Refugee Week Events : Western Australia

Saturday 19 June - ABC Radio National

The five fingers of Sri Lanka, Documentary Series

In May 2009 when the war in Sri Lanka ended the Tamil and Singhalese communities in Australia triedto make sense of the years of fighting. There was violence and protest on the streets of Sydney as Tamils maintained the rage for relatives and friends in Sri Lanka who were dead or missing. From thewar zone of Northern Sri Lanka stories of violence and treachery on both sides of the conflict emerge; a woman whose leg was amputated out of revenge, a hospital filled with traumatised children, the daily threat of suicide bombers. For this program producer Johan Gabrielsson travelled to parts of Sri Lanka where no other media had access.
Details: 2:00pm; ABC Radio National.

Sunday 20 June - Wesley Church

World Refugee Day Rally

Join the Refugee Rights Action Network on World Refugee Day to call for “Resettlement not Racism; Dignity not Detention” and to remind politicians that asylum seekers are not illegal and that everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Details: 1:00pm; Outside Wesley Church, Cnr William Street and Hay Street, Perth. For more information, contact Refugee Rights Action Network WA on 0417 904 329 or info@rran.org

Sunday 20 June - Plaitsowe Mews

Wings in Action World Refugee Day Celebration

Celebrate World Refugee Day with Wings Organisation for Cross-Cultural Development Inc. The eventwill include guest poets, Afeif Ismail, Lily Chan and Hassan Alnwaband and guest singers, Alex Bainbridge and Hussein Almudar. Light refreshments will be provided.
Details: 6:30pm –9:00 pm; Ruah Community Centre, Unit 67, Plaitsowe Mews, West Perth. For more information call Afeif Ismail on 0423 675 479 or Lily Chan on 040021068.

Sunday 20 June - SBS TV

Movie - Kandahar

Mohsen Makhmalbaf's award-winning film about an Afghani-born Canadian resident who goes to Afghanistan in the midst of war in search of her sister. Joining a caravan of refugees returning to war torn country for a variety of reasons, Nafas soon gets a clear and disturbing portrait of the toll the Taliban regime has taken upon its people.
Details:11.30pm, SBS 2. See www.sbs.com.au/refugees for more information. 

Sunday 20 June - Christmas Island

Refugee Week Variety Concert

This Variety Concert, presented by the Indian Ocean Territories Health Service Torture and Trauma Counselling Team, will feature local performers, interpreters and clients at Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre.
Details: 2:00pm; Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre; form more information contact Christine Cummins on (08) 9164 8333 or 0417 663 346 or Christine.Cummins@ag.gov.au

Monday 21 June - SBS TV

Movie - Baran

A racist, naive Iranian labourer falls in love when he realises that the Afghan boy who stole his job and whom he was angry with, is actually a girl. Directed one of Iran's most celebrated directors, Majid Majidi and stars Hossein Abedidi and Mohammad Reza Naji. (From Iran, in Farsi, English subtitles) (Drama) 2001 (Rpt) PG Details: 11.30pm, SBS 2. See www.sbs.com.au/refugees for more information.

Wednesday 23 June - Perth City

Refugee Week 2010 Youth Art Exhibition

The art exhibition features paintings and photographs by young people from refugee backgrounds. No charge.Details: Art will be displayed in Central Park, 152-158 St Georges Terrace. For more information call Rikki Ismail on 08 6217 8411.

Saturday 26 June - Fremantle

Be More - to help others in need

Learn how to ‘Be More’ to help those most in need at this one-day workshop run by Caritas Australia. Held at the Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice, participants will learn practical skills to become part of the solution to poverty and suffering. This event, at the end of Refugee Week 2010, is also partof a national ‘Be More’ challenge to help those less fortunate in our society.Details: 10:00am - 5:00pm; Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice, 24 High Street, Fremantle, WA. Prices are $25 unwaged / $50 waged. Register online at www.erisj.org.au or phone 9432 2400. For more information contact Wanjiku on admin@erisj.org.au.

Sunday 26 June – Perth

Amnesty International WA presents the Peace Choir