Celebrating Refugee Week, the Kirklees Migration and Resettlement Team supported by partners Cohesion, Libraries and Museums are presenting an art installation by artist Basel Zaraa.

Dear Laila, is an immersive, interactive art installation inspired by the daughter of UK-based artist Basel Zaraa.

The seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel’s five-year-old daughter Laila began to ask him about his home growing up. Unable to take her there, he decided he would try to bring the place to her, by creating a model of his childhood home in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

The installation shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and struggle through the story of one family. Using retelling of memories and tactile details, it explores how war and exile are experienced through the everyday, the domestic, and the public space – to bring this now destroyed place to life.

In Collaboration with Counterpoints.

Originally commissioned by Good Chance Theatre, with support from Arts Council England.

Translator and script editor Emily Churchill Zaraa

Dates and venues

Thursday 15^th June Tolson Memorial Museum

Sessions: 15-minute slots

First slot: 11.00am

Last slot: 4.15pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dear-laila-an-immersive-art-installation-of-a-palestinian-refugee-camp-tickets-646197874237 – Tolson Museum

Saturday 17^th June Batley Library

Sessions: 15-minute slots

First slot: 12:45

Last slot: 15:45

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dear-laila-an-immersive-art-installation-of-a-palestinian-refugee-camp-tickets-646210241227 – Batley library