Exhibition

Through Saharawi Eyes - The Freedom Project Opening Night at St Margaret's House

Name: Through Saharawi Eyes - The Freedom Project Opening Night at St Margaret's House
Start: 2026-06-18T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-18T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Through Saharawi Eyes - The Freedom Project Opening Night at St Margaret's House

Time6:30pm

DateThu 18 Jun

The Freedom Project is a participatory photography exhibition created with young Saharawi refugees living in refugee camps in south-west Algeria, offering a powerful and deeply personal insight into life in exile. Join us for the Opening Event of this special exhibition as part of Refugee Week, the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Emma Brown and Becky Hall from Olive Branch Arts will be joined by a Saharawi activist from the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, in conversation with Beccy Allen, SMH Arts and Wellbeing Director who spent a year volunteering the Saharawi Refugee Camps in 2017/18. About the exhibition Developed in collaboration with Olive Branch Arts and delivered by award-winning photographer Emma Brown, these photographs were taken during intensive photography training programs in which participants are supported in developing creative and technical skills while documenting their lives, communities, and perspectives in their own voices. The Saharawi people have lived in these refugee camps for fifty years, following displacement from Western Sahara. Through...

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