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Courage! Refugee Week 2026
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. The theme for 2026 is Courage. For refugees around the world, courage is often a daily necessity. It is the courage to face unknown journeys, learn new languages, navigate unfamiliar systems, or simply to…
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Stay – Move – Resist
On 29th November, people from the West Midlands concerned about climate justice and migrant justice came together in Birmingham, to explore the intersection of these issues. We thought about how we can work together locally, to ensure that everyone has three key rights: the right to stay, the right to move, and the right to…
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Refugee Week 2025
Refugee Week is here, running until Sunday 22nd June 2025. We’re looking forward to joining this festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. This year’s theme is Community as a Superpower This chimes with a lot of what we’ve been thinking about recently at Peace Hub – community and…
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Making Peace in Brum this Autumn
Photo: Elliot Brown. A round up of peace-making events happening autumn 2016 in Birmingham: all are free, so find one that interests you and get involved! Film: This is Exile Thursday 8th September 19:30-21:00 at Two Snowhill “Birmingham, Wythall and Bourneville Amnesty International groups are presenting a film screening of “This is Exile” about refugees,…
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Film Screening: This Changes Everything
What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Our friends at Friends of the Earth and Birmingham Cooperative Film Society are screening Birmingham’s premier of: This Changes Everything 7pm Thursday 10th December 2015 at The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Margaret Street, B3 3BS “The film,…