The workshops are open to all refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol and are free to attend. Refreshments will be provided and bus tickets will be reimbursed for those using public transport to attend the workshop.
Between home and here is a collaboration between Bristol Refugee Festival and Arnolfini, and is made possible with funding from Bristol City Council.
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Highlights
- 2 hours
- In-person
Location
Arnolfini Arts
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
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