A Night out of the Asylum
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Tricycle Theatre 5-9pm Sunday 24 June
269 Kilburn High Road Free to asylum seekers, £5 benefits/low waged, £10 waged - more if you can!
Tickets: Tricycle Box Office 020 7328 1000
An evening of performances to close Refugee Week 2007 highlighting women’s and children’s experiences. With local schools, asylum seekers & featuring Kay Adshead’s award winning The Bogus Woman starring Sarah Niles directed by Kully Thiarai.
For more information contact 020 7482 2496 Email centre@crossroadswomen.net
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5–6pm Kingsgate Primary & Parliament Hill Schools’ performances
6-7 pm Delicious food prepared by All African Women’s Group
7-9pm Evening performances followed by discussion, featuring Mama Quillo’s internationally acclaimed The Bogus Woman “Kay Adshead’s devastating, well-researched play lifts the lid on aspects of our immigration procedures. … heart-wrenching without descending into sentimentality … The audience was so moved that for a while the applause was shocked into silence. Political theatre is alive again.” Rachel Halliburton, Evening Standard.
Welcome to Fortress Europe Crossroads Women’s Centre Theatre Project a comic satire drawing on the real-life reasons used to refuse women asylum.
Tidbits We’re not celebrities but get us out of here too! Two women stand-up for asylum from the state we’re in.
Women in Dialogue
is a registered charity focusing on race and community
relations from women’s point of view. It brings together
women and their loved ones from different communities
through the Crossroads Women’s Centre – a lively base for
many grassroots self-help organisations including the
All African Women’s Group,
Black Women’s Rape Action
Project and
Women Against Rape which provide research,
resources and campaigning in
defence of asylum-seekers' rights.
Please get in touch if you would like to know about the many
ways in which you can help:
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