Living Seams: A Timeline
2022
November
The creation of Living Seams
After a successful bid to Heritage Lottery Fund, Atelier Armonico leads a ground-breaking collaboration between Woodpecker Court, Art Refuge, LRMN, Kent Mining Museum, JW3, Morley College and Dover District Council. The project aims to record, explore and conserve the memories, hopes, stories and oral history of refugees and people seeking asylum in Kent, including those previously refugees, and the unique experiences of the communities who embraced them.
2022
17 December
Workshop with LRMN
Debbie Brown, tutor in Textiles at Morley College, lead a sewing workshop at Morley College with sanctuary seekers from Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network
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2022
17-19 December
Oral History training at Woodpecker Court
Woodpecker Court students were trained in interviewing and digital recording techniques by an Oral Historian
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2023
January-February
Interviews with local residents
Woodpecker Court students conducted interviews with local residents
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2023
23 February
Art Refuge Community Table workshop at Woodpecker Court
In a perfect example of how the partnership enables skills sharing between organisations, in February Art Refuge ran one of its Community Table workshop for Woodpecker Court students - building, playing and connecting around a community table covered by a huge UK map.
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2023
15 March
Creative workshop at LRMN
A second workshop with ladies from LRMN, this time using crochet.
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2023
March 6th-April 17th
The first Living Seams Exhibition
Exhibition at Morley College, featuring stitch work created by lady sanctuary seekers at Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network in workshop produced by Atelier Armonico, and Art Refuge’s Host - Hundreds of Small Tales - creatures and objects made during Art Refuge’s psychosocial groups on the France-UK border in Calais.
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2023
19 March
Zaubernacht at JW3
Showcase event at JW3, London, produced in a creative collaboration between JW3, Atelier Armonico, ArtRefuge, Woodpecker Court and the University of Creative Arts. Featuring a 20 minute excerpt from Kurt Weill’s Zaubernacht, inspired and informed by the interviews with refugees, it showed how creativity, games and imagination enabled (and enables) comfort and support to people experiencing flight and terror.
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2023
29 March
Zaubernacht in Chatham
The 20 minute excerpt from Zaubernacht is presented at The Brook Theatre in Chatham, part of the University of Creative Arts’ Scratch Nights
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2023
June
Dance Workshop at Art Refuge during Refugee Week
A dance workshop as part of #refugeeweek bringing together men -housed in a nearby hotel and at Napier Baracks- our choreographers and dancers Alice Oakley Jones & Jonny Vieco, our artistic director Davide Levi and Art Refuge
2023
September
Dancing into space at Art Refuge
A dance workshop bringing together men -housed in a nearby hotel and at Napier Baracks and a Home Office hotel- our choreographers and dancers Alice Oakley Jones & Jonny Vieco, our artistic director Davide Levi and Art Refuge