Asylum Dialogues (Bristol)

What happens when you meet someone who has fled their country to seek refuge in the UK? What happens when that person becomes your friend and needs your help? Drawn from real life conversations, Asylum Dialogues explores the everyday encounters between asylum-seekers and British people, encouraging us to challenge our own preconceptions.

Launched in conjunction with the national charity Refugee Action, Asylum Dialogues will be performed for one night only in four cities during Refugee Week. Once launched, it will be available upon request through Actors for Human Rights.

The Bristol performance will be followed with music by Israel-born double bass player Daphna Sadeh and her band the Voyagers. Tickets £8/6.

iceandfire creates compelling theatre making real and relevant the impact of human rights issues on our everyday lives. Asylum Dialogues will be performed by members of their national outreach network, Actors for Human Rights, whose first production Asylum Monologues has been seen by more than 8,500 people all over the UK.

CAP and our partners are working with Actors for Human Rights to prepare a documentary play called Poverty Monologues which will form the basis of Poverty and Homelessness Action Week 2009.

For more information about Actors for Human Rights, see www.iceandfire.co.uk/afhr

For more information about Refugee Action and the Refugee Awareness Project, see www.refugee-action.org.uk

For more information about Refugee Week, see www.refugeeweek.org.uk

CAP's Living Ghosts campaign aims to end the Government policies that make people seeking asylum destitute.