Art exhibition: Conversations From Calais

Art Exhibition - Saturday 27th June - Thursday 2nd July - free entry - Community Space

Edit: Due to the ongoing Covid19 health crisis our Community Space is not open to the public at present - registering your interest for this event will mean you are emailed links to the exhibition for you to browse at your leisure.

For further discussion, please attend our accompanying 'Conversations From Southampton' talk on Tues 30th June

Conversations From Calais

Conversations From Calais aims to re-humanise those affected by the refugee crisis by using public space to share conversations volunteers have had with migrants met in Calais.

It is a way of bearing witness for the thousands of displaced people stuck in Calais and trying to reach the UK, whose voices are so often silenced or ignored.

This ever-growing collection of conversations focuses on capturing the diversity of experiences and avoids creating new stereotypes of refugees as villains, heroic figures or hopeless victims. By pasting these posters on walls all around the world, this project aims to take over public space, commemorate these voices and inspire social change.

We will be displaying these posters in our Community Space following on from Refugee Week. This exhibition will also be a donation point for Southampton Action - so if you are able to bring toiletries along they will be distributed to refugees living in the local area.

This exhibition is free entry, but if you’d like to sling us here at October Books a donation, you can do so here.