This event will give students, staff and the local community a chance 1) learn about experiences of refugees and migrants coming to East London through films, memoir and music, and 2) explore what QMUL is doing, and could do, to support refugees and how to get involved.

The event takes place at:

Peston Lecture Theatre, QMUL Graduate Centre, Mile End, E1 4NS

Thurusday, February 23, 2017, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM GMT

You can book a place at the event via Eventbrite. The program for the event is as follows

6pm: Films from QMUL’s Child Migrant Stories project:

• 'Passing Tides' – story of Linh Vu who escaped Vietnam by boat followed by a reading from her father’s biography, A Catholic with Confucian Tendencies
• Ugwumpiti – story of Maurice Nwokeji who survived the Biafran civil war before joining his parents in East London

7pm: QMUL’s support for refugees today - Panel discussion

• Emma Williams, Chief Executive of STAR (Student Action for Refugees) on University of Sanctuary initiatives and other work of STAR
• Lizzy Pollard, Advice and Counselling Student Services, QMUL on financial support for asylum seeker and refugee students

8pm: Music and drinks reception

• A wine reception and refrehsments with music by One Jah featuring music of Maurice Nwokeji inspired by his childhood in Biafra will follow the event. 

This event is also supported by CritiQues 'Home for Refugee Children' initiative and HSSCF 'Child Migrants Welcome’ initiative

The films on childmigrantstories.com were funded by the Centre for Public Engagement