
Assemblages of Sanctuary: Art, Displacement & Mental Health
Join us for this online webinar to reflect on the the impact art can have on the wellbeing and mental health of sanctuary seekers.

Join us for this online webinar to reflect on the the impact art can have on the wellbeing and mental health of sanctuary seekers.

Samphire’s Post Detention Support Conference 2024 is on the 13th of June, and this year, we are taking part!

For this Refugee Week, we will gather with Dr Aditi Jaganathan to moor ourselves in possibilities of hope as we organise for collective liberation.

On World Refugee Day, hear how trauma-informed arts participation enables refugees to rebuild resilience and sense of identity and belonging.

Artist Kim Chin invites us into a reflective setting, to inspire a clearer understanding and vision of what “community” and “home” means to us, through sharing readings, textile-making, and conversations.

Constellations of Care is a new commission by Amanda Camenisch and Therese Westin for London Refugee Week this year.

For London Refugee Week, Bint Mbareh will be delivering a free communal vocalising performance, A Voice Departs, which will incorporate members of the audience in non-musical but poetic expression.

Holding Space is our first event in a series of gatherings on art, mental health and displacement considering the role of art and creativity and its impact on the mental health and wellbeing of sanctuary seekers.

An online conversation as part of this year's Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival, discussing our new strand focussing on mental health and displacement

An evening of performance and discussion as part of this year's Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival, shining a light on the invisibilised experience of being displaced.

The second Culture & Mental Health international conference will take place in Ghent, Belgium. The focus of this edition is on supporting the mental wellbeing of forcibly displaced people through art and culture.
For this in-person gathering, we will hold space for artists, organisers, health, cultural and migrant justice workers based in and around Cardiff to come together to consider the role of art and creativity and its impact on the mental health and wellbeing of sanctuary seekers.