15th to 21st June 08 - Refugee Week 2008 Events Throughout the Week

The Land of Green Ginger - A participatory art project by Fabiane Perrella / Flour at Paragon Station Open to Public 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd June from 10am until 6pm.

The Land of Green Ginger will explore spaces of encounters between refugees who have moved into Hull and their host communities and aims to promote mutual understanding and the possibility of sharing views and dreams for the future. The project will reveal skills and knowledge of each community that can be shared and exchanged between each group to learn from one-another, drawing on Hull's heritage and using the skills and crafts of refugees and local people to present a joint work of art which the whole city can take great pride in.

Faces of Kabul - Monday 16th to Saturday 21st June, from 9am till 5pm at Central Library An exhibition of photos from the war in Afghanistan Big Screen, Small Films - Various slots throughout the week at the Big Screen. A variety of short films showing the positive impact that refugees bring to Hull and previewing and reviewing the week's activities.

The World Is Here - Various slots throughout the week at Various Schools around Hull Workshops delivered by International Heart of Hull to show the positive cultural influences that people from far away lands can bring to Hull

Monday 16th - Light-Up The Lamp - 8pm till late at The Lamp, Norfolk Street Dance the night away with music from around the world with special guest DJ's and musicians. The evening will also Photography and art expo, DJ's, Live Music and samples of Food Wednesday 18th Tales From Far Away - 1pm till 3 pm at Central Library A public performance of Story telling, poetry and music highlighting personal journey's presented by Kurdish and Congolese Refugees. Music is performed by Bandish, from Sheffield. It will include two 'closed' sessions for children . The event will end with an opportunity to sample Kurdish, Congolese and Afghan home cooking. Jointly organised by Hull Libraries and ARKH.

Thursday 19th 'The Refugee Convention 1951: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Britain' - 5.45pm - 6.45pm at Central Library A discussion led by Niaz A Shah, Lecturer in Humanitarian Law at Hull University. Niaz will talk about the international obligations of these countries and some good stories/practice emanating from these countries followed by an opportunity to discuss the issues raised.

Thursday 19th - Lajee - Palestinian Refugee Children - 6.30pm - 10.00pm at The Warren. Richard Wiles is a photographer from Hull who has worked in Palestine for the last 5 years. He has spent this time working with and teaching young refugee's how to express themselves through Photography, Film and Dance. He has travelled the world exhibiting the work of the young people helping their lives and voices become seen and heard in places they can only dream of. Richard has raised funds to bring a group of young people to Hull for Refugee Week 2008 to exhibit their work which will include a photograph exhibition of their village, 6 short films, Dabka folk dancing, Talks about their lives, Samples of Food from the Region

Saturday 21st - The Gig in The Gardens - 12.00 noon - 5.30pm at Queens Gardens A fun day for all of the family with a fantastic bill of live music and dance from around the world. Performers will include: Harare (Zimbabwe) Paul Nzaya Nzayadio and the Aria Stars (D.R. Congo) Lajee (a dance troupe of Palestinian Children) Bora Shabaa (D.R. Congo) International Folk Dance (Kurdish) Indus (Leeds based Indian/African music) End Of Level Baddie (Hull based Drum & Bass) Someone & The Somethings (Hull based soul/funk) Projekt Feenix (Hull based Hip-Hop) The event will also include information, face painting, craft stalls, samples of food and so much more.

Coming Up - Thursday 26th June 08 - The Humber Foul Mouth at The Square, Springbank, Hull
	Poetry Is Dead is the debut show from Hull poets Joe Hakim and Mike Watts. Tonight is your chance to see them perform at The Humber Foul Mouth ahead of their first appearance at The Camden Fringe in August this year. Taking performance poetry by the throat, this show is an unflinching observation of life in the twenty-first century, Read more...

Coming Up - Thursday 19 June 08 - Yorkshire Independent Music Network at The Adelphi Club
	Are you a musician/DJ, promoter, record label , manager, venue manager, publisher, writer, composer, music shop, music educationalist ...? Would you like your chance to form a large music network and awards ceremony that will support and strengthen the whole music sector in Yorkshire and the Humber? Read more...

Opinions - The BBC Dipping into Youtube for Viewers By Mo UPDATED BBC's BBC Phil Hayton Denies All knowlege
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Opinions - Response to The BBC Dipping into YouTube for Viewers By Martin Deane
	Fire away Mo! Seconds out, round two. I actually have a soft spot for the Beeb but no, it's not my unrequited love for Neighbours or the Archers. Forgive me for lumping them together, apparently they're different despite hugely annoying theme tunes, but you may not know where I'm coming from yet. This is despite not having a TV licence which is how the BBC funds itself Read more...

Opinions - Lies And War Crimes By Michelle Dee
	The words "weapons of mass destruction" were noticeably absent from the speech by George W. Bush on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The apocalyptic rhetoric used to firstly motivate the political will then move the might of the military forces was replaced by talk of regime change and removing Saddam Hussein from power. It is illegal to go to war in order to Read more...

Opinions - Censored By D R Callaghan
	A few minutes ago I used the readers comments facility in the online Hull Daily Mail to comment on the main story about the killing of Simon Murden. My comment: Ironic is it not? that the police are unable to crack down on the alcohol-fuelled yobs terrorising families, shopkeepers and the elderly, yet when faced with a young man who needs medical attention they can pump six bullets into him Read more...

Opinions - The Sexuality of the 9/11 Attacks By Christopher Skolik
	The Pentagon is itself a potent symbol of manhood and military virility. It goes without saying that was an act of violent homoerotic self extinction and assault-as if the terrorists could not survive such an act of homoerotic penetration, their out dated belief system and self ideation would not allow it-no matter how metaphorical the act. Only the unification of sex and death could breach that gap. Read more...

Opinions - Iraq War Theme Park By Christopher Skolik
	War seems to be a human necessity, a requirement on some basic level. To counteract the dangers of random disorganised war springing up I suggest we turn Iraq into a fully functioning war zone theme park -all the benefits of paint balling but with the relief of tension that only live ammunition and Read more...

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	The local Hull 'chav' lad needs profiling and placing in his rightful context. Fiercely proud of his 'thickness'- intelligence is not to be trusted, it might unleash all kinds of awful weirdness upon his world, a world he clings to with the whitened knuckles of the drowning man, the perennial cry of 'Don't get clever with me' echoes across council estates of the north ... Read more...

Opinions - Maureen Lipman at Pave By Sean
	Just saw Maureen Lipman at a reading at the Pave. It took two attempts to gain entrance. At the first attempt i was turned away on the grounds that it was a private function - apparently i didn't look 'Avenues' enough. I'm Avenues enough to have my taxes pay for it, mind. I just got in in time to catch a couple of 'anecdotes' which mocked the poverty of working Read more...

Opinions - All At Sea Or Way Out West? (Orwellian Nightmare Or Whitehall Farce?) By D R Callaghan
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Opinions - Candle In The Wind By Jim Higo
	Who'd want to be a Bosnian landmine victim? Terrible injuries, lost limbs, scarred for life and then to cap it all, when you thought it couldn't get any worse, you get a visit from Princess Diana. Just when it seemed your life had reached its absolute nadir, you see her coming at you with those big eyes, like a spaced out Desert Orchid. Read more...

Opinions - Depart For New Earth By David Sloan
	Depart for new earth AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Professor Stephen Hawking said recently that for the human race to survive we must gain a foothold on another planet, and as if by divine intervention our astronomers soon found another earth-like planet in the heavens. It has a mass five times that of earth and is probably made of the same sort of rock with Read more...

Opinions - Trees Are Bastards By Sally Satan
	Now amidst all the current chatter of climate change inevitably being a Bad Thing, the still small voice of calm must be heard. How many people do you know who have died recently as a direct result of climate change? Exactly. None. And yet we go on, beating ourselves up for being human and not animal or mineral, and for ruining the planet. But we should Read more...

Opinions - The Reception of Wisdom By Kenton Hall
	There is a story that I tell. I likely tell it far too often and one of these days, a friend or family member is going to sneak up behind me and garrotte me with a length of fishing line. No, it's not the one about that. Or that one, either. Now that I think about it, there are many stories that I tell too often. However, the story I am referring to today recalls the moment Read more...

Opinions - Divided We Fall By Lee Cassanell

	"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them" Karl Marx So Tony Blair's pledge to end poverty has taken a kick in the teeth after the news that 300,000 (or 200,000 or 100,000 depending on which paper or website you read) more children have slipped below the line. Read more...

Opinions - Real Men Do Not Need Real Doll.com By Jo Allison
	At age 12, little girls and boys should put Barbie and Ken back to sleep safely in their plastic boxes, as adults move on from pretend friends, to actual ones. But for a select group of scary cyborg-lovers who prefer plastic to flesh, life size Real Dolls made from 100% silicone are the next step up from Barbie dolls. They make the perfect playmates, so I'm told. But who exactly Read more...

Opinions - Goody, Goody, Yum, Yum - Racism and Jade Goody By Lee Cassanell
	We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced; Herbert Spencer The problem with racism is there is currently no well known or vicious enough word that another race can use to discriminate against white people. In fact during an extensive search of the internet the only even mildly offensive term I could find was "Honky" and if you are white and offended Read more...

Opinions - In Response To Fiona Carr's Hands On Our Arts By Esther Windsor
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Opinions - In Response to The Mental Alchemist's Save Our Free School Meals
	Original article: 1006006399_saveschoolmeals.html Mental Alchemist shows an unerring ability to turn gold into lead with the mixture of inaccuracy, sloppy thinking, and basic political illiteracy. To start at the most basic there is not a Liberal Party Cabinet on Hull City Council. Indeed, despite all the treachery and re-branding exercises, there is not even a Liberal on the Council. Read more...