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Refugee Week, the UK-wide celebration of arts, culture, and community, returns from 16th to 22nd June 2025 under the theme ‘Community as a Superpower’. An annual event aimed at celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of asylum seekers and refugees living in the UK, St Helens will mark the occasion with a range of events and activities coordinated by St Helens Borough Council’s Refugee Resettlement Service. One of the headline events this year will be the inaugural St Helens Refugee Community Film Festival, which will spotlight powerful stories of migration, asylum, and resilience. The festival features several award-winning films, each accompanied by talks and related activities exploring their themes and relevance. The festival is a collaboration between St H...

Written, directed and presented by Kevin Dyer, and produced by Laura Duncalf, Idlib is based on the story of a Syrian baker who wanted to return home and real interviews with Syrian refugees and escapees across Europe. It tells the story of a woman (Anoush Kendrick) who has hope, but it is both the prelude to this tale and what follows afterwards that makes this such a powerfully prescient piece as it mixes conversation, an uplifting story of kindness, making bread on stage, drawing, and sharing personal memories of food and family, eating together and socialising. As Dyer mixed the essential ingredients, with a glug of oil and yoghurt reminiscent of the Levant, the usual reticence of an audience quickly fell away with three coming forward to assist him. As he spoke, we were drawn i...

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Refugee Week 2025 Brings First-Ever Community Film Festival to St Helens

Idlib – Chester Lane Library, St Helens