Ahead of the forthcoming exhibition All in the Same Storm: Patchwork Pandemic Stories, we welcome Rossana Leal in conversation, exclusively for our Members & Patrons.
ONLINE EVENT VIA ZOOM MEETING
FREE, donations welcome
This event is exclusively for DLWP Members & Patrons.
Rossana founded the Refugee Buddy Project, Hastings, Rother & Wealden in Autumn 2017, inspired by the warm welcome she and her family received when they fled the dictatorship in Chile many years ago.
DLWP has collaborated with the Buddy Project to present All in the Same Storm…, an exhibition centred around four quilts comprised of 95 handstitched squares made by local people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the stories that each patch tells.
As well as shining a light on the background to All in the Same Storm…, Rossana and Rosie will explore the Buddy Project’s work, its relationship to the Pavilion’s heritage and current programmes, how grassroots networks of solidarity are changing, and the ever-increasing role of cultural organisations in supporting and nurturing these networks.
The Refugee Buddy Project supports newly arriving refugee families within Hastings, Rother, and Wealden. Rossana has a vision for how this work can establish a real culture of ‘welcome and hospitality’ towards our new fellow-citizens.
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This event will take place online via a Zoom Meeting. During the event, you will have the option to turn on your camera, but we will ask attendees to remain muted until the Q&A.
The talk will commence at 4pm, followed by a Q&A with Rosanna and Rosie.
Everyone who attends the event is welcome to join the DLWP Team and fellow Members for an informal chat from 5pm, once the event has concluded.
BSL interpretation will be provided.
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Rossana Leal has experienced first hand the fear and trauma of being a refugee. Her family fled their home country of Chile because of the threat of state persecution following Pinochet’s violent coup in 1973.
She still remembers the names of the two people that met her family at the airport in London in 1977: Helen and Gordon. They were part of the Joint Working Group, a network of faith groups, trades unions and local authority services who helped Chilean refugees. Rosanna says that as a direct result of their warm welcome, unflinching commitment and the way they organised a secure place for her family to stay during those first few days after their arrival, she finally began to feel safe.
Subsequently welcomed into the community in Fife, Scotland, Rossana talks fondly of her adopted home country and the welcome she was given by a community bound by its mining industry and trade unions. Whilst she accepts that Scotland is not where her family roots are, she has always maintained that she is as Scottish as Chilean and that ultimately home is where you feel safe.
After graduating with a Masters in Health Education and Promotion, Rossana worked in Community Engagement & Regeneration Programmes in a range of different project management roles.
Her priority when moving to Hastings was to slow down, rest and take a break from everything, but she felt she could not stand by as “life got worse and worse every day for refugees in the UK”. Her vast experience was going to waste at a time of great need, and that she felt compelled to do something to combat the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment policy’: The Refugee Buddy Project, Hastings, Rother & Wealden was founded.
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- By Rail
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OR
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