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Actors bring stories of solidarity to the stage: Asylum Dialogues comes to four UK cities

Monday 9 June 2008

PRESS RELEASE

TOUCHING stories of real-life friendships between asylum seekers and British people are coming to the stage in four UK cities in June.

Asylum Dialogues, scripted by award-winning playwright Sonja Linden, is drawn from actual conversations which reveal the moving, funny and poignant relationships between British people and refugees who have fled war and persecution.

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Lush lends its support to national Refugee Week

Thursday 5 June 2008

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COSMETICS store Lush has teamed up with national charity Refugee Action to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK.

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RAP is pipped at the post for volunteering award

Monday 2 June 2008

NEWSFLASH

RAP was sad to hear that it had been pipped at the post for the prestigious Queen’s Award for Volunteering when award-winners were announced today.

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Actors dedicate Mother's Day to refugee women

Sunday 16 March 2008

EVENT REPORT

On Mother’s Day 2008, the Young Vic theatre in London was filled with 400 people who had come to hear the stories of women and children refugees. For this extraordinary event, Juliet Stevenson was joined by actors including her 13-year-old daughter, Rosalind Brody, to read the stories of women and children refugees who had been locked up in immigration detention centres.

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Bristol teenagers learn about the realities of asylum

Tuesday 12 February 2008

PRESS RELEASE

TEENAGERS in Bristol will be getting to grips with the realities of life as an asylum seeker when a multimedia theatre production comes to the city tomorrow (Wednesday February 13th).

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