Jazz and Refugee Tales
Sunday 29th September
Vortex Jazz Club 3-6pm
The actor Shobu Kapoor, well-known from TV and films, will read 'The Detainee's Tale' by Ali Smith and ‘The Support Worker's Tale' by Josh Cohen.
Walking Statues, a world/jazz/contemporary trio brings together folk music from the Mediterranean, contemporary western sounds and an improvisational approach.
Ziad Hisham - electric guitar
Domenico Angarano - bass / piano
Stefano Ancora - drums
The UK is the only country in western Europe which practises indefinite immigration detention: people can be locked up in prison-like conditions for months and years when their only offence is to be a migrant.
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group [GDWG] has supported people detained on the perimeter road of Gatwick Airport for almost 30 years. Refugee Tales is a project which has published 5 volumes of their stories to inform the world of this inhumane policy and walks regularly to call for its end.
We are raising funds for GDWG.
Tickets £10; book at Eventbrite
Doors open 2.30 p.m.
Transport
Nearest stations are Dalston Kingsland [2 mins walk] and Dalston Junction [6 mins walk]; both are on the London Overground - lines soon to be rebranded as Mildmay and Windrush respectively.
Buses 67, 76 and 149 run very close [2 mins walk] to the venue; 30, 56 and 277 to Dalston Junction [6 mins walk].