INVITATION TO GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

Allen says "The invitation to this “Refu-TEA” is from me as I am helping to promote and organise the events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport where approximately 10,000 children, mainly Jewish but also Poles and Czechs, came to Britain in 1938/9 to escape the dangers posed by Hitler’s regime. Most of these children never saw their families again. 10 of these boys came to Gloucester and attended Archdeacon’s School and the son of one of that small group is flying over from the USA to be at the Refu-Tea.

Come and buy a cup of tea and a slice of cake to help raise funds for the Refugee Council and GARAS. This will be the launch of our exciting participation project and we are very fortunate to have Michael Zorek attending, son of one of the Kindertransport refugees brought to Gloucester in 1939.

In celebration of the festival's performance of Carl Davis' Last Train to Tomorrow, we are launching a project titled #WhereIsMyHome in which we aim to explore and celebrate communities here in Gloucester, the UK and beyond by asking what home means to them. Is home a place, a feeling, a smell, an object? Is home necessarily where you currently live or a place in your memory? We are aiming to get over 10,000 people to complete a luggage label through writing/drawing/anything that represents home to them. These will then create an installation in the cathedral on the day of the performance. We will be launching this project as part of the RefuTEA".

If you can pop down for some of your lunch hour on the 18th,that would be great.