An Evening with Refugee Tales: Caterham

This July, Refugee Tales is walking for 5 days in solidarity with refugees, people seeking asylum, migrants, and people who have experienced immigration detention. Together, we are walking from Edenbridge to Westminster via Oxted, Caterham, Wallington, and Wandsworth.

Each evening, we will join with the local community to listen to the stories of people who have experienced immigration detention and enjoy live music from around the world. Information about Refugee Tales, the Walk of 2024, and links to other Evening Events can be found below. To book tickets for the Caterham event, please click 'Get tickets'.

Please note, everyone who has booked a Full Walk Ticket or a Day Walk ticket on this day automatically has a place at this evening event. You do not need to book an additional ticket to attend the event. If you are unable to join us, please let Lara know ([email protected]) so that we can give the space to someone else.

Time: 7:00 pm - approximately 8.30 pm

Location: Caterham United Reformed Church, 1 Harestone Hill, Caterham, CR3 6SX (Travel and accessibility information below).

Host:

Pratibha Parmar and Gulwali Passarlay

Music:

Second City Low Brass Quartet - trombones from the Royal College of Music

Also

Jali Mbye - Kora player

Tales:

A New Tale by a person with lived experience of detention read by Kalungi Ssebandeke

Also

The Tale of the Walk - a film by Ridy and Ricardo

Travel information for this evening event:

Caterham railway station is very close (approximately a 4 minute walk) to the Church.

Accessibility:

The premises are fully accessible and are regularly used by those with wheelchairs, mobility scooters and disability aids. There is a loop and loop amplifier for the hard of hearing.

Please let Lara Bligh-Caplan know if you have any further requirements ([email protected]).

Since 2015, Refugee Tales walkers have been embarking on small and large scale walks in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and people who have been held in immigration detention. We have been met with kindness and hospitality every step of the way.

Working in collaboration with migrants and those who have experienced the UK asylum system - and taking Chaucer’s great poem of journeying as a model - established writers and people with lived experience of detention share their tales with local communities at evening events. We also enjoy live performances from renowned musicians, and our walkers are never too tired for dancing!

The tales we tell are published in four volumes by Comma Press. Some have been written collaboratively with authors such as Ali Smith, Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kamila Shamsie, Patrick Gale, and Bernardine Evaristo. Others are first-hand accounts told directly by the people who experienced them.

In sharing these stories, Refugee Tales gathers and communicates experiences of migration, and we seek to show the reality of immigration detention. As we walk, we create a space in which the language of welcome is the prevailing discourse.

To find out more about this year's walk please go to our Refugee Tales website.

Host: Athena Kugblenu

Music:

Samuele Telari – accordionist

Also

Lucky Moyo and Ollie Seager from Hear Me Out

Tales:

'The Thirteen Year Tale' as told to Hannah Lowe

A new tale by Kasonga in conversation with David Herd.

See details above

Music from: Jali Mbye

Host:

Refugee Tales walker, Pious

Music and dancing:

Polito Boogaloo

Tales:

A New Tale as told to Shamshad Khan

Host: tbc

Music:

Klezmer and Balkan music by She’Koyokh

Tales:

The Dressmaker’s Tale as told to David Mitchell

Also

A New Tale as told to Scarlett Thomas

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Caterham United Reformed Church, 1 Harestone Hill, Caterham, United Kingdom