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Reflections on Syria
Its Landscapes, Its Culture
December 6 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
10014 81 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta
A stunning visual narrative by an Edmonton storyteller who worked in Syria as an engineer from 2008 to 2010. Free @Trinity Lutheran Church. 10014 - 81 Ave.December 6, 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, with refreshments. Donations welcome for Syrian refugees.Information on the many ways to help will be provided. We want to help connect solutions-oriented, helpful folk! Meet folk who can inspire you to give and help you to understand the extent of the need. A slide show , snacks and drinks will be available.
Trinity Lutheran Church
10014 81 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta
A stunning visual narrative by an Edmonton storyteller who worked in Syria as an engineer from 2008 to 2010. Free @Trinity Lutheran Church. 10014 - 81 Ave.December 6, 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, with refreshments. Donations welcome for Syrian refugees.Information on the many ways to help will be provided. We want to help connect solutions-oriented, helpful folk! Meet folk who can inspire you to give and help you to understand the extent of the need. A slide show , snacks and drinks will be available.
“Home” by Warsan Shire
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 BY ALAM no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body you only leave home when home won’t let you stay. no one leaves home unless home chases you fire under feet hot blood in your belly it’s not something you ever thought of doing until the blade burnt threats into your neck and even then you carried the anthem under your breath only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets sobbing as each mouthful of paper made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back. you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land no one burns their palms under trains beneath carriages no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled means something more than journey. no one crawls under fences no one wants to be beaten pitied no one chooses refugee camps or strip searches where your body is left aching or prison, because prison is safer than a city of fire and one prison guard in the night is better than a truckload of men who look like your father no one could take it no one could stomach it no one skin would be tough enough |
the go home blacks refugees dirty immigrants asylum seekers sucking our country dry niggers with their hands out they smell strange savage messed up their country and now they want to mess ours up how do the words the dirty looks roll off your backs maybe because the blow is softer than a limb torn off or the words are more tender than fourteen men between your legs or the insults are easier to swallow than rubble than bone than your child body in pieces. i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark home is the barrel of the gun and no one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore unless home told you to quicken your legs leave your clothes behind crawl through the desert wade through the oceans drown save be hunger beg forget pride your survival is more important no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying- leave, run away from me now i dont know what i’ve become but i know that anywhere is safer than here |
Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally – including recent readings in South Africa, Italy, Germany, Canada, North America and Kenya- and her début book, ‘TEACHING MY MOTHER HOW TO GIVE BIRTH’ (flipped eye), was published in 2011. Her poems have been published in Wasafiri, Magma and Poetry Review and in the anthology ‘The Salt Book of Younger Poets’ (Salt, 2011). She is the current poetry editor at SPOOK magazine. In 2012 she represented Somalia at the Poetry Parnassus, the festival of the world poets at the Southbank, London. She is a Complete Works II poet. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Warsan is also the unanimous winner of the 2013 Inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize.
Safe and Sound - A Syrian Refugee Fundraiser
Please join the Refugee Response Collective as we present "Safe and Sound", an evening of music, food and fundraising for Syrian Refugees. We will have both a silent auction and a not so silent auction of items and services that could make your Christmas shopping list disappear in one evening. Choose from art to slippers to gift cards and help support refugees in need.
We have partnered with MCC (Mennonite Central Committee ) both in sponsorship and for aid in the refugee camps.
Saturday Dec 5. 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Riverdale Hall, Edmonton
9231 100 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta
7:00 pm Doors Open
8:00 pm Introduction to Auction
8:15 - 9:00 pm Tarabish Collective
9:15 International Jam
$25 in advance
$30 at the door
For advance tickets please call Marianne @ 780-424-4768
or e-mail mariannewatchel@hotmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/983605178347427/
We have partnered with MCC (Mennonite Central Committee ) both in sponsorship and for aid in the refugee camps.
Saturday Dec 5. 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Riverdale Hall, Edmonton
9231 100 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta
7:00 pm Doors Open
8:00 pm Introduction to Auction
8:15 - 9:00 pm Tarabish Collective
9:15 International Jam
$25 in advance
$30 at the door
For advance tickets please call Marianne @ 780-424-4768
or e-mail mariannewatchel@hotmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/983605178347427/